Even on the Fedi I keep seeing Finns post about being sick with "the summer flu" and doing these mindblowingly complex mental gymnastics around whatever allergy symptoms they think they are having. Never even considering it might be the thing that is literally the most likely, if you bother to look at the wastewater chart.
In the outside world if you say "covid" it seems to cause visible dissociation. Everyone just is sick all the time and... I just don't understand it.
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