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Undine's avatar

I think a lot about the time I had to visit the DMV in January 2020, right before the madness started. EVERYONE there was sick. The woman who helped me at the counter was sniffling and snorting, but assured me she was “feeling much better.” Half the employees were out sick. And everybody carried on as usual! No masks! No vaccines! No panic!

I feel like I’m part of the last generation who’ll remember when getting the flu was normal.

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RE Nichols's avatar

People just enjoy being hypochondriacs and living in isolation. Covid-19 lies were so ridiculous there must have been wish fulfillment involved in the willfully stupid fools embracing the lies and hating the truth. The freaks will be happier spending their "lives" locked in sterile pods in solitary confinement forever.

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Cathleen's avatar

And I remember if a colleague came to work with a cold, they were hailed as a trooper, not someone to stay away from.

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ReadingRainbow's avatar

This is stupid, Covid or not. I shouldn’t have to catch your cold because you don’t want to use your sick days.

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Cathleen's avatar

staying home and using sick days wasn't even my point, ReadingRainbow. The point was before the covid scamdemic no one was afraid of someone having a cold and continuing to go to work.

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Joe's avatar

I definitely had COVID in Feb 2020 and was at work every day. Several others in the office did too. We just thought it was a really bad cold and cough and chest pain. A couple people went to the doctor and tested positive for the flu, but I'm sure it was COVID.

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Mary Poindexter McLaughlin's avatar

I feel exactly the same way. I had pneumonia at seven, and can remember being told later that recovering from it would strengthen my immune system for the rest of my life.

Then, just yesterday, I heard a commercial TWICE on the radio, with some smarmy "we're here for you" voice cajoling parents to get their infants vaxxed with Prevnar 13 for "pneumococcal pneumonia" (which, btw, seems a tad bit redundant), because It's The Season of Scary Infectious Diseases and we Must Protect Children.

THAT's what's scary.

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