Vaccines. I gave up trying to gently educate my coworker and instead am waging an outright campaign via Facebook to terrorize her into vaccinating her poor sickly autistic son. Every journal article and news piece on preventable disease, I'm posting it, and am having long winded chats on my page about how measles wipes your immune memory and how a kid died of that in the community a few months ago. Parents of antivaxxers should have their children apprehended by CPS. It's child abuse.
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nothing. absolutely nothing. if ppl would wanna know they'd ask. let them use facebook, iphone, crude oil and whatever floats their boat. all tipping points have been reached. no need to stress anyone anymore.
Tipping point is the wrong word, because after a certain point it's tipping and you can't stop it. There are a few ways that applies, but it very much does not describe the whole situation.
Climate change is a dial on a stove and we're still cranking it.
have you seen idiocracy?
That the covid pandemic is still going full tilt and still demands a very aggressive worldwide response.
Everybody (over the age of 4--they were born in 2020!) knows it, they just deny it like crazy because they don't have the balls to deal with how unpleasant it is.
Which makes it infinitely more unpleasant because we aren't lifting the weight together. But anybody still denying the pandemic is consciously deciding to do it, and an explanation isn't going to make them un-decide, because it's not a lack of knowledge.
Influenza typically accounts for 1.5% of deaths at its peak every year. Covid has been hovering around 3%. So it’s currently about the same level as a bad flu season. To me this indicates endemic levels. If there is a strain that suddenly starts killing more people, it will make headlines. I’m not trying to be in denial, this is just where I’m at. I’ve had it, and my immune system is doing what it is supposed to do. I’m not worried about contracting it again, unless the a new deadly strain comes out.
Even having a mild case of COVID has cognitive impacts in healthy people. It's really really really actually very terrifying.
This is where I'm at too. I was literally just talking to my friend about this last night.
We both know of several people who feel very strongly that the pandemic is still in full swing. They won't go out of their house without a mask, they get their groceries delivered, they won't come to any social events for fear of getting sick, and they only work from home. They've basically trapped themselves in their house, out of fear.
In my opinion, which is only an opinion, I think these people have an undiagnosed mental illness. Some sort of excess anxiety that was triggered by the events of lockdown and the early pandemic, and now they are unable to reset back to normal.
I don't mean that in a bad way or a rude way, I'm legitimately concerned for these people and don't know how to help.
For your average Joe, COVID is just a reality we live with. I don't want to get it, but I can't afford to lock myself down, nor do I think it would be healthy for me mentally if I did.
I don’t think it’s good for you physically either. I have been exposed to Covid, probably every few months. The immune system needs to actually see viruses in order to keep making antibodies.
Even in mild cases of COVID in healthy younger people it has cognitive impacts. What you believe is false.