When Did Avoiding The Plague Become Controversial?

You know, you still don’t want to get COVID

Colour copper engraving of Doctor Schnabel [i.e Dr Beak], a plague doctor in seventeenth-century Rome, published by Paul Fürst, ca. 1656. Public Domain Review. Additions mine

My friend has had COVID twice (he thinks three times). ‘Natural immunity’ just means being a sick a lot, and potentially giving yourself ‘pre-existing conditions’ which make it your fault if you die.

When people talk about ‘getting it over with’ it sounds nuts to me, but this attitude is all over the white media. Highly paid dudes with triple shots, working from home, with access to testing and sick leave, they’re like “we’re all going to get it, I want to go to restaurants now.” In this day and age, if you’re still trying to avoid the plague, you’re the crazy one.

If COVID was Ebola would we just be living with it? In the largest Ebola outbreak 11,300 people died, which is happening every week in America alone. Would it be different if COVID caused more bleeding? Would people fear it then? Would it make a difference to the living? Because it makes no difference to the dead.

I remember when the outbreak started and people said it was ‘just the flu’ and we had to have that exhausting debate. We had to scream that, no, this is going to kill millions of people and it could kill you. Now over 5.7 million people are confirmed dead and we’re having the same fucking debate again. People are like “well yeah, but those…