Like would a Spanish flu level pandemic do it? How many bodies gotta drop before they're scared into masking

  • DongWang [comrade/them, they/them]
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    11 months ago

    My mother always said that if people bled from their eyes or had massive losses of weight it might work. Might.

    I kind of see what she means, but I think they’d kill us all for the economy rather than shut down again.

    • FishLake@lemmygrad.ml
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      11 months ago

      My mom said if the first few waves had killed kids then maybe we’d have beaten it by now. Thing is that it did, and it continues to kill kids.

      Speaking as a teacher, it wasn’t a surprise seeing our school board spent that first summer reviewing recommendations. Only to send kids back in the fall without any substantial changes. No real protections other than a chronically divorced SRO who’d only be at our building on Wednesdays and who had an office for some reason. That and about 100 books we had to remove from the library.

      I don’t think things would much different if it killed the billionaire class’s children. You think Pharaoh gave a shit about Moses killing his kid?

      • wopazoo [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        You think Pharaoh gave a shit about Moses killing his kid?

        Uh, yeah?

        • FishLake@lemmygrad.ml
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          11 months ago

          Bad phrasing. Do you think Pharaoh gave a shit about his kid after Moses explicitly told him he would die in a tenth plague?

          • wopazoo [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            The Pharoah didn't believe in Moses' power until he killed his firstborn son. After his son died, he cared!

    • sovietknuckles [they/them]
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      11 months ago

      The problem with covid is that its effects are delayed: My relatives don't understand that asymptomatic spread means that they're contagious before they have symptoms, don't understand that even if their covid feels "very mild", they can still get long covid, etc. People don't correlate covid's effects with covid itself because it's not on the timeline they expect for a respiratory virus.

    • the_itsb [she/her, comrade/them]
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      11 months ago

      massive losses of weight

      gut feeling is this would only entice people

      Bleeding from the all the orifices seems like a surer bet.