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Post by gruturo »

mathverse wrote: post #605
namanaggarwal wrote: post #578

For those commenting that it's just common cold and about herd immunity, I think we should not miss out on overload on our medical system. This is what happened in India, due to high number of cases (even if mild) the medical infrastructure completely crashed under the load and lead to far more deaths than just a flu could have caused. Wear mask and stay indoors if possible

I am sorry but no. I have already lost 2 years of my life just following and obeying the orders. Enough is enough. This is not on me to solve. The government had enough time to convince everyone to vaccinate or prepare the healthcare sector for influx of cases of unvaccinated.

I hate to break it to you, but a virus doesn't really care if you're sick and tired of the situation. It sucks, yeah. No, it's not OK to stop caring only because it's been so long. The socially responsible behavior is still the best course for an individual, even if surrounded by morons.

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Post by astwq »

shlant wrote: post #592
rayxc wrote: post #582

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not sure why you are bringing up Portugal as if it's some sort of gotcha. It's doing very well in terms of deaths, similar to the UK, Canada etc. who also have high vaccination rates.

All countries or states that had initial comparatively high fatalities like Sweden, Italy, Portugal, New York, Florida are doing relatively well now regardless of vaccination status.

A possible cause is that there are fewer vulnerable people left.

Even if the vaccine does help against severe cases, it does not stop the spread, so being vaccinated should be an individual choice and not forced like in Austria. That is why a closer look at highly vaccinated countries is in order, everything else is unscientific.

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Post by scoopdewoop »

The media and government can't be trusted with germ theory. The whole idea that we have control over the virus and that our actions are tantamount to killing people with it or not is ludicrous. The virus is going to spread, and its going to kill people. People aren't killing each other. We will all catch covid. The "treatment" has been so much worse than the disease. 5 million died due to covid, but hundreds of millions will die due to the global economy tanking. People acted like we were "sacrificing" lives to the economy, but in reality we were sacrificing children's childhoods for extending the lives of septuagenarians.

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Post by marexv »

It is not going to stop... new variants, booster shots, masks, lock downs, tests for everyone everyday. Get over it. It's like airport security, once setup, the system is not going away and soon nobody will remember how life used to look like before all of it happened.

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Post by blain »

Dumblydorr wrote: post #625
mathverse wrote: post #605

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am sorry but no. I have already lost 2 years of my life just following and obeying the orders. Enough is enough. This is not on me to solve. The government had enough time to convince everyone to vaccinate or prepare the healthcare sector for influx of cases of unvaccinated.

How was the government supposed to convince anti-vaxxers to do what they believe contains micro chips or what they believe is worse than the virus itself? This isn't on the government, this is on anti-vaxxers for swallowing garbage information, hook line and sinker. And you didn't lose 2 years of your life. You're alive, you didn't die due to the pandemic, did you? That's much less than can be said for 5 million othe…

For starters I would want my government to change the narrative. They should do their own independent research and present their own facts. Instead they blindly buy vaccines from US and repeat the agenda as everyone else.

There is way too much politics involved. Pandemic should make people naturally empathic not forced by their governments to blindly obey.

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Post by astwq »

libertine wrote: post #621
rayxc wrote: post #582

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A lot of ignorance here. The current measures in place are simply preventive, more in the lines of caution and unnecessary spread, mainly to save our Public Health Service from overdrive and spare medical professionals that are exhausted at this point in time. We don't want to have unnecessary stress that hurts the whole health system, and compromises other health services. The vaccines are working exceptionally well…

No, Portugal had initial high fatalities in 2020 and 2021. You are just regurgitating mainstream in a hostile manner.

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Post by impendingchange »

namanaggarwal wrote: post #578

For those commenting that it's just common cold and about herd immunity, I think we should not miss out on overload on our medical system. This is what happened in India, due to high number of cases (even if mild) the medical infrastructure completely crashed under the load and lead to far more deaths than just a flu could have caused. Wear mask and stay indoors if possible

But it is the common cold:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/UvuXzdVwj3ed/

Get lots of Vitamin D from sunlight and be sure to take your Vitamin C. Breathe lots of fresh, unfiltered air. Keep the curve low.

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Post by TheRealDunkirk »

There's a significant contingent of people who think if we all just followed every precaution, all the time, forever, "we" could stop the virus, and it would die out. Coronaviruses don't behave like that. At some point, everyone on Earth will be exposed to this virus, and masked or not, vaccinated or not, each person will have to deal with how it affects them. Some people are hardly bothered. Some die. Some wind up in the ER 3 times, and have lingering problems (like me). I get that masks can help slow transmission, but can we stop pretending that if we all "just did" whatever "the authorities" tell us to do that we would magically escape from this plague? The data from various countries concerning protocols and amount of people following them just doesn't seem to support such thinking. Such data seems to be suggesting that it's much more about genetic makeup than anything else, and not masking and distancing and hand washing.

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Post by mathverse »

junon wrote: post #648
mathverse wrote: post #605

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am sorry but no. I have already lost 2 years of my life just following and obeying the orders. Enough is enough. This is not on me to solve. The government had enough time to convince everyone to vaccinate or prepare the healthcare sector for influx of cases of unvaccinated.

"I'm inconvenienced and no longer care if others die because of it!"

"I am not arguing in good faith nor do I have an ounce of empathy for someone that have not seen family and loved ones for more than 2 years".
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