• glingorfel [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    23 hours ago

    how many people do you know that are still masking to avoid covid which never went away? in the US at least we have learned negative lessons and societally are worse prepared for another round of pandemic

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      21 hours ago

      That’s the really scary thing: we will undoubtedly handle any future pandemic far worse than covid, unless it’s far more lethal than covid (which itself killed over a million Americans and harmed exponentially more). And the bullshit negative lessons we took from covid make it more likely that a deadlier viral outbreak will grow into a pandemic in the first place.