It's important to remember that most people who get COVID-19 recover.

[Girard442]

That means that there's a pretty good-sized pool of anti-maskers/anti-vaxxers who have either had it and recovered or know antis who did. They can go on to push the idea that the only people who died (or end up as long-haulers) are the weak and the unworthy. They deserved it anyway.

Now, who does that remind me of?

[Runningdawg]

1. OR they lie about having it AND a speedy recovery with ivermectin and/or jesus

[PSPS]

2. Yeah, if you ignore the brain fog, myocarditis, clotting and other long-haul stuff, all good!!11!!1!

[empedocles]

10. Good point

[DBoon]

3. The same was true about polio

Even smallpox "only" killed 30% of those infected.

[Demsrule86]

4. 700,000 Americans are dead from Covid and the number is climbing so...if this continues,

we could be looking at 2-3 million dead Americans...so I don't agree with you. Younger people are now dying including children...And they can say what they want. It does remind me of Trump, but consider he lost as an incumbent...only two other presidents since Hoover have lost as incumbents...Bush I and Carter. So I think those who are going this route Death Santis and various governors will in the end lose as well.

[Girard442]

5. The point is not that the number of deaths is acceptable. They absolutely are not, but...

...we're going to have to deal with people who have drawn totally wrong conclusions from their recovery.

[Demsrule86]

6. They already believed that shit...and some of them are out and out lying..

[iemanja]

7. One can recover and still have lasting problems

sometimes quite serious.

[mnhtnbb]

8. There is a study published in February

which is pre Delta variant, that shows both approximately one third of both outpatients and hospitalized patients develop long haul Covid.

https://health.ucdavis.edu/health-news/newsroom/studies-show-long-haul-covid-19-afflicts-1-in-4-covid-19-patients-regardless-of-severity/2021/03

[SheltieLover]

9. This!👆