"Get a test when sick, and isolate while you await your result"
There's something missing from this message and it's
"*stay* isolated, even if your SARS-CoV-2 test is negative because you're still sick with *something* infectious!"
I don't want it. Others don't want it.
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There's something missing from this message and it's
"*stay* isolated, even if your SARS-CoV-2 test is negative because you're still sick with *something* infectious!"
I don't want it. Others don't want it.
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I really feel like this part of the message needs to be stressed otherwise I don't think we're going to learn from the benefits of adopting masks in traditionally mask-phobic countries.
If not, we're just going to stumble back into flu season (also RSV, MPV etc) deaths and
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If not, we're just going to stumble back into flu season (also RSV, MPV etc) deaths and
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hospitalizations because somehow they're..."okay" deaths? But that was a pandemic! Seasonal illness & death is just 'normal', silly.
..then we're all idiots!
We've shown we *can* reduce morbidity & mortality due to other viruses, not just SARS-CoV-2
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..then we're all idiots!
We've shown we *can* reduce morbidity & mortality due to other viruses, not just SARS-CoV-2
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(the COVID-19 virus or "whatever you want to call it").
We can't do it using lockdowns after the pandemic is controlled, but we can start talking about masks & staying away from well people when we're sick, as being part of the long list that is the "new normal"
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We can't do it using lockdowns after the pandemic is controlled, but we can start talking about masks & staying away from well people when we're sick, as being part of the long list that is the "new normal"
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