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It’s been over a year of explaining this to people. OP is a lost cause.

giantg2 5y ago
It's been way longer than a year for that concept. This concept has been around for other diseases, secondhand smoke, reckless/drunk driving, etc. Different people accept it to varying degrees, usually based on topic and personal beliefs.
losingmyjob 5y ago
I was on your side a year ago. Your year of explaining has actually made me into a skeptic. Evidence for asymptomatic spread hasn't materialized. The disease isn't as deadly as the officials said at first, and the response hasn't adapted. This is not an existential threat. I stayed inside without going to a grocery store or any other store for a full YEAR because of the panic induced by people like you. I am far worse than a lost cause. This pandemic has made me completely lose trust in the "experts" like Dr Fauci, the CDC, and the WHO, all of whose guidance I followed for a full year before understanding the extent to the lie we've been fed. And I've absolutely had it with the armchair epidemiologists online like you who repeat their #BlueAnon theories about this variant and that tiny uptick in the curve and never, ever mention the evaporating evidence for asymptomatic spread, or what happened to the actual flu this year COVID only hospitalizes 1-5% of cases, and they're almost all old or obese. What are we doing?! This is not an existential threat! It does not justify forcing individuals to take an experimental vaccine against their will! Enjoy your drugs, and your panic! I'm not doing it! Fire me! Throw me in jail! I'm done bending my knee to this insanity And you can downvote me all you want but there are many of us who feel this way and you pretentious, arrogant fucks don't know better than anyone else and you're actively hurting the cause you believe in. Your downvotes always galvanize me. They tell me I'm RIGHT. Morons!
- standardUser 5y ago
  The concern has always been that COVID-19 hospitalizations would overwhelm our healthcare capacity, resulting in excess deaths due to lack of care. That is because the disease spreads so easily and because it results in a high rate of hospitalizations (high enough to threaten healthcare capacity). "What are we doing?! This is not an existential threat!" We were saving lives by moderating the spread of this disease so it did not overwhelm our healthcare capacity. For the most part it worked.

It's been way longer than a year for that concept. This concept has been around for other diseases, secondhand smoke, reckless/drunk driving, etc. Different people accept it to varying degrees, usually based on topic and personal beliefs.

losingmyjob 5y ago

I was on your side a year ago. Your year of explaining has actually made me into a skeptic. Evidence for asymptomatic spread hasn't materialized. The disease isn't as deadly as the officials said at first, and the response hasn't adapted. This is not an existential threat. I stayed inside without going to a grocery store or any other store for a full YEAR because of the panic induced by people like you. I am far worse than a lost cause. This pandemic has made me completely lose trust in the "experts" like Dr Fauci, the CDC, and the WHO, all of whose guidance I followed for a full year before understanding the extent to the lie we've been fed. And I've absolutely had it with the armchair epidemiologists online like you who repeat their #BlueAnon theories about this variant and that tiny uptick in the curve and never, ever mention the evaporating evidence for asymptomatic spread, or what happened to the actual flu this year COVID only hospitalizes 1-5% of cases, and they're almost all old or obese. What are we doing?! This is not an existential threat! It does not justify forcing individuals to take an experimental vaccine against their will! Enjoy your drugs, and your panic! I'm not doing it! Fire me! Throw me in jail! I'm done bending my knee to this insanity And you can downvote me all you want but there are many of us who feel this way and you pretentious, arrogant fucks don't know better than anyone else and you're actively hurting the cause you believe in. Your downvotes always galvanize me. They tell me I'm RIGHT. Morons!

standardUser 5y ago
The concern has always been that COVID-19 hospitalizations would overwhelm our healthcare capacity, resulting in excess deaths due to lack of care. That is because the disease spreads so easily and because it results in a high rate of hospitalizations (high enough to threaten healthcare capacity). "What are we doing?! This is not an existential threat!" We were saving lives by moderating the spread of this disease so it did not overwhelm our healthcare capacity. For the most part it worked.