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What they're espousing is pure nihilism, AKA "if I die, I die". It's not a good attitude with a novel virus that has killed over a million folks in America so far! It's not hard to take simple mitigations like mask wearing to prevent catching it or prevent getting reinfected over and over from it.

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What a silly comment. Regular people obviously aren't going to spend the rest of their lives wearing masks (which aren't even completely effective anyway). You're likely to get infected (or reinfected) no matter what you do.

> What they're espousing is pure nihilism, AKA "if I die, I die". It's not a good attitude with a novel virus that has killed over a million folks in America so far!

It’s not nihilistic. It’s realistic. The virus is no longer “novel”. And its’ only danger was its novelty. We are vaccinated now. Life can resume. Unless you want to spend your life also worrying about polio, measels, HPV, and whatever else we’ve beaten and learned to live with.

We definitely don't "live with" polio and measles, not in the sense the usual *** in the comments use this phrase.

We are also well on our way to stop living with HPV - but of course antivaxxers there are also sabotaging.

I can’t believe that the sibling comment:

> Vaccinated people are not protected against catching and spreading the disease, and they're not protected from long COVID or even heart issues like this paper shows. […]

has been downvoted/flagged. This site has really gone downhill over the last decade. Wishful, uninformed thinking, that goes against the reality of covid & long covid described in the quoted portion.

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