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Has any petition ever managed to actually change government policy in the way the petition wanted?
Genuinely asking, I have been signing the odd petition here and there over years and I have never seen one succeed. Hoping someone can restore the faith for me.
Very keen on COVID here. All cases of flu disappeared during COVID years, and the COVID I had was far less debilitating than flu I have had.
IANA conspirator.
(1) Okay lets ignore the 10’s of millions who died. And 100 million plus disabled.
(2) The flu didn’t disappear because of the COVID virus, but because of preventative measures. This petition is simply asking for better measuring of COVID.
'Mercan?
Sorry. You won't have guessed that the comment was tongue in cheek.
Nah just someone disabled by COVID.
I’m from europe. But I’ve been on the recieving end of so much stigma and BS cuz of Long COVID… So when I see a comment like that I think its real since people irl have said similar things to me.
I'm sorry you're living with that. COVID took my plumber neighbour out for three weeks every time and he was fairly fit. He had a hell of a time and went through it twice.
You're at best very tangential to my point. I'm not disputing that COVID happened. Just that flu probably continued at some level, whereas the stats disagree. I can only conclude that all flu of late is, in fact, COVID; IANA specialist D.
Anything that attacks the respiratory system long term sucks. Breathing has been quite helpful to me during my life. YMMV.