• 0110010001100010@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Honestly, this is what scares the fuck out of me. I feel like COVID was just a sample of what’s to come. Between anti-vaxxers and climate change we are going to be in for a wild ride.

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      10 months ago

      I think it is a mixed bag. Maybe there are people who are god damn idiots especially looking at these parents trying to deny “proven” vaccines, this isn’t a comment on the covid vaccines, I’m vaxxed and had the most recent booster but I can at least in a way understand people’s fear around it. I think Covid was able to slip on by because “2% VeRy SmAlL NuMbEr, StOp BeInG CoWaRdS!” maybe I’m wrong and this whole thing was a trial run for the next super bug that will come out in the coming decade but I think a disease with a mortality rate comparable to the black death (30-60%) with a spreadability of covid though may lead to people taking it slightly more seriously. There will be obvious exceptions, hell I imagine many industrial leaders will still push the front line staff saying its “fake news” so they keep making profit while not caring about their people. Then again a disease with that kind of mortality rate would probably collapse modern society for better or worse at the bare minimum greatly reform it, the after effects of black death are fascinating read.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Nah don’t be afraid. Just keep on investing in better gear. The antivaxxers will be dying in the street and you can walk over their corpses.