• invalid_name@lemm.ee
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    13 hours ago

    Thats a lovely thought but they are a part of the context that shapes our lives. Personal responsibility will not save you; only a large civilizational effort improves your odds against a pandemic.

    And let’s not throw the immunocompromised under the bus

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      7 hours ago

      Personal responsibility will not save you;

      …But wearing a full-face respirator with P-100 HEPA cartridges every time you’re out in public will.

      No, seriously.

      I wore a respirator through the first year of the pandemic. Almost everyone I work with caught it; my immediate boss–who is a duller-than-a-sack-of-hammers anti-vax dumbass–caught it five times, and I didn’t get it until after the first vaccine came out (…and I got vaccinated just as soon as it was cleared for the general public). Once I wasn’t wearing the mask all the time, then I got it. Is that real proof? No. But that kind of thing will sharply reduce your risks.

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        6 hours ago

        People who can’t are still gonna die. Innocent people who know this is stupid. A lot of us do not have the freedom or resources to do this.