re: Let’s recall Covid hysteria - OT edition

Did we really have more people die as a % of the population compared to the 5 years prior?

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Did we really have more people die as a % of the population compared to the 5 years prior?

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Yep

lol I remember the 2 weeks until we’re Italy bullshite

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The truth is the severity of the situation is somewhere between the extremes people were espousing. It wasn't going to kill all of us and masks didn't do much, if anything. Most of the world could easily handle getting that virus and fully recover. It also wasn't the common cold that we shouldn't take seriously because there were, early on before mutations, a lot of deaths and severe illnesses in at risk populations. And it was very contagious. Hindsight, we should've just focused on those populations and isolating them and let the rest of the world be free. I think looking back, I also really get mad thinking about how long they let this hysteria last despite conclusive data around the virus mortality rate dropping precipitously as it mutated. It eventually DID become something akin to the common cold and they kept up with the shenanigans.

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I think this is a very reasonable take and I agree with all of it. Protect the elderly and those with risk factors, educate the public (honestly), and let educated individuals decide what is best for their health. There is so much nuance that got lost during that time in online discourse.

Yes, COVID killed a lot of people (I saw it across multiple ERs), and while the vaccine was great for those with risk factors (especially elderly, obese, heart or lung disease) it shouldn’t have been forced on people who were resistant to taking it, for whatever reason. Conversely, people here making covid or the vaccine out to be some grand conspiracy undoubtedly did real harm by dissuading some from taking appropriate steps to protect their health. Frankly it reminded me why I avoid most social media. Likewise the hysteria over the virus in some circles, even years later, was equally astounding. When it became obvious that Covid had mutated and had become less harmful than the flu, I posted about my observation (as an ER doc who had worked every wave) on the Covid subreddit and was promptly banned for misinformation

One of my saddest stories from that time (which people here will probably hate) was when I took care of the husband of our sweet unit secretary. Early 60s, long time smoker, not vaccinated. He looked like shite and I begged him to stay in the hospital. He adamantly refused and wanted to go home and take ivermectin, which an NP prescribed him. He came back two days later, and as he was getting intubated his wife was telling him he better not be chasing too much tail when she sees him again. Not a dry eye in the room. He died in the ICU and she left the ER shortly thereafter. I’m so glad those miserable days are now behind us.

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This video about the Covid lab leak coverup is one of my favorite videos on YouTube. Anyone who trusts China to be honest or anything other than a bad actor is fooling themselves (or completely ignorant to history). In medicine we have for a long time named entities (and especially viruses) after where they were discovered (Dengue, Ebola, West Nile, etc). I got some horrific online hate (which I would even call bullying) from a former med school classmate because I thought the Wuhan virus was an appropriate name. He was Taiwanese. What a useful idiot.

Fauci did real harm by taking part in the lab leak coverup. He was complicit of course and wanted to hide that fact. With China you expect it but one would hope for better than dictatorial level information engineering from our supposed leaders. This contributed to more people distrusting medicine and it’s an effect that has lasted to the present and frankly I hate him for it.

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Pureblood checking in

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Another pure checking in.

We withstood the most powerful psyop ever unrolled on earth. The fact that some traded in an experimental shot for a donut will never not be funny.

I just remember the blacks doubling and tripling down on mask wearing

It was pathetic

It was also a sign of identity politics on their part I believe 100%

Remember when having no symptoms was a symptom of COVID? Lmao

Yo Scruffy! Long time.

You were great in that thread. And another example of selective reasoning by so many posters. They’d worship wawaweewa because he let on that he was a doctor (falsely) while ignoring you and a few other medical professionals.