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The severity of the infection, even whether you get sick at all, depends on the dosage relative to the strength of your immune system.
Masks substantially reduce dosage.
This obsession with hermetically sealed perfect zero exposure to COVID was based on early notions that COVID was a super infector where 2 miles away a single particle could float through your window and get you.
In the end, the severity of COVID was a result of so many millions and millions of people in Wuhan catching it (because it is quite infectious, but people were doing jack and shit to stop infections at first). So, of 5 million people, 80k sever cases wasn't a high severity rate.
What we didn't realize is that 5 million people were infected, most of whom didn't even know it.
Social distancing, masks, etc. fucking obliterated COVID's ability to have caused more harm has we simply done fuck all and ignored it.
They WANTED us to ignore COVID until Italy and New York happened.
The catalyst was the University of Washington scientist who went rogue and tested for COVID against the CDC's orders and proved it had arrived in the US and through preliminary epidemiology, proven it had spread really fast. Those lab researchers weren't supposed to do that.
Remember the "vape disease"?
The plan required for the public to be ignorant of COVID as it spread.
The U Washington tests created a public consciousness of fear, so the powers had to pivot and go in the other direction of extreme lockdowns before anyone even died. A trigger was pulled.
And, it didn't work.
COVID discourse on /pol/ is extremely braindead and shill poisoned.