Please Stop Saying Covid Is Just Like The Flu

Jacqueline Dooley
5 min readJan 24, 2022

The lies of the unvaccinated are killing people and making a lot more of us sick.

Photo by Jacqueline Dooley

I tested positive for a breakthrough case of Covid last week, two days after my 17-year-old daughter tested positive. It was a rough week for both of us ( more me than her.)

We’re both vaxxed and boosted and we’ve been wearing N95 or equivalent masks since early December. This…

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Jacqueline Dooley

Essayist, content writer, bereaved parent. Bylines: Human Parts, GEN, Marker, OneZero, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Pulse, HuffPost, Longreads, Modern Loss