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Brian Vastag Jul 29, 2024

Someone I know who is chronically ill recently contracted #covid because a healthy person she trusted didn't tell her about being at an indoor event.

They both got COVID. The healthy person bounced back. My chronically ill friend? Now sicker than she ever was and no way to know if her downturn is long term or permanent.

That's what it's like now. If you're already chronically ill the world is a dangerous place and healthy people generally DGAF.

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Kay

Jul 29, 2024

@brianvastag that's really tough. It reminds me of the AIDS epidemic and the advice given then to assume everyone may be harbouring the virus. The suggestion then was to use condoms and dental dams for sex.

Now the advice is to wear a mask indoors and on public transport, and when visiting immune vulnerable friends. It may feel clunky but it works. If friends won't do that, are they really friends?

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StuartB

@Kay
A lot of people are surprised when I tell them that one of the reasons I wear a mask is because I'm assuming that I've got it asymptomatically, and don't want to pass it on.
"But how would you get it if you wear a mask?"
"These FFP2/3 masks are better at stopping passing it on that at stopping the wearer getting it."
"So what is the point of wearing a mask, if you can still get it?"
"Wellbif you dirty bastards were to wear masks as well, no one would get it!"
@brianvastag