• homoludens@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    If so, then don’t just look at the positive tests but at the graph that shows tests performed

    and patients committed

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      I “admit” committed is funny because that’s what COVID and all of the “I did my own research” hoopla has made me feel like. That I’ve been committed to an insane asylum with all of the loonies spreading their theories justifying their behavior without impunity thereby making COVID more deadly as it lasts longer given such time to continuously mutate…

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      Okay, I’m looking - it clearly is going up and down in cycles but progressively the peaks are smoothing out. Can you explain the need for a stronger response now than we had in March? Are we just going to just go insane every 3 months and declare “omg, covid is back!” because a seasonal disease has peaks and troughs?

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        Can you explain the need for hysteria?

        No, because if hysteria would be an appropriate response it wouldn’t be hysteria. The good news is: no one is calling for hysteria, there’s just a recommendation to wear masks.

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          This is the article’s source for “recommendation to wear masks”

          A single tweet from a university researcher. And yet, we have a sensationalist headline about it.