re: Why don’t Americans care about the pandemic anymore?

The longer the pandemic goes on, the longer that I can convince my wife that I need to be quarantined to my fishing boat.

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The result could be a situation in which the federal government rations the vaccines for only the highest-risk Americans.

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my nearly 80 year old mother views herself as a high risk....

however, she's gotten the latest booster (and is very thankful) because she got 'rona, it didn't even slow her down, and in the same breath will say "i probably would have died without that vaccine". the shots on the other hand have made her bed ridden all three times.

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Because if was blown out of proportion and people are starting to realize that.

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Beyond pathetic that it has taken people this long to recognize this for the sham that it is.

I took 4 Covid tests over this weekend. I was hoping to not have to go to my sales meeting…

Never been tested because I knew they’d say I had covid even if I had a broken leg. I’ve never experienced any symptoms that people have described that had it (headache, followed by what felt like sinus infection, feel like crap for a week or two, hard to breathe, loss of smell and taste). Haven’t had anything like that.

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“projections by public health officials inside and outside the administration suggest the country is likely to experience another surge in cases in the fall and the winter as immunity wanes and the coronavirus is expected to continue mutating.”

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It’s a virus. This is what viruses do. It isn’t reason to shut down anything, change how we vote or give away trillions of dollars just to have inflation bite us in the arse down the road.

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The thing about the American public is that their preferences are their preferences — they might seem misplaced, but they are nonetheless real.

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We are attempting to live our lives as a free people. If that goes against what this moron prefers I simply do not care. I’ll happily take a risk of getting Covid if it means I can do what I want when and where I want to do it.

I never really worried in the first place when it came to my health or those in my immediate household as we didn’t fit into any at risk category. The statistics proved it out. However, I was and still am extraordinarily pissed about how fauci became this godlike dictator and his impact on our ability to visit my Dad who was in the last stages of ALS. He died alone because of that prick and I will not ever let that go.

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I've come to the conclusion decades ago that the DEMs would rather have total control over a 3rd world country than have to actually compete for leadership of a 1st world country.

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The old saying,

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Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.

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Evil is alive and well in politics.

It all centers around information availability bias. We tend to think problems/issues/phenomena/etc are more prevalent the more we hear about them. This is a matter of psychology that anyone that wants to dissect an argument should be aware of.

The mask mandates are gone, the death tickers are gone, the reminders to mail in your ballots are gone, fauci is on life support not in the media, etc. Americans are not being told they are about to die so they are using their eyes and ears to decide how much to care, which is obviously not very much at all. They are no longer going tot he hospital when they have symptoms or even testing themselves because it isn’t a news story any longer.

Bottom line: the news matters in terms of public perception. The correlation is even stronger with the most casual observers, as they tend to not challenge the things that they hear. Easier to accept as true and move on.

COVID OVER.

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Sure there are cases.. but hospitals aren’t being overran.

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Correct.

2020/2021 the US had their lowest hospital occupancy in recorded history.