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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I still wear a mask when going out to stores because I'm immunocompromised due to a kidney transplant. It's ultimately up to me to protect myself from others but what bothers me most lately are people who either laugh or think I'm stupid for still wearing a mask. Some even go as far as to call me out and shame me for it. Can people just mind their own business? I'm not trying to get them to wear a mask so why are they so fixated on me taking mine off?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I still wear a mask because I stand in soldiartiy with folks like you.

Not only do I want to prevent the spread of the disease that could kill immune compromised folks like yourself, but it also helps normalize mask wearing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Finally a fucking cool person picard-pointing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

thank you

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ooh spoilering emotes until that bug gets fixed is a good idea.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sincerely and from the bottom of my immunosuppressed heart: thank you.

Seriously thank you, thank you, thank you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Genuinely, I think it's probably because they feel a little guilty when they see you wearing one, and that's uncomfortable for people, so they respond by taking it out on you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (26 children)

A while lot of liberalism and liberal brainworms involves feeling uncomfortable about someone else caring too much in a way that isn't convenient for treat consumption.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same. I never stopped wearing a mask because I'm immunocompromised from my lung transplant. People call me names all the time. Even here on Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want to share my experience as a disabled person, because I think it's very easy to simply not notice our non-existance:

I don't exist anymore. I'm a hermit. It's been years since I've done anything in public. I go to the rheumatologist, I go to a lab to get blood tests, and once a year I get an x-ray to make sure I don't have TB. I don't do anything else. There's about a two week period where being outside isn't some unbearably high or low temperature that exacerbates my condition.

Please care about covid. Just, please. Do it for people like me if that helps you, but mostly do it for yourself. This virus can make you like me and it's miserable (I was sick before Covid, but Covid is known to trigger autoimmune conditions which are the primary cause of my suffering).

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (55 children)

Our track record dealing with covid shows us that our approach was largely unsuccessful. Masking must be enforced, not suggested. This is the only effective solution.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

scientists warn

Fucking nothing will be done, then. agony-4horsemen

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Unless the strain is killing a sizable amount of people getting it it'll be hard to get people to wear masks en masse again.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hate scepticism over vaccines, but when it has just been announced that vaccines can be sold to the public for around £100 each, and then this comes along. They say ignore how many are being admitted to hospital as other consequences are more dangerous.

I have followed the hospital rates as a metric for over a year now. I don't see any other metric as valid. The death rate is reduced as the most vulnerable have been seen off. The reporting rate is non-existent because people are not interested anymore. People are under pressure to attend work with covid now, so why would they bother with the testing kits. Patients in hospital is the most sensible data point to me.

Why are we not being told of which areas are showing the most cases? Covid cases are drastically reduced now. Which hospitals are taking in large amounts of cases?

It would be stupid to take unnecessary risks, but this has a bad smell of fear mongering to sell vaccines around it for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Zero chance anyone does this

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But fuck it, let's all just return to the office anyways. Amirite? SMH

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