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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by AustinDev on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @11:10AM (#29553160)
This may come off wrong but... COVID is not the first virus. Immunosuppressed people for all of human history have been falling victim to the common cold, the flu and other infections most humans can deal with safely. You can't stop the world economy and the benefit that brings to the majority of society to save a fraction of a percentage point of the population that is Immunocompromised.
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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by tn890 on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @11:29AM (#29553438)
Wearing a mask in a supermarket does not "stop the world economy". Americans are borderline insane with the mask mandate
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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by jkubicek on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @12:23PM (#29554313)
Americans are full-on insane with their opposition to mask mandates.
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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by mitigating on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @11:32AM (#29553479)
How does wearing a mask hurt the economy?
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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by spookthesunset on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @01:30PM (#29555302)
I personally go out a heck of a lot less with these insane mask mandates. I hate wearing a mask.

Plus many of these people arguing to keep them around forever forget that actual living humans work at these businesses. It takes a lot of privilege to suggest employees should continue wearing masks forever to make a small set of extremely fearful customers feel "safe". I bet 99% of the "pro mask" people on are not in a place requiring them to wear a mask 40 hours a week.

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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by alex-korr on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @02:49PM (#29556549)
Try having a 3 year old child with a speech impediment that has to wear a mask in childcare for 6 hours a day. Does wonders for their ability to communicate.
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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by vkou on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @12:25PM (#29554335)
This may be a simple answer to a simple question - but it doesn't.
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