Most leftist anti-maskers think they are annoyed by the masking-left but actually are mad at material reality. I also wish it wasn't airborne, there wasn't asymptomatic spread, and that vaccines offered sufficient prevention of transmission. But wishing that doesn't make it so.

I asked Grok 4 about Long COVID. It's very concerned about Long COVID, thinks society should take it far more seriously, acknowledges that it's currently devastating society, and thinks that people should still be masking and avoiding COVID infection as much as possible:

By the way, HIV was also dismissed as "mild flu like symptoms" at first, and it took over a decade to figure out that it killed you years later due to destroying the immune system. We already know now that covid is also killing people long after the acute symptoms are gone.

Can’t make this shit up anymore 🫠

In one day, we just hiked 350+ stairs on the Moro Rock Trail & 2.5 mile General Sherman Tree trail in the Sequoia National Park at a 7,000 ft elevation. Our 2 & 5 year old boys rocked both trails while in their masks 😷 since lots of people passed en route (many coughing)

National Cancer Institute Publishes Bombshell COVID Article Today 🔥COVID greatly increases risk of hospitalization & death among people with cancer 🔥COVID causes >50% of cancer treatment disruptions 🔥Metastatic cancer, acute leukemia, lymphoma, & chemo increase risk

Heading into the grocery store, mask goes on. Period, the end. Am I tired of this? Yes. Do I like wearing a mask? Nope. Does that change my behaviour? Also Nope. Why? Because this was never about what I ‘felt’ like doing. Head up. Shoulders back. Deep breath. Onward.

SARS-CoV-2 fuses our neurons, causes infertility, accelerates biological aging, causes immunodeficiency like HIV, & triggers cancer & a host of other serious conditions we are unlikely to survive long-term. And constant reinfections are expected forevermore.

Hidden in the lungs of some breast cancer survivors are tumor cells that can remain dormant for decades — until they one day trigger a relapse. Now, a study shows these rogue cells can be roused from their slumber by viruses such as COVID-19 or the flu. nature.com/articles/d4158…