• harpuajim@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Unless the strain is killing a sizable amount of people getting it it’ll be hard to get people to wear masks en masse again.

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      1 year ago

      Even if it kills (which it likely will), our track record shows that didn’t care enough about that, and in a decreasing manner. So it’ll only be worse.

      • Chriskmee@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Pretty sure every virus has killed people, from the cold, to flu, and of course covid. It feels like now the death rate for the latest variants of covid are pretty comparable to the flu, the virus has lost a lot of its killing power over time.

          • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]@hexbear.net
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            1 year ago

            Fun fact: the CDC readjusted what the ‘normal’ rate of deaths is to include the years of the pandemic so now it’s harder than ever to find hard numbers because “excess deaths” was one of the last ways to get any information at all!

        • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          1 year ago

          Pretty sure every virus has killed people, from the cold, to flu, and of course covid.

          False equivalency intensifies