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    • @[email protected]
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      239 months ago

      It’s not really an acronym, just an abbreviation. “Coronavirus disease” is only two words. You could write CoviD I guess, but that looks dumb.

      I’d think that it isn’t a proper noun and shouldn’t be capitalized at all, but maybe that’s why they’re the professionals and I’m just some guy on the internet.

      • @[email protected]
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        309 months ago

        Somehow an attempt to be correct ends up looking like mockery

        “I have Covid”

        SpongeBob with hands on hips: “I hAvE CoViD”

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    • @[email protected]
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      159 months ago

      It’s one of those things where it has become a word in and of itself because so many people use it that way

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      99 months ago

      “Do your own research” is just code for “I don’t have a valid source and I don’t feel like looking for one so you do it.”

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      39 months ago

      Damn straight. I was attracted to the ideas of the Skeptic community when I was a teen. And as this all unraveled and better, more informative, and equally entertaining leftists got me hooked - I’ve learned to patch up these bad behaviors. Now if I want to make a point, I’ll link to a source that echoes that point. Now I can still be wrong, but if I am then the person I’m arguing with has a chance to challenge the rhetoric that has convinced me.

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      Hey, look, it’s the guy who won the Nobel prize from the article. Did you only use Facebook for your research, or lemmy too?

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        29 months ago

        These types of comments give me faith in society! Or at least in Lemmy! Thank you for writing what I was thinking!

      • @[email protected]
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        Yall are all downvoting him as if the science did not come out clearly showing the Johnson and Johnson vaccine was causing heart issues for women above 50. Its OK to be critical of facts. Ignoring them makes you damn near as bad as red hats

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          39 months ago

          What are your thoughts on the fact that it is much safer to get the vaccine than to get Covid?

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            09 months ago

            I had the vaccine, the Johnson and Johnson to be precise. Although I got it before we knew these issues and fortunately am not in the at risk demographic. In retrospect I was vaxed, and boosted and still have had covid 3 times. 2 of them were miserable. I think it clearly did fuck all to help me.

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              09 months ago

              That’s a popular misconception about the vaccines.

              They’re to keep the infection at a manageable level, i.e. like a regular miserable virus infection, not to stop you from being infected although they do reduce the risk of that too.

              Another misconception: “I’m not in the risk demographic”. COVID affected people of all ages, just at different percentages of the population.