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"Never forget" x "It's over, get back to normal" (feddit.org)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 days ago (3 children)

the fact that a post like this still has people in the comments acting like COVID is in the past and 1k ppl in the US alone aren't dying of it every week. COVID literally hasn't gone anywhere all of you have just closed your eyes to the consequences of your actions.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

I'm reading posts as yours thankful to still find some people with common sense. I lost friends to covid while others kept ranting about nonsensical conspiracy theories and proudly rebelling. One of the dumbest shit I've heard people say is "Why should I wear a mask for covid if I don't wear one for flu?". Well, if you actually gave a damn about anyone's wellbeing you'd wear a mask for BOTH.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

19k people die in us yearly just because they use a gas cooker.

Dont look up how many die per year from regular flu. Covid is over and its a small disease like any other now.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Exactly.
In the US Covid has become a political issue.
After the omicron? variant or whatever one that was harmless and even not noticable to most healthy people ost countries went back to normal.
When I saw images from the US with many people wearing masks outdoors literally years later and I asked why I got immediately attacked as a bleach injecting Trumper.
I'm European. And the US is fucked up in many ways.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Did you inject the bleach into your brain? Because this uninformed, selfish statement would sure fit right in this dumpster fire of the USA

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

LOL
Yes, practically all governments in the world and their experts are misinformed.
Only the blue US MAGA cult is right bcs they must do the opposite of the red MAGA cult even to the absurd.
You are a joke.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/beyond-long-covid-1.7485888

"There is no such thing as a COVID infection without consequence," says long COVID researcher, David Putrino[…].

So there is a cumulative effect that can be occurring with each infection.

Early in the pandemic, we actually published a paper where we showed that, even in animal models — when we infected mice with a very, very mild case of SARS-CoV-2 infection — which only caused lung inflammation, we still saw these inflammatory chemicals called chemokines emerging from the infected lungs and starting to attack central nervous system structures such as the spinal cord and the brain.

[…]You know, this is a virus that, once it enters the body, is very capable of entering the bloodstream, creating immune responses that travel all over the body.

It disrupts what we call "interferon signalling," which is part of the immune system that helps you to fight off infections or latent infections, such as Epstein Barr virus.

Typically our immune system can keep these things suppressed, but when SARS-CoV-2 enters the picture, it starts to cause altered interferon signalling. It causes immune damage and dysregulation.

And suddenly, not only does your body have trouble clearing the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself, but it also starts to have trouble keeping some of these other viruses that have been latent from reactivating and causing problems.

In addition to SARS-CoV-2's ability to dysregulate the immune system and suppress the immune system, the spike protein itself is very damaging to blood vessel structures as well as red blood cells and platelets themselves.

And so between those two features, the ability to dysregulate the immune system and the ability to cause systemic damage throughout the bloodstream, you have a very dangerous novel virus on your hands.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The shift in conversations on Lemmy after people fled Reddit is so glaringly obvious.

"X or Y? Pssh. How can you even consider something I don't personally understand? Much prefer to voice an ignorant opinion."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It really is. Lately, people here are so quick to either attack, or assume they’re being attacked. Someone just accused me of “lashing out” yesterday for explaining why a mobility solution they put forward for disabled people wouldn’t work for two disabled people that I personally know. No insults, no accusations, I even outright said “I sympathize” with the other commenter and their goals. I thought I worded my point in a neutral way, but someone still took offense so… I don’t know what else to say.

I figure it’s a trauma response from being entrenched in Reddit. Like people are primed to expect a fight and don’t know how to process a calm, ordinary conversation online anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I really enjoyed the prior Lemmy wherein people led with their expertise, or approached conversation as an opportunity to learn.

This new paradigm of "my emotional impulse is equal to your knowledge" is definitely a decline, imo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Claiming COVID is no worse than the flu demonstrate absolute no expertise though. There’s no both sides to such a misinformed comment.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looking at the CDC numbers[1] for the week of May 10, 2025, I see 201 deaths attributed to Covid and 2465 attributed to a group consisting of Covid, pneumonia and influenza (in other words 2264 deaths attributed to pneumonia or influenza). Yes, people die of Covid every week. People will continue to die from Covid forever. Because Covid is now endemic. It will always be a part of our lives now, just like influenza has been for probably a few thousand years. Just because Covid came up during your lifetime doesn't mean it's in any way special. It's just another virus we will have to deal with now. And unlike some other viruses we actually have vaccines against Covid. Take tuberculosis for example. That fucking thing has probably killed more humans than anything else. We're talking >1 million deaths every year and that's a historic low. Just get a fucking grip on reality.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm>

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I think the major difference between even just Influenza and Covid is, that Covid continues to have a greater disease burden than influenza and a higher percentage of people with post-acute sequela of different forms and is less restricted to the winter months, having roughly two waves per year.

All together, why should we not implement strategies to reduce these numbers of deaths and disabilities? Especially if they would, in the case of better air filtration and ventilation also help tackle future occurances of airborne pathogens.