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10 points·athinggoingon··6 comments

Glad I'm in my late twenties instead of college age, but I would prefer even more to be dealing with the restrictions and virus when I was significantly older and significantly more at-risk.

> You can’t modify your age, a huge risk favor, but you can modify your vaccination status, and you can modify your weight and general health.

Not unless you are among the 4% or so of the population that is immune compromised. God forbid if you or anyone you love ever needs an organ transplant. In a world with endemic COVID-19 that’d be a death sentence.

We have to eradicate this virus.

> Not unless you are among the 4% or so of the population that is immune compromised.

It sounds like you're saying immune compromised people can modify their age. I know that's not what you mean, but I can't figure out what you do mean.

> We have to eradicate this virus.

This is completely impossible at this point.

It still seems like the response here is disproportionate to the risk. Is COVID the only serious risk that immune compromised people face? What if an immune compromised person had caught the flu in 2018? Or one of any number of other diseases that circulate?

Life is extremely dangerous for someone without a strong functioning immune system.

Ok but nothing we are doing has been successful at “eradicating the virus” We’re stuck in a loop, and some people are asking why.

The problem is that to a large extent the people asking why are the reason why.

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