Tested myself after I got it and came up positive for COVID. It seems that our medical professionals are complicit in the cover-up of diagnoses. Once it left the news people just assumed it was gone.

[–] 13esq@lemmy.world -4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (12 children)

I don't think that at all.

People are now just accepting that COVID is part of our lives. It's only a risk if you're extremely elderly, obese or otherwise particularly infirm, in which case, you're also vulnerable to bad flu's, not just COVID.

COVID is not something that can be beaten. No amount of lockdowns or vaccines will eliminate it. You'd only be postponing the inevitable. Permanent lockdown would obviously be an unsustainable idea, even if it was a popular one and vaccinating COVID is like vaccinating flu, it's impossible to keep up!

What is even the point of testing for COVID anymore? If you have bad symptoms, stay at home what ever sort of flu, cough or cold it might be!

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

Realistically if everyone (literally everyone) were given n95's used them, and washed their hands any time they touch something someone else touched without touching their faces: we actually could beat things like COVID and the flu.

What makes it unrealistic is that people aren't that far removed from monkeys, and behave like it.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not even N95s. If people just did the bare minimum and wore a surgical mask and washed their hands frequently the instant they felt like they might be sick, we would work wonders to reduce spread, morbidity, and lost wages/productivity. We just need the same simple politeness around respiratory illnesses that already exists in some Asian nations.

[–] 13esq@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Do those Asia nations not have COVID or flu's?

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