• Misconduct@startrek.website
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      Well yeah. If we don’t the landowners will lose money on all their ugly and useless office buildings and that would be sooo awful :(

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      I wonder how much of the wave is due to return to office

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      Just in time with school starting back up too for kids. A lot have already gone back, hence where I think the spike patterns originate.

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        Not sure about other countries, but at least in Europe we had quite a few comments, including by health officials, that the school closures should not have been done and upheld to the extent that they were.

        And I agree, the impact on learning and children’s mental health was not justified by the real or potential dangers of the pandemic imho

        Edit: One comment from the German Health Minister here, describing prolonged school closures as a mistake

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          Meanwhile in Asia we moved lessons to zoom for a few weeks and that was it. But Germans think giving kids a tablet or notebook is exposing them to the devil

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      Get over it. COVID is a lot more minor than anyone made out to be. Have you not had it yet? You will if you haven’t. And then you will get over it like a cold. COVID is over for good.

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        Don’t be so dense. Maybe for you it was fine but my dad has never been the same since, and he had covid 18 months ago.

        I’m young(ish), fit and healthy and I was ill for 6 weeks. I don’t know how you could be unaware of its effects after all this time.

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        Nonsense, it is a novel virus, effects can vary widely. I got it for the first time last Christmas and my heart still hasn’t recovered, dizzy spells after climbing stairs or bending over.

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        Covid put my healthy 26 yo friend in hospital when he caught it last year, and I have friends who took several years of suffering before they recovered from long covid. It’s definitely not as harmless as you’re implying.