Like would a Spanish flu level pandemic do it? How many bodies gotta drop before they’re scared into masking

  • DongWang [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    My mother always said that if people bled from their eyes or had massive losses of weight it might work. Might.

    I kind of see what she means, but I think they’d kill us all for the economy rather than shut down again.

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      9 months ago

      The problem with covid is that its effects are delayed: My relatives don’t understand that asymptomatic spread means that they’re contagious before they have symptoms, don’t understand that even if their covid feels “very mild”, they can still get long covid, etc. People don’t correlate covid’s effects with covid itself because it’s not on the timeline they expect for a respiratory virus.