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katharineWithout saying “endemic” or “but it’s mild now” explain how this is “post-Covid” or in any way acceptable.
Oh, no. You’re going to say “it’s never going away and we just have to live with it,” aren’t you? Do you want to be sent links to Long Covid studies and sites everyday for the foreseeable future as a reminder that by trying to absolve yourself of virus mitigation responsibility, yes, for millions of people, Covid never goes away and they just have to live with the nasty souvenirs from an infection?
Niko Trimmel@thatkatharine I'm not saying people have to live with the repercussions of an illness, but what could be done to prevent a sickness like Covid or other cyclic flu to do its cycles? You can mask up, you can keep your distance, but you can't keep something like that from spreading. It would be a Don Quijote fight
RethinkJeff@nitrml Everyone masking and social distancing was so effective we eliminated certain strains of the flu and the common cold. It works so incredibly well, people don't think COVID is that big of a deal.
Dźwiedziu@thatkatharine
Can't resist to say “oh, it's like the flu”.
By which I mean it's mutating, highly contagious, can be dangerous if not taken care of, and can be lethal to people with less efficient immune systems.
Get. Your. Vaccines.
Kraftwerk-Das Model Collapse@dzwiedziu @thatkatharine while yes, absolutely get vaccinated, it's not sterilizing. I'm severely disabled by long Covid since 2022 despite getting all my boosters
@thatkatharine living with HIV: widespread use of condoms and STD tests becomes the social norm and anyone not accepting that is a selfish asshole.
Living with COVID: uuuh ummm well I guess stay home if you're feeling sick, maybe?? Unless it's something important like a big concert?
Morgan ⚧️@dngrs @thatkatharine also living with COVID: "what's that on your face? Why are you wearing it? Would you be willing to take it off so I can see your mouth? No, I don't need to read your lips, I just think it's rude to cover them"
Justin Fitzsimmons@thatkatharine lockdowns were the worst because they were a short term measure meant to buy time to implement mitigations that no government in the entire world actually implemented apparently
jon saenz@thatkatharine The sad part is that I know some people (more than two/three friends) who tell me that they won't get vaccines against COVID19 anymore because "it is like the flu". And they are not rightwing nuts.
FediThing 
@JonSaenzAgirre @thatkatharine
It makes you wonder what else they will accept if the media pushes it hard enough 😞
@JonSaenzAgirre @thatkatharine well that's one way to find out that someone hasn't been getting their flu shots 😬 personally I'm gonna keep getting COVID boosters because it's like the flu
Also the other one "it's seasonal" makes no sense as it doesn't correspond to any seasons (unless one means all four at once).
Andreas Kahler@thatkatharine
Article behind paywall unfortunately
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-20/us-winter-flu-deaths-outpace-covid-for-first-time-in-five-years
Article behind paywall unfortunately
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-20/us-winter-flu-deaths-outpace-covid-for-first-time-in-five-years
KathmanduNotice how all the nice, low numbers are provisional and "Impartial" (sic) ?
It's easy to report nice low numbers if you don't bother collecting all the data.
mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)@drayde @thatkatharine this is a "but it's mild now" post fwiw
none gender with left politics@drayde @thatkatharine did you miss the part where long covid is disabling a significant portion of the people who get it even if they don't die? Try linking this to the tens of millions of people in the US alone with long covid and see if they care one whit about this statistic
@vikxin @drayde @thatkatharine this image also probably isn't counting things like young seemingly healthy people having mysterious heart attacks and strokes (after they got COVID 4 or 5 times)... Or any of the deaths of people with long COVID who would have gotten through some injury or other illness otherwise
@raphaelmorgan @drayde @thatkatharine I'm under the impression most places just stopped checking for COVID in general, so there are probably a LOT of unreported COVID deaths. The drop off on that chart is...suspect, to say the least.
@vikxin @raphaelmorgan @thatkatharine probably true, but this also applies to Influenca caused deaths, so I think a comparison is valid.
But of course you are all right, this graph does not show any non-fatal post-covid cases, which probably is the main difference.
But of course you are all right, this graph does not show any non-fatal post-covid cases, which probably is the main difference.
Steven Galbraith@thatkatharine also that "herd immunity" was not a viable plan to deal with covid, despite much wishful thinking in 2020
四@thatkatharine Because the death and suffering of the proletariat doesn’t stop the rich from getting richer.
:(
solient@thatkatharine so it's actually WORSE now than it was when people gave a shit?
Yikes.