• 0ddysseus@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    I’m in Australia and half my kids class was sick last week. Me and the kid both tested positive today. It is pretty rough.

    Nobody here cares at all any more. This is my first but most people are on their 2nd or more go around. Its not even discussed, there are zero masks, and people are sending their kids to school sick.

    All our care and caution just in the bin because people just don’t give a shit

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          1 year ago

          it’s not about science. it’s about public perception. masks didn’t stop covid. vaccines did.

          people will not wear masks again. they would probably get another vaccine though.

          ending covid = getting rid of mask mandates, in the publics viewpoint.

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            1 year ago

            Ok, in this context you are right in spiritt. Masks are stoping tje spread, but in the grand scheme of things it is mostly about slowing it down.

            However I don’t think saying the masks do nothing is right at all. Masks are still useful.

            • retrieval4558@mander.xyz
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              1 year ago

              Except he’s not right in any sense with that logic. “masks didn’t work because people feel like they didn’t work” is not a valid argument.

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                1 year ago

                He is right in sense that vaccines “stopped” covid, while masks were mostly just slowing it down but not enough to “stop” it. That’s what I meant by being right in spirit. Otherwise I agree he is wrong.

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                  1 year ago

                  No, vaccines slowed covid even more than masks, but covid is still around. “Stop the spread” is a more catchy slogan than “Slow the spread” would have been.

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                    1 year ago

                    Yeah, it “stopped” covid only by slowing it down significantly. Also, more people have better immunity so many who wouuld have strong symptoms won’t have them and hospitals would not be overflowing.

                    Covid is not really stopped, that’s why I used the quotation marks. But the worst things about it pretty much stopped thanks to it.

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        1 year ago

        It’s funny, I didn’t get COVID while I was wearing a mask, but caught it after we were vaccinated and I stopped wearing them.