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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At this point, I don’t even care. Let a new Covid infest the anti-maskers and take them out of our misery.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

except that's how pandemics get more deadly

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Sadly, this is true. But since common sense is lost on those cretins, they can get what’s coming. I’m done giving a fuck.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

ah yes, progressive eugenics

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

When there's an easy, widely available solution to ensure the safety of yourself and those around you, which you loudly refuse?

Yeah that's on you bud

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Viruses are progressive, now. 😂 Good luck to you, and wash your hands. You seem like the type that needs to be reminded.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

you seem like the type of dipshit that assumes airborne viruses go away with handwashing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Listen, if you want to keep arguing and being childish, Reddit is still available. I’m done now. ☺️

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the covid pandemic never ended, people are doing a dare every day by going outside unmasked

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Its become endemic & can be mitigated with basic hygiene and vaccine programmes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

MASKING IS A BASIC HYGIENE PRACTICE! washing your hands while hotboxing stranger's lung cum in public won't do shit.

endemic according to who? eugenicists?

vaccines don't prevent long covid or infection. there is still no sterilizing vaccine on the market. going in public unmasked while vaccinated doesn't absolve you from the disabling or deadly consequences of you infecting vulnerable people

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Virologists actually.

I hate wearing facemasks and I did so during the actual pandemic but they're simply not needed now.

https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/mbio.01426-23 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8784533/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

you only think masks aren't needed anymore because your privilege prevents you from experiencing the full consequences of your violence.

the long covid community has been clear that you shouldn't go outside unmasked for years now. if you decide to continue ignoring us, that's on you. and no, linking science that doesn't consult disabled people doesn't absolve you from your dangerous views

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I feel like this is such an overreaction. Violence?! I've got some permanent symptoms after COVID and mono, and I won't judge anyone for wearing a mask. I'd happily comply with masking requirements in places where vulnerable people often visit like hospitals or elderly homes. But violence?

Masks were quite annoying and honestly didn't seem too effective here. Not because a well applied mask doesn't help, I fully believe that it does, but the average person just didn't use them correctly and other measures like vaccination were way more effective. When the hospitals are filling up it absolutely makes sense to enforce these kind of rules, every little bit helps. But it's not 2021 anymore. The virus at this point is more like a spicy flu than the unknown hospital filler that it was in 2020-2022. Expecting people to mask everywhere is unreasonable imo and calling it violence or dangerous is definitely an overreaction.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

violence.

See, hysterical bullshit like this is why nobody takes you wierdos seriously.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Please don't call mask wearers weirdos. Ever since I've had Covid, ANY virus does a number on me. My wife will have the sniffles for 3 days and I'll end up with a high fever and bronchitis for weeks. And I hadn't even had a cold for at least decade before I caught Covid.

This guy's a nutter, but I still get it. I'm beyond tired of this shit too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I meant no offence, I wasn't mocking the mask. I was mocking the "boy who cried ~~wolf~~ vIoLeNcE.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

?????? If literally touching grass is violence in your book then I don't know what to tell you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My boss is a virologist and she says WEAR A FUCKING MASK.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Very interesting, I'd love to see a peer reviewed paper done by her on this subject! Would be quite the interesting read.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

On a final note, whilst we may speak of a time beyond the pandemic, we are still very much in the midst of one. We are not out of it yet. At the present time, the world continues to grapple with the Omicron variant

good job linking a source that disproves your own claim lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

(Check the date on that one, was in 2022)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221188372300076X Paper on covids endemic phase in Finland

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211883723000916 similar but for Norway

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Lung cum? Really?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

People don't do basic hygiene. The amount of people who never wash their hands is sickening

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

No. Because it's airborne and vaccines are not effective enough because not enough people are vaccinated.

PS I fucking hate long covid.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

There always was. It just took a few years for the dice to roll that way again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Wasn't this how "28 minutes later" started? They had a monkey they were playing truth, dare, double dare, promise or repeat with and bam. Angry plague!