• InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    normalize

    The CDC, the media, Biden, the democrats, and average Americans are the same about covid. 300 or 400 deaths a day are entirely unimportant. Here's a non-rhetorical question. If there's a wave in the next few months - as the wave increases and daily death toll rises - how many deaths a day would be notable and get attention?

    1k? 1.5k? 2k? 2.5k? More? I'm pretty sure it will be notable before we get to a "9/11 a day".

    If (when?) we get to something like 1.5+k will some idiot talking head on MSBNC try to pooh-pooh the situation "because we have vaccines and Biden is president"? I'm pretty sure the answer to that question is a big yes.

    • Flinch [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      it will never get attention again. Covid is over. We could be at 5000 people a day visibly, violently choking to death on the sidewalks all over the nation in broad daylight and they'd still not care. Public health and safety was taken behind the barn and shot, it's all personal responsibility now, if you die it's your own fault. The bridge is burned and cannot be retread.

    • barrbaric [he/him]M
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      2 years ago

      The numbers more or less don't matter except to people working in hospitals and their immediate family. For the average person, the media and government responses will determine how they view it.

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      10,000 people could die from it daily and I don't think anyone would bat an eye

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Practicing good cough & sneeze etiquette is one way

    one way

    :grillman: Well, that must be all we have to do to not get sick! Good thing it's simple and unobtrusive...still not gonna do it

    • MF_BROOM [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Sometimes I think of that interview where Biden coughed into his hand at the beginning of the pandemic and Jake Tapper scolded him lmao

  • TheModerateTankie [any]
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    2 years ago

    Either they want everyone to get sick, or the are way more invested and reliant on facial recognition technology than anyone realizes.

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    People keep saying they're normalizing mass death, but no, they already succeeded. It's just normal now.

    • MF_BROOM [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, that's very true and has been for a while :doomer: