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Those who are 50 years of age or older are at risk, but there are younger people that have compromised immune systems who just as at risk as those at that age. Saying that no one under 50 is at risk is just throwing fuel on a fire that nobody wants or needed.

Respiratory conditions - one that already exist in some people - can also lead to infection and thus far greater risks, but symptoms of the virus don't appear until two weeks after you've caught it, and for two weeks AT MINIMUM, you don't know if you have it or not. It's a strain of virus that keeps itself hidden for at least that amount of time before they crop up. If you're in perfect health, you should be fine within a few weeks. But if you have a compromised immune system, you are more at risk of dying from the virus even if you're under 50 years of age.

It's also been confirmed that the virus is an airborne pathogen. One person can infect up to 50 other people or more within a six foot radius, though this is just from speculation alone. Though only 1% of the global population dies from the virus, the remaining 99% will survive, so while it's not very lethal, it can still cause problems. For one thing, even if we lose just 1% of our global population, that can lead to massive slow down in economic growth or halt it entirely.

But tell us again how all of this is a false fear tactic by the CDC that just wants to make a quick buck from the fear of other people. Go ahead.

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I lost a 26 year old friend in Chicago to this back in May; she had no underlying conditions whatsoever and simply worked as an essential frontline employee in retail.

But please, continue to show people how incredibly fucking moronic you and every other antimasker/COVID denier is.

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That's rough, man.

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So what I get from this is that corona is fake.

Neat, sure looks real to me.

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He's either trolling us or he legitimately thinks this way. Either way, might wanna keep an eye out for whatever dumb thing he might say next.

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pls respond to this post

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a lot of the drooling coming from morons like sk8r and polyp-kun (r/asablackman btw) are likely due to the fact that a lot of ppl have never seen science unfold in real time

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they is

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is they an antimasker.

they is.


????

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I don't think he's trolling, I think he's legitimately stupid.

Source: All of the rest of his posts on this site

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I don't like wearing a mask, but it's what I gotta do if I wanna protect myself. I just want it to end at some point because the whole thing is getting a little ridiculous.

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wearing a mask rules actually, not only am I keeping other ppl safe but I get to hide my big dumb fucking face

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when your joke consists of blatant misinformation and is like an implicit confession that you're an active threat to those around you, that's when you start to lose me

coping mechanisms are fine, covid jokes are fine (hurr hurr let's meet up during quarantine for some covid-69 etc)

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what's phillip-kun's real account?

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whoops i got teh rona and now i feel like necros

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Right? I feel like this isn't his first rodeo to stuff like this.

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Counter argument: How many of these people that you "have been around, counting family", have you been in regular communication with? To include numbers on people that are part of the equation, but derive results based on only a portion of them because you can't keep within communication terms of those people, say e.g. people you pass on the street, is a fallacy. What's your sample size? If it's less than a huge margin, like around 100, then you will continue to have these doubts about it being a real thing until it directly affects or kills someone in the circle of people you have 'regular communication' with.

This is just a shitty dismissal of the virus as a comparison to the flu. Covid-19 has not been around since pre 2000, the flu has. But, also in reflection of that, there has almost always been a vaccine or treatment for the flu, there is NO TREATMENT for Covid-19. If you can't see why Covid-19 is more deadlier because of its affects, take into consideration that it's more deadlier because WE HAVE NO MEDICAL MEANS TO TREAT IT beyond curing symptoms. AND EVEN THEN, risk of death is high if you have the underlying symptoms and are severe enough to require admittance to a hospital. They can help with the symptoms of not being able to breathe, but they can't help cure the virus like they can with the flu.

Can read more about similarities and differences from WHO here: https://www.who.int/westernpacific/n...-and-influenza

I think TC_Halogen added a fair amount of fire to this argument already on this bit, but to add my own fire:

George (25, same age as me) was one of the people that I knew and was in 'regular communication' with at a food bank, that was helping people in my local community due to job loss. He died back in April from Covid-19. He felt off one day after helping people at the food bank, and stayed home for a couple days. I did not hear back from him after that until I got an announcement from the food bank to honor his memory, as he had passed away.

I used to work at a gas station back before March and had a boss named Malcolm (23). We both decided to leave the job together at the beginning of March, simply because he wasn't making any money from it, and because of Covid. I texted him 2 weeks later after we both left, and asked if I could apply for CERB (Canada-Covid relief) because of the situation, and said yes, and also mentioned that he might not be moving back to London quite yet, because he was rather sick. I followed up with a text to him a month later, asking if he's feeling any better, to which he shared a terrible story about how he caught Covid, was confined for two weeks, would not be accepted to the hospital out of fear of spreading, and the entire time felt like he was breathing with razor blade heads stuck in his throat, above his lungs. How coughing up blood was a semi-common occurrence that happened 3-4 times. How he would only get 2-3 hours of sleep per night from chest pains on par with severe heartburn, and being unable to breathe when he woke up and had to immediately gasp for air for 10-15 minutes like he inherited the worst asthma in the world. He said that he wouldn't wish this even upon his worst enemy, and people refusing to wear masks out there are killing people in the worst ways imaginable.

Everyone is AT RISK of contracting the virus. Whether you die or not from it, somewhat depends on pre-existing conditions. Why in the ever-lasting fuck would you ever chance that? I am not going to chance myself dying because of some pre-existing condition that I may or may not know I had. Older people have higher chances of dying because they've lived longer, and have higher chances to have such pre-existing conditions. I'd rather fucking wear a mask to protect myself and others instead of going back to the 1940's when it was common to expire an early death from polio at 35.

Please link to article. Also, if true, 'almost impossible' does not imply 'impossible'. We also live in a society where people go to work even when sick, because they need to make ends meet money-wise. It breeds more cases to not take necessary precautions, and with a second wave in reported cases happening, that means even more now than several months ago.

WHO's chief scientist, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, claims that the world will most likely not be able to return to 'pre-covid' conditions of life until 2022. This is bound to only get worse, and more strained out, with people like yourself, spreading misinformation and encouraging return to pre-covid society before its due time. Frankly, it is absolutely disgusting that you would use CDC and WHO to attempt to push your own ideology on the subject, and pray for the well-being of family members related to you that have to put up with your bullshit.

NBC news (left): https://www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...s-say-n1184396

Forbes (middle): https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattper.../#308673821def

Fox News (right): https://www.foxnews.com/world/leadin...mal-until-2022

covid19data (neutral/non-political, info pulled from washington post which is left): https://covid19data.com/2020/09/16/w...cientist-says/

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you amaze me to how idiotic you are, did you drop out of school or something?

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long tryhard posts like that are going to be lost on ppl like sk8r

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Maybe so, but I see no one else making long tryhard posts in here directed towards anyone else in here, which speaks volumes about who's the outlier in discussion here.

Legit, if that toxic waste was posted anywhere else on any other social media platform, it would have been immediately ridiculed/reprimanded/taken down for misleading and potentially harmful content.