look, the covid bullshit is absurd and utter horseshit and we all know it - but comparisons like this just make our side look like complete idiots. HIV was not transmitted by air and thats the first thing anyone with a brain would say in response to this. when forming arguments to point out how retarded the covid situation is, they need to be better than this if you want any hope of actually changing even a single mind.
ya but posts like this frustrate me bc this sort of apples to oranges comparison just pushes away middle ground folks & make the covid truthers/antivaxxers look stupid or hyperbolic, which we arent. if people just want to use this as proof 3459039450345 of how fucked Fauci is, sure. but it cant be used to compare with an airborne flu virus. bc for the first few months of covid we also didnt know how serious it was. but we are WELL beyond that so using the first few months of HIV to compare to 1 year+ in of a flu virus is not comparable.
look, the covid bullshit is absurd and utter horseshit and we all know it - but comparisons like this just make our side look like complete idiots. HIV was not transmitted by air and thats the first thing anyone with a brain would say in response to this. when forming arguments to point out how retarded the covid situation is, they need to be better than this if you want any hope of actually changing even a single mind.
That was my first thought as well, but then I remembered that we didn't know how it was spread or what was going on for at least several months.
Sure, maybe not a perfect comparison. But it's a valid one if you know the history.
ya but posts like this frustrate me bc this sort of apples to oranges comparison just pushes away middle ground folks & make the covid truthers/antivaxxers look stupid or hyperbolic, which we arent. if people just want to use this as proof 3459039450345 of how fucked Fauci is, sure. but it cant be used to compare with an airborne flu virus. bc for the first few months of covid we also didnt know how serious it was. but we are WELL beyond that so using the first few months of HIV to compare to 1 year+ in of a flu virus is not comparable.