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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's important to remember that most people who get COVID-19 recover.
That means that there's a pretty good-sized pool of anti-maskers/anti-vaxxers who have either had it and recovered or know antis who did. They can go on to push the idea that the only people who died (or end up as long-haulers) are the weak and the unworthy. They deserved it anyway.
Now, who does that remind me of?
Runningdawg
(4,494 posts)PSPS
(13,512 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)DBoon
(22,286 posts)Even smallpox "only" killed 30% of those infected.
Demsrule86
(68,352 posts)we could be looking at 2-3 million dead Americans...so I don't agree with you. Younger people are now dying including children...And they can say what they want. It does remind me of Trump, but consider he lost as an incumbent...only two other presidents since Hoover have lost as incumbents...Bush I and Carter. So I think those who are going this route Death Santis and various governors will in the end lose as well.
Girard442
(6,059 posts)...we're going to have to deal with people who have drawn totally wrong conclusions from their recovery.
Demsrule86
(68,352 posts)iemanja
(53,002 posts)sometimes quite serious.
mnhtnbb
(31,319 posts)which is pre Delta variant, that shows both approximately one third of both outpatients and hospitalized patients develop long haul Covid.
https://health.ucdavis.edu/health-news/newsroom/studies-show-long-haul-covid-19-afflicts-1-in-4-covid-19-patients-regardless-of-severity/2021/03