I don't find the flippancy painful; my reaction is despair at how wilful ignorance and wishful thinking always leads to irrational behaviour, along with contempt for those in power who are despicable enough to exploit this human weakness for their personal gain.
The point you make about shingles is something that also concerns me. Some viral infections do indeed go into stealth mode for years or even decades, but then become acute conditions when the immune system is challenged or weakens due to age. And then there's the research that's finding that that the original cause of some cancers is a virus.
HiddenLeaf mentions neurological problems due to Covid19; a lot of people seem to be completely unaware of this. Obviously, the main focus of research up to now has been in figuring out how to best deal with the acute phase, and it's impossible to do long-term studies since the virus hasn't been circulating for long. But there are numerous cases of relatively young, healthy people being infected, recovering from the acute phase - which might not have been that bad - and then experiencing memory loss, difficulty in concentrating and brain fog for months afterwards. Clearly, the virus is fucking with the brain in ways that the flu, cold and other common infectious viruses never do. As far as I'm concerned, anything that potentially screws up your mental processes should be treated very seriously.
As you say, we know very little about this virus (apart from the fact that it's easily transmissible), so it's incredibly stupid to dismiss it as nothing more than a type of flu that only causes serious problems for old people and those with the infamous pre-existing conditions.
I'm pretty fucking disgusted at the amount of people who are totally cool with the idea of millions dying, if it's "just" the old or vulnerable...
It just...I can't even.
And their response to that will be, "BuT tHe EcOnOmY!!1#2!×÷" because they're too fucking stupid to understand that any path we take is likely to fuck up the economy...but the sensible thing to do would be to...not also fuck up the population medically? Not...overwhelm and destroy the healthcare sector and subsequently the work force?
I wonder if I already had covid19 and was asymptomatic
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I don't find the flippancy painful; my reaction is despair at how wilful ignorance and wishful thinking always leads to irrational behaviour, along with contempt for those in power who are despicable enough to exploit this human weakness for their personal gain.
The point you make about shingles is something that also concerns me. Some viral infections do indeed go into stealth mode for years or even decades, but then become acute conditions when the immune system is challenged or weakens due to age. And then there's the research that's finding that that the original cause of some cancers is a virus.
HiddenLeaf mentions neurological problems due to Covid19; a lot of people seem to be completely unaware of this. Obviously, the main focus of research up to now has been in figuring out how to best deal with the acute phase, and it's impossible to do long-term studies since the virus hasn't been circulating for long. But there are numerous cases of relatively young, healthy people being infected, recovering from the acute phase - which might not have been that bad - and then experiencing memory loss, difficulty in concentrating and brain fog for months afterwards. Clearly, the virus is fucking with the brain in ways that the flu, cold and other common infectious viruses never do. As far as I'm concerned, anything that potentially screws up your mental processes should be treated very seriously.
As you say, we know very little about this virus (apart from the fact that it's easily transmissible), so it's incredibly stupid to dismiss it as nothing more than a type of flu that only causes serious problems for old people and those with the infamous pre-existing conditions.
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I'm pretty fucking disgusted at the amount of people who are totally cool with the idea of millions dying, if it's "just" the old or vulnerable...
It just...I can't even.
And their response to that will be, "BuT tHe EcOnOmY!!1#2!×÷" because they're too fucking stupid to understand that any path we take is likely to fuck up the economy...but the sensible thing to do would be to...not also fuck up the population medically? Not...overwhelm and destroy the healthcare sector and subsequently the work force?
I just...
It's not a fucking science rocket. Christ.