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I honestly can't imagine taking more covid vaccines. I haven't even thought about covid for a year now.

People with long covid have thought about it a lot during the last year

Some of us think 7 million dead is a lot, and find it harder to ignore than you do.

3.4 million people die every year in the US. What makes these deaths acceptable but COVID a tragedy? And yes, many of those 3.4 million are preventable.

It's fine if you want to make a point about COVID deaths—go ahead and say what you mean to say. I get there are many things to be said. But it's unclear why you're involving my comment with your soapbox. The parent comment to mine was about "not thinking about COVID".

Why not just say what you mean to say in full? There is no need to try to put words into someone else's mouth to speak up for what you believe. You seem to simply be re-framing my comment in order to make yours.

One way to start is along the lines of "This makes me think of an aspect of [the topic] which is [...] and what I think about that is [...]".

(No one brought up or said any of those other deaths were acceptable. Nor did I say that COVID deaths were unacceptable or "tragic".)

Your comment itself carried implications. “Some of us think…” is aggressive, and it contrasts the “enlightened” view against others. And you assume that the OP was ignoring those deaths, when they simply said it isn’t at the forefront of their mind.

I was contrasting your admonishment of the OP against the millions of deaths that you, presumably, “ignore”. The thesis is, why is it that COVID is hard to ignore while the totality of all other causes of death are more easily ignored?

My point was, you and me and everyone ignores deaths to some extent all the time. And you were so sure of your righteousness that you had to reply showing the world how refined and caring you are.

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