Question for people that had covid. Did u feel invincible?

@SW-User
What the actual fuck?....thats by far the dumbest shit ive ever heard...😂

@strongbow that's a really strange reaction. If you did your research, like really dig deep into it and not just the surface, you will find that the average paper masks will only work if everyone else is also wearing it around you. Why? Their droplets get contained inside.
But if you are the one wearing a mask and others around you are not, you are not necessarily protected fully.

I have never quite understood the kind of over reaction you just had. Even if I was stupid and dumb, maybe watch your tone and do some research before coming in like this. X

@hartfire yeah I feel like covid would've been a thing of the past if people were more conscious. Because a lot of people either think covid was a sham and others dont see the illness as life threatening anymore, so they dont take all the precautious. People keep getting inffected from one another, the virus keeps mutating, and we just cant move passed all of this.

This whole experience of the past 3 years, made me realize that even tho I do love the freedom of choice, the goverments need to take the authority to get as many people vaccinated, because most people either dont care about themselves, or others, or are stubbornly against anything that they didnt see with their own eyes or just plain ignorant to the basic sanitary precautions.

@Dan193 Personal freedom of choice versus our responsibility to others. Infectious diseases make this issue more real.

I think what we need are separate hospitals for infectious diseases, built with all the right equipment for quarantine and protection of staff.

I believe governments have an obligation to take over and use top-down authority during times of emergency if a widespread chain of command is the only way to deal with the problem. And then of course relinquish that authority and go back to normal when the emergency is over. An example is what happens during wars and the need to defend one's own country on home soil.

Some problems are better dealt with by local authorities and people at grassroots level, like specific local disasters, because it's the locals who know best exactly what needs doing.

The problem with fake news is that it has given the alt right a means to twist facts to their own advantage. And anyone who wants to believe them does. They deny whatever they feel might be inconvenient, unprofitable or too expensive. They are the high priests of selfishness promoted as a moral right.

I believe they will soon come to see how wrong they were.
The increasing frequency and severity of droughts, wildfires & firestorms, hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, blizzards, rising sea levels and failing crops will turn out to be far more expensive than it ever would have been to stop using fossil fuels by 2000.
It is already too late to stop the warming and the disasters. All we can do now is to try to prevent the warming going so high that we get major extinction events all over the planet. And yet, even while industries and capitalists are starting to change, many governments are still in denial.

@hartfire they have separate hospitals for infectious diseases. Well at least all countries of the civilized world do.

Regarding the example of wars, about staying to defend on home soil, I don't really agree with that anymore. Yeah it makes sense that people should want that, but I disagree that it should be mandated by the government. Everyone should be free to pick if they want to participate in a war started or supported by mad people in power, or not. I just feel like with globalization, people arent really tied to one place no more, we dont need to fight for our corner to the death, because it's our only option.

About global warming and govs not wanting to change. I think the problem is that old people run countries, and they tend to be stuck in their old ways, and think that change is bad or unsafe. Also could be that the older u get, less proactive u become, and slower (decision taking bureaucrates).
I liked Biden tho, even though a lot of people rip on him for being super old, also maybe that's why he even went that way. Not having much time left, so the time he had, he uses it very efficiently and trying to push the change that others in the government arent rushing to do, because they think they still have time, to live and to make changes.

@PepsiColaP right, I think a ton more people started to suffer from anxiety since this pandemic started.

@Dan193 and depression

@CrazyMusicLover Immunity is a risk reduction, not risk elimination thing I guess. Like, your chances of reinfection aren't 0%, but still much smaller than anyone who was unexposed or exposed a long ago. Also, there's also the fact that you may catch one (sub/)variant, be immune to that, and yet be reinfected by another.

I've only had it only once so far, but that could be also because my social life is rather.. yeah 🥴

@Elessar mm makes total sense

@Dan193 Well, if you catch another variant, you can get it again in a month, or not? Not that I would do any extra precautions, I just don't have any illusions that now I can't have any problems with covid.

@Elessar Yeah, exactly that. I honestly think I caught it because I was exhausted after stress from driving lessons and the test. Nobody else had any problems here. Also, my social life in summer was nonexistent. 😆 Okay except a wedding in June and twice occasions when I went to a restaurant.

@Jackaloftheazuresand what about your vaccine passport? Some countries require 2 vaccines.

@Dan193 passport?😆I'm a shut-in

@Riverman2 thats fair

@sarabi how long did the doctors tell u it will take to replenish your iron?

@Dan193 they didn't, they just told me to take supplements. The thing is, I had already lower iron than usual, but this really put it to the level of almost non existent

@sarabi oof, wish u all the best

@Roundandroundwego what are u talking about? I'm saying I didnt know that. It was useful to ask the question.

@Zaphod42 thanks for reminding me not to underestimate it

@Iwillwait I see

@Dan193 I hope so too but I had health issues before this so likely not. I tried so hard not to get this.

@iamonfire696 I'm so glad you made it through 💗

@Dan193 Thank you, me too.

@LordShadowfire oh I hate people like that. Like u take every precaution possible and then some idiot like that infects you

@Dan193 I was standing in the drink cooler, and I took half a step back and bumped into him. No idea how long he had been that close to me, because I wasn't looking.

@LordShadowfire I bet he wasnt wearing a mask either

@candycane Okay, virus.