Why do so many people not take Covid seriously?

Question

This shit is not fake. It’s real and it’s serious. A lot of people have lost their loved ones because of this 😡

lightbulb27 · Accepted Answer

people won't take stuff seriously till it impacts them personally. others are influenced by the severity of it. If you work on medical, you'd see how impactful it is.

In my circle... I had it. I disregarded the severity, took a risk exposing myself to a homeless woman (who is probably dead now) and I paid the price. I know how bad it was to not be able to breathe for 2 days, I can see how people die from this. I also suspect some longer term impact to energy... long covid possibly. live and learn.

I lost an uncle to it., that's what they said.. who knows if it was that. But he was way over weight.

But that's it. anyone else, just got a "cold" or didn't get it... all I know have had the vaccine. To them, it's over blown.

That's the difficulty of managing this at govt level... like herding cats.

Hows that different than smoking, or cancer, drinking or fleas or terrorist attacks? how many people take risks of any of this seriously... and it kills many. humans are frustrating...

If donald J trump says it is an issue, pushes to get a vaccine, takes the vaccine all 3 times... you'd think that send a message, but some aren't gonna listen to anything.

BCRanger10 · Accepted Answer

Because there's nothing to take seriously anymore. It was nowhere near as deadly as it was originally projected to be. In March of 2020, we were told to expect 2 million deaths in the US. We're two years in and we're not even at a million. Most of the deaths have been people above the age of 70 or had comorbidities.

Then there's also the fact that this has been politicized to an extremely annoying degree and the messaging has been inconsistent at best. People couldn't go to church. They couldn't visit with families or friends. They couldn't go to work. They lost their family businesses. Drug use went up, depression and anxiety went up. And it was all in the name of public health. But then some dude with very violent and disturbing crime in his past dies under questionable circumstances in police custody and then all of the sudden, it's totally cool to be in large crowds without masks or social distancing. Stupid and unexplainable hypocrisy.

And now that we're still talking about contact tracing and now vaccine mandates? This is getting more and more suspicious, more and more ridiculous, and people are tired of it.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

I don't get it as well, how can people take the subject so lightly even after millions of people died over the world.

Most part of my colleagues think it's nonsense, doesn't exist, make up some conspiratorial theory or think the vacine doesn't work because all the previous jabs were created within more or less 5 years.

But covid-19 is a pandemic that affected the whole world, the economy and killed a lot of people. So, then the all the best scientists over the world were working to create a solution and are still.

Guess a lot of people get influenced by others opinions and then turn a blind eye for what's right in front of them.

Some of them would say that they know people that got vaxxed and developed covid-19 either way, so there's no use to it.

However, if u get the vacines u can prevent the spread of the disease to increase. And in case u develop Covid, your symptoms won't be as strong as it could in this way considerably preventing you to die.

Why do so many people not take Covid seriously?

Kate090 · Accepted Answer

Because its something not to be taken seriously. What more can you do? Wash your hands often, dont go to crowded places, limit social interaction, isolate when sick. The vaccine is also dangerous, there's a lot the news media won't tell you! Stop being so fearful! And stop being a sheep. Do research of your own, oh wait... You dont know where to because CNN, world health organization doesn't have all the facts!!! People are dying from the vaccines too!! Did you know that the covid vaccines aren't legit vaccines? Its mrna that gets injected into you, which in a couple years will cause a cytokine storm and kill you!

MCheetah · Answer

Oh, I don't know. Maybe it's because the media has constantly lied about it for the past two years, politicians have been running around like chickens with their heads cut off knowing f*ck all on what to do about it, and self-righteous dumb f*cks walk around virtue signaling for trash like Anthony Fauci, thinking their $2 Walgreens masks and poison Johnson and Johnson is making billions off of is going to "save lives."

I work in education, so I take all the precautions necessary aside from poisoning myself with S1 spike protein bullsh*t and dying of blood clots or a stroke. But people have every reason to be skeptical after all of the lies, misinformation, and censorship that's been coming out; mostly from the lunatic left.

If they wanted people to take COVID more seriously, then don't tell them to go out and riot for George Floyd in the middle of a f*cking pandemic, or to defund the police during a global pandemic, or to only save masks for doctors, or to censor factual information that COVID came from a lab in Wuhan, or to force people to take the COVID vaccines despite Moderna, AstroZeneca, and Johnson and Johnson all having severe issues with them and sweeping all those deaths from them under the rug. Or am I the only one who actually pays any f*cking attention to anything?

Yeah, because only an "idiot" would not want to permanently lose their freedoms over some BS CNN and Fauci told them.

Baredog69 · Answer

Because this pandemic was not understood in the beginning the test were grossly signifying false positives. The number of fatalities was grossly inflated due to the fact that if you died with covid no matter whether you had a heart attack or liver failure or some other underlying problem as long as you tested positive for covid it was considered a covid death. So the numbers are skewed tremendously. This pandemic is simply the flu that has been renamed. There's no longer any flu there's no longer any bad cold there's only covid-19. I would never take that shot unless they tied me down at gunpoint and forced me to. Masks don't work Dr fauci said that in his own words. He said it's a window dressing that makes people feel better just before he changed his mind and said oh yes we should wear three masks. He has contradicted himself every step of the way he's one responsible for funding the research that caused this in the first place. He's the highest paid government bureaucrat that we have in this country. He was in trouble in the early nineties for his research on humans with HIV. This man is psychopath with a PhD and needs to go. The problem is the mandates of keeping people cooped up together inside their homes and away from the outside where it is safe. Forcing them to wear a mask which is depriving themselves of oxygen and also causing upper respiratory infections. Proven facts look them up. I'm not denying covid is real. I'm only stating that it is nowhere near the seriousness they are making it out to be. For example since December 1st 90% of new cases of covid are the Omicron variant. As of December 26th of 2021 there had been one death linked to Omicron and that gentleman had several underlying conditions such as overweight heart problems blood pressure and others. So what did he actually die of who knows they labeled it Omicron I guess we'll never know.

NamerOfStars · Answer

Because it's not serious. It's a mild respiratory infection. It will, if things continue as they're going, become less mild as the horribly leaky "vaccines" that we have don't provide sterilizing immunity, pushing mutations that could actually become MORE dangerous.

The decision to count every death with 28 days of a positive test as a Covid death doesn't actually make it more deadly, it just inflates the numbers to sustain the panic. Isolating the vulnerable and sending the young and strong out to build herd immunity could have saved a lot of lives- and that's just among those we've already lost. When it became clear the only way out was herd immunity, people could've made rational assessments and decided when to seek infection, or simply encouraged others to do so if they themselves weren't strong enough.

Instead, they chose to hide, treating a normal disease as an unstoppable boogeyman. What did you THINK was going to happen?

Razp_Sorbet · Answer

I don't get it either. I'd say because it hasn't affected them but I've seen stories about whole families still believing it's not real even after 2 members died from it (both whom maintained their beliefs of it not being real til death) it's really sad how easily manipulated people are by others, by organizations who are just preying on people to get a quick buck. The organizations are obviously getting money from these people too so far I've had 5 flyers that are anti vax in my mailbox 4 of which are very professionally done and on gloss paper. I mean it's really sad how much effort they put into their misinformation. They'll probably start getting riled up in the comments of this opinion.

MarkRet · Answer

A lot of people don't want to be inconvenienced by Covid, so they ignore it and convince themselves it's not a problem. Let's face it, getting some shots and wearing a mask is a pain in the ass, so if you convince yourself that Covid is fake, it doesn't infringe on your 'freedom and rights'.

On top of that, you have these right-wing conspirists on the airwaves spouting their bullshit, and some people just get pumped up listening to all that, and just accept it as fact, without further investigating the issue.

Daniela1982 · Answer

No more people die of Covid any more than they do of Cancer or Smoking. And not everyone who gets Covid dies without other underlying causes. Most recover just fine and others who have been fully vaccinated still get it and die. I do not personally know of anyone, including relatives, who have died of Covid.

TheorionMage · Answer

Have you EVER heard that folk epithet: "Shit or go blind..."
If you REALLY think on it, it means to be SO FRIGHTENED that you lose bowel control because you fully realize how dangerous the situation is and that YOU PERSONALLY are powerless and you're FWAK so...
the only alternative in order to remaining sane is to 'go blind'.
To so powerfully deny the input of your senses such as to deny the relevancy of your situation and appear to IGNORE your predicament~
Problem is... if they just were endangering THEMSELVES, that IS their 'right' BUT...
by so doing, they potentially become a transmissive 'vector' by which they recklessly endanger both you and me. And so we REALLY should stop them. Will we eventually prophilacticslly pneumatically 'dart' them like the dangerous infectious animals their choices have made them?

LikeALog · Answer

I know several people that are fully vaccinated and contacted COVID twice after being vaccinated and one, a nurse, also fully vaccinated that had Covid three times.

I was an essential employee and only wore the common cloth mask that CDC said was marginal and never caught Covid. This was before any vaccine was available. I'm fully vaccinated now.

Obviously, this is antidotal but so many people see this happening with family and friends so they are now questioning things about Covid.

Levin · Answer

These are misrepresentations of the argument, that anyone against the narrative is heartless or suchlike.

There are real concerns about the abuse of statistics.
I would contend that the measures put in place aren't based on science, and in the long run will create a lot more harm, suffering, and possibly even death.
Apparently we don't take covid seriously. Maybe if people take covid seriously, they should lose weight and focus on their health? Remember the statistic, 40% of Americans obese, 2/3 overweight.

josephinelcajon · Answer

I am going to answer this by NOT making any thoughts on weather its real or serious. There are several reasons. they have hidden the truth at the being and repeatedly throughout the pandemic. They developed a vaccine in record time and people say if you did develop it so quickly why can't you do it all the time? The numbers of cases were all over the place nothing was adding up! They have repeatedly changed they precautions. both democrats and republicans have either minimized or maximized the situation to suit their needs/agenda for political gain!

hi_it_is_me123 · Answer

I personally think economic problems and societal problems such as sexual harrassment, rape etc are more dangerous than covid. I also dont think it is dangerous as it is potrayed and yes we should take it serious but i am confused why the government did not freak out when there was avian flu, swine flu etc but they freak out due to a virus that ain't dangerous as bird flu, swine flue etc.
I got vaccinated and government expect from us now to do the third vaccine. Where is the end? I really have enough of it and my family was the first one in my surroundings who really really take it serious and as a result we never got covid and we also got vaccinated and i kinda regret it although it is obliged now. Since the vaccination my arms hurt so much whenever i carry something and this never happen to me before. My arms get tired easily. Did someone experienced the same?

menina · Answer

I absolutely agree with you! Many people still think that this is a joke, that there are no reasons to be worried about this virus. Others say that Covid-19 doesn't exist or that it's just a "flu". I have no patience who people who believe that Covid isn't real or serious.
I was attacked several times on GAG for saying that Covid is serious and it kills. I guess they prefer to live in an alternative reality or they're too dumb to understand what's happening.

DizzyDesii · Answer

I do take it seriously by wearing a mask and keeping lysol and germex around. Im not touchy with people. However, I dont let it keep me trapped in the house. I was already a homebody but i mean, i dont let it stop me from going to the casino, mall, movies, grocery store, etc. I’m just not comfortable getting on a plane yet. So take precaution but dont let it trap you.

BloJo · Answer

According to worldometers. info, more than 57 million cases have been diagnosed in the United States. Of those 57 million, fewer than 850 thousand have died. We know that some (many) cases are undiagnosed. We know that some (many) of the deaths were caused by other conditions (cancer, injuries, heart disease, very advanced age) but because the person had the coronavirus (or symptoms of the coronavirus) when they died, they are included in these numbers.

If we just accept the numbers as reported, people have more than a 98.5% survival rate. Most people who are in good health and are younger than sixty have a drastically better survival rate. They compare risk to reward and do not feel that they are at much risk. Approximately one in six people in the United States has already survived the coronavirus. They already know that their immune system can beat it, they feel even less risk.

Cherry234 · Answer

They think it's like the "flu"... until they actually catch it. These people don't wear masks and they don't get vaccinated. What's even worse is that some of the people who refuse to get the vaccine are conspiracy theorists. Idiots will always be idiots.

MJtheCoach · Answer

Of course not!

Anyone with a Brain can see C0ViD is to rollout the NWO cashless north Korean global system!

Of course if you watch the fake mainstream media then C0ViD is real and is as big as they say it is. And you need to take your 5000 C0ViD shots to eat.

And C0ViD will not effect you if your sitting at a restaurant table.

And a piece of cloth front of your face will save you. While it doesn’t save you lockdowns are required and only small stores.
While that doesn’t work and every jab works but doesn’t work.

melanieeeB · Answer

Well I do think it's real and I wear my mask, stay on distance, take care and make sure to stay home when I'm not feeling good and etc

But I don't fear it. Like it's an illness, but people die all the time.
Plus everyone that I know who had it, said it was just like the flu with losing your taste for a while. So I believe people need more health issues combined with covid to actually die in the end.

Anonymous · Answer

I took it seriously. I saw those videos coming out of china. People dropping dead on streets suddenly. I panic bought masks and toilet papers.

I wore masks and stayed home. For the limited lockdown that lasted years. Ruined the best moments of my mid twenties.

Vaccine came out finally. I took it. Then I took the second jab. But it still wasn't over. Now I hear some girls want unvaccinated dudes.

The scary Omicron variant has common cold like symptoms.
At some point you wonder. How much fear can you take? You just give up you know. Tired. Not caring if I live or not.

t-8900 · Answer

Because y'all treating it like Influenza and it's getting on my nerves. The world and economy still need to operate, jobs still need to be filled, food orders need to go through etc. I'm not going to let fear rule my life. I'm fine with wearing a mask, getting vaxxed, etc. I'm not alright with lockdowns and sh*t of that nature.

RealMarek · Answer

Almost nobody thinks it is fake. The reality, however, is that the mortality rate and distribution by age category never merited the greatest wealth transfer to the rich in history, loss of employment and impoverishment for many, and massive curtailment of individual liberties.

Leonharted · Answer

I'm not worried about dying or hospitalization, especially not with this strain. That said, I got the vaccine as soon as I could, and, if I feel ill, I get a test. I haven't been found positive yet, but if I ever am, I will quarantine until I am better.

doopayo · Answer

I have a feeling this is an anti vax persons lame attempt at satire

Lliam · Answer

Because it was never more deadly than the winter flu that happens every single year. The only difference was, it effected the elderly more severely and didn't have much effect at all on young people compared to the flu.
The average age of death "from" covid was like 78 years old, just below the average rate of death from all causes every year.

snowboarder720 · Answer

I don’t understand why they feel the need to keep spreading this virus and allowing it to mutate and prolonging the pandemic for their selfishness.
They are only convinced of a fatally serious case happens to them or a very close loved one. Even after such break through cases, they still can’t convince others to wear a mask and socially distance. They are the reason why this pandemic is still a pandemic because they refuse to treat this as a pandemic.

GreenLanternI0I · Answer

They are dying and having serious side effects from activation of 5G network, NOT from invisible and none existent virus that you can only see on FOX and CNN. And things will get a WHOLE LOT WORSE after January 5, because it will be the first official day when they will crank 5G weapon all the way to the very max nation wide.

Shamalien · Answer

People lose loved ones every year. Nobody died in the last 2 years that wouldn’t have been dead from one of their other co morbidities. This whole thing is blown out of proportion and anyone who’s looked into it deeply can smell the bullshit from a mile away. My 90 yr old grandpa ent worried why the hell would I be worried

888theGreat · Answer

Because Democrats would not shut down flights from Asia and let anyone in on Southern Border. They have killed 100's of millions of people.

How about all the loved ones that get aborted each year , that is serious? . 70 million killed babies since 1973.

Anonymous · Answer

We have actually been here before with past pandemics. When a new unknown fast spreading illness strikes, the first emotion triggered in people is fear. People respond to fear in different ways and ultimately it causes division of opinions.

From a societal point of view, it is a political question of how we deal with the pandemic. Time will tell if the initial response to covid by different countries was the correct one. Remember society is more than just protection from disease - it also requires overall good health, a healthy economy, a healthy public service system etc. The global response in developing vaccines so quickly has been extraordinary and a remarkable achievement.

Now that the world has more immunity, policy direction will naturally shift towards how we go back to a more normal life given that the disease itself will never go away.

Anonymous · Answer

It is fake ~ faker than those who went to moon and took a picture there 🤦‍♀️
Wait your are young and have sting balls but wait a few months or what’s you are going to have a liver kidney heart issues any of those or all of the above.. be patient. Ofc they are going to blame ot to your diet most likely the chicken wings you eat.
Shtop eating meaht meat met meaHtt save the Ohzone LayeR🙄

GoPhuckYaself · Answer

because i dont care if i die or live, i dont take life seriously, nothing matters to me... if u wanna be all protective and fearful and go out with full mask and rubber suit... fine, i jus dont care about my life, and u can't make me... thats why i dont wear condom either because i dont care if i die of a std, and u can make me care, its my choice to care

TheBigGuy9 · Answer

It’s real, but it’s the playbook. Read buddy. Read. You take a mild virus that if you are 0-70 years old that has a 99.98% recovery rate, but instead by help of the media you scare the hell out of people by making it sound like the worst thing in the world. It’s directly written in the Saul Alinsky playbook.
Democrats believe in nothing, but money and power.

HighValue · Answer

94% of "covid deaths" were not from covid, even according to the CDC's own statistics.

And the vaccines have killed thousands of people and injured others.

It is mostly previously unhealthy people that have been affected.

MoJoYoYo · Answer

Yes, but a lot of people have lost their loved ones to the flu, cancer, and the obesity epidemic. We haven't shut down the country because of that.  I'm sorry if you lost someone to this sickness.

erandal · Answer

There is so much fake news being spread about it that it distorts the facts.

kitty71 · Answer

They say it is just like a common flu and the lethality is lower than the regular flu, so it is not that serious to really worry about Also they say it is something planned by the countries governments to manipulate and control people around the world.

FilmGuy93 · Answer

I really don't know... Even if you don't die from the virus, do you really want to risk getting Long Covid? Long Covid is way more common than dying from Covid, and it honestly sounds way worse.

The people who are dying from Covid are generally on their way out anyhow. People getting Long Covid are people who are otherwise pretty healthy. Then they get this virus and just get wrecked.

Anonymous · Answer

Because in my country, nobody knows someone who knows anyone that has been affected by the Covid! The
death rate just keeps increasing by the second but nobody knows who has has died from it. It might be real in other countries but not mine.
Though I still use my nose masks and sanitizers but I actually do not take it seriously.

David_Kek · Answer

Lots of people have lost their loved ones to the flu. The morality rates were only super high when no one had any immunity to it. Now everyone does have some immunity from it, from either vaccination or past exposure, at present the mortality rates are the same as the flu.
That's why people don't take it anymore seriously than the flu anymore, because it isn't.

Seangreen · Answer

Well the initial data on the Omicron variants show something like the vaccine is twice as likely to kill you than Omicron yeah a lot of people are getting it but it's not really that big of a deal anymore and people die every day and I wouldn't be surprised of a lot of people that are included in that death toll just happened to have covid-19 I died from something else but hey we will never really know

bolverk · Answer

Covid is real but is is not as lethal as the Main Stream Media makes out, and many of the deaths attributed to it has been from other pre-existing conditions. Covid is now mutating to allow it to exist inside the human population with out it killing the host the same as the Cold and Flu viruses

TexasRed95 · Answer

Because it's not that bad. I just got and still have the new Omnicron variant and I was just moving these whole past 2 weeks. Went to the store once and got it. My vaccinatedroommate got it from me and we both have it at the same severity it sounds like. Only minor body pains and minor nausea. It's not even as bad as the flu for either of us.

bgreek · Answer

So there are 8 billion on the planet earth
And how many people have died from Covid?
What 800,000 people

Do the math Sherlock...
Plus, you have states that have lockdowns
That don't work
And the Red States where life is normal
Covid is nothing more than a cold

AshleyPlayz · Answer

If they don't let them be. You can't save an idiot if he refuses to be saved. My neighbour died and I've never been that terrified about it so yeah it's real. P. s. TAKE PRECAUTIONS !!

The_Shadow_Dweller · Answer

1. Nobody has died in their family or neighborhood.
2. Its 2 years old now. People just don't give a damn about it.
3. Some think, if it is so that they are to die in this, they better die with everything enjoyed in their life.

TOQGYDL · Answer

Didn't care before. Had covid. Was sick for 3 days. Still don't care. My grandma of 72 had covid. She was sick for 2 weeks. She didn't care before and didn't care after. It's a bit stronger form of flu in my opinion. People die from flu and people die from covid. Let people die. You can't save everyone.

Qdbrown · Answer

Yawn... Yes, many have died, and many long-haulers, but it is a novel virus. Life doesn't end because a killer virus is making its way through the world.

Humans have been fighting viruses for thousands of years. Life will go on.

Anonymous · Answer

Why you trying to change other people. You have to realize that just because you are right you can’t keep changing what people believe in.
Yea it sucks but that’s what you get when living in a group setup like society. Stop changing people, do your part and leave others alone.
I did my part I can’t change my coworkers my family etc. all I can do is to change my perspective

Juxtapose · Answer

Yeah no, I am not letting you getting away with misinforming people.

Lyndsielee666 · Answer

They won’t think it’s real until a loved one dies unfortunately

Jamie05rhs · Answer

Ironically, it's the same reason they don't take the threat of communism seriously.

Interstate · Answer

These are the people who think nothing can happen to them. the ones who think if they drive without their seat belt and get in a head on (Giggity), they will be spared being thrown onto the pavement.

Kabluie · Answer

I feel it's because it's not deadly enough for a larger segment of people. If this was a plague with say a 50% death rate, you'd see a different uptake on vaccines.

Instead unvaxed want to live on weird non-truths, and muh rights.

Uptowngirl88 · Answer

Bc it's bullshit. It's been going on since 2020 now they come up with more bs. Oh oh you gone catch the big bad Omarion 🤣🤣

Belgie · Answer

They tied it to their political beliefs. If they admit to being wrong about this, they might have to be open to the possibility that they're wrong about other things.

Alyssa_11 · Answer

Sometimes things scare people so they act like they don't exist.

Anonymous · Answer

we know it's real. but it's been 2 years and science has proven that the virus is getting weaker and weaker. say goodbye to the pandemic this year 2022. it'll be an endemic. not saying the virus will be completely gone. it'll just be controlled.

Anonymous · Answer

I know it's real because people I know have gotten it but I can see why people might think it's fake. They might see it as something the government make up as an excuse to take our rights away. Personally, I agree that it is being blown way out of proportion.

Anonymous · Answer

only loved ones they lost were the severely morbidly obese and the very old who overdue to die. It's not serious unless you're old or this or week that is a fact

Anonymous · Answer

It is their way of not dealing with it. Perhaps they don't want to face the vulnerability or admit that they can be vulnerable to a disease that is sweeping through. There are still a few people who still say that it is "just a flu"...

JCrockett · Answer

99% survival rate for people over 80. 99.9% survival rate for everybody else.

Why do so many people not take Covid seriously?

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