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   Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 07:29:56 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:

   It isn't just about variants & surges. One of the major problems with COVID is that baseline levels of the virus are high for the majority of the year. That excludes many people, especially those at higher risk, from participating in society as most indoor spaces are unsafe.

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     Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 07:29:51 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:

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     The truth is that regardless of what's happening with variants, any high level of coronavirus spread makes many places inaccessible to many people. Because there's high levels most of the year, we are effectively locking higher risk people out of society. That's unacceptable.

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     Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 07:29:52 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:

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     But minimizers can't say straight out that the real policy they support is unmitigated mass infection, so they keep repeating falsely reassuring statements like "don't worry about variants" or we "have the tools," so they can create the illusion of pretending to care.

     Jay Baker (they/he) repeated this.
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     Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 07:29:53 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:

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     Of course this is all just deceit on the part of minimizers. Their real stance is that they don't care if people get reinfected over and over, and they don't care if the most vulnerable are excluded from society.

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     Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 07:29:54 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:

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     It's infuriating to see minimizers keep saying that people don't need to worry because we aren't seeing a surge as large as Omicron. Without layers of public health protections a much lower (but still high) level of community spread can make many indoor spaces unsafe.