• BanMeFromPosting [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      1 month ago

      If this were to become a pandemic (which would require the disease to be very infectious, which nerds say it isnt, but then again those nerds do say a lot of stuff) then you still wouldn’t have to worry about it being another COVID. The mortality rate is much higher so-far
      On the other hand I don’t think it has the same issues as long-covid so

    • fox [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      It’s not COVID. It’s less contagious by far. It requires closer contact for longer and has a shorter infectivity period. The media is just blowing up about it because the media is blowing up about it. We’ve had a billion headlines in a week and there’s like, eight infections total.

      It’s like how the media couldn’t shut up about train derailments after Palestine USA, because people clicked more on derailment stories, despite derailments being mostly mundane.

      • It’s like how the media couldn’t shut up about train derailments after Palestine USA, because people clicked more on derailment stories, despite derailments being mostly mundane.

        Pretty sure its because they blew up the train more than just derailment.