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Nov 10, 2022 53 tweets 4 min read Read on X
Ten things people say about Covid and what they really mean.
1
"I'm done with Covid now"
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"I have a short attention span / compassion span"
2
"We've all got to get it"
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"I don't understand how Covid transmission works"
3
"Covid is over"
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"My head is firmly stuck in the sand like an ostrich but even deeper"
4
"It's just a cold"
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"I don't understand delayed severity"
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"I don't know anyone vulnerable"
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"I don't care about anyone vulnerable"
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"Covid is a hoax" (archaic)
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"I have difficulty evaluating information sources"
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"You need to catch it for your immunity"
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"I am not capable of critical thinking"
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"This is just hayfever"
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"My anxiety is so high that my brain has automatically entered into intense denial mode"
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"I don't want to live in fear"
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"I don't want to think"
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"No one's getting ill any more"
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"I refuse to look at easily available government data"
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"I've got a strong immune system"
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"I don't know how viruses work"
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"It's not covid"
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"It might not be covid"
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"It could be covid"
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"Yeah, it's covid"
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"I'm fully protected"
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"I'm partially protected by vaccinations that don't prevent catching covid or transmitting it, that only reduce the chance of death and serious illness and long term disability"
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"I bounced back straight away"
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"I've given up most of the things I used to love doing that involved standing up or walking"
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"It was mild"
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"I was treated by paramedics at home, had a fourteen day course of antivirals and couldn't work for all that time, but didn't get admitted to hospital"
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"Covid isn't the only virus, you know"
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"I need to distract you"
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"I didn't go anywhere and still caught it"
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"I popped into the shops, hairdressers, my friend's house and a session of pilates and could have caught it anywhere"
18
"I'm very careful"
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"PAAARTY"
19
"We've got to learn to live with Covid"
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"We're just going to keep catching it repeatedly without learning anything"
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"I can't handle Covid on top of everything else right now"
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"I'm soon going to have to handle having Covid on top of everything else right now"
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"You're just anxious"
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"I'm just ignorant"
22
"I've lived my life"
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"I don't care if my illness is a burden on healthcare resources"
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"You just need to catch it and then you'll stop worrying"
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"Join the podpeople"
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"What can you do about it, eh?"
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"I lack imagination, discipline, compassion, or common sense"
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"I've moved on"
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"I don't like reality"
26
"We have the tools"
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"I am rich and entitled"
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"God will protect me"
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"I don't know how God works"
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"No one's dying any more"
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"I like to be ignorant and ill-informed"
29
"Was it with covid or by covid?"
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"Please block me"
30
"Don't forget to wash your hands"
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"I should not be allowed anywhere near public health"
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"We don't do Covid"
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"Covid is about to do us"
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"It's just a sniffle"
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⬜️❗️❗️⬜️
(that was supposed to look like a positive test)
33
"Even Covid has to obey physics"
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"I don't understand Covid or physics"
34
"We've got to protect the economy"
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"I haven't grasped that making people ill damages the economy"
35
"This is the exit wave"
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"This is the exit wave"
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"This is the exit wave"
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"This is the exit wave"
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"This is the exit wave"
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"This is the exit wave"
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"This is the exit wave"
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"This is the exit wave"
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"This is the exit wave"
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"This is the exit wave"
36
"You're just a scaremonger"
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"I am impressed with your firm grasp on reality, but I would like to live in fantasy land"
37
"It's becoming milder"
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"I love wishful thinking, it makes my heart glow"
38
"Why would they lie to us?"
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"I regret that I have never had an independent thought in my life"
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"Long Covid is people being lazy and anxious"
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"I deserve very little sympathy next time I'm ill"
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"Lockdowns were terrible, the disease is better than the cure"
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"I have deliberately avoided the testimony of people who have been affected by Covid"
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"Slowing the spread will prolong the pandemic"
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"I do not deserve to be a professor"
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"There are a lot of bugs around"
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"Covid has damaged my immune system"
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"I don't know anyone who has died from Covid"
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"Where's Lewis's dad? And that guy I used to sit next to at work? And that lollipop lady?"
44
"Masks make no difference"
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"Please point me towards some quality research on fluid dynamics, convection diffusion, and particle filtration, my good man, because I'm in desperate need of education"
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"People have always died suddenly"
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"oh sh*t oh sh*t oh sh*t"
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"You don't need that mask, you know"
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"I'm not doing a single thing to protect myself or anyone so you absolutely do need that mask"
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"but you look really well"
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"I have less than no idea what you or anyone suffering long covid is going through"
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"My risk is low"
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"I do not understand that:
Covid can damage my immune system,
I will likely infect people if I am infected,
Covid damage is cumulative.

and

I do not care about people whose risk is high"
49
"No one is interested in your fear mongering"
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"I have a sneaking suspicion your observations are accurate, but I would like to pretend they're not in the hope that it will all go away without me having to do anything"
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"We're going to put a wall of protection around the vulnerable"
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"I'm going to chuck billions of pounds of easy money to my friends and other random rich people"
51
"Don't you trust your body to heal itself?"
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"Please tell me about how viruses work."

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