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  • Jen Simmonsjensimmons
    Sep 14, 2023, 2:25 AM

    If suddenly many of the people all around you had HIV (detectable levels of HIV, in the 80s or 90s, before effective treatments were available)… and you were watching them all have unprotected sex with lots of people, intentionally infecting other people — what would you think of them?

    Why is Covid any different? People are infected. They know they are infected. And yet, they are making decisions to behave in ways that will definitely infect dozens or hundreds of other people.

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  • Jen Simmonsjensimmons
    Sep 14, 2023, 2:31 AM

    They are often pretending they don’t have COVID.

    “It’s no big deal. People don’t get that sick.”

    “I took a rapid test and it was negative. That must mean the positive PCR test from yesterday was wrong.”

    “I was exposed. I have symptoms and am sick. But the rapid test was negative, so it’s safe for me to be around everyone.”

    “If people get really sick, that’s their fault for being vulnerable.”

    “It’s ok, I have COVID, but I’m wearing a mask. Except when I want to eat or drink.”

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  • Jen Simmonsjensimmons
    Sep 14, 2023, 2:36 AM

    “I’m standing six feet away, so you won’t get it. Even though I’m infected and we are indoors.”

    “It’s fine, I washed my hands.”

    “I’m only going to be here for 10 minutes.”

    “I got infected three days ago, but now I’m over it.”

    WTF.

    I cannot live with people like this. I feel like I’m surrounded by sociopaths. Watching them kill and maim people. With a blessing of *everyone* else.

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  • Dustin Ruedustinrue@chateaude.luxe
    Sep 14, 2023, 2:33 AM

    @jensimmons to expand on this in case it isn’t clear is that I feel like a lot of people considered HIV a “gay thing” and something that won’t effect them or they were above it. There was no need to worry. Similar poor logic applied here and they are always surprised it got ‘em

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  • :konsti: :villain_heart: Portable doggie 🔜 NFCdogo@pounced-on.me
    Sep 14, 2023, 2:33 AM

    @jensimmons I super feel your frustration on this front. Sadly I've accepted the reality that in my country no one will take it seriously at all anymore, but it's frustrating how everyone has minimized/forgotten the hearing/cardio/mental disability this disease can bring about.

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  • bobchauvinbobchauvin@mastodon.world
    Sep 14, 2023, 8:37 AM

    @jensimmons

    At a recent gathering the topic of COVID booster came up. Lots of young people. Most said they were going to skip the booster. I'll be doing my best to talk them off the ledge.

    #COVID

    p.s. Really appreciate your web design guides. Learned about the joys of #css grid from your YouTube channel.

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  • Alan Langford 🇨🇦🧤🧊摏alan@mindly.social
    Sep 14, 2023, 4:44 PM

    @jensimmons That time when you find yourself hoping it mutates into something truly lethal so that all the people who don't take it seriously get killed off.

    Instead I guess there's some threshold of seeing your friends and family getting increasingly sick, disabled, or dead before some small voice says "jeez, maybe I should start taking this thing more seriously". Will continue to live in dread, waiting so see where that threshold might be.

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  • Maggie Maybemaggiemaybe@hear-me.social
    Sep 14, 2023, 5:44 PM

    @jensimmons Yesterday at the dermatologist they asked me if I would feel more comfortable if they wore a mask.

    “Yes but since y’all have been breathing in this room all day it probably won’t matter much so if you’re just going to put it in the garbage after I leave please don’t. I trust my mask for the 10 min we will be in here.”

    5 minutes later they’re asking me to take my mask off so they can full body skin check my face. Ugh I forgot they do that. I held my breath. I feel so dumb. At least I have 4 new boxes of expired tests I can use to make sure I don’t pass it on if I caught anything.

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  • Tonyorlovsky@lousydomain.xyz
    Sep 15, 2023, 8:31 PM

    @jensimmons @VeeRat
    "I cannot live with people like this"
    Absolutely amen. What I also struggle with, daily, is the thought that I am absolutely out of my mind, still taking things seriously. Still masking, still doing everything I can to avoid infection.
    I've been running on fumes for easily 18 months now.

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  • john lehetjohnlehet@mas.to
    Sep 15, 2023, 11:02 AM

    @jensimmons I sadly have some dear old, old friends, people I have long thought of as among the most moral and intelligent people I know, who are eating in restaurants without masks, masklessness grocery shopping, etc. “It’s just here now.” “Life is full of assaults anyway.” “It felt so good to not have the mask.” Etc.

    If these are the most moral and smart?

    I feel like I don’t even know them anymore. It’s like what toxoplasmosis does to mouse brains, and they lose their fear of cats.

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  • Inga stands with 🇺🇦 🇵🇸IngaLovinde@embracing.space
    Sep 15, 2023, 9:29 PM

    @jensimmons I've heard this one: "with HIV, if I don't like condoms, I can still live my usual life, just without sex. With covid, if I don't like masks, I will have to isolate at home for years if I don't want to get infected."

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