On big subs, like worldnews.
Like, a lot of people quoting one CDC report on IFR that presented COVID as less dangerous, without actually knowing the difference between CFR and IFR. Despite the fact that the numbers (in the report) are still very fucking high.
I hear more and more people saying that countries overreport deaths, based on some anecdotal evidence (one time a bike crash was reported as a COVID death), which is complete bullshit, of course, easily checked by looking at excess deaths.
Absolutely braindead comparisons to seasonal flu, as if seasonal flu isn't
- less dangerous
- a huge fucking problem and a cause of millions of deaths
Chapos, COVID is the most deadly airborne virus pandemic since spanish flu, and the most deadly virus since HIV/AIDS.
Oh yeah, I say "since HIV/AIDS", but HIV/AIDS pandemic is still happening. Literally millions of people die. We haven't cured it. Who said that we'll cure this one?
Also, you cant really compare coronavirus to HIV, but if we look at annual deaths, then HIV was at its peak at ~1.9 million deaths (in 2005, I think). Compare that to COVID. This is just the first 7-8 months of the pandemic and we already have more than a million deaths! That is, despite the fact that:
- Deaths are seriously underreported (I'm talking 30-50% just in the US. Imagine fucking Brasil. Russia? In Russia its way worse).
- Coronoviruses are seasonal and they peak at winter
- The whole world went into lockdown for months.
Holy shit, I fucking can't.
Mexico has 173,000 extra deaths compared to last year. COVID is decimating our country but our president keeps downplaying the crisis. Our governor was praised for his quick action on locking down our city (Guadalajara), but a month and a half in, they changed their strategy to "personal responsibility", which is going to kill us all.
There's no feasible way to lockdown Mexico to the extent needed to meaningfully halt transmission without massive wealth redistribution so people who live on a dime can stop going to work. This can't exist even at the level of thought under bourgeois politics, so nobody suggested it. We were fucked from the start.
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And still all our bougie population believe AMLO is going to instaurate socialism.
I fucking truly hate them, AMLO entertains them because they're a pathetic caricature of right wing populism and it makes him look good in contrast, but it's like he doesn't see Trump, a caricature of american right wing populism is like, there, being president.
Oh fuck. You also have drug cartel wars, right?