• Mr. Stevenson Two@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    When we wear masks, not only do we do the right thing, but it helps others to feel brave enough to join us.

    • Cam@lemmy.world
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      No it doesn’t. When others see people wearing a mask now, they think your either paranoid, virtue signalling, or have an health condition and therefore hava a higher threat model.

      Don’t feel embarred wearing a mask. Do what you think is best for yourself, but I can tell you it does not make people “brave and to join the movement”.

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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        My wife has a chronic lung condition … we can’t risk any kind of infection so she avoids going anywhere in public and I wear a mask everywhere I go where there are more than one person that is new to us.

        After this pandemic, we’re never going back to the way things were in the past.

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        No it doesn’t. When others see people wearing a mask now, they think your either paranoid, virtue signalling, or have an health condition and therefore hava a higher threat model.

        Really? At this point when see someone wearing a mask I assume they have a cold/flu/covid and they’re being prosocial…

        • Cam@lemmy.world
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          Not me or anyone I know thinks that when seeing someone with a mask on. Nobody wore a mask when they were sick before 2020. And when I have the sniffles, I never wear a mask. If I am really sick, I will just stay home. Just like how it was done before 2020.

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            I can’t imagine being someone who not only doesn’t experience personal growth but also refuses to learn from the changing world around them. If you wanna act like an inconsiderate dumbass go ahead but you should keep that dumb shit to yourself dumbass.

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            Before 2020 my sick colleagues would sit next to me sneezing away or coughing and complaining they had the worst flu. Hardly anyone acted responsibly. Masks have been a step in the right direction.

            • Cam@lemmy.world
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              They should of stayed home, not come to work. Instead of pushing masks, people need to stop calling in sick when they stub their toe and start calling in sick when they have the flu or a bad cough.

              The pandemic was just a horrible time in history and we do not need to keep any of its rituals around in daily life. No one was considered inconsiderate for not wearing a mask in 2019, and no one should of ever been considered inconsiderate for not wearing a mask, especially now in 2023.

      • AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca
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        Yep, the world is overrun with selfish entitled assholes that don’t care about anyone but themselves and their immediate family.

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          And they’ll point their fingers everywhere but themselves when it comes back to bite them.

          If pressed hard, all they have is “Are you still talking about that”, “That was a long time ago. Get over it.”, The Narcissist’s Prayer, and so on.

        • Cam@lemmy.world
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          Or there is a minority of people who lack any meaning in their lives and when the pandemic came along, they made it their life mission to end the virus for good. Turned the pandemic into a religion of sorts.

          My advice buddy is to let this all go and enjoy life. 2022 and 2023 have been great years for me and it can be for you as well. Get outside more if you do not get outside much, stop reading and watching the news and just live. Leave this “We must stop COVID” belief behind. Just like the flu, COVID is here to stay.

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            “stop reading” is exactly the sort of advice I’d expect to get from an antivaxxer brainlet. Maybe you should start reading.

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              stop reading and watching the news

              The news is not good for mental health, all it is these days is just high quality fear porn. Its no better than Info Wars, lets be honest.

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        As soon as I see someone use the phrase, “virtue signaling” unironically I know they’re a fucking idiot.

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    They should invent filters that you can put over your body parts that help stop transmission of COVID.

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      Sounds nice, but how, exactly, would you filter a disease?

      The engineering effort will be greatly reduced if you focus on filtering SARS-CoV-2 instead. It turns out that if you avoid SARS-CoV-2 infection, the COVID-19 disease will not develop. No need to overcomplicate the problem.

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        You tried to be pedantic but failed, they said “stop the transmission of covid” which implies stopping the virus that causes it

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          True, but everyone loves the “Nobody likes a pedant” responses, so there is sacrifice to get the good stuff.

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    Me and my gf got it last week. She got hit pretty hard and had to take a few days off work.

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    Honestly, I never stopped wearing a mask. After having it for years, it just feels more comfortable wearing it than not nowadays. Not wearing it is like going shirtless or something.

    That aside, it also feels like after COVID, a lot of people have lost their sense of smell. The issue of excessive perfumes and nasty odours has gotten worse and I feel like I’ll choke on them if I’m not wearing a mask. I already feel like choking despite wearing a mask, so it’s hard to imagine how much worse it’ll be without it.

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    I heard it doesn’t even exist, so we should be good.

    (Really really. I have a cousin that stupid, that he said that)

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        I prefer heckling people who don’t listen to their doctor.

        To his credit, one of my work peers whom I found out is afraid of the single most tested vaccine set in history, and with whom I’ve argued passionately and at length, is still 100% professional and helpful when we’re on the clock, and I really have to respect that. There ARE those with whom we can have impassioned and frustrating arguments, and who are still absolute heroes in the next breath.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Western University microbiologist Eric Arts said Ontario’s wastewater in particular is showing an increase in virus samples, but with reduced reporting and limited testing across much of the country, the full picture is hazy.

    As CBC News recently reported, research shows a majority of the population has developed some level of immunity against SARS-CoV-2, thanks to high rates of vaccination and three-quarters of Canadians likely having detectable antibodies linked to prior infections.

    But while many individuals’ immune systems are now better trained to recognize this threat, reducing rates of serious illness and death over the course of the pandemic, the level of protection needed to avoid another infection in the first place can fade over time.

    The challenges stemming from another wave would hit Canada on multiple fronts, said infectious diseases specialist Dr. Donald Vinh, an associate professor in McGill University’s department of medicine.

    Booster shots could shore up Canadians’ immunity this fall, particularly as drug makers have adapted their vaccines to better match currently circulating strains, but Vinh cautioned the “cycles are not in sync.”

    Even at this point, however, Colijn stressed we’re in a better place than the U.S. heading into the fall, given the higher levels of vaccine uptake in Canada over the last few years — so a spike in cases mirroring the surge south of the border isn’t inevitable.


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  • TQuid@beehaw.org
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    When have we ever had boosters in a timely fashion? Every shot I have had has been at least one variant behind.

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    I will get a booster this fall, but honestly I’m not worried. I am not wearing a mask unless I’m sick myself but I respect other people’s choices.