HIV epidemic in the 80's changed how we have sex, making sex with condoms the norm. Over 1 million people died in the US from COVID, with an unknown number of those disabled by it. Yet, there will be no lasting behavioral change, policies, or funding. Heck, in some places
public health has been weakened as a result. This was an opportunity for us to learn how to help people survive an airborne pandemic. Instead we learned that the survival of the economy was more important.
@Theresa_Chapple I get a vaccine every year and wear a mask when required by law (I just stopped wearing one 32 days ago when the latest mandate ended). Do you mean that a minority of people behave recklessly with COVID just like a minority do with HIV?
@Theresa_Chapple If "having swx with condoms" was the norm we wouldn't have 600,000 + abortions annually in this country. Stop the gaslighting
@Theresa_Chapple If you could come up with a COVID intervention that functions like a condom (highly effective, used for short periods of time in very specific situations, non-mandatory, cost-effective, etc.) I’m sure many people would adopt it.
@Theresa_Chapple Wearing is mask is normalized so that’s a big change for the states
@Theresa_Chapple @wilwin94 It's going to have lasting behavioral changes for a decent amount of people. A lot of people, myself included, will most likely continue using masks in public places, getting tested regularly, etc. The washing hands a lot and everything else is of course also going to continue
@Theresa_Chapple I am wearing a mask indoors along with others. When you will see long Covid rising in the population, you will see more folks do the same.
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