who also does the whole “COVID isn’t over!!” mask-shaming stuff

Elaborate on this. What is “mask-shaming,” because this sounds like minimizer rhetoric. Your orgs should be masking for COVID. Why are they not?

Where I live we had a “susana distancia” for like 6 months and the state I live in never had any kind of mask mandates so I have literally not seen a single mask since 2021. I was surprised to learn there is a movement asking people to wear masks still

There is, because COVID is not over, and we need to be mitigating it. Do you seriously think that was enough to quell a global plague with every country utilizing inconsistent mitigation strategies, if any at all? Have you bothered looking at the statistics since then? Do you know what this disease does, and why letting it run rampant is a bad idea? It is not just a “cold” or a “flu,” even with vaccines. Why do you take your government’s word for this phenomenon, but distrust them enough to know about left organizing? This is truly baffling to me.

I am agitated because indifference like yours kills people like me, and continues to do so to this day. Block me yourself.

I do but I can’t conduct a public health response by myself

How do you think movements start? Someone’s got to do something or nothing changes. Why can that someone not be you?

Also no

I’m not putting words in your mouth, you’re telling me here you have noticed but don’t care enough to do something about it. If you think this is an insurmountable wall to action, I have some bad news about any other sort of political revolution.

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in that it’s endemic now. It will never be over. That’s what a disease is.

Not what any of that means either.

But realistically it is over, because it’s not currently killing off a third of Europe (right now, inshallah), because we can treat it.

The only treatment that exists for anything COVID-related is for symptoms, and the vaccination just means you probably won’t die of acute illness anymore. There is no evidence the virus is ever cleared from the body, vaccinated or otherwise.

The Bubonic Plague comparison is nonsense. It is not even “realistically over” because COVID is still something like the third most transmitted disease around, period, and is the most transmitted for children!

or be somewhere that you know immunocompromised people will be

So everywhere, all the time? I have to use the same buses, go to the same grocery stores, and work the same jobs as everyone else. Unless you think people like me only exist sometimes, in some places? Or do you mean that everyone can tell with complete certainty at a glance who is particularly at risk?

This is such a weird instance of agreeing with the right things (sort of) for all of the wrong reasons. You should wear a mask if you feel sick, but also if you don’t, because modern strains of COVID manifest asymptomatically for nearly half of all infections, and masking is just as much a preventative measure for illness, too, not just reactive.