katharineThere is no acceptable level of risk when an asymptomatic infection can lead to infecting and disabling someone else. And it’s impossible to know who is not presently infected, asymptomatic, disguising mild symptoms.
“Am I JuSt sUpPoSeD to be in LoCkDoWn FoReVeR?”
You are supposed to strap on a respirator around people not in your household AND improve ventilation and air quality in your home, work, and social spaces to the clean air.
katharineThe constant negotiation and justification for not wearing a respirator is exasperating.
You have had 3–4 solid years of cherrypicking mask use and foregoing masks altogether.
You have enabled the continued spread and mutation of Covid.
You have played a role, however indirect it may seem, in the disabling and death of countless human beings (and maybe some pets) as well as the weakening of immune systems—permitting more viruses and diseases to spread.
Your way doesn’t work, babes.
katharineSince 2022 and the weakening of Covid mitigation which led to almost everyone you know getting their first “breakthrough” infection, we’ve seen—worldwide—a tripledemic, a quademic, the resurgences of measles and whooping cough, and a slew of sudden cardiac deaths. Just to name a few.
Again. This is 2025.
Covid began in 2020 with a whole lot of death. It was the end of 2021 that your pals started chanting “Covid is Mild.”
Aren’t you tired of trying to justify all of this?
mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)@thatkatharine@ohai.social we're never going to forget the guy who told us that it was pointless for us to be "hectoring" him about mask wearing because the solution to him was to "just" kill landlords and the airline CEO class, because apparently mask-wearing is "letting them off the hook" for not doing HVAC upgrades. people are just absolutely cooked.