Guys, I lost both of my parents in 2020, my dad was old. My mom was 45 and has a brain stroke after recovering from it. Before any vaccines were made... I had a miscarriage and almost died to. People takes it as a joke. I saw what covid did inside hospitals, and people chocking in elevators... I lost so much is unbearable, never underestimate your enemy...

One of the things now being understood - COVID isn't just an infection in itself, but an activator. You caught something mild years ago and the virus has been living in you benignly since? Well, now it wants to try again. Multiply that by dozens of minor infections, and it can hit you like a truck.

I still wear a mask in crowded situations and avoid crowded areas.

People don't take it seriously until someone actually dies... at which point it's already too late.

My husband is immunosuppressed and his doctor told us we would ALWAYS be "Under pandemic protocol". You wouldn't believe the c**p we take for this. We've lost family members and friends because of it and my work makes me ask EVERY TIME if there's a zoom option for meetings and one supervisor said "Oh are you STILL doing that?"

A friend of my wife "didn't have time to get vaccinated". She gets COVID and is hospitalized. On a friday evening, my wife calls her, as she did almost daily. She is upbeat and says she is going to be released over the weekend. She feels a lot better. She dies the next day. My wife is still traumatized. I didn't know her as well. I know she wasn't one of the looney toons, just busy with other things and at 45 she didn't think COVID was an issue for her. Boy, was she wrong.

Lost both my parents and my best friend has long term affects; asthma being the biggest and she never had any lung or breathing issues before covid. My whole life had been turned upside down because of inconsiderate selfish āssholes. And yes, I'm very bitter.

Covid is so weird, I have two auto-immune diseases and had like no symptoms at all the three times I got it

I have had multiple teacher and students at school tell me that I didn't need to wear a mask anymore you know (in a condenseding tone) . One of those was my last science teacher who "didn't believe in vaccines". The ironic (and sad) thing about that is, she lost her mother and sister to COVID.

It is a big deal, it is dangerous, it is endemic now. Just because it's still dangerous and we still need to be careful doesn't mean it's still pandemic. We have many illnesses out there that are very dangerous, very much destroy your health and definitely need to be taken seriously. But that doesn't make them pandemic. And on the other hand, just because an illness is pandemic, doesn't mean it's dangerous (which Covid definitely is). Still, we have to learn to live with Covid. Not in the sense we ignore that it exists or pretend it's not dangerous, but accepting that live still has to go on and that we can't live in permanent lockdown. Masks are fine, social distancing is fine to a point, hygienic procedures need to be respected and be in place. But can we please calm down a bit and stop the fear mongering? If we don't, we will drive even more people in the arms of the Covid deniers.

Heard a friend from many years ago died from long Covid.

The thing about anti-vaxers are they all think the vaccine will kill them and they have had a big protest about someone dying and they had a vaccine so they are all blaming it on the vaccine.

In my country covid epidemic is considered basically ”over” by now. Of course it won’t disappear, as it will become regular disease like the flu, but now health officials here say that no masks, home tests or distancing is needed for healthy persons. This will happen everywhere sooner or later.

One day the government stopped giving out the figures for daily infections, they decided that they couldn't afford to keep us safe so now we just have to die..

I think most people do understand this. They should by now!

Well we just have to learn to live with it. It's not going away. Apparently being vaccinated does not stop the spread (98% is vaccinated here and it's still making rounds) and the bugger seems to change itself to new versions quicker than you can drink a glass of water. I'm glad I live super rural with not much chance to get any virus. I had it early on, so the original version. Horrible. do not recommend 0/10.

And by refusing a vax they help the d@mned things mutate into increasingly contagious and more severe strains.

I mask but my aunt got the vaccine and it killed her 7 month twins (they weren't born yet)

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Look at the facts. You're wrong.