No you can't. You most certainly can't. And sadly, there is very likely even a last post by a longtime poster here that proves the exact opposite of what you are falsely claiming.
Agreed, but I think a lot of them sadly died before vaccines were widely available, and when case fatality rates of the various variants were still higher, even for the unvaccinated, than they are today. And now the combination of vaccinations and natural immunity due to prior infection plus the dominant variant being less lethal leads to covid being much less of a threat.
As I currently have Covid, I will be masking up until I test negative. Mask mandates helped keep the infection from overwhelming the hospitals whenever there was a major outbreak. Wearing a mask helps, especially the 95s - they really help stop the spread, or at least slow it down to where the hospitals can not be overwhelmed. I do think though that now, since the vaccine has been available for more than a year and it is free and people have had time to get it. That now, if you get it and you die because you are unvaccinated it is not the fault of anyone not masking up, it is your own fault for not taking advantage of what science has given us....... The virus has mutated to where it is less deadly, and our meds are more effective, IMHO, it is time for no mask mandates any longer.....they were good for a while, but if people are too stupid to get the vaccine they deserve whatever happens. DD
@AroundTheWorld Are you trying to become the next, great SCW spokesperson ... with a strong command of the Grievance Agenda?
That picture was from May 2020. https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending...-texas-playground/ZU7FDBYW7NCHPHJHUF6IKJDLN4/ There were no vaccines, spreading mechanism of the virus was still unclear, and over 2000 people were dying per day. Erring on the side of caution is the right thing to do when faced with a problem with lackluster information. You can't bring back a dead person, but not having access to the playground won't kill anyone. EDIT: Just as a example of the knowledge gap between now and May 2020, the CFR of covid19 was a whopping 6% back in May 2020 in the US and nearly 15% in the UK. People were understandably extremely cautious. The high CFR was a combination of lack of vaccines, lack of therapeutics, and lack of testing.
