pandemic? what pandemic?
"Hey!..." COOLVID suddenly appears and he's just different enough from Kool-Aid Man that lawsuits aren't initiated. COOLVID's sunglasses shake as if he's having tremors as he says "We're in a new normal, everybody. Let me tell you what that means..."
Had someone tell me last week that “COVID is how you thin the herd and the weakest were the first to go.”
I was in awe that something so genocidal could be said out loud so I said that those people were allowed to die by the state in a campaign of genocide.
The USA is genuinely like one major trauma away from becoming an outright fascist state. The amount of outright insane, genocidal shit I hear from other people is bizarre. How did we even get like this lmao, it wasn't this bad 4-6 years ago
The USA is genuinely like one major trauma away from becoming an outright fascist state.
I'm surprised we still need one more
Liberals can be just as bloodthirsty as conservatives from what I’ve noticed
Liberals LOVE watching poor people suffer, especially if it makes them look stupid.
Older people were all taught eugenics as science (even when discredited, textbooks were still written by the same companies and had the same authors) and eugenics is still a significant part of social and health policy.
Yes the US has always been fascist.
Wonder if we will get any acknowledgment when the toll hits 1 million officially
It has already but then they removed some deaths too bring it back under a million
Yeah I remember they literally used the chud talking point of “deaths WITH covid as opposed to deaths FROM covid”
Well now that deaths FROM covid are about to reach one million before we head into the summer, is anyone going to acknowledge the victims? Rhetorical of course the answer is no
Listen to death panel. They’ve been railing against this shit for while.
"ok but do you actually trust China's numbers?"
"do you actually trust ours?"
There's still time for the CDC to say there was yet another oopsie that caused an yet another over count and the actual number is minus 50,000.
We're also counting fewer deaths due to changes in monitoring requirements, so 400 today means more deaths than 400 six months ago.
changes in monitoring requirements
What are the changes?
Basically this: https://khn.org/morning-breakout/hhs-cdc-might-change-method-for-counting-covid-cases/
I wondered why I wasn't aware of this stuff and then I checked the date of the top articles. The Politico article is from February and it's also everywhere on google but I didn't read it because I don't know what was planned and what was actually implemented.
The American media is shit. It's truly shit. How can the average American with no interest in the nitty-gritty covid details have any idea what's actually happening?
I noted of the subheader of the Politico article...
Biden officials trying to recalculate U.S. Covid-19 hospitalizations - POLITICO
The administration’s goal is to get a more accurate sense of Covid’s impact across the country.
"More accurate", huh?
Yep, and I also have a vague recollection that a lot of places were requiring a positive COVID test to claim it was the cause of death even if a patient had all the symptoms and died from them. When the healthcare system gets overwhelmed and people are trustede for 14 hours, they die without time to get tested.
I just posted this a few minutes ago - https://hexbear.net/post/191463
The difference between informational covid Twitter (and sites like Hexbear) versus the media says is shocking. From the sources I check - I'm shocked on a near daily basis. But liberals who get their covid news from "trusted" sites like NYT or MSNBC see an entirely different reality.
I think covid in the future covid could be a category ~4 medical hurricane lasting many years. But most liberals must think we're probably at the tail end of the pandemic because we are in a "new normal". And - of course - a lot of independents and right-wingers came to that conclusion a long time ago.
It's truly horrific and I'm constantly astounded by the power of propaganda during this pandemic.
I wish I could say something positive about anything involving the US. For example - if only I believed that the upcoming GOP justice anti-abortion ruling will force a change in the moronic dem leadership and in Biden himself. But I think the opposite will happen. Biden and many important dem voices will say crap like "We are one nation and we must find common ground."
They'll keep stressing unity which is insane! And - of course - some (many?) dem pols will secretly be filled with glee. It makes fundraising as easy as pie.
Yeah, I'm just waiting on the next wave to hit. Almost no one in spaces around me bothers now that it's legal not to. Transit is still pretty good at least, most people here will wear a mask on the bus.
The wave has hit, we're in it right now. But testing has shifted from federally funded PPR to the at home tests. At home tests are worse for false negatives and they are easy to screw up. Americans can't read directions well and most jobs don't have COVID sick pay anymore, so people are definitely incentivized to not take covid or testing seriously.
Only about 100 people die each day from car accidents, but you don't see people screaming about freedom over seatbelts, well, at least not very many.
There's definitely a subsect of chud that refuse to wear seatbelts. They even manufacture fake seatbelt ends to stick in the fastener so the car doesn't beep
And that subsect was much bigger when seatbelt laws first came out.
Covid aid as been cut for the uninsured, and aid for insured people probably isn't far behind. Sick leave for covid is gone. Iirc one state changed the definition of covid patient to only include people that were on a specific medication. Covid itself may still be real, but I doubt the numbers are.
I don't believe any of these numbers. It's probably like 1,000+ deaths per day still, and 1.5 to 2 million total deaths in the United Shits
no one has said anything to me, but if anyone says anything I'm of several minds:
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the truth, I live with someone who is immunocompromised and work with others who are
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lie and say I was just at a superspreader event /actively have covid now
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something about security/facial recognition.
"I don't trust the government. Do you REALLY believe them that it's safe to not mask? They've been lying constantly about this."
This is the ticket. Had some chud start talking to me about how he loves seeing everyone's faces again a couple days after mask mandates were ended while I was in the process of putting mine on. It's a real stumper for them.
Pull your mask down and say yeah I know but I just tested positive then cough a couple of times
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i wonder how much they are going to charge us for the next round of vaccines
I'm somehow lucky enough that about 1/3 to maybe 1/4 of people here still wear masks. And at least half of the workers at any store I've entered have still worn them.
