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@maegul @coronavirus @longcovid
Well - you got the warnings for 2 years and then decided to go for the risk life balance 🤷♂️ I mean what do you expect now?
Sounds like AIDS patients who stopped using condoms because they were told it's endemic.
Or cancer patients who continued smoking because they were told cancer is easily treatable.
@tobi82 @coronavirus @longcovid
I wasn’t looking for sympathy, just sharing an experience.
You have no idea what my background is or for what reasons I’ve been infected in the past.
What’s more you’re completely neglecting the importance of the social dimensions that lead to widespread infection of an airborn virus while trumping up absolute individualism as the sole basis of responsibility and blame.
All of which is a rather flawed outlook IMO, along with a poor demeanour TBH.
@maegul @tobi82 @coronavirus @longcovid “Hit by a drunken driver while using the crosswalk? Looks like the just deserts of carelessness to me, because *I’ve* never been hit by a car.” Do people get how they sound?
There’s a world of difference between napping in the crosswalk and needing to use it to get to work, but when there’s social license for drunk drivers, you don’t have to be lingering there to get hit.
@cwicseolfor @tobi82 @coronavirus @longcovid
Well yea. The responsibilities we take for our actions are obviously important (and should be addressed more IMO), but blaming the sick for not protecting themselves rather than focusing on those negligent in preventing infection and in not taking care of others … is a choice.