A couple of people I know complitely lost their minds because of COVID. All in different (and in some cases even opposite) ways but all equally bad
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I must have very rational, well-balanced friends. I have seen signs of covid madness on Twitter, but not locally. My friends and I all happily trooped off to get vaccinated, but we're old enough to remember being vaccinated as children with the brand new polio vaccine. We had measles (no jab in those days) but we made sure our kids got vaccinated because measles is horrible and I can still remember the terrifying dreams I had while I was delirious with fever.
Yes, we're being careful and wearing masks in shops and most of our meetings have moved online or outdoors in people's gardens, but we're what you youngsters would consider "elderly" and some of us have the dreaded "underlying conditions" which mean it doesn't matter if we die - according to some! It seems to be the younger people who are the covid deniers and anti-maskers.
In the end, that's all you can do. Even at the height, I wore a mask when it was necessary. I guess you were not looking for the madness on Twitter because it is there. So tell me, was the reaction against the MMR vaccines and diseases just as crazy?
Online is the only place I've seen covid madness and I don't even try to argue with them. They are beyond rational thought.
I think it's mostly coming from the US, but that does influence the UK. However, because the UK got its vaccination programme off to a quick start, we vaccinated a substantial percentage of the population well before the anti-vax movement got going. There were covid deniers, but they were always a vocal minority. The anti-vax, anti-lockdown people are becoming more vocal and holding protests, but as there are no restrictions in England now, we're a bit bemused as to what they're protesting about. The feeling is that it's largely just an excuse to go and do some mild rioting.
You are right, I probably do know a lot of weird people (but then I know a lot of people) but you seem to be surrounded by some particularly vicious youth haha. Welsh youngsters seem to have become much more evil since I last visited that beautiful piece of land. I am happy not to know anyone who thinks that it doesn't matter if older people with underlying conditions die (that includes our parents and grandparents btw).
Our kid's grandmother who is in her 80s is an extreme mask and lockdown denier. She says that stealing her life to protect her life won't work with her. According to her, life is not a binary thing one has or doesn't, it is just time. And whenever someone tells her that she cannot walk around without a mask or see or hug her grandson for two years when she is already in her 80s, she says that that is stealing her life and she is not having it. She says that she doesn't have the time to put her life on hold for two years not to die.
I know a version of your Covid protests guy! I can't work out the China thing either, and daren't ask. her, but I was particularly surprised she went that way because she runs a dog holiday boarding kennels and I remember in the past her being very stern about how proper kennels were much better than home boarding because the kennels could be sanitised and the vaccinations checked. Perhaps she thinks vaccinations are just for dogs.
Weirdly, the first person I knew who got Covid got it really badly and was still in a bad way months later, which at the time seemed very scary, so I sympathise with bathtub gasmask guy. I hope he can find the nerve to come out of his tub sometime!
Our daughter, granddaughter and son-in-law were some of the first people I knew who got covid. They are not elderly or infirm and have no underlying health conditions. In fact they are normally very fit (daughter regularly ran half-marathons), son-in-law goes mountain biking and granddaughter is very sporty. In fact she probably caught the covid in Austria on a skiing holiday and brought it home. They all recovered OK without any treatment other than resting at home, but our daughter said it was the worst illness she'd ever had and she probably got the long-covid because she wasn't fully right for the rest of the year and it took months before she could go running again.
Meanwhile a friend's elderly uncle was 104 he caught covid. He wasn't ill long and recovered just fine. So it's the unpredictability of the illness that has made me cautious. As I'm in a position to avoid face-to-face meetings indoors, that's what I've done.
Seriously people are loosing their minds over this flu. If they would only loose their minds over the obesity pandemic, the sugar addiction pandemic(which causes the obesity pandemic or is a major contributer to it). Maybe if they took obesity more seriously they wouldn't need to worry about this covid flu thing. I don't know why they can't figure it out. I figured it out.
Yes, but those reactions are real. This is what irrational fear does to you. Unfournately I was reading about someone who had psyhotic episodes as result if I remember correctly. Seding wishes for healing to your friend. I never believed the vaccines were a conspiracy, but your friends fear play right into what the anit-antiv axxers believe about those who don't want the COVID vaccines. The reactions is worse than the disease itself
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Yes, we're being careful and wearing masks in shops and most of our meetings have moved online or outdoors in people's gardens, but we're what you youngsters would consider "elderly" and some of us have the dreaded "underlying conditions" which mean it doesn't matter if we die - according to some! It seems to be the younger people who are the covid deniers and anti-maskers.
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I think it's mostly coming from the US, but that does influence the UK. However, because the UK got its vaccination programme off to a quick start, we vaccinated a substantial percentage of the population well before the anti-vax movement got going. There were covid deniers, but they were always a vocal minority. The anti-vax, anti-lockdown people are becoming more vocal and holding protests, but as there are no restrictions in England now, we're a bit bemused as to what they're protesting about. The feeling is that it's largely just an excuse to go and do some mild rioting.
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Our kid's grandmother who is in her 80s is an extreme mask and lockdown denier. She says that stealing her life to protect her life won't work with her. According to her, life is not a binary thing one has or doesn't, it is just time. And whenever someone tells her that she cannot walk around without a mask or see or hug her grandson for two years when she is already in her 80s, she says that that is stealing her life and she is not having it. She says that she doesn't have the time to put her life on hold for two years not to die.
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Weirdly, the first person I knew who got Covid got it really badly and was still in a bad way months later, which at the time seemed very scary, so I sympathise with bathtub gasmask guy. I hope he can find the nerve to come out of his tub sometime!
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Meanwhile a friend's elderly uncle was 104 he caught covid. He wasn't ill long and recovered just fine. So it's the unpredictability of the illness that has made me cautious. As I'm in a position to avoid face-to-face meetings indoors, that's what I've done.
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Seriously people are loosing their minds over this flu. If they would only loose their minds over the obesity pandemic, the sugar addiction pandemic(which causes the obesity pandemic or is a major contributer to it). Maybe if they took obesity more seriously they wouldn't need to worry about this covid flu thing. I don't know why they can't figure it out. I figured it out.
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Seding wishes for healing to your friend. I never believed the vaccines were a conspiracy, but your friends fear play right into what the anit-antiv axxers believe about those who don't want the COVID vaccines. The reactions is worse than the disease itself
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Though I remembered you are Aries... :)
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