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You're getting downvoted, not entirely because people disagree with the point you are making, but becauase you are making a counterargument against something nobody said.
The topic is about staying home when you are sick. You've even agreed with that part. But for some reason you decided to come out swinging against social distancing even though nobody recommeded it or even brought it up in this context.
Given your need to strawman the original point with a stance generally championed by reactionaries, people are accurately determining that you are a reactionary and delivering a well-deserved downvote.
If you determine that then it is not accurate. The way I understood the comment I responded to they could only mean social distancing, I've explained that too. That's not a strawman, that's my (mis)understanding. And there are some topics on Lemmy where it really depends on chance what will get downvoted, depending on which crowd piles onto the thread. One such topic is nuclear power and the other big one is COVID policies. Not every argument you disagree with is in bad faith. Mine definitely wasn't. Social distancing is a sore topic for me and people bring it up on Lemmy all the time as if it a viable solution and that pisses me off. So I might jump to conclusions occasionally. But like I said, the whole topic is not one you can have a serious discussion about on Lemmy because it's apparently a sore topic for too many.