> Over time, when we know more about the virus and it changes more, there will probably be less-severe variants where we can mostly rely on vaccination.
With all due respect, this is a crazy take. Calling me childish and telling me that I’m “freaking out” is bullying and textbook gaslighting.
Covid is not novel at this point. It’s been a thing since very early 2020. What more are we possibly gonna know about it? It’s a respiratory virus. Not unlike many of its kind.
We have a vaccine for it. Anybody who is at risk can walk in and get it free.
I’m fully vaccinated. There is absolutely no reason for me to wear a mask. I’ve done my part. My obligations to society are over. I now can return to actual normal, no matter what people convince themselves of.
Pushing this dystopian “new normal” crap is, quite frankly, insane. There will be no new normal. People pushing for it need to be rigorously called out for the insanity they are preaching. Party is over.
> It’s a respiratory virus. Not unlike many of its kind.
It's very much unlike others of its kind. And it is novel. It is literally called a "novel coronavirus". Just to give you an idea how deadly and different this virus is:
- An outbreak of Ebola from 2014 to 2016 killed 11,310 people in West Africa.
- In 2009, the H1N1 pandemic killed approximately 12,469 people in the US.
- In 2014, during the MERS-CoV pandemic, 2 people in the US tested positive.
- As of today, COVID-19 has killed 661,000 people in the US.
COVID-19 is 53 times more deadly than the last major coronavirus pandemic in the US. Fifty. Three. Times.
> We have a vaccine for it.
We have a vaccine developed for the first variant of it, alpha. The vaccine was not developed against the delta variant. There is a drastic difference in its effectiveness against delta. Hence why there are now new mask mandates - for vaccinated people - where delta is rampaging. Are you telling me you didn't know this at all?
> I’ve done my part. My obligations to society are over.
Actually, no, society literally requires you by law to continue to wear masks in places where Delta is surging. But whatever; you want to kill people, you're gonna kill people.
I get it. You're petrified. But life will get better, and it does indeed change. "Normal" does shift. People didn't used to wear condoms, now they do (except for you). People didn't used to brush their teeth, now they do (except for you). People didn't used to wash their hands, now they do (except for you). You apparently live in 1750, where medical science and overall culture hasn't changed for hundreds of years, where everything is totally normal and will never ever ever ever Ever EVER change. Because everyone else is just insane, and you're normal.
With all due respect, this is a crazy take. Calling me childish and telling me that I’m “freaking out” is bullying and textbook gaslighting.
Covid is not novel at this point. It’s been a thing since very early 2020. What more are we possibly gonna know about it? It’s a respiratory virus. Not unlike many of its kind.
We have a vaccine for it. Anybody who is at risk can walk in and get it free.
I’m fully vaccinated. There is absolutely no reason for me to wear a mask. I’ve done my part. My obligations to society are over. I now can return to actual normal, no matter what people convince themselves of.
Pushing this dystopian “new normal” crap is, quite frankly, insane. There will be no new normal. People pushing for it need to be rigorously called out for the insanity they are preaching. Party is over.