Comment on UK Covid deaths are on the rise again, but keep calm and keen on shopping.

• Mchugho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s part of a larger effort by the guardian to make everyone terrified of a mild virus.

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  • Why9@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    mild virus.

    My ignorant internet friend. 3 million dead people would disagree..

    All the science is there. All the evidence that isolating works is there. All the evidence that COVID is killing people, especially the vulnerable, is there. What part of this don’t you get? The only reason COVID is weaker now is precisely because people isolated and let those strains die out.

    But because you’re mildly inconvenienced, it’s somehow a massive conspiracy. Stop being a drone and read up on it. Use your head and take things seriously. It’s so exhausting to convince people their ignorance will literally kill people.

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    • Mchugho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m so bored of people like you. Like you say, COVID is weaker, yet you’re linking the death toll from when it was actually a serious problem as though that applies today in equal measure.

      Most people have moved on with their lives.

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      • Why9@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m so bored of people like you.

        It’s like when a child grabs a pair of scissors and you need to politely educate them that it’s dangerous. We’re bored of it too, trust me. But we keep doing it because it saves lives.

        Like you say, COVID is weaker

        It is weaker. Precisely because of the efforts of governments to isolate, observe social distancing and wear masks. If they’d done a better job to address it sooner, and if people like you chose being mildly inconvenienced over saving lives, who knows? COVID might have been eradicated altogether.

        yet you’re linking the death toll from when it was actually a serious problem as though that applies today in equal measure.

        I’m simply highlighting the fact that it’s not a mild illness. People who are older, and those whose immune systems are weakened due to other diseases e.g. cancer are absolutely still dying of COVID. We’re in flu season, going into a cold winter. The governments aren’t enforcing lockdown and isolating and aren’t reporting the rise in COVID cases. Go to any hospital and ask them how bad it is already. People are still dying my dude.

        At the height of COVID, there were people hooked up to respirators, still absolutely defiant that COVID even existed, refusing the vaccine even as it took their lives. Death by stupidity. I still can’t believe people like you exist. Take the virus seriously and it’ll disappear. Ignore it and governments will be forced to enforce lockdown again.

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  • OrlandoDoom@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do you also believe the earth is either flat or hollow or that dinosaurs didn’t exist or that giants used to roam the earth? Cos wow this is one of the dumbest threads I’ve ever read.

    “The guardian” 😂😂😂

    I can’t even bring myself to ask you why they would want to do that and what benefit it gives them because I know the answer is going to be mind-bogglingly stupid.

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    • Mchugho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nice strawman buddy.

      Guardian opinion pieces are basically the left wing equivalent of Daily Mail clickbait.

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    • Mchugho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s actually pretty simple. Fear = engagement= clicks = money.

      It’s funny how the literal NHS is less bothered than the guardian. Doest it make you pause for thought?

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