I got the shots and wore a 95 mask while my wife's immune system was low during her cancer treatment, because I interacted with older people and was at a vulnerable age myself. I saw three younger friends get nasty problems with long-covid. Over 700,000 people in the U.K. medical system had long-term-covid after two years, as reported a few months ago. We need to look on the experience, and its faults, as practice when we get a very serious outbreak that kills much larger numbers of people of all ages..
You're welcome to believe all that if it makes you feel better. But the mask everyone was mandated to wear was made of thin cloth, which is simply not going to stop a virus-sized particle. The Cochrane Review determined that an N95 does an equally-poor job of virus protection as a surgical mask. Mask wearing for a virus was all a game they made us play.
Many, many people are enormously afraid of getting sick and dying, and this made them vulnerable to the most egregious psychological manipulation the world has ever seen. Covid was simply never the threat it was said to be, which was obvious from at least the end of March 2020.
Everything after that was government and media hype intended to keep everyone terrified and under control. It seems it worked well on you, and for that, I'm sorry.
If you believe the government health dept. numbers and explanations, I'm sure nothing I can say will convince you otherwise.
Next time they try this game you will comply with lockdowns and mask/vaccine mandates but you will not have nearly as much company as you did last time. Fewer citizens around you will have patience with your fear.
I apologize in advance for being one of them, because I consider you a friend.
Thanks, Susan. My main point is that our past experiences can prepare us for a new disease that kills far more people of all ages. Fewer people died, or were seriously ill, proportionally, in British Columbia than the rest of Canada. A big factor in this is isolation. We had far fewer cases of flu during the same time period which supports this. For the future, we need to develop the near perfect mask and tell people how to wear them in extreme situations. With more international travel, we need to be alert and do scientific monitoring of potential outbreaks of more serious diseases. We also need to continue to support agencies that stop the spread of more serious killer diseases in other countries.
I got the shots and wore a 95 mask while my wife's immune system was low during her cancer treatment, because I interacted with older people and was at a vulnerable age myself. I saw three younger friends get nasty problems with long-covid. Over 700,000 people in the U.K. medical system had long-term-covid after two years, as reported a few months ago. We need to look on the experience, and its faults, as practice when we get a very serious outbreak that kills much larger numbers of people of all ages..
You're welcome to believe all that if it makes you feel better. But the mask everyone was mandated to wear was made of thin cloth, which is simply not going to stop a virus-sized particle. The Cochrane Review determined that an N95 does an equally-poor job of virus protection as a surgical mask. Mask wearing for a virus was all a game they made us play.
Many, many people are enormously afraid of getting sick and dying, and this made them vulnerable to the most egregious psychological manipulation the world has ever seen. Covid was simply never the threat it was said to be, which was obvious from at least the end of March 2020.
Everything after that was government and media hype intended to keep everyone terrified and under control. It seems it worked well on you, and for that, I'm sorry.
If you believe the government health dept. numbers and explanations, I'm sure nothing I can say will convince you otherwise.
Next time they try this game you will comply with lockdowns and mask/vaccine mandates but you will not have nearly as much company as you did last time. Fewer citizens around you will have patience with your fear.
I apologize in advance for being one of them, because I consider you a friend.
Thanks, Susan. My main point is that our past experiences can prepare us for a new disease that kills far more people of all ages. Fewer people died, or were seriously ill, proportionally, in British Columbia than the rest of Canada. A big factor in this is isolation. We had far fewer cases of flu during the same time period which supports this. For the future, we need to develop the near perfect mask and tell people how to wear them in extreme situations. With more international travel, we need to be alert and do scientific monitoring of potential outbreaks of more serious diseases. We also need to continue to support agencies that stop the spread of more serious killer diseases in other countries.