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AndJusticeForAll [none/use name]@hexbear.netBanned to covid@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago

People would take COVID more seriously if we classified it as an STD. Discuss.

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People would take COVID more seriously if we classified it as an STD. Discuss.

AndJusticeForAll [none/use name]@hexbear.netBanned to covid@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • Aradina [They/Them]@lemmy.ml
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    People don’t take STDs that seriously

    • AndJusticeForAll [none/use name]@hexbear.netBannedOP
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      God damn it! This was the result of over 3 weeks of intense thought in how to trick people into caring about COVID.

      • Aradina [They/Them]@lemmy.ml
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        What matters is that you tried your best

        • AndJusticeForAll [none/use name]@hexbear.netBannedOP
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          I did try my best.

    • Chronicon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      This is a fact. I’d say pretend it only affects gay men, but then you’d get the lovely HIV style effect of simultaneous stigmatization and making straight people complacent about it.

    • HexBeara [they/them, any]@hexbear.netdeleted by creator
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      Yeah… I was gonna say the same. Unless it shrunk dere pp

    • coolusername@lemmy.ml
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      yup as i just posted on another thread hpv and herpes are related to multiple schlerosis and alzheimer’s disease and MOST people brush them off, especially herpes

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    People would take COVID more seriously if it physically disfigured you, and that’s probably about it

  • Chronicon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Unrelated but my friend just got it and is getting blurry vision and I’m fucking scared for them. Why does nobody act like covid exists still?

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    They should just have said that COVID can turn you gay

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    Agreed tbh.

  • lilypad [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.net
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    Ive met 1 (one) person in my life who is more concerned about stds than covid.

  • JayTreeman [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Bro… I’ve had covid 9 times

  • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I avoid STDs by being a volcel. I cannot avoid covid even by being an insidecel.

    • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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  • NoLeftLeftWhereILive [none/use name, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    White people/the West would care if they had not heard it mostly impacts the poor, POC and marginalized people. Once they heard that, everyone went back to brunch.

    At the same time covid is a virus that is spread around the world by tourists, in my country an entire wave was seeded by upper class/wealthy people doing tourism. But it doesn’t affect them enough so they don’t care.

    I don’t think making it about being an STD would cause anything more than more othering towards the same marginalized groups.

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