the fact that a post like this still has people in the comments acting like COVID is in the past and 1k ppl in the US alone aren’t dying of it every week. COVID literally hasn’t gone anywhere all of you have just closed your eyes to the consequences of your actions.
I’m reading posts as yours thankful to still find some people with common sense. I lost friends to covid while others kept ranting about nonsensical conspiracy theories and proudly rebelling.
One of the dumbest shit I’ve heard people say is “Why should I wear a mask for covid if I don’t wear one for flu?”. Well, if you actually gave a damn about anyone’s wellbeing you’d wear a mask for BOTH.
Looking at the CDC numbers[1] for the week of May 10, 2025, I see 201 deaths attributed to Covid and 2465 attributed to a group consisting of Covid, pneumonia and influenza (in other words 2264 deaths attributed to pneumonia or influenza). Yes, people die of Covid every week. People will continue to die from Covid forever. Because Covid is now endemic. It will always be a part of our lives now, just like influenza has been for probably a few thousand years. Just because Covid came up during your lifetime doesn’t mean it’s in any way special. It’s just another virus we will have to deal with now. And unlike some other viruses we actually have vaccines against Covid. Take tuberculosis for example. That fucking thing has probably killed more humans than anything else. We’re talking >1 million deaths every year and that’s a historic low. Just get a fucking grip on reality.
I think the major difference between even just Influenza and Covid is, that Covid continues to have a greater disease burden than influenza and a higher percentage of people with post-acute sequela of different forms and is less restricted to the winter months, having roughly two waves per year.
All together, why should we not implement strategies to reduce these numbers of deaths and disabilities? Especially if they would, in the case of better air filtration and ventilation also help tackle future occurances of airborne pathogens.
the fact that a post like this still has people in the comments acting like COVID is in the past and 1k ppl in the US alone aren’t dying of it every week. COVID literally hasn’t gone anywhere all of you have just closed your eyes to the consequences of your actions.
19k people die in us yearly just because they use a gas cooker.
Dont look up how many die per year from regular flu. Covid is over and its a small disease like any other now.
I’m reading posts as yours thankful to still find some people with common sense. I lost friends to covid while others kept ranting about nonsensical conspiracy theories and proudly rebelling. One of the dumbest shit I’ve heard people say is “Why should I wear a mask for covid if I don’t wear one for flu?”. Well, if you actually gave a damn about anyone’s wellbeing you’d wear a mask for BOTH.
Looking at the CDC numbers[1] for the week of May 10, 2025, I see 201 deaths attributed to Covid and 2465 attributed to a group consisting of Covid, pneumonia and influenza (in other words 2264 deaths attributed to pneumonia or influenza). Yes, people die of Covid every week. People will continue to die from Covid forever. Because Covid is now endemic. It will always be a part of our lives now, just like influenza has been for probably a few thousand years. Just because Covid came up during your lifetime doesn’t mean it’s in any way special. It’s just another virus we will have to deal with now. And unlike some other viruses we actually have vaccines against Covid. Take tuberculosis for example. That fucking thing has probably killed more humans than anything else. We’re talking >1 million deaths every year and that’s a historic low. Just get a fucking grip on reality.
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm>
I think the major difference between even just Influenza and Covid is, that Covid continues to have a greater disease burden than influenza and a higher percentage of people with post-acute sequela of different forms and is less restricted to the winter months, having roughly two waves per year.
All together, why should we not implement strategies to reduce these numbers of deaths and disabilities? Especially if they would, in the case of better air filtration and ventilation also help tackle future occurances of airborne pathogens.