>>104449558 (OP)
Yeah people just get it all the time ever since we surrendered to it. Sometimes it ruins their life for years or potentially forever and we just think that's okay now.
>>104449558 (OP)
I THOUGHT VT TOLD ME THE PANDEMIC IS OVER AND THAT COVID DOESNT EXIST AND THAT YOU CANT GET LASTING PERMANENT DAMAGE FROM A COVID INFECTION !!!
>>104450186
I don't think /vt/ in particular said anything. The pandemic is over in that it's now much less lethal but it's now endemic - it'll never go away just like influenza. In the vast majority of cases there are no lasting side effects. I'm not disputing that some do end up with long lasting issues but during the actual pandemic I had an older friend who was considered extremely vulnerable because he had COPD. He still unfortunately caught it but he said it just felt like a bad flu - so if a guy who ordinarily is coughing his lungs up most of the time anyway wasn't that badly effected I think the majority of people can rest easy.
>>104450186
It's just an endemic disease variant, kinda like it always was. People can still get it, very few people will die from it. When we actually have a real dangerous pandemic that will kill a lot of people this crying wolf shit over a corona variant will bite the health authorities in the ass because people will ignore recommendations and rules.
>>104450502
Nah I was the same.
I couldn't smell or taste anything from 2021 to somewhere in 2023 when it started to come back.
But coffee still tastes wrong to me, I don't know if I remember the taste differently or if it actually tastes different though.
>>104450627
NTA to expand on this, the thing was with it being a pandemic many people got hit by it with my people "taking the test" without having any antibodies. Our bodies are used to influenza and COVID by now but even with the former, some sucker can just get braindamage or even die from it.
>>104450074
Nigga most of the time i cant smell, its been like 3 years now. At least now i cant smell, it used to be that at night i would randomly smell chemicals or burning rubber, its was nasty.
>>104450017
Literally, what's the alternative? Live like it's Spring 2020 forever? Become a species of paranoid shut-ins? Humans are psychologically hard-wired to want to socialize in person. Even if we wore masks all day every day out in public, that still wouldn't be strict enough for some people. Implementing an eternal house-arrest-style lockdown would go over as well as a plan to solve heart disease and obesity by government mandated food rationing.
>>104450074 >>104450017
i went from being able to run 2 miles everyday comfortably to wheezing after half a mile. doc told me my lung capacity got gutted as though i had been smoking a pack an hour. thank god i got off easy instead of getting something serious like literally not being able to taste food anymore or a permanent cognitive decline.
>>104455426
It's like the ticks that cause meat allergies. Just a random roulette where the prize is life fucking you over - except you can avoid ticks. You can't avoid your dipshit coworkers coming in contagious because your job has no sick leave.
>>104450627
influenza COULD go away if people wore masks when sick in public and if they were not pressured into going to work sick. Flu season was almost eradicated during the lockdown years
>>104456708
if you're that committed to being so incredibly contentious of the way your personal decisions affect other people, you might as well never go out in public. A driver could be distracted while looking at you and end up crashing and it'd be your fault. >move through the air like smoke
damn that sounds dangerous. i hope you've hermetically sealed your entire house then
>>104456708
if you're that committed to being so incredibly conscientious of the way your personal decisions affect other people, you might as well never go out in public. A driver could be distracted while looking at you and end up crashing and it'd be your fault. >move through the air like smoke
damn that sounds dangerous. i hope you've hermetically sealed your entire house then
>>104457477
This is completely false and I don't think you understand epidemiology. I wasn't against masks during the pandemic (or now if someone's ill) nor am I against vaccines but you're incredibly misinformed if you think it's possible to fully eradicate corona or influenza viruses.
>>104461035
I'll reiterate my original point. Permanently attaching life-or-death stakes to every IRL interaction with another human being produces a level of stress that is not psychologically healthy. It sucks that some people with compromised immune systems have to live that way, but the solution is not to lower everyone else's quality of life to match.