I've been trying the subtle 'send friends cool posts from the fediverse', as I wasn't having much luck explaining what the fediverse is/ why we should leave the corporate social media behind.
I left reddit, and pretty much stay away from it. I don't want to give advertising revenue to reddit. And so I suggest federating with reddit is not a good idea. As you say, "it's over there, if we need/want it", to paraphrase.
Anyone who blindly votes, and doesn't give strong, consistent, repeated feedback to the representative once elected, is making the situation worse. FTFY
If you don't test, you won't see it. 40-50% of cases are asymptomatic. So if one were vaccinated, and/or had already had the disease, conferring some immunity would likely make the symptoms less severe. Lower severity, decreased hospitalization, decreased death, that's what we can reasonably expect, and are seeing.
Dat's the guy! He's always there when things go wrong.