• Ericthescruffy [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Reminder:

    Even if we eventually find conclusive incontrovertible evidence that the virus came from a chemical weapons lab in wuhan and was deliberately unleashed against the world:

    The United States didn't have to end the lockdown. They didn't have to open up the schools. They didn't have to approach any of it the way they did. They did all of it because line going up was more important than human lives, in stark contrast to china's zero tolerance policy of COVID.

    These deaths are on capitalisms hands no matter what these dipshits want to try to write in the history books.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The US never even had real lockdowns to begin with.

      It's wild how after having an explicit policy of "let's infect all of our children with this novel virus with no mitigation" and finding out that the virus savages all your body sysems including your immune system people still won't admit that the current totally unprecedented wave of respiratory viruses causing severe illness in huge numbers of children is because we collectively offered our children up to Mammon.

      • MedicareForSome [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        The kids are sick because we (cruelly) kept them away from the delicious viruses for 3 months causing a very real, not fake immune debt. Not unlike school lunch debt, they must pay with their lives and future circulatory system health unfortunately.

        I'm sure the death toll of children in communist China is much higher because their kids don't get sick like our brave beautiful kids but they diligently told everyone to keep it a secret. Sadly, they don't have camera phones in China to document the pandemonium so we only know what we can see on Radio Free Asia.

    • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, it would be the equivalent of knowing there are missiles inbound and deciding not to set of the air-raid sirens.

      • Shoegazer [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I built a $30 million nuclear bunker, but if I had to choose between surviving the nuke or buying the latest Burger King Hot Cheetos Mayo Chicken Burger, I'm going with Burger King.