"This minor symptom could be a sign that you have Lancia Delta Integrale variant!"
"These scientists say super Covid could emerge any time, with insane killing potential"
"This virus emerging in (insert country here) could be even worse than Covid!"
"Look at this perfectly healthy (actually has leukemia) boy who died of Covid-19"
"The ice in Siberia is melting and revealing long hidden viruses that could cause the next pandemic"
It's the same fucking tactic the feminists use to push boys to be girls. Same fucking tactic that abusive wives use to beat down their partners. Any minor issue is a sign of greater problems and constantly fearbombing.
Yep. I wish it wasn't as effective like Obrienmustsuffer said.
I have a close relative who has an ailing Mother (in her 70s), a dying stepfather, and a senile grandmother (who is in her 90s). They live a state away and every so often the relative drives down to do what he can to help them all out. Everyone involved is vaccinated.
He was meaning to make just such a trip in the coming week. Just about needs to as a matter of fact. This morning he was talking to a friend of his who's in the medical profession and has been pretty involved in setting policy for nurses and how they deal with the covid pandemic. She implores and adamantly tells him it's dangerous to make that trip. "He could get the DeLtA vArIenT and spread it to his mom, stepdad, and grandmother" if he makes that trip.
He hasn't gotten COVID at all, has his shots, and is retired so he pretty much hangs around at his home. He's hardly gone out ever since the Coof started back last January. He needs to head down to his fam to do some really needed things to help out but he's freaking out about the Delta Variant and needing to mask up and all sorts of other nonsense and there's absolutely no point in trying to show him just why he shouldn't be afraid.
It's downright sickening what the "medical professionals", "journalists" and politicians are doing to the mental health of their citizens and patients. It's saddening it's causing people to take absolutely misguided decisions that only end up hurting the ones they love. And for what?! A virus with a 1.75% death rate. And that's not even taking into account the fact that there's been plenty of funny business going into what things get counted as "covid deaths."
It's awful seeing the effects of the covid hysteria play out in my own life and knowing there's nothing I can do to help. I "don't pay attention to the news," I "don't know what i'm talking about." I'm "not taking this seriously." And I was the first one in my family that first started taking it seriously back in January 2020!!! I got them to take it seriously back when we hardly knew anything other than the few images coming out of China and we were expecting the possibility of full-on bodies in the streets and family was just focusing on "Cheeto Benito" getting ousted in his then-upcoming impeachment proceeding.
I could go on. It's just awful seeing the hysteria really cause actual, potentially lasting harm to my family and not like I have anywhere else to talk about it. They all think I'm a solid-Dem just like them. Ugh