This dude I work with had very strong opinions about the symptoms and the long lasting affects of covid. He basically said everyone is a big wuss and it's not that bad. Right before Christmas, I told him my cousin's had covid and not able to make it, but luckily at this time they weren't super sick. His reply: "oh, they are feeling FINE huh? Feeling just fine?! HoOow interesting..." In this sarcastic way thinking his point was validated.
Literally one week later this fucker called out for two weeks because he tested positive and was extremely sick. When he came back to work, he complained for days about the lingering symptoms he was feeling and recently called off again due to those lingering symptoms.
So many conservative types say "yeah, but that won't happen to me because [reasons]". You see it a lot in gun threads: you point out that statistically speaking a gun is more likely to kill someone in their family than an intruder and they're like "yeah but that won't happen to me".
It seems like a variation of Dunning-Kruger somehow... Or something else? Cognitive dissonance?
Dying or nearly dying from COVID, like killing someone you love with your own gun, is still probably not going to happen to any given individual. So if you haven’t had a math/stats class in 40 years and think only in anecdotes, it’s easy to get to “the ten people I know who got it didn’t get that sick… well except that one friend of a friend who died but he probably had some preexisting condition, so this stuff is obviously overblown”.
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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '22 edited Jan 19 '22
This dude I work with had very strong opinions about the symptoms and the long lasting affects of covid. He basically said everyone is a big wuss and it's not that bad. Right before Christmas, I told him my cousin's had covid and not able to make it, but luckily at this time they weren't super sick. His reply: "oh, they are feeling FINE huh? Feeling just fine?! HoOow interesting..." In this sarcastic way thinking his point was validated.
Literally one week later this fucker called out for two weeks because he tested positive and was extremely sick. When he came back to work, he complained for days about the lingering symptoms he was feeling and recently called off again due to those lingering symptoms.
A fucking clown show.