1 in 5 people catching covid have long covid, but fuck you if you don’t want to take that risk in exchange for some treats. Just get yourself and everyone you know infected again and again, it’s fine.
(Apologies comrades, but both archive failed to work, and nitter looks broken, possibly due to Elon banning third party apps?)
With a lot of online discourse the false premises come from one underlying assumption: that the small group of weirdos you either hang out with or laugh at online constitute a mass phenomenon and aren't just a small group of weirdos.
Like I'm sure it's the case that some people drove themselves crazy over covid by being online more. But the majority of people I know didn't. Their habits shifted but I don't know anyone who has actual agorophobia because of the pandemic.
:100-com: like I don’t feel great if I’m forced into an indoor situation (e.g. having to occasionally go into the office for my job), because I’m increasing my risk against my own choices, but it’s not that I’m more scared of being outside my home. One of the few tiny silver linings about my family just having had Covid is that we feel safe in taking my toddler to an indoor aquarium for the first time as we have a short window of immunity from the infection. I feel sad that until now the calculus of risk has prevented us doing that.
This. Also the reason why unpopular opinion type threads are often full of incredibly popular opinions.
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