Do you guys think Covid was a lie?

[Yakamoz]

I've got a gut feeling that it was

 

[thenamingofcats]

No, I got it and had almost all the symptoms including losing my sense of taste and smell for weeks.

 

[Yakamoz]

No, I got it and had almost all the symptoms including losing my sense of taste and smell for weeks.

So? You are not dead

 

[thenamingofcats]

So? You are not dead

I was responding to the title of your post.

 

[Yakamoz]

I was responding to the title of your post.

OK let's put it as "Was it really a pandemic of this calibre"

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

I also had Covid but I definitely think the response and fear mongering from governments and media all over the world was a bit overexaggerated. At the same time I also believe that it could have been less of an issue if the initial people who actually had it just decided to follow the quarantine for two weeks. Two weeks without exposing it to anyone else is all that needed to happen and yet not even hyper authoritarian regimes like China and North Korea were fully able to curb it in the end. This pandemic really showed that many people of every flavor of politics are just far too stubborn for their own good.

 

[carac]

I think covid was real but i think people overreacted and personally never got vaccinated even though I believe in vaccines

 

[thenamingofcats]

OK let's put it as "Was it really a pandemic of this calibre"

Who knows, it's impossible to tell who died from covid or with covid in a lot of cases there's just too much ambiguity. What we can see though is the authoritative action that was taken by governments like how Australia had their citizens in lockdown for 9 months.

 

[EyesOfNight]

OK let's put it as "Was it really a pandemic of this calibre"

Probably. From what I remember, WHO stated that the elderly and the young were at a higher risk of death. In other words, those in power and the future workforce.

On a side note, I wish would get COVID again. The air smelt different when I had it.

 

[sammiechzxv]

No... I got it 3 times I still have asthma from it and my immune system has been super weak since

 

[Yakamoz]

No... I got it 3 times I still have asthma from it and my immune system has been super weak since

You never had asthma before?

 

[1MiserableGuy]

*know

 

[not-2-b-the-answer]

No...
It wasn't a hoax. I got it. Was horrible. I'm pissed I didn't die from it.
I don't know about the #'s being reported. In some cases they were under reported to make certain people look better.

 

[sammiechzxv]

You never had asthma before?

Not at all

 

[lachrymost]

I really hope it's "fake" as in not very dangerous, because I'm constantly worried about losing my ability to read and write/get out of bed/taste and smell etc. from Long Covid. My partner and I have had Covid three times even though we rarely leave the house. We're vaccinated except for the latest booster. Since I got Covid the last time I've had a persistant cough and my lungs feel weird. I'm so scared that the doomers are right and the population is getting brain damaged and disabled from Covid. And now there's that fucking avian flu that the WHO is worried about. I don't fucking know.

 

[4am]

no it isn't. i got it once, and my mom still has long covid i think

 

[Yakamoz]

I really hope it's "fake" as in not very dangerous, because I'm constantly worried about losing my ability to read and write/get out of bed/taste and smell etc. from Long Covid. My partner and I have had Covid three times even though we rarely leave the house. We're vaccinated except for the latest booster. Since I got Covid the last time I've had a persistant cough and my lungs feel weird. I'm so scared that the doomers are right and the population is getting brain damaged and disabled from Covid. And now there's that fucking avian flu that the WHO is worried about. I don't fucking know.

Your ability to read and write? What does covid have anything to do with it?

 

[Forever Sleep]

What would be the purpose of lying about it? Did it benefit our governments to put everyone in lockdown? I honestly don't know. I don't know much about economics. I suspect it only furthered the distance between the rich and poor and some of the rich definitely made sure they benefited from it.

But- what is the conspiracy here? Do you suspect something dodgy about the vaccines? Do you think it was economically motivated? Do you think it gave our governments more powers to control/monitor us? Track and trace and all that? Paranoia and threat are very good tools to make a population subservient.

Personally, I wouldn't put anyting past our governments. But, I do believe it was real. I suspect it was around a lot longer than the reported outbreak. My parents caught something really nasty around the Christmas time before from someone who had just been on a cruise holiday. It bore very similar symptoms and they said it was like nothing they'd ever experienced.

Someone I worked with was very in to the whole conspiracy thing. They used to call it 'co-fib'. They didn't get vaccinated- obviously, which I don't really blame them being suspicious of. Still- they got it eventually. I fairly meanly changed the subject though. I felt like- you can't really complain about something you've been saying doesn't exist for so long!

 

[lachrymost]

Your ability to read and write? What does covid have anything to do with it?

The claims about brain fog/damage can get pretty extreme. People say they can't concentrate to read or write like they used to, or that their vocabulary has been decimated, or that they can no longer comprehend their pre-Covid writing.

 

[eatantz]

it was real but the government made it seem worse than it was i don't think it was actually a pandemic. No one cares if u have covid now and it was mostly elderly people dying from it but to be fair they would of died from any other sickness anyway

 

[avoid]

No.

 

[LunarLight]

Definitely not. I had a partner who got fibromyalgia due to long Covid. This is not a joke. She can't leave her home now.

 

[1MiserableGuy]

I had dreams, months before the shutdown, that accurately predicted all the events well in advance. I warned everyone, no one listened, and the resulting PTSD made me try to ctb multiple times.

 

[libitina]

I've got a gut feeling that it was

Lmao no it was not. I had it three years ago and still have parosmia that resulted from it to this day.

 

[odradek]

Go to the nearest big city, go to the biggest hospital there and ask the staff this same question. Well the ones who aren't on this website now or already dead. If they dont attack you or break down in tears, you might get an answer.

 

[carac]

Go to the nearest big city, go to the biggest hospital there and ask the staff this same question. Well the ones who aren't on this website now or already dead. If they dont attack you or break down in tears, you might get an answer.

I think there are a lot more people die annually of malnutrition than died at the height of covid so I don't really buy that argument or it doesn't really cause much sympathy in me. And the demographics are vastly different. People that died of covid were mainly old where many children die of malnutrition

 

[jujujr]

My thoughts are, it wasnt, since i had it twice lol. But media and all sorts love to make things seem worse then they really are and can be misleading. of course this is not backed by any proof just my feelings.

 

[vitbar]

It killed my partner so no.

 

[sserafim]

I don't think I've ever gotten covid. I was forced to get the vaxx by my college though. It was against my will

 

[Red Moon]

I don't think it was because people died from it. I never got covid. I didn't want the vaccine and never got it.