Early signs suggest fall COVID-19 wave starting in Canada — before updated boosters are available
Early signs suggest fall COVID-19 wave starting in Canada — before updated boosters are available
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When we wear masks, not only do we do the right thing, but it helps others to feel brave enough to join us.
I just want to say when I personally see someone with a mask, I have no judgement or opinion on the person. That person needs or wants a mask and I think that's a good thing that came out of the whole pandemic.
No it doesn't. When others see people wearing a mask now, they think your either paranoid, virtue signalling, or have an health condition and therefore hava a higher threat model.
Don't feel embarred wearing a mask. Do what you think is best for yourself, but I can tell you it does not make people "brave and to join the movement".
My wife has a chronic lung condition ... we can't risk any kind of infection so she avoids going anywhere in public and I wear a mask everywhere I go where there are more than one person that is new to us.
After this pandemic, we're never going back to the way things were in the past.
Yep, the world is overrun with selfish entitled assholes that don't care about anyone but themselves and their immediate family.
And they’ll point their fingers everywhere but themselves when it comes back to bite them.
If pressed hard, all they have is "Are you still talking about that", "That was a long time ago. Get over it.", The Narcissist’s Prayer, and so on.
Or there is a minority of people who lack any meaning in their lives and when the pandemic came along, they made it their life mission to end the virus for good. Turned the pandemic into a religion of sorts.
My advice buddy is to let this all go and enjoy life. 2022 and 2023 have been great years for me and it can be for you as well. Get outside more if you do not get outside much, stop reading and watching the news and just live. Leave this "We must stop COVID" belief behind. Just like the flu, COVID is here to stay.
"stop reading" is exactly the sort of advice I'd expect to get from an antivaxxer brainlet. Maybe you should start reading.
stop reading and watching the news
The news is not good for mental health, all it is these days is just high quality fear porn. Its no better than Info Wars, lets be honest.
No it doesn’t. When others see people wearing a mask now, they think your either paranoid, virtue signalling, or have an health condition and therefore hava a higher threat model.
Really? At this point when see someone wearing a mask I assume they have a cold/flu/covid and they're being prosocial...
Not me or anyone I know thinks that when seeing someone with a mask on. Nobody wore a mask when they were sick before 2020. And when I have the sniffles, I never wear a mask. If I am really sick, I will just stay home. Just like how it was done before 2020.
I can't imagine being someone who not only doesn't experience personal growth but also refuses to learn from the changing world around them. If you wanna act like an inconsiderate dumbass go ahead but you should keep that dumb shit to yourself dumbass.
I did learn lots in the past few years about human nature.
What did you observe and what conclusions did you draw from those observations?
To summarize it, people are compliant and conformative. Or as one person puts it, "The normie conformie". People do not remember events or basic details that occurred a month ago or more, such as "Two weeks to flatten the curve", or "You only need two shots of vaccine". And how quickly the masses can be conditioned to a new narritive, even if it is radical and extreme.
And it explains how the Germans back in the 1930s essentially let the Nazi government discriminate jews. The vaccine mandates was the darkest moment in the entire pandemic. Many people were forced to take a vaccine that many were not confortable taking or else you lose your job, cannot go out and be a part of society or even board a plane, denying people the option of fleeing their country. And how many people thought such polices was acceptable and needed.
A study was done which found that 1/4 Canadians thought unvaccinated people should be thrown in jail, 1/4 Canadians! WTF?
Those who think mask mandates or vaccine mandates is necessary, is no better than a German that thought jewish people deserved to be harrasses, lose their businesses or sent to camps. And the irony is how many of the people that want vaccine mandate think they are the most tolerant group of people, but this is far from the truth.
Nobody wants to kill your Grandma with COVID. However this thinking of forcing mandates has lead to lots of discrimination.
Nothing like a side of antisemitism and genocide denial with your antivax bullshit.
How am I antisemetic? How am I denying the holocaust? How am I promoting an antivax narritive?
You must be a troll.
Before 2020 my sick colleagues would sit next to me sneezing away or coughing and complaining they had the worst flu. Hardly anyone acted responsibly. Masks have been a step in the right direction.
They should of stayed home, not come to work. Instead of pushing masks, people need to stop calling in sick when they stub their toe and start calling in sick when they have the flu or a bad cough.
The pandemic was just a horrible time in history and we do not need to keep any of its rituals around in daily life. No one was considered inconsiderate for not wearing a mask in 2019, and no one should of ever been considered inconsiderate for not wearing a mask, especially now in 2023.
As soon as I see someone use the phrase, "virtue signaling" unironically I know they're a fucking idiot.