• limelight79@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    This is why I can’t understand hexbear comments.

    liberals believe it no longer exists

    Who said Covid no longer exists? Except some deluded right-wingers who never believed it existed in the first place, everyone knows it still exists.

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      1 year ago

      Are you wearing an n95 in every indoor public place? If not, your actions say that you no longer believe covid to be an issue. In your mind at least, because covid only affects the old and young and disabled and the poor, it might as well no longer exist.

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        Life is not black and white as you are trying to make it out to be.

        In your mind at least, because covid only affects the old and young and disabled and the poor, it might as well no longer exist.

        Not true. I know I could get it and suffer. But I no longer wear masks because the probability of that outcome is low, compared to the 100% probability of inconvenience with wearing a mask (fogging up my glasses, for example - I’ve never been able to stop that problem).

        I also know the next time I get into a car, I could be in a very serious life-altering or life-ending crash. But I still ride in cars. Because the odds of a serious crash like that happening are low, and the convenience of riding in a car far outweighs that probability.

        Everyone has to gauge their own risk levels for events and decide for themselves what is appropriate.

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          But I still ride in cars.

          Do you wear a seatbelt? The sooner you admit to yourself that you’re a eugenicist, the happier you’ll be.

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            Do you wear a seatbelt? The sooner you admit to yourself that you’re a eugenicist, the happier you’ll be.

            Do you use cars? Isn’t that being a eugenicist as well since you might kill someone doing it?

            And here I thought I’d found the first hexbear I’ve seen who might argue things in good faith. Nope. I can’t wait until we can block whole instances at a user level. You guys aren’t adding anything useful to lemmy. Reading the things you post is like reading a “I’m 15 and I know everything” group.

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              1 year ago

              Do you use cars?

              Can you survive without a car (outside of like 2 major cities) in the USA? A better question would also be: can you survive without a mask while airborne AIDS is blowing around and turning people’s brains into Swiss cheese? You have at least a 10% chance of getting long covid each time you’re infected. And some of these people with long covid are bedridden. Like unable to even turn themselves over in bed. Imagine knowing that you had done that to someone, that you had hollowed out some kid’s brain because you thought it was too hard to put on a mask, because it’s too hard to conceptualize a world in which we work for each other and help each other rather than our bosses.

              Actually, I would love to live in a car-free world. I would love to take trains, buses, and bicycles everywhere. But I can’t because of piece of shit liberals like yourself licking the boot of the capitalists who run the fucking USA. Bullet trains might save the planet from climate change, but then how are the investors in oil companies and car companies supposed to pay for their endless vacations? It’s such a hard choice! I, too, could be rich someday, even if the whole fucking planet is going to be incinerated long before that ever happens!

              Reading the things you post is like reading a “I’m 15 and I know everything” group.

              I’m 35, I have a spouse and kids, I’ve worked all kinds of jobs and lived for years in other countries. I’m telling you from my experience that you are placing yourself (and the people around you, including me) in incredible danger, all to help people like Biden and the Democrats who don’t give a fuck about you, who are paid to lose, and who think it’s weird that you’ll do what they want without even being told. But it doesn’t have to be this way.