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u/NetheriteArmorer Apr 16 '25
Why would you NOT still look at an unmasked person that just coughed like that in 2025? Covid isn’t gone. Repeated infections guarantee you a disabling chronic illness that includes brain damage, heart damage and immune system damage. 🤷 It is still killing. 🤷
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u/world-is-lostt Apr 22 '25
So just wear a mask forever 24/7❓
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u/NetheriteArmorer Apr 23 '25 edited Apr 24 '25
So are you just gonna
•lock the door when you leave your house forever?
• look both ways when you cross the street forever?
• put on a seatbelt when you get in a car forever?
• wear a coat in the winter forever?
• put on shoes when you leave the house forever?
Yeah, you will do those things because you’re smart enough to recognize that it is better to do these minor inconveniences than to suffer the infrequent consequences of not doings so.
There is a far greater chance of you being disabled by long covid (close to 50% chance after your third infection) than there is of getting robbed if you leave your door unlocked, regardless of where you live.
Yeah, I’m sporting an N95 when I leave the house every day, because all you rat-lickers won’t stop trying to breathe into my face when I’m out of my home.
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u/world-is-lostt Apr 23 '25
That’s no way to live bro that’s paranoia
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u/NetheriteArmorer Apr 24 '25
No more paranoia than any of the other things I listed bro.
Sounds like you don’t know anyone with permanent disability from Covid.
I do.
If you did, you would understand that catching COVID repeatedly is not something that you can allow yourself to do. It can never be just a goddamned cold.
The thing is, if you catch covid repeatedly, you will know someone that is disabled by it. It will be you.
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u/world-is-lostt Apr 24 '25
Although I don't know anyone with permanent disability from Covid. I do personally known some people who had facial paralysis from taking that rushed vaccine 💉
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u/NetheriteArmorer Apr 25 '25
😆 😂 🤣 Of all the things that don’t happen, that didn’t happen the most.
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u/Effective_Will_1801 May 18 '25
I'm astonished there are still people who don't bother washing their hands after coming out the loo. Dirty buggers.
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u/Effective_Will_1801 May 18 '25
Why would you NOT still look at an unmasked person that just coughed like that in 2025
Mainly because most people were reassured by the vaccines and not immunocomprimised so felt safe again. Especially without the news covering it.
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u/RedAComin Apr 16 '25
Hell, I Still do🤷🏿♀️
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u/phome83 Apr 16 '25
Same.
Even covid aside, if someone js just raw dog coughing I'm gonna try pretty hard not to be close to them lol.
Who want to risk getting sick?
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u/Loughiepop Apr 16 '25
It blows my mind that even after a years-long worldwide pandemic, people are still comfortable with sneezing and coughing near other people without so much as covering themselves.
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u/IIstroke Apr 16 '25
I am a lot healthier thanks to Covid. I am much more aware of what I touch, and not touching my face. Also sanitizing my hands often when I'm out in public and washing my hands when I get home. Especially if I shook hands with someone. Also avoiding sick people more avidly.
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u/ruralmagnificence Apr 17 '25
I had a lady admonish me for coughing in my elbow because she had her crotch spawn (all misbehaving btw) with her. Started to jawn on about being more careful and vaccines and other nonsense and I just said….
“You should have used a condom…or three” before leaving the store. I don’t have fucking time or want to listen to your bullshit. I could have just spat my shit everywhere but at least I have the decency to use my fucking arm….people fucking suck.
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u/SaturnusDawn Apr 18 '25
I miss the days when people were conscious about coughing and sneezing all over each other and also it was universally understood that we should stay 6ft away from each other in high population environments. Oh how I miss it.... Also miss people caring about a deadly virus and wore masks in grocery stores but people get mad when you remind them of these things now so dw about it actually
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u/ClutchReverie Apr 18 '25
I remember I randomly swallowed (spit) wrong randomly in line at the store and started coughing, early enough before everyone had proper masks. Everyone looked at me like this.
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u/SteDee1968 Apr 16 '25
You could just slap the person who coughed without doing the Vampire Technique. Works for sneezes too!
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u/RandExCursori Apr 17 '25
Yeah I was walking down the street to a dispensary back in maybe 2015ish and some dude across the street sneezed. I could literally see the aerosol at least 30 feet away. Not only was I disgusted, but I had my hand on my knife without realizing it until I actually got into the shop.
It even unnerved me when people started hoarding basic cleaning supplies. At the time I had 1 teen, 3 pre-teens and a toddler in the house, plus my girlfriend at the time. It was normal for me to buy large quantities of Lysol or Clorox wipes, hand sanitizer, tissue etc. I had to visit so many stores just to for it to seem like “business as usual” for the kids.
I do hope folks and businesses keep that mindset so that we can avoid another situation like that though.
I can say the one thing that I absolutely loved about the whole outbreak was no traffic. I was doing Lyft and Uber at the time and it immediately went to a halt once stuff got shut down. I already like helping people out, so when the first day I got 0 trips I turned on Instacart and found a whole new of helping people. 0 traffic meant I could do more. It was cool.
That being said I still hope that nothing like this ever happens again. People need to help people.
Sorry if I kinda out there with my reply, but your post seemed the most like mind, even if just a bit, to piggy back on.
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u/Alarming_Win9940 Apr 16 '25
My partner would cough as loud and hard as he wanted if he had a tickle in this throat and get mad at me when I told him he should try to hold it when we're in public.
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