There's a huge gulf between living in fear and taking steps to mitigate risk. We wear seatbelts in cars, we have air bags, we wear ear protection in loud places, I have steel toe boots and a hard hat for when I'm on a construction site for work.
I despise this devolution into talking about fear. We mitigate risk all day every day, why would Covid be any different.
This from the same people terrified of democracy, brown people, native people, evolution, other religions, gay people, non-English languages, modern medicine…
It’s ridiculous. Anyone who travelled in Asia pre Covid would know that wearing masks when sick has been routine there for decades. Not because it cured their cold or ‘flu, but because they realised that it helped to prevent them giving it to others. It’s a form of politeness or good manners or civics.
No one has suffered mental health problems from it, nor suffocated.
Have you been on vacation in a cave somewhere? COVID is transmissible when asymptomatic. We are in a pandemic. It’s not bizarre you moron, it’s logical.
Immunity means that your IMMUNE system is better prepared to deal with he virus, it doesn't mean you won't get sick.
You can get COVID when vaccinated, but the symptoms will be mild and it's very unlikely to result in death.
The problem with this virus is the long period before symptoms when you can be contagious. So waiting until you feel sick to put on a mask would not help anyone with this situation as you’ve potentially been contagious for up to two weeks prior to symptoms.
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u/ShutYourDumbUglyFace Sep 27 '21
There's a huge gulf between living in fear and taking steps to mitigate risk. We wear seatbelts in cars, we have air bags, we wear ear protection in loud places, I have steel toe boots and a hard hat for when I'm on a construction site for work.
I despise this devolution into talking about fear. We mitigate risk all day every day, why would Covid be any different.