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> good to remember that people actually do get this disease. Why does it continue to be significantly important to call this out when the trajectory places Omi
by 13years 5y ago
> good to remember that people actually do get this disease.
Why does it continue to be significantly important to call this out when the trajectory places Omicron and possible future variants within the realms of cold/flu ?
- triactual 5y agoTo remember that normal people from our own social circles get infected and usually survive just fine. Rather than pretending that every infection is an overweight, anti-vaxxer, etc. who dies immediately after destroying the local medical facilities. I think both sides of the severity discussion would benefit from keeping the human consequences in mind, whether they are more or less severe than imagined.
- 13years 5y agoAgreed, yet at some point society has to be productive again. Living in constant anxiety will ultimately be more destructive than the disease everyone fears if it has not already.
- triactual 5y agoI actually completely agree. COVID is endemic so now we’re just prolonging the inevitable getting-on-with-it and the only question is how much damage we do pretending otherwise.
- Izkata 5y ago> and possible future variants within the realms of cold/flu ? Delta was already "within the realms of" the flu. Omicron so far appears to have shot past that and is on its way to a cold.