re: Are the common cold and flu being lumped in with covid?

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So why are people questioning a basic course of viral mitigation?

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Because there’s real collateral damage resulting from most mitigation efforts being imposed by the government via extra legislative fiat and its being taken as a given that said mitigation efforts are a net positive against that collateral damage, even though the evidence to support that position is murky at best in most cases.

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Because there’s real collateral damage resulting from most mitigation efforts being imposed by the government via extra legislative fiat and its being taken as a given that said mitigation efforts are a net positive against that collateral damage, even though the evidence to support that position is murky at best in most cases.

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To an extent, I agree. There's a happy medium that the government hasn't been able to find. Or, if the government admits that they're steering a rudderless ship, they should do everything in their power to financially support those business owners, employees, landlords, etc., so that these folks don't lose their livelihoods through no faults of their own.

Instead, we have nonsensical lockdowns, little to no support for those financially impacted, no real plan to get this vaccine rolled out asap, and people sick of it all and just saying "frick it, I'm not going to follow any government recommendation because they don't know what the frick they're doing". I empathize with those people, many of which post on this board. I think it's irresponsible, but I get where that attitude comes from. I'm pissed, too, just not enough to pretend there isn't an active global pandemic requiring zero cautionary measures.

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Almost like social distancing and wearing a mask could be keeping those other two less contagious viruses in check.

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was waiting to see someone spew this bullshite. What total nonsense

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