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Corvus_Manufaktura t1_j05ydwu wrote

Reply to comment by Bosticles in At last, New Year is coming by gerahmurov

Depends on where you live. Covid-wise we've already returned to normal where I live, for almost 10 months now.

You see a weathered "Masks obligatory" sign on some out-of-town industrial complexes with a little virus clipart that they forgot to take down; you see some plexiglass remaining in front of the cashiers in some stores because taking them down means paying someone to do so; you see the occasional "2m distance" stickers on the floor of some buildings where nobody bothered to remove them.

But nobody talks about covid and more importantly, nobody cares about covid here anymore. Nobody dies from it either.

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blackelement422 t1_j061gxk wrote

People are absolutely still dying from covid

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Corvus_Manufaktura t1_j061ryn wrote

Just like from TB, the flu, etc. But the death count isn't like it was in 2020. I should have said "people aren't dying from it en masse"

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Bosticles t1_j06m7ij wrote

Oh I'm not talking about Covid at all. Once Omicron hit Covid was basically over. I'm just saying the pieces are pretty obviously moving into place for things to get much worst in pretty much every aspect (politically, economically, environmentally, etc). I have feeling it's going to be a very long time before we aren't saying "surely it'll be better next year, right?".

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