If COVID is *SoOoOo dangerous* then why have literally no one I know caught despite not changing anything about the way we live our lives (except when those “lockdowns” were in place)?
I’m an active college student, shouldn’t at least one of my peers gotten it yet? And none have, 🙃.
How can it be a pandemic if you don’t believe their lies and it just melts away. Break the chains. Free yourself before it’s too late.
god I hope this is the same dipshit anon as before, and not an entire brand new idiot.
anyway, the answer to your question is ‘incredible fucking luck, and also other people around you being responsible enough to to shield your dumb ass from your bad decisions.’
anyway, wanna hear about the people I know who’ve had covid? let’s start with my own fucking parents.
My dad is a doctor — specifically, a podiatrist. The first week of March 2020, he had a patient who was obviously, visibly unwell. Horrible cough, sweating profusely, wheezing, real bad news. Guy insisted it was just seasonal allergies, just a cold, he was fine.
My dad was like, hey, as a foot doctor I cannot diagnose you with a respiratory virus, but you need to get the fuck out of my office and see your GP immediately.
Did my dad’s patient listen? No. He hung out in reception chatting with my dad’s staff between coughing fits for another fifteen minutes, until my dad came back out and yelled at him.
Two weeks later, my dad had a fever and body aches. By then we all knew a full-blown pandemic was happening, so he quarantined until his symptoms were gone — in his case, luckily, only a few days. About as mild a case as you can have.
Week after that, my mom had a persistent ‘sinus infection’ that wouldn’t go away. Then lost taste and smell. Then spent a couple of weeks with really miserable ‘worst flu you’ve ever had’ symptoms, and took the better part of a month to fully recover.
Oh, and my dad’s staff all got it, too. Some of them also gave it to family members. Everyone’s okay now, thankfully.
My dad’s patient, on the other hand? Never saw his GP. Turned up at the ER a few weeks later, and was dead before April.
And that was original flavor covid, not Delta, which is far more contagious and hits younger people harder than Covid Classic.
I live in an area that’s been consistently taking all the precautions: mask mandates that are actually enforced, three months of shelter-in-place last year, high vaccination rates. We never overwhelmed our hospitals and our rates have consistently been lower than most of the country. I’m incredibly lucky that no one I know personally has died from covid.
But I know plenty of people who’ve had it. My former intern caught it at college despite her best efforts. The restaurant across the street has has to close every few months, over and over, every time an employee tested positive. A close friend has it right now and it’s hitting her pretty hard, despite being fully vaccinated.
And if you want to hear the real horror stories, there’s always r/HermanCainAward.
tldr: don’t confuse your luck with invincibility. and don’t confuse your deliberately blinkered view of the world with any kind of truth.
also, get fucking vaccinated already. jesus. what the fuck.
