A bizarre thing that just occurred to me is because of the Russia news, Covid response is effectively over now. We have completely stopped talking about it, and when we’re done with the Russia stuff, we are not going to start talking about it again.

Basically everything is already open and mask mandates at this point are essentially private business dress codes, so the only thing that was keeping any semblance of an actual mitigation strategy afloat with people talking about it, which we won’t do any more.

Not that what is happening in Ukraine isn’t a humanitarian atrocity but it will likely lead to far fewer deaths than have occurred because of Covid, a thing still killing thousands daily and we have all forgotten about in like 24 hours.

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  • clover [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    I don’t have quite the doomer view on this but yeah it does fit the general pattern of shit and hellworld. However, while we’re doing our damnedest to pretend COVID is “over,” it’s still killing people. We might never go back to 2020-early 21 measures but more dangerous variants can still drop at any time and shit. Doctors/every medical professional still have to deal with the nightmare too. We may go to more absurd lengths but I don’t believe the pandemic can be entirely ignored.

      • yellowparenti5 [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        yup, look at the nursing and medicine subs on reddit. to me, this says quite a bit about how powerful the media is in controlling the ideas and actions of individuals.

    • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I don’t believe the pandemic can be entirely ignored.

      You underestimate our power :grillman:

    • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      To reuse a phrase from the title - a funny thing just occurred to me. I can't remember the last time I saw a covid segment on CNN or MSNBC. Has it actually been more than a week for me? I have no idea. My sense of time has been destroyed. In any case - it's very odd but typical of American tv news. War is the brightest, shiniest object imaginable and it's going to get far more viewers.

      • clover [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        That’s ok, mentally I feel like I’m still in 2015, brain is absolute mush :deeper-sadness:

        What you say about war is true though. Especially if it gets any hairier. For example, I think I heard something about Biden’s Supreme Court nominee - I had forgotten all about that shit and it barely registered when I heard it.

        • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          It's goofy to quote yourself but I'm going to anyway. I said this ~30 minutes ago in the war mega...

          I wonder how many cable tv news viewers are at me right now. Biden’s doing the dog and pony show of presenting this supreme court pick to the nation and I couldn’t give less of a fuck. I’ve got CNN and MSNBC on mute. I’m impatiently waiting for them to go back to Ukraine already.

          Ninja edit: MNSBC is back to Ukraine!