Covid has been such a massive failure of public heath, among other things. This virus is still disabling and killing people and so many people think it became magically milder in 2022.
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Covid broke me…and I never actually contracted it 🤯
aug 22, 2025, 9:41 pm • 3 0 • view
Incidentally, I caught COVID in December 2022 because I listened to public health guidelines and dropped my guard. I became sick with long COVID and never got better. I feel so gullible and foolish now.
aug 22, 2025, 8:55 pm • 11 0 • view
That’s shitty and I’m sorry. I got Covid in October 2022 and my chronic illnesses have gotten worse since then and I sleep very little.
aug 22, 2025, 9:55 pm • 7 0 • view
I caught covid in 2024 because I thought it would be safe to walk to my mail box without a mask at 3am. (You know, OR the mask and my multiple precautions weren't perfect at preventing transmission) I just wanna say that it is not your fault. Either of you.
aug 22, 2025, 9:57 pm • 3 0 • view
I thought the implementation of the ‘vaccine passport’ in Quebec made it safe to briefly unmask in cafes. Public health was saying ‘breakthrough infections’ were extremely rare.
aug 22, 2025, 10:23 pm • 2 0 • view
I think a lot of political health people really resisted the actually important message at that time (*we don't know*) and wanted to provide people with unfounded certainty. And it harmed way too many people.
aug 22, 2025, 11:58 pm • 3 0 • view
Agreed. It sucks for everyone but especially for those trying so hard to avoid it.
aug 22, 2025, 9:59 pm • 3 0 • view
You just can’t fix stoopid!
aug 22, 2025, 6:31 pm • 1 0 • view
i know many people who are very important to me who could be seriously harmed by covid. i agree, massive failure. its like the groupthink of our species really WANTS to go extinct.
aug 22, 2025, 9:45 pm • 2 0 • view
Humans seem to trend extremely credulous, addicted to confirmation bias, or in constant denial of risk. Or all three.
aug 23, 2025, 2:08 am • 3 0 • view
I worked in public health for 35 years. I was present for the HIV epidemic, dealt with the burgeoning hepatitis B & C problem. Our public health failure is a result of an attack on public health, stripping it of authority & adequate funding. We are sliding backwards to ignorance and more death.
aug 22, 2025, 10:59 pm • 4 1 • view
I remember when it was excellent, so I know the attack and funding cuts are relatively recent.
aug 22, 2025, 11:22 pm • 2 0 • view
and when it is not mild, you are not heard, just today :( www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
aug 23, 2025, 2:12 am • 2 0 • view
I find it so fascinating how people threw a huge tantrum about the public health measures until they were lifted, but then they simultaneously seem to think that if the virus was that dangerous then someone would be telling them to wear a mask or stay home.
aug 22, 2025, 6:03 pm • 16 1 • view
One of many things I’ve had a hard time comprehending the last few years.
aug 22, 2025, 7:16 pm • 7 0 • view
Ask us with Long Covid how we are. Ask my dead mother why she died from Covid. As my 17 year-old grandson why he still suffers.
aug 23, 2025, 6:10 am • 3 0 • view
Yeah. We are having a massive case spike, but no one at the medical facility I visited yesterday was in a mask, except for me. Why do they think we should have to play Russian roulette with our health?
aug 22, 2025, 9:15 pm • 4 0 • view
I cannot convince my husband to wear mask. 😩
aug 23, 2025, 6:02 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s rough, I’m sorry.
aug 23, 2025, 7:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you. I needed that. 😊
aug 23, 2025, 8:05 pm • 1 0 • view
"Oh, come now, the mayor himself opened the beaches, obviously we don't have to worry about sharks anymore."
aug 22, 2025, 9:13 pm • 9 1 • view
Exactly.
aug 22, 2025, 9:57 pm • 3 0 • view
Terrifying that people are thinking this.
aug 23, 2025, 2:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Truly.
aug 23, 2025, 2:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Even though I got long COVID after being infected at work (despite my best efforts to avoid it), people still look at me like I'm some kind of rarity, like that'll never happen to *them*.
aug 22, 2025, 8:59 pm • 8 0 • view
I’m sorry and yeah they don’t get it. Many have developed new conditions and colleagues have disappeared on long term disability, but somehow it still seems rare.
aug 22, 2025, 9:56 pm • 1 0 • view
I suppose people like sticking their head in the sand!
aug 24, 2025, 6:10 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s so much easier than reality.
aug 24, 2025, 6:21 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 22, 2025, 7:44 pm • 6 0 • view
Yup.
aug 22, 2025, 7:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Indeed, if my son is any indication (he's had 6 bouts of self measured covid) –– In other news, I got a morbid chuckle over the Alberta premier cutting funding for resident's covid shots then suggesting her citizens could still go to BC to get a shot for free. Perhaps a 'let them eat cake' moment.🙄
aug 22, 2025, 7:14 pm • 2 0 • view
If people really understood statistics they would be a lot more cautious. They buy lottery tickets with a 10,000x smaller likelihood of winning compared to the risks of catching covid and having it turn into long covid, or develop some other significant long term effect. Numeracy matters.
aug 22, 2025, 6:06 pm • 15 3 • view
Even not understanding stats but watching so many friends, family and colleagues develop serious health conditions the last few years should be reason enough … but apparently not.
aug 22, 2025, 7:19 pm • 6 0 • view
There's a big gap in understanding odds, stats, causality... and public health has done nothing to try to close that gap. When people hear that 8%-20% of people that get covid have long covid, and they always assume that they are part of the 80%-92% that don't. Stats are nice until you become one.🙄
aug 22, 2025, 8:11 pm • 2 0 • view
So much misinformation, it’s crushing. 401 people died in the last year in Alberta and nobody cares.
aug 23, 2025, 4:37 am • 5 0 • view
It’s awful, those deaths and everyone who has developed serious health conditions from Covid foo.
aug 23, 2025, 4:41 am • 2 0 • view