Still going to mask up when going indoors.
I don't want the flu, I don't want a cold and I don't want to get covid.
Vaccines and Omicron mean Covid now less deadly than flu in England
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#12Still going to mask up when going indoors. I don't want the flu, I don't want a cold and I don't want to get covid.
Great way to destroy your immune system
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#13It may well be less deadly, but it is far more contagious. Reinfection also seems to be not uncommon. We do not fully understand the long term effects of even a mild case, or indeed how repeated reinfection might compound any such effects, given that we might expect to catch it once or twice a year as opposed to once or twice in our lives for flu.
The flu once mutated to be very deadly, and there's no particular reason it couldn't happen again. For all anybody really knows, the next super deadly flu strain might show up tomorrow. Are you going to spend your life terrified of this "what if" scenario too?
Preparing for the worst and mitigating risk != being terrified
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
The flu once mutated to be very deadly, and there's no particular reason it couldn't happen again. For all anybody really knows, the next super deadly flu strain might show up tomorrow. Are you going to spend your life terrified of this "what if" scenario too?
Preparing for the worst and mitigating risk != being terrified
That depends on the level of preparation and the steps taken to mitigate risk. Further, sometimes those levels of preparation and mitigation are actually more harmful than the danger itself.
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#16It may well be less deadly, but it is far more contagious. Reinfection also seems to be not uncommon. We do not fully understand the long term effects of even a mild case, or indeed how repeated reinfection might compound any such effects, given that we might expect to catch it once or twice a year as opposed to once or twice in our lives for flu.
better hide inside forever just to be sure
The elderly, people with health conditions and their carers can’t take such liberties.
It’s a shame how easily we overlook and disregard swathes of people.
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#17It may well be less deadly, but it is far more contagious. Reinfection also seems to be not uncommon. We do not fully understand the long term effects of even a mild case, or indeed how repeated reinfection might compound any such effects, given that we might expect to catch it once or twice a year as opposed to once or twice in our lives for flu.
The flu once mutated to be very deadly, and there's no particular reason it couldn't happen again. For all anybody really knows, the next super deadly flu strain might show up tomorrow. Are you going to spend your life terrified of this "what if" scenario too?
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
better hide inside forever just to be sure
enjoy your long covid! https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2022/03/living-with-covid-mo...
"Long Covid" is mainly just hypochondria. A lot less of it is real than the hype would have you believe. The media loves spooky stuff because it generates clicks.
Hypochondriacs are a thing: they are out there. Some of them have gotten Covid-19, and that of course turns into their new obsession.
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Preparing for the worst and mitigating risk != being terrified
That depends on the level of preparation and the steps taken to mitigate risk. Further, sometimes those levels of preparation and mitigation are actually more harmful than the danger itself.
That’s true. It’s a cost/benefit, risk/reward calculation that everyone needs to make.
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better hide inside forever just to be sure
You do realize there is a happy middle ground between hiding inside forever and pretending COVID doesn't exist, right?
Yes, that middle ground is stopping all required COVID mitigations and let people live their lives as they did before. COVID is here to stay. Time to start treating it like every other endemic disease.
ps Pretty sure the comment you responded to was sarcasm.