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In reply to the discussion: Why in the world are DUers arguing about Covid and the new variants? [View all]usedtobedemgurl
(1,100 posts)84. Just wait until the winter....
Dr. Feigl-Ding announced, on Twitter, we may have a monkey pox pandemic on top of this one! That should be fun! Glad my significant other is retiring in September.
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Why in the world are DUers arguing about Covid and the new variants? [View all]
Thtwudbeme
Jul 2022
OP
Yes it was. This just ain't over. I think our hubris got us, & we're in the Age of New Viruses...
Hekate
Jul 2022
#35
I didn't have Covid. Amazingly, I contracted Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.
BlackSkimmer
Jul 2022
#47
Oh wow! Now I can say I know someone who had it! NC here too. Wow, how funny.
BlackSkimmer
Jul 2022
#65
Ditto I had a bite with a rash, then a few days after developed a high fever, horrid chills, and
BlackSkimmer
Jul 2022
#70
Fear makes people "stupid", so to speak. Covid-19's new variants are bad. Very bad.
ashredux
Jul 2022
#7
I don't think "fear" is the key to conservative rejection of science. I think it is a twisted sort
Martin68
Jul 2022
#33
oh, for sure there is some of that. You see it in the people who think Trump
Thtwudbeme
Jul 2022
#38
DU has always had an antivax contingent with a pathological distrust of modern medicine
Orrex
Jul 2022
#10
We now have two decades of data thanks to non vaxxers - their fears have been proven wrong
elias7
Jul 2022
#31
Im in NC too, and I've been pleasantly surprised by how many I see wearing a mask.
BlackSkimmer
Jul 2022
#48
OMG. People are calling COVID caution "fear mongering"?? How very republiQan of them.
Scrivener7
Jul 2022
#18
If my 4 favorite bands were playing an outdoor show I might go sit outside the venue...
electric_blue68
Jul 2022
#105
Yesterday I made a decision to change aspects of my lifestyle because of the variants.
rzemanfl
Jul 2022
#24
Darn! I could have sworn after over 2 decades that DU was a political website
Thtwudbeme
Jul 2022
#55
and that...my friend...is why we are taking steps right now to leave the good old USA
Thtwudbeme
Jul 2022
#58
who is asking for a mask mandate? You would think that common sense wouldn't require one.
Solomon
Jul 2022
#62
People are going to vote like they want to but we still discuss it here, get it???
USALiberal
Jul 2022
#75
Was Ding ever selling merch? I follow him on Twitter and don't recall him selling anything, but I'm
liberal_mama
Jul 2022
#102