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Like would a Spanish flu level pandemic do it? How many bodies gotta drop before they're scared into masking

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Visible grossness. Boils, hives, rashes, as a result of infection.

People really start to give a shit when that's a factor.

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

especially with conservatives prospensity to fear and disgust reactions

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

There's a tickborne disease that makes you allergic to red meat. Imagine if covid did that.

[–] AlicePraxis@hexbear.net 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

if covid made ya dick small

[–] thirtymilliondeadfish@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

wow I'm never wearing a mask again

[–] buh@hexbear.net 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

tbh I don't think even that would work, they would blame "woke" food additives or something in the water

[–] AlicePraxis@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

chuds would 100% blame "the jab"

[–] DongWang@hexbear.net 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My mother always said that if people bled from their eyes or had massive losses of weight it might work. Might.

I kind of see what she means, but I think they’d kill us all for the economy rather than shut down again.

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The problem with covid is that its effects are delayed: My relatives don't understand that asymptomatic spread means that they're contagious before they have symptoms, don't understand that even if their covid feels "very mild", they can still get long covid, etc. People don't correlate covid's effects with covid itself because it's not on the timeline they expect for a respiratory virus.