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I just realized that not being Covid conscious is a lib thing. I need this elaborated on to me. (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The US gov's misinformation that we can act like covid's over is mainly so we're good servants for capital, and that's lib shit. That's mostly what I got.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I agree that Covid is still going on and is a fatal danger to people and I wish we could still have precautions and remote work or lockdown as a society as a whole.

But, I'm genuinely curious, are all of you still wearing masks and not visiting others indoors? Honestly not judging nor shaming if that's what's going on but just wondering.

I really do wish everyone vaccinated and were more careful and remote, and I was extremely careful for a couple of years there to the annoyance of my friends and family but, given how things are now, I kinda gave up on wearing a mask except for some circumstances and I go visit family and friends indoors or will go to concerts or bars like "normal", which is what I think people mean. Reasonable people still acknowledge Covid is out there and a problem but recognize the reaction to it is non-existent, as if everything is "normal".

Does that make me a lib? I mean, I know I'm a ~lib~ but does it make me more of a lib? Am I supposed to keep wearing a mask at all times and not visit people to not be lib or is it sufficient to know and say Covid is still a fuck and capitalists have forced us back onto the gears of capitalism and drain us over the blood altar?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I wear a mask indoors whenever possible. I still go out and do things, but almost always masked. E.g. I go to a decent number of concerts, it doesn’t take away from the experience at all to wear a well fitted kn95 in there. I’ll eat out occasionally and that involves temporary masklessness, but I figure I’m minimizing risk not eliminating it fully. I’ve had all the available vaccines and never had Covid, and I test regularly. To me this all seems reasonable given the risks Covid still holds

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