• Random_Character_A@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      At least locally there’s a clear anti-mask attitude. There is no way you can get a middle aged man, who listens right wing media, to wear a mask again. They reminisce the last time like a lost unjust war and because covid didn’t hit bad here, they think it was just a hoax of the pharmaceutical industry.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I think that ship has sailed. When the covid wasn’t as bad as originally thought and with the reports that masks weren’t all that effective even the people who were gung ho aren’t likely to mask up anymore. And I’m not trying to downplay covid or mask effectiveness, but rather talking about the feeling people have right now.

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        1 year ago

        Covid WAS as bad as originally thought!

        The whole point of the precautions was to reduce the spread enough to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed and more time to release a vaccine before everyone got it. Hospitals were very close to collapsing in a lot of areas, and if it had not been slowed it would have been far worse.

        Don’t confuse successful mitigation with the disease not being as bad as originally thought.

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          1 year ago

          Covid WAS as bad as originally thought!

          It was feared as something that would kill people left and right with almost biblical proportions, as the modern day black death or something. You can blame media for overhyping it to sell the news I guess but a lot of people got the idea that it would be a lot more than it actually was.

          Don’t confuse successful mitigation with the disease not being as bad as originally thought.

          It wasn’t as bad as we thought at first and we managed to make it another season flu almost, so of course people are going to regard the thing as no big deal now. And it would be a really hard job to convince them otherwise

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              1 year ago

              It’s now so diminished and most people had sore throat or little fever, that’s what I mean. Seasonal flu kills a shitload of people but nobody really cares about that either.