• books@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Flu absolutely killed a grip of people when it was new.

    It eventually became endemic and what we live with now. More or less what we have with covid. It will rear its ugly head every year as it mutates. Some will get it and have a rough time, some people’s immunity or vaccine will help make it less deadly contagious as it was in 2020.

    Life goes on. Wear a mask or don’t, but we are way past the point of putting the genie back in the bottle

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      If half the population wears a mask during a pandemic, it won’t slow the spread very much.

      Leaving safety measures as a personal choice for contagious diseases is like letting everyone decide whether or not they want to stop at red lights based on personal preference. Sure, you can be in a rural area and pretty much ignore most stoplights without a collision, but in a city the negative effects will be rapid and deadly.

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        Sure but I don’t think we are in the pandemic anymore.

        Again wear a mask or don’t. I don’t give a shit. I’m personally done with them until rates start to spike again, or for when I travel on an airplane.