• dust4ngel@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    i think the idiocy is still dangerous, insofar as it continues to politicize the use of masks, which will exacerbate future pandemics/flu seasons/etc.

    • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPM
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      1 year ago

      i do have to agree here: as funny as it is to watch conservatives do things that kill them, the issue is a lot of people who aren’t conservatives can still be influenced by them or their rhetoric into helping severely undercut a lot of public health measures. a lot of liberals and moderates also don’t mask anymore for stuff like the flu (even though flu season was demonstrably lessened by doing so) because that was so tied to COVID stuff that now looks overbearing. a lot of that stigma was made possible by conservative rhetoric

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        1 year ago

        There will always be people who are victims of rhetoric and end up creating problems for others. I expect problems in the future, but for now, I’m glad the rhetoric isn’t hurting the people I care about most.