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Originally Posted by O.city
Honestly?
I think it's bullshit to downplay those with underlying health conditions getting and dying from this. Yeah, it's worse on you if you have an underlying condition. It's worse (significantly) from an age stratification standpoint, ie, if you're older.
So when someone says "are we still pretending x" I interpret that as downplaying this as it's not serious for anyone else and we shouldn't have sympathy or empathy for those people and we shouldn't take any precautions to help them out.
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Has nothing to do with empathy. that's just your go to.
The fact is, if people didn't have those underlying health conditions, the majority would most likely would still be alive.
I think labeling it as a disease instead of a respiratory virus and attributing the majority of deaths to covid alone is dishonest, creates fear and uncertainty moving forward.