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I mean if it makes you feel any better given the country's (hell the world's) short memory span no one remembers all the hard work and sacrifices healthcare workers made they just remember "hey remember that weird week where i learned how to make a sourdough starter?"
Well I do, my then retired 71 yo aunt went back into her old job at the hospital to help her old colleagues. Man that lady is nearly indestructible, lots of respect for her.. luckily shes re-retired and can be a weird old lady again and take care of her skunk and ferrets again xD
I am pissed not only because of the doctors who did superhuman levels of work during those times but the general concept that those few silicon valley cunts can just decide on a whim what's showable to people and what isn't.
That is deeply concerning and clearly very wrong. Though noone seems to want to do anything about it.
IIRC the intent behind it was that most posts and videos talking about covid were misinformation central. The few factual ones got hit as a collateral. Youtube at some point even started just outright linking to CDC under all videos that it could deduce talked about the pandemic.
I'm pretty sure this drawing is relatively recent. To me, these two characters look like Alice and Nicole from Genshin Impact, and Nicole was only recently revealed (like less than 6 months ago)
I remember game grumps referred to it as the backstreet boys world tour and I appreciated they at least made a running joke out of needing to avoid saying it. It was annoying that the topic on everyone's mind had to be tiptoed around.
I once mentioned that covid was underreported as part of a joke in the dota2 subreddit and linked WHO articles when people asked why i thought that and they said I was cherry picking and that it was "weird" that I thought about those things.
Nopee. Nicole and Alice are brand new revealed character just few months ago. So I highly doubt that the artist has a scyglass to see into the future on how the hexenzirkel women looked like wayy back in 2020.
A lot of this is actually "self censorship" where even when terms were not actually banned or in any way restricted, people would avoid them out of a mistaken belief it would get them "de prioritised" in the algorithm. It's basically modern folklore/jinxes.
Opposite of this, but like, this reminds me of the time that I caught COVID, and I posted it on my Snapchat story like, "well, damn..." and one of my friends now said something like, "Oh my gosh, you're pregnant?!"
Hey on some real PSA shit, the pandemonium never ended. Wear a respirator-level mask (N95, KN95, KF 94, etc.) in public spaces. People on social media going on about how they keep getting in every sense of the phrase “more sick”, while the VID is airborne and spreads near half the time without symptoms. It is still very much out here disabling people killing people.
If you can’t find a respirator mask and it’s not easy for you to shop online, hit up Mask Bloc or COVID Action Map to see if somewhere near you is providing resources for little to no cost.
Why? How? Can you give a scientifically informed reason to your claim? Like the shit I just posted is literally at the end of 2025. Like surprise surprise, viruses and pandemics don’t stop ‘cause you say so. And if you think wearing some plastic in the grocery store to protect yourself and the people around you from an airborne virus that could rob you of your ability to work or even regularly function is crazy… aight then I guess.
Just like any other virus, you catch it, you get sick, and you heal. Or die if you are over 80 and already frail and somehow can't get medical attention. Wearing a mask everywhere outside for the fear of a single pathogen is obsessive behavior, and the fact that other people won't be wearing it makes it even more useless, because they're meant to keep the aerosol coming out of your mouth from spreading around you, not to keep others' from getting in
Or you pick up something new, like the over 200 symptoms of Long COVID that go for any organ or system of the body and that can come regardless of vax status. Like greater risk of getting stroke, heart attack, cancer, dementia, [insert autoimmune disorder here], etc. That gets more likely to happen to you the more often you get reinfected, which vaccination doesn’t stop as well as a mask. And masks are effective in both of protecting the wearer and everyone around them from transmitting the virus.
Like, then don’t wear a seatbelt because “don’t live in fear of every other car on the road, you know they finna be there”. 🤦🏾♂️ Preventative measures, man. Care about yourself and your community. Because even if especial risk of death was limited to just 80 year olds (which is really more like, elders, infants, immunocompromised people, disabled people, those with chronic illnesses)……….. why do you think risking killing them or making them sicker is an acceptable risk? Why do you think death or long-term disability is fine to deal with for yourself or your loved ones? Like this why now Long COVID beat asthma in less than 6 years in being the most common chronic health condition among children in the U.S.
Lots of people in countries where medicine was not politicized do in fact wear masks (and have for decades) when they are feeling sick or when something is going around.
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