Ok here's my covid hot take.
So obviously, people dying is bad. Obviously, taking a bunch of precautions to save lives is very good. Obviously, being as cautious as possible is super important.
But maybe...
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My mom's philosophy (for once) is yolo. She's like, if I get it, whatever. The risk of hospitalization/death isn't high enough to justify me living my life in fear. And she did get covid, and now she's better, and she continues on not wearing a mask or isolating.
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Obviously this is bad. Obviously she put herself and other people's lives at risk. Obviously she should have been isolating, not hosting bible studies.
But maybeee she's kinda right. I sort of respect her, despite the fact I've been huddled in my house for nearly a year.
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She just was like "fuck this illness, my life goes on." And a part of me wonders, is this what all of us should be doing? Bite the bullet, face a wave of deaths, suffer, grieve, and move on?
Idk. I'm not doing that but I think if my peer group were more like her, I would be.
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There's plenty of covid statistics showing that unless you're in a high-risk group, you've got a slim chance of dying from it, like 0.1% of something. I agree, we shouldn't be living in fear from this thing, unless perhaps we're elderly, ill, etc.
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My mom is in a very high risk group - she has asthma, heart problems, is old, etc.
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"Sure COVID ended being nowhere near as bad as predicted, and if anything is a severe cold, and even that claim is dubious because of the pseudoscience 40 cycle PCR testing,but even so I still think it's bad for people to treat it the same way they've always treated getting sick"
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Fwiw my mom did not experience it as a severe cold, she had to go to the ER, she said she couldn't remember the last time she'd been so sick, said it was absolutely horrible and very intense.
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will to power, etc. but it would weigh heavily on me to know that there was a more than insignificant chance I caused someone else's death or suffering
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The current moderna vaccine existed a year ago today, and we were denied the choice to use it, take on the risk, and live normally. That was the true chad move.
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I think there is no rationale for hunkering down unless you are elderly, have risk factors, or have obligatory interactions with folks at risk. I've continued to work (with little kids) in person, and I found in-person school for my kids.
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The problem for me is not my own willingness to live a normal life, it's that a lot of the activities I'd like to do are not available (gym, classes, restaurants, kids activities).
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There's a fair percentage of people who develop chronic problems and ongoing symptoms, like an auto immune disease. They're a group called long haulers.
Best strategy IMO is to not get it.
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My brother still can't smell after 4 months. Everything tastes like chemicals.
Will it come back? Hopefully. But this type of risk exists, where it doesn't with a bad flu.
The flu meme at the beginning of this pandemic was harmful. This is a disease, not a flu.
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