we did it guys smoke em if u got em
A reasonable estimate for the US is about 1.7 million dead
Liberals just can't seem to understand excess mortality. There's no politics involved; it's just tracking the birth rate and death rates over time. Every time I bring up excess mortality its met with heavy resistance. Baffling.
You need to do it in infographic form with NPR style guide, or else they will never accept it
Anglos are incapable of accepting their governments suck despite how much they complain about how much their governments suck. It's :brainworms: all the way down
They think their government sucks but all other nations are totalitarian Stalinist autocracies or shitholes
reminds me of this
On the other hand, “liberal democracies” stage eternal duels, and offer voting as a pacifying ritual every four years or so: Democrats vs. Republicans, Liberals vs. Conservatives, Labour vs. Tories, etc. Every election is the most important election. Figureheads and partisan pundits are always “tearing each other apart” publicly, in elaborate and spectacular kayfabe full of scandalous barbs that make their way to the front pages. And then, in the evening, those same rivals go on have drinks together, send their kids to the same private schools, and “put aside their differences” for important transcendental matters such as war (for) and the environment (against). [10]
The result of this grim state of affairs is that the oppressed classes understandably become deeply cynical about the entire notion of “politics.” Or, to put it in terms of political tendency, regardless of who they vote for at the booth, they begin to become dyed-in-the-wool Libertarians; “incompetence of government” becomes their main transcendental political truth. This becomes especially apparent when they discuss the choking and overthrow of the government of other peoples, in Venezuela and Syria and Korea. Normally, disillusionment with one’s government would lead to demands for better government, or different government, but Westerners are so ingrained with the idea that theirs is the best government, that instead they reject the very idea of good governance altogether. And so the masses learn to passively embrace the encroachment of private corporations over all aspects of the economy and indeed life in general.
from https://redsails.org/brainwashing/
holy shit this slaps so fucking hard, thanks comrade :avoheart:
They understand it when its none of that, and is instead a convoluted and nonsensical equation that says China has definitely had 30 million covid deaths.
1 in 300 roughly
Most people know more than 300 people. Statistically, almost everyone had someone they know as an acquaintance, co-worker, friend or relative die from COVID
Homie think about all the students in your classes you did a project with, all the randos at some party you hit it off with one night and forgot about, all the middle aged co-workers, all your friends parents growing up, teachers at your school. It adds up quicker than you realize, even for friendcels
Uhhh… annoying uncles who married your dad’s sister. Social workers and doctors assigned to you. Grindr hookups. Idk. We meet way more people than we realize.
If a person knows 300 people, and both deaths and the friend group are uniformly distributed (ofc a bad assumption), there would actually be a ~63% chance of knowing at least one person who died of covid. The probability of knowing at least one person that dies is 1-((n-1)/n)^n ( ((n-1)/n)^n being the probability that all n people do not die), since n is large it's roughly approximated by (e-1)/e, or 63%
63% = almost everyone
Talk in vague and qualified ways, rarely be wrong
I'm pretty sure 0.3% is the death rate conservatives initially claimed was exaggerated and now we have to pretend is simply too small to care about :dean-smile:
we probably fared better because the people here are younger and more likely to be vaccinated. but, sadly, it wouldn't surprise me if the number turned out to be non-zero. :deeper-sadness:
I died for a while, but they don't call it the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism for nothing
:amerikkka-clap: :stalin-gun-1: :amerikkka: :stalin-gun-1: :amerikkka:
God damn America. That's in the Bible, for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.
My mom is somewhere in that number.
Or maybe not because she died along with about two dozen people at a nursing home early on, and they were desperate to sweep those deaths under the rug.
tfw its actually definitely over 2 million dead because we systemically undercounted and intentionally misdiagnosed deaths :doomer:
Yet my parents :brainworms: say they're inflating the numbers :doomjak:
Al least they don't support NATO or the war, I guess that's something
it is something, something bad lol, if that means what I think it does
It's not that bad, they're not complete chuds and they don't watch Fox news or anything
Just a couple of old hippies who managed to keep their anti-war beliefs without losing the other bullshit
They still wear masks but :yea:
look jack our donors need you to go back to serving boomers who hate you
this shit makes me sick. how do you avoid genuinely being disgusted with the people around you stepping over the bodies without a mask on? it feels like waging a war against a virus that will inevitably kill me every time I leave my house
exactly. I am probably never going out to eat again for the next decade at least. I just don't want to risk it
AND I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN
WHERE AT LEAST I KNOW I'M FREEEEE
Lady's and gentlemen..... WE GOT EM :amerikkka-clap:
Max Blumenthal: "this is the terror of the biosecurity state"
Well I'ma do a shot in memory of the million dead of a preventable pandemic, in addition to my usual shots done for the millions dead by preventable diseases, etc.
No i'm not an alcoholic
