I’m at a state of utter indifference

[u/Captain_Beemo_]

[u/NewFarmingwanz]

I mean COVID is a virus, so it’s just gonna keep on mutating no matter how many vaccines they come up with. (Not shitting on vaccine just saying I’m not surprised there is a new variant.)

[u/oarngebean → u/NewFarmingwanz]

Yeah the flu shot every year is multiple strains of the influenza virus that doctors THINK will be prevalent that season

[u/Kir4_ → u/oarngebean]

At least they don't take it from thin air, they have a good idea on what it can be, based on what happened in the other hemisphere.

[u/nooeh → u/Kir4_]

I agree that they do a pretty good job generally, but sometimes their predictions can be totally off and the flu vaccine is relatively ineffective. Of course I take it every year anyways because even 20% effective is better than nothing.

[u/simen_the_king → u/oarngebean]

Important to note here is that influenza is an exceptionally unstable virus. It is one example of a possible scenario, but there are counterexamples too. Polio for example was basically completely eradicated with the use of a vaccine. Viruses are in general pretty unstable, but not all of them are AS unstable as influenza

[u/Dynasty2201 → u/NewFarmingwanz]

It's pretty clear that eventually it'll just become a background stat that kills X amount of people every year and nobody cares.

NOT SAYING IT'S THE SAME AS THE FLU, but influenze and pneumonia kills around 25-30,000 people a year, every year, as a background stat in the UK alone. 5-10,000 a year die from alcohol. Roughly 80,000 die a year from smoking.

Don't see people losing their minds over those stats, or them being so focused on by the news. Because nobody cares enough about them, that's just life.

In contrast, in the UK, 145,000 have died over 2 years due to Covid which is around 70,000 a year, nearly twice the amout vs the flu. But that includes the 2 massive spikes of over 1,000 a day for a few months. We're now, with circa 90% double vaccinated, down to about 150-200 a day at worst. That's 54-73,000 a year "at worst" at the moment.

[u/Irish_Sausage → u/Dynasty2201]

People don't lose their minds over alcohol or smoking related deaths because you can avoid that by not drinking or smoking. You can't spread lung cancer, aside from from second hand smoke, which is why smoking is prohibited in certain areas.

[u/sassysassafrassass → u/Irish_Sausage]

And it's not contagious and doesn't overwhelm hospitals

[u/gime20 → u/Irish_Sausage]

People don't lose their mind from smoking and drinking deaths because in the end that's gonna hurt somebody's bottom line so there's no need to talk about it. Like traffic deaths

[u/Rc2124 → u/Dynasty2201]

People don't care as much about alcohol deaths and such because that's a personal lifestyle choice that probably didn't exponentially infect and kill others while constantly evolving. Also if one virus killed twice as many people in a year as all ~100 flu viruses combined, even with lockdowns, masks, social distancing, etc, then that's a pretty big deal. Someday it'll probably be a virus that we'll have to coexist with but I don't think we're at that point yet

[u/[deleted] → u/NewFarmingwanz]

Right. With the caveat that the rate of mutations we see is linked to the infection rate.

The more infections there are, the more likely a mutation is to occur, because there is more of the virus around. Mutations are spontaneous and unpredictable - increasing the size of the population of cells that can mutate is inextricably linked to increasing the likelihood of a mutation occurring.

That was the point of masks and social distancing - it wasn't to stop the spread, it was to slow it down enough that the likelihood of a mutation was lowered as well.

[u/xXSlitherySnakeXx]

At this point just give us the zombie apocalypse...

[u/jawa453 → u/xXSlitherySnakeXx]

Happy cake day

[u/xXSlitherySnakeXx → u/jawa453]

ohhh, thanks. I didn't even notice that today is my cake day

[u/Words_of_Jesus_26 → u/xXSlitherySnakeXx]

Sad't

[u/theghostinthetown → u/xXSlitherySnakeXx]

seconded. if im going down, ill at least go down trying to act cool and getting bit in the first 10 mins

[u/OofScan → u/theghostinthetown]

I’ll be that character who was actually bit in the start and hides it the whole time for the most generic plot twist

[u/rhou17 → u/OofScan]

Oo, can I be the one who does somewhat okay at first only to get hit by the car of some panicking karen?

[u/guy-man-person → u/rhou17]

only if i grab the cool gun and then get bit then pulled through a window i was standing by

[u/[deleted] → u/theghostinthetown]

Airborne transmitted zombie apocalypse sucks though

[u/[deleted] → u/xXSlitherySnakeXx]

That's even more emotional damage, just give me a quick death.

[u/coachjayofficial]

I still thought we were at delta….

[u/Soggy_Pressure_7700 → u/[deleted]]

The good news is, if we're at "omicron", there are only like 9 more variants left to deal with.

Hang in there peeps, we're almost through this!!!

[u/dogtron64 → u/Soggy_Pressure_7700]

It better! If this is a repeat of 2020? I may as well go insane!

[u/chkpancake775]

Time to spend the entirety of college online

[u/prettyjwick → u/chkpancake775]

You know, I’ve done both. I started a few times in person at the proper age, then just finished my business degree at the age of 40. This may be unpopular, but online college is just missing something.

[u/DaddyGascoigne → u/prettyjwick]

Not unpopular, it IS missing everything

[u/chkpancake775 → u/DaddyGascoigne]

Agreed, fuck online classes

[u/bitching_bot → u/DaddyGascoigne]

missing everything but the full cost of in school classes

fuck online classes i finished my degree during the shut down and the profs were not prepared at all and butchered the whole thing

and the universities don’t give a shit

[u/lollixs → u/prettyjwick]

After having spent 1/2 of my time in college online and half of it in person I can also safely say that online college is absolutely worthless and soulcrushingly boring.

[u/Wheres-the-dill → u/chkpancake775]

Man I really do feel for you guys right now. I graduated in 2016 and didn’t realize in person learning was a privilege.. best of luck to you

[u/DoDucksEatBugs → u/Wheres-the-dill]

I graduated in July 2019. I am very grateful for my luck and very empathetic to the people who had to be in school for this.

[u/Wheres-the-dill → u/DoDucksEatBugs]

Same. I’m watching my niece do her senior year of high school online and she’s so upset she’s missing the experiences :(

[u/Lalox → u/Wheres-the-dill]

I started my master’s in fall 2019 ☠️

[u/Yappyboy1 → u/chkpancake775]

For real :(

[u/FPSXpert → u/chkpancake775]

I gave up on college because of this shit. I ain't going back because of the situation until things go back to in person, and I don't care if it takes six weeks or six years.

[u/Jim_the_salad]

Yeah.... At this point I'm just waiting for it to eradicate us all... Wouldn't even be surprised

[u/FnCraig → u/Jim_the_salad]

Going to be a very long wait I you're expecting corona to do that...

[u/fakeplasticdroid → u/FnCraig]

The thing that makes the coronavirus such an effective virus is its low lethality. Viruses don't actually "want" to kill their hosts, they just want to multiply, and killing their hosts is counterproductive to that objective. What's killing people isn't technically the virus itself, but the body's response to it. There are less "successful" viruses like ebola that never resulted in a pandemic because symptoms present themselves within a day or two and a lot of patients end up dying, both of which hamper its ability to spread. Meanwhile people will downplay COVID-19 by saying things like "it kills <1% of people" or "you can have it and feel just fine", without understanding realizing that's exactly why it's such a successful virus.

[u/CrazyTom54 → u/fakeplasticdroid]

Daily reminder that 1% of the us population is 3 million 340 thousand…. and 1% of the world population is 80 million.

Even with a low lethality, corona has proven to kill people who were considered safe due to their age and health. This doesn’t even go into the fact that a shortage of ventilators increases lethality.

Focusing on lethality also ignores all the people who got it and now suffer permanent health issues from it (I only have mild asthma thank god but some of my friends have severe asthma now despite being super healthy, or have chronic fatigue)

Even if lethality is low, it is always wise to approach this virus with a measure of caution and wisdom.

[u/Fizzwidgy → u/CrazyTom54]

And to add, when hospitals fill up because people are on ventilators then everyone gets an increased risk of dying because the fucking hospitals reach capacity

[u/CrazyTom54 → u/Fizzwidgy]

This guy gets it ^

Basically, don’t try to diminish the risk of the virus. Because while yes, it’s lethality may be low, it still has the potential to royally fuck us if we just act like it can’t do anything

[u/Jim_the_salad → u/FnCraig]

Yeah I know. It would be fun to watch humanity during that tho.

[u/[deleted] → u/Jim_the_salad]

Haha yeah the last 2 years were so much fun! I don’t have crippling depression numbed by alcohol and weed now, that’s for sure! I loved the part where the whole planet was shut down and the economies tanked and people lost everything because their small business never recovered. So fun.

[u/suitology → u/[deleted]]

I liked the part where billionaires added over a trillion dollars to their wealth in America alone.

[u/xMothGutx → u/[deleted]]

No gatherings unless it's to flood the streets and protest during an election year. The virus can't spread at giant protests, only weddings and funerals.

[u/tittysprinkles112 → u/xMothGutx]

I haven't given a damn since I got the vaccine. I've been going to breweries, bars, restaurants, museums, etc. Corona isn't going away. I'll get the booster when the CDC tells me to. Other than that, my panic ship has sailed. The vaxxed people who are still holed up are in a psychosis of fear. Yeah, before the vaxx I was pretty concerned. Post vaxx? See ya. I'm living my life.

[u/Ac3_HUNT3r → u/Jim_the_salad]

Oh Hey! We've got an edge lord here! We've got an edge lord here!

See! Noone cares!

[u/Jim_the_salad → u/Ac3_HUNT3r]

Wait what? Who said someone should care. I'm just tired of covid being annoying af. Why you gotta be mean?

[u/witchyanne → u/Jim_the_salad]

The real edgelord is in the comments.

[u/[deleted] → u/witchyanne]

At this point I believe an 'edgelord' is someone who pleasures themselves right up to the point of finishing but backs off again and again ensuring the worste case of blue balls ever... and I refuse to believe anything else.

[u/Scottish_Anarchy → u/Ac3_HUNT3r]

That's pretty cringe not gonna lie.

[u/TotallyBelievesYou → u/Jim_the_salad]

Damn so edgy

[u/SchrodingersRapist → u/Jim_the_salad]

...waiting for it to eradicate us...

Won't happen. Even the most infectious and deadly virus won't wipe out everyone. There will not only be members of the population naturally immune but also as the population size decreases the transmission between people will decrease.

[u/General-Carrot-6305 → u/Jim_the_salad]

SSDS

Same

Shit

Different

Strain

[u/Where_is_Gabriel → u/Jim_the_salad]

I am waiting for the next market crash to get some tendies.

[u/[deleted] → u/Where_is_Gabriel]

Uncle Sam would rather die than let a Boomer's 401k suffer a, much needed, correction.

[u/salinora0 → u/Jim_the_salad]

*eradicate 0.7% of us.

[u/Sabz5150 → u/salinora0]

Dunno why everyone is mad, this is the chlorine in the gene pool everyone wanted.

[u/TheSt34K → u/Sabz5150]

This is when people realize that malthusianism was never correct but rather an anti-poor deflection.

[u/FallenDummy → u/[deleted]]

Those rich who died mostly had pre-existing conditions or were overweight so it makes sense

[u/gempi_galco → u/salinora0]

0,7%... If everyone got infected. Normal corona still hasn't reach a billion infections

[u/bluwubewwy → u/gempi_galco]

If everyone on earth was infected, it would be much more. For example in my region the covid death rate is about 4%

[u/[deleted] → u/Jim_the_salad]

this is legit bots talking to each other jesus fucking christ

[u/End_Centralization]

Why did they go from Nu to Omricon and skip the Greek letter

Xi?

[u/thatdudewillyd → u/[deleted]]

Poopbear? I knew it!!

[u/bluwubewwy → u/End_Centralization]

They skipped Nu too

[u/Captain_WACK_Sparrow → u/[deleted]]

Me too, like spending all my time indoors playing games by choice and not spending all my time indoors playing games by the government's choice

[u/drunk98 → u/Captain_WACK_Sparrow]

They can tell me what to do, but I only do it because I want to. Fight the power!

[u/Tiiba → u/drunk98]

Ah, the difference between having to paint a fence and getting to paint a fence.

[u/[deleted]]

I kind of forgot about the coronavirus

[u/ShinHayato → u/[deleted]]

Did you also write game of thrones?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Where do you live?

[u/aleeea → u/[deleted]]

Under a rock

[u/[deleted] → u/aleeea]

No, this is patrick

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Ohio :(

[u/artisanrox → u/[deleted]]

i'm sorry :(

[u/JungleBobNapalmPants → u/[deleted]]

Yeah I have family near Defiance Ohio. Corona doesn’t exist there lol

[u/scorpiknox → u/JungleBobNapalmPants]

enter degree yoke vegetable stocking heavy uppity humorous badge chop

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Hey, it's not Indiana so there's that.

[u/Jack3982 → u/[deleted]]

India?

[u/chickennuggetsfish]

Weirdly the who skipped Xi in the Greek alaphabet. Maybe they don’t want to slightly piss some one off…….

[u/CataclysmSolace → u/chickennuggetsfish]

Who do you think is paying them off? Of course it's the CCP

[u/Chemical9242 → u/[deleted]]

I’m not an epidemiologist or virologist, but I was under the impression that no letters were skipped, and that the ones publicized are simply the most prominent. As in, there was a Xi and a Nu, but it wasn’t significant enough to warn about (maybe they were less contagious than Delta).

[u/Chemical9242 → u/[deleted]]

I wasn’t aware of the news around this. Thank you for the article. (Wow, they actually skipped two letters)

[u/Temporary_Body_5435 → u/chickennuggetsfish]

Winnie the Pooh needs a serious ass whoopin.

[u/CraigWeedkin → u/Temporary_Body_5435]

Shame there's 2 million Chinese troops between you and him

[u/Reddit_pls_stahp → u/CraigWeedkin]

That noob doesn't have the courage to 1v1 me.

[u/Madden777]

Waiting for a fire breathing and icy freezing variant

[u/chunganoid]

Who's idea was it to name it like a transformer

[u/AWildModAppeared → u/chunganoid]

If we’re all gonna die, we may as well die to something with a cool name

[u/fireonice420]

It comes from omicron persei 8

[u/Shinokiba- → u/fireonice420]

I don't understand why Omicron, the largest variant, simply eat the other 5?

[u/[deleted] → u/fireonice420]

Have you smelled Donkey Kong's mask lately?

[u/CMDR_omnicognate]

“I AM LRRR, RULER OF THE PLANET OMICRON PERSEI 8!!! cough”

[u/ArsenicAndRoses → u/CMDR_omnicognate]

This is literally what goes through my head every time I hear about the new variant

[u/Jardite]

what are they gonna do when they use up all the cool names?

covid hamburger strain? covid washington variation.

wait wait, i know. covid mintberry crunch.

[u/IVIaskerade → u/Jardite]

Covid by Lancome

[u/thotslayer21600]

Well, it can't kill you if you're already dead inside

[u/SclifosNicolae]

I like how everybody doesn't care, but still talks about it

[u/kremitthefrog12 → u/SclifosNicolae]

Of course. How is eveyone else supposed to know how "little" they care?

[u/Many_Leadership5982]

I'm a teenager and I just don't care about COVID any more.

[u/Many_Leadership5982 → u/[deleted]]

Same, I am starting to sympathize will the anti lockdown protesters.

[u/jimoriarty1976 → u/Many_Leadership5982]

Yeah...like fuck....from where is everyone getting such amounts of will to live

[u/mrnacknime → u/[deleted]]

Why would you not just get the third shot? I feel like in my country, life is quite normal if you have the covid certificate and just wear masks in public transport.

[u/sassysassafrassass → u/mrnacknime]

Because they're immature and have an authority problem

[u/IVIaskerade → u/mrnacknime]

Because "subscribe to regular shots from pfizer or the government will force you to stay indoors and not ever socialise" is a fucking stupid way to live and nobody should have to accept that.

[u/[deleted]]

Unpopular opinion, but maybe a plague would (in the long run) be good for our current tension, the price on housing would go down because your great great grandparents finally kicked the bucket, civil war would be averted since the value of human life goes up, an injection of younger blood into political power. Yeah it's bad scenario, but compared to the endgame where we avert black plague levels, I see nuclear civil war or at least a lot domestic terrorism

[u/shiro_eugenie → u/[deleted]]

bold of you to assume that the price of housing would go down

[u/-ZeroF56 → u/[deleted]]

$600k McMansions

Bold of you to assume $600k can buy you more than a 1500sqft home in some places in this market.

[u/luisless → u/-ZeroF56]

600k gets you a small apartment here

[u/crestonebeard → u/[deleted]]

Yeah it might benefit a few of us commoners, but just like in most scenarios like this I imagine the ultra wealthy would be the ones who truly benefit.

civil war would be averted as the value of human life goes up

Also if the last two years have taught me anything it’s that ~1/3 of the population are selfish garbage people with no regard for any life but their own. As the global supply chain inevitably breaks down these assholes would absolutely start a civil war over resources and exterminate anyone who stands in the way of their “freedoms”

[u/death-by-thighs → u/crestonebeard]

Yea its benefiting the pharmaceutical companies and the politicians with stock in those companies.

[u/gempi_galco → u/death-by-thighs]

Blackrock or Vanguard?

[u/suitology → u/gempi_galco]

Vanguard is just a public holding/ investment Corp. They dont really pump out money on their 0.25% commission Iol. They dont have private holdings like BlackRock.

[u/macrotransactions → u/crestonebeard]

imagine praising plagues while shitting on egoism at the same time

[u/HATndle → u/[deleted]]

this is your brain on reddit

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

You'd need a plague that will literally kill 2-4 billion people if you want to have similar benefitial effects on the long run as the black death had and even then it would probably be more harmfull since the sheer amount of dead makes every country have extremely severe shortage in the workforce wich would mean that many cities would fall into ruin, maybe even whole countries. Global trade would halt and the economy would collapse and considering how extremely reliant on global trade the world is, it has high chances of being the modern day bronze age collapse and the end of modern civilization as we know it. Recovering is going to take centuries, if it is even possible to recover.

On the flip side. The environment would love it and mother natures probably going to have the largest orgasm in history since the cambrian explosion if that many humans would die in the span of like... 7 years.

[u/santochavo → u/[deleted]]

My field of work is full of old guys so covid actually opened up lots of positions for me to move up. I’ve tripled my salary in like 4 months because of Covid. It sucks but hey there’s always a silver lining

[u/NJ_Mets_Fan → u/[deleted]]

This assumes all people are treated equally and have the same access to medicine and resources. The reality is this would just decimate impoverished communities, kill the only person who makes money for a family of 5, leaving then homeless or put in the system to be mismanaged until theyre 18, put on the street..and life goes on..

so…

[u/Mrchristopherrr → u/[deleted]]

Sure everyone wants a new plague but no one wants to kill grandma.

[u/AgentFN2187 → u/[deleted]]

Hated people talking about plagues being good before coronavirus and I really hate it now. Have there been benefits after a plague? Yes. Just like there is almost always a silver-lining to any bad thing. That doesn't change the fact that the bad thing happened, and it was, you know, BAD.

Plagues cause untold human suffering to both the living and the recently dead. Coronavirus has already caused plenty of suffering for people around the world, no, the last thing we need is something worse.

[u/atxranchhand → u/[deleted]]

Thanos was right?

[u/Mean_Regret_3703 → u/[deleted]]

The reality is treatments will just improve but covid isn't going anywhere. It's unfortunate but it's true. Vaccines and treatments will improve, fatalities and ICUs will decrease along with them, but at some point we're all going to go back to normal in a world where covid exists.

[u/[deleted] → u/Mean_Regret_3703]

Hopefully, one of the strains show very mild symptoms and out competes the other strains, eventually becoming pike the common cold.

[u/cabronara]

Next year we'll have a whole frat house of all the variants and sigma as its president

[u/FelixzeBear]

honestly man, this shit is just tiring

[u/PLutonium273]

Only 9 more till Omega varient lets go

[u/pizzaout3]

Man I stopped caring about 2 months in

[u/[deleted]]

Haven’t done anything with the virus in over a year. Florida doesn’t care anymore

[u/shrikaizerion]

what are they? Naming supervillains?

[u/Oparon]

It's never going to end.

[u/[deleted]]

If you're gonna kill me, just get it over with already

[u/Lazydude17]

it’s just never going to end…

[u/prettyjwick]

Yup. Triple vaxxed and fresh out of fucks to give.

[u/[deleted]]

Covid is like the common cold, it'll continue to evolve and create countless variants. This is our new reality.

[u/IVIaskerade → u/[deleted]]

Hey man they passed up the opportunity to cement their grip on the proles with the common cold, they aren't going to let this one past them.

[u/NotWrongOnlyMistaken]

[redacted]

[u/TheBrokenNinja]

I think everyone on here with mental health issues need to get off Reddit for a while. Disconnect from social media. Find something in your personal life that you can grow in a positive way. Because reading these comments and interacting on here is not going to make you feel better.

[u/Dee_Lansky]

I'm currently smoking my second cigarette after downing 6 shots of Johnnie Walker. Could not care less.

[u/Soggy_Pressure_7700 → u/[deleted]]

Ever experienced war?

[u/Joe555678 → u/Soggy_Pressure_7700]

War? War never changes.

[u/Atiopos → u/[deleted]]

Only someone who’s never had their country invaded would say some shit like this

[u/ranger604 → u/[deleted]]

Russia gonna blitz Ukraine soon

[u/MedicatedAxeBot]

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[u/JoeEyebrow → u/MedicatedAxeBot]

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[u/nhvn0710 → u/MedicatedAxeBot]

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[u/xXtmynovXx → u/MedicatedAxeBot]

I will keep arguing against you

[u/Temporary_Body_5435]

That sounds like a god damn transformer.

[u/Mindraker]

I laughed way too hard over this.

[u/finger_milk]

Well, you know what they say. The variant hysterics come from Omicron persei 7, while we want to fucking die on Omicron persei 9

[u/VentralRaptor24]

It's probably gonna become a yearly thing like the flu. Get a shot every year for it.

[u/SIEBWIEP]

Fuck corona

All my homies hate corona

[u/canmoose]

I only really care if it starts countries implementing global travel restrictions again. I just want to see my family for the holidays.

[u/Thane5]

I thought Nu was the new kid on the block?

[u/Thane5 → u/[deleted]]

Aw man i was so badly hoping for Xi to be a thing

[u/[deleted]]

Oh wow another virus variant, oh wow another lockdown, I don't care I will always do work-home every day

[u/PinkGuyDude]

honestly, i cant imagine it being that much worse then regular covid

[u/IVIaskerade → u/PinkGuyDude]

It isn't. New mutations are pretty much all more transmissible and less serious.

[u/PinkGuyDude → u/IVIaskerade]

see, theyre ramping it up for basically nothing

[u/Dood567 → u/PinkGuyDude]

I mean, a virus that's more deadly but far less contagious would be preferable to a virus that infects everyone but kills very few in the grand number of deaths.

1000 people infected at a 10% death rate is 100 dead.

100000 people infected at a 5% death rate is 5000 dead.

[u/[deleted]]

People still care about corona?

[u/MuthafuckinLemonLime → u/[deleted]]

The healthcare workers who have to clean up the mess

[u/SugondeseAmerican → u/[deleted]]

Reddit doomers and no one else

[u/tittysprinkles112 → u/SugondeseAmerican]

I'm convinced there's Redditors that are upset that they have to go outside and socialize again. That's why they're so rabid

[u/Dark3ater]

And my country was one of the first to identify it... Of all the things... Yea at this point just end it:/

[u/46554B4E4348414453 → u/Dark3ater]

Thanks obama

[u/wdymyname]

I was at that stage like 1,5 years ago

[u/VaishakhD]

The assigned name of this virus sounds like a transformer.

[u/Wambo456]

Omicron Persi 8

[u/Emergency-Meet-3681]

What happened with Nu and Xi? Are we NOT following the Greek alphabet? As long as we get zombies,.I'm good.

[u/[deleted]]

Pro tip- live in the south and it doesn’t fucking matter. Just livin our lives baby. Enjoy the shutdowns rest of world / west coast

[u/andrewej01]

It’s a virus, it’s gonna evolve. Either we shit out pants every time a new strain arrives and lock down, or understand that there’s nothing more we can really do and move on.

[u/StoneyVI]

Im personally done with covid. Im over it. Idgaf if I get it or if you get it. No one signed up for 3 years of health authorities and governemnt stuffing there fat heads up our asses. I wear a mask, i got my 2 shots now fuck off. Thats it, I'm done. What ever they are doing isn't working and its not worth the freedoms we've given up. So fuck them, and fuck anyone whos still offering consent to their control. If you still think the authorities are doing their best and are honestly trying to stop a deadly virus, you are hopelessly subservient. So fuck you to lol.

[u/ArchaicKubib]

They are just messing with us now. Using names from futurama.

[u/sulfuricsteam8]

Who even named this? Sounds stupid

[u/The_Enclave_]

Fun fact: They skipped variand Xi becouse it's name of Chinise dictator. Imagine being so corrupt.

[u/Diabeetush]

You cannot live in fear forever. Many of us have chosen to not live in fear at all. Take whatever precautions you need to take to feel safe. But if you are one of the ones that truly live in fear of COVID-19, your mental health will be impacted tremendously in a very negative way. And that does not lend well to recovering from any sort of illness.

[u/PugPlaysStuff]

It’s never going to disappear, just like how the flu will never truly disappear, it’s time to move on honestly

[u/hondanaut]

I was in Idaho for a month and it was living in the real world again. No masks no distancing just people living normal happy lives. I’m back in LA where it’s “papers please” and it’s just obvious places that still care about COVID are just in a fantasy. COVID is here to stay and people who want to get the 12th booster can get it and fuck off so everyone else can live a normal life. States like California sacrificed their present and futures for a fake sense of security and now Florida and Idaho have never been better. Anyone that still supports the lockdowns needs a weekend in reality and they’ll see how wrong they are.

[u/[deleted]]

If you’re vaccinated and keep wearing your mask, that’s really all you can do

[u/SirKing-Arthur]

Alabama forgot theres a pandemic. Only thru memes do I remember people are still wearing masks