• Hyperi0n@lemmy.film
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      They were determined that it was all a hoax because they don’t know anyone who died.

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        Even if they knew someone who died, they insisted it wasn’t covid, even to the point of keeping it off death certificates.

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      I wish we’d never forced masks to begin with. There wasn’t nearly enough natural selection from the whole thing. Let em kill themselves.

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        How at this point are there still so many people who don’t understand what masks are for? It’s not primarily to protect yourself, it’s to bolster the whole herd’s defenses by reducing spread.

        The mask isn’t for you, it’s for everyone else. It’s not that fucking hard to understand.

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          That’s simply not true. A good n95 or n99 mask will absolutely prevent you from catching it. I spent 2 weeks around people with COVID and I wore my mask, and I never caught anything.

          The problem is that everybody wears fucking cloth masks when we’ve had n95 masks available for 2 years and people complain that masks don’t work. Yet doctors use them, construction workers use them and people in labs do all the time.

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            What you said and what I said are both true.

            N95 masks will protect you, but the reason good and well-adjusted people want others to also wear them is to protect everyone else, especially immune-compromised people for whom a COVID infection could well be life-threatening.

            And of course it’s also a numbers game. If even 10% fewer people get infected, across a large population that’s a quite significant number of people who aren’t clogging up hospitals and calling out sick from the work force.

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            What a shit thing to say. Slightly less healthy people still write songs, hold the door for you, transport food, build things in factories, design new technologies, yet you’ve decided the world would be better off without them. Fuck you, seriously.

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              As my mother would say to me when I was a child and got bullied at school, we should feel sorry for this person, they are obviously deeply unhappy. They may think they are happy due to psychological issues that equate hurting others with keeping themselves safe. It’s pretty depressing

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            Putting aside your wanting disregard for human life, the virus not only killed people it also left people messed up for life. A close friend of mine was a fairly successful white collar worker, due to brain damage I have my doubts he will ever be able to work again. He was 37 in 2020. Also has two kids. Who I guess now get to see daddy struggle with driving a car and talking for over a few minutes.

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                  Sorry that I don’t have the same groupthink opinion on a topic as the rest of the leftwing echo chamber. I believe in a utilitarian approach to society. That means socialism, but also you can go ahead and die if you’re allergic to peanuts and think everyone on a plane can’t eat them now. So, ya be mad at me for not giving a fuck what you think about that. Go cry for the statistical outliers to someone who cares.

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        Even though I share your morbid enthusiasm about humankind, you might possibly admit in some corner of your heart that there might be some people who don’t deserve to die or get long term health issues from Covid. Aren’t those, who might be worth saving from your point of view, important enough to try to participate in measures which might help to reduce the risks for them?

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          The survival of humanity and keeping earth habitable for most species currently alive, requires a more utilitarian mindset. Making decision with our feelings got us where we’re at. People aren’t going to change in mass anytime soon. So, some people need to die. If that can skew the way that vote for abject failure and are less productive for society, it’s a bonus.