Flu is a serious illness. It kills people. Unlike Covid, it often kills healthy people and even kills children. Flu seasons overwhelm the NHS and can see up to 60,000 excess deaths.
Saying Covid is "just flu" makes it sound trivial. No disease is trivial.
Saying Covid is "just flu" makes it sound trivial. No disease is trivial.
But neither is love and neither is freedom.
To anyone who disagrees: Think how you are acting right now; unwilling even to shake someone's hand, see your family or visit your friends, in case you or they are shedding a virus asymptomatically.
To anyone who disagrees: Think how you are acting right now; unwilling even to shake someone's hand, see your family or visit your friends, in case you or they are shedding a virus asymptomatically.
And now recall a time when you actually felt ill, had flu symptoms, and still went to work, or to a party, or a wedding. How has your attitude changed so much? Or is it possible that this isn't you. This isn't what you think.
This is an illogical groupthink mentality catalysed by a social-media orthodoxy.
Viruses are part of our society. It would be nice if they weren't, but they are. Therefore - just like every other threat we live alongside every day - we ignore them.
Viruses are part of our society. It would be nice if they weren't, but they are. Therefore - just like every other threat we live alongside every day - we ignore them.
We ignore them, not because we want to risk dying, but because we have to risk living.
I'm not telling you this because it's my opinion.
I'm telling you this because, until March of this year, it was yours.
I'm not telling you this because it's my opinion.
I'm telling you this because, until March of this year, it was yours.
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