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>And all those areas that have "returned to normal" are sending their COVID patients to regions that are still masking because they've exhausted their local ICU capacity.

This has been my experience as well. My state is pretty strict overall, but my area of my state is not.

Our hospital has been operating at capacity for 6 months or so, but nobody is talking about it. Because we can just ship to where they have stricter COVID control measures.

We're causing problems for other people because we can't be bothered to be part of society.

It's a joke all around. The entire world. Nihilism is almost impossible to escape right now.

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It’s pretty amazing how stupid and shortsighted people are. We’re so good at overlooking the horrible situation we’re in and focusing on other things that are completely irrelevant

I used to think that one of the worst things in the USA was that 100 people per day die in preventable car accidents, but now we’re getting 10x that from a virus and people pretend that it isn’t happening

The last two years have convinced me: When the Zombie Apocalypse comes, zombies are biting and killing people in the streets, and neighborhoods are burning down, 50% of the country (world?) will whistle and just continue to go about their day, shopping, going out to eat, sending their kids to school, and looking down at all those hysterical alarmists bunkering up trying to defend themselves from the hoard. "Government, don't force me to change my life! I have the freedom to pretend everything is normal!"

Haha I've had this conversation with my wife as well. We've basically been under house arrest since early February 2020 (yes we quarantined even before there was a quarantine) and taking very conservative measures since, always 1 step ahead of the CDC the whole time with double masking and still masking when mandates were lifted here in Oregon because we knew there would be an immediate re-surge.

I told my wife I used to think we'd be one of the first to die in the Zombie Apocalypse because her and my kids are all high-anxiety people that typically crumble with too much psychological pressure. Yet covid has shown me we'd actually be one of the longest survivors given our resilience so far and how we haven't caved into the pressures of society itching to get back to normal. My dad - a self-proclaimed "survivalist" and doomsday prepper didn't make it even two months before he gave up on quarantining. He said the psychological stress was too much, he couldn't handle it lol

At least buy BSL-3 suits (PAPR/P100 helmets, gloves, splash resistant suits) and get on with your life, I assume you can afford it.

Based on the photos I can find of BSL-3 suits, I highly doubt that others on the street or in stores would let them "get on with their lives" :-))

Unless you have significant risk factors, this is unnecessary. Most people don't and/or took care of business.

You survived because... most people (>99% of infected individuals) survive Covid? lol. If this was your end of the world scenario (people dining everywhere because you know... if you sit the virus goes past you) then you are up for a rude awakening if a real crisis ever arises (which I hope it doesn't)

That's the beautiful part of humans, though, we push through and live our lives no matter what. If everyone panicked every time there was something that seemed apocalypse, then we probably wouldn't be where we are today. Maybe it's just the resilient ones that survive and keep reproducing.

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