• Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    “COVID-19 infections continue to outnumber flu cases and lead to more hospitalization and death than the flu. COVID-19 also leads to more serious long-term health problems. Trivializing COVID-19 as an inconsequential cold or equating it with the flu does not align with reality.”

    The point seems to be to try to tell the kind of person who probably won’t read this article that they’re wrong to say that COVID isn’t a big deal.

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      4 months ago

      So you mean it’s not “just the flu” like the antivaxxers have told me so often? (Ignoring the fact that the 1918 flu killed between 20 and 50 million people.)

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        4 months ago

        Now: “People die all the time, whatever.”

        Eventually: “My family are dead and I feel sick, help.”

        When people fabricate a short-term reality based on convenience rather than facts, people make a worse world for everyone.