It would just be super helpful if the medical profession could release a list of viruses and diseases that are socially acceptable to protect oneself against. Also, a list of viruses and diseases they’re going to attack patients’ mental wellbeing over if it’s even mentioned would also be useful.
Totes fine for cops to cover their faces while violating humans, but not if you’re a decent person practicing community care and preventing virus spread
Lurked a Reddit thread and people will legit say they first caught Covid in 2022 after the pandemic ended, without a hint of consideration that maybe the fact that they caught the thing we were all trying to avoid for two years the moment the government mitigations were lifted maybe perhaps meant the pandemic had not really ended and they are, actually, soaking in it.
If I can wear a respirator to sleep for 7–8 hours a day, you can wear a respirator for ~20 minutes in the grocery store and for the ~3 hours you spend at a theatre/concert venue and your mass transit commute and the several hours you spend at sci-fi conventions to meet famous elderly people and in the waiting rooms for medical appointments and at church and the boring work conference your boss sends you to and the protests and on your flights and in the airports and the local street festival and
I arose at 11 am only to have my heart explode when I looked out the window to see a family of itty bitty raccoon babies (with their mum) scrambling around in the garden and climbing the mulberry tree.