"in my country the covid pandemic has been over since at least two years"
some foreign country
wtf does this dipshit think the 'pan' part of pandemic means lol
i absolutely adore the chauvinism dripping from this statement btw
"oh that's some foreign country" like eat a live grenade goddamn
A few months ago he also came to the defense of a Lemmy moderator who was defending nude drawings of kids. When people called him out on it, he not only doubled down, but even came to the_dunk_tank to play some disgusting game of semantics where he argued that such content can't be considered abusive. While Dessalines got rid of that moderator, Nutomic came away unscathed, yet again. I know that people tend to respect Dessalines because of the work he's put into the platform, but it reflects really badly on him if he's willing to look the other way while his friend keeps spouting reactionary bullshit.
the pandemic is not happening in my country
So has your country closed it's borders to the rest of the world, because if not, that's not how any of this works.
i remember living in china, and the pandemic being pretty much over by early summer 2020. some small flare ups and strict pandemic control after that though. things were good for a couple of years.
then the rest of the world decided that it's unfair that china showed that controlling the pandemic was possible, and that every other country were letting their citizens die by the tens of thousands for no reason.
finally restrictions were being lifted, a huge spike in infections obviously resulted, and immediately chinese people travelling overseas were being treated like garbage at every international airport, and in western news there were racist stories about how much these people spread disease, like back to january 2020. suddenly for a short time those western countries cared about the spread of covid again, because they could be racist about it again
I remember being in Australia when it still news when a single person had covid in mid 2021, when the US had cracked 650,000 deaths
Seppos were not very happy about this
In National Review, the flagship magazine of mainstream conservative thought, various headlines have read “When Will Someone Hold Human-Rights Hearings on Australia?,” “Australians Are Suffering from Excessive COVID Lockdowns,” and “When a Western Society Goes Insane.”
A Sept. 9 article in The Federalist declared: “The once free and open Australian continent has effectively become a giant prison for its 26 million residents.”
That same month, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida mused aloud: “Is Australia freer than China, communist China, right now? I don’t know. The fact that that’s even a question tells you something has gone dramatically off the rails with some of this stuff.”
On Sept. 30, Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host, devoted 12 minutes of his show to Australia, documenting its supposed slide into authoritarianism. “One moment the English-speaking world is mocking China for being dystopian and autocratic,” he warned. “The next moment they’re aping China and hunting people down who are two blocks from their homes and smoking a cigarette.”
Two months later, Carlson referred to a quarantine facility in Darwin, Australia, as a “Covid concentration camp.”
In October, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, got into an exchange with the leader of Australia’s Northern Territory after tweeting, “I’ve always said Australia is the Texas of the Pacific. The Covid tyranny of their current government is disgraceful & sad. Individual liberty matters. I stand with the people of #Australia.”
In November, Joe Rogan, mistaking satire for a real ad, posted on his Instagram account: “Not only has Australia had the worst reaction to the pandemic with dystopian, police-state measures that are truly inconceivable to the rest of the civilized world, but they also have the absolute dumbest propaganda.”
Okay it turns out we're the libs and that person is posting from the DPRK. Everyone apologize for not recognizing AES posters.
They're re-opening tourism (apparently by the end of this year), so they won't be safe for long.
I hate when you bring up factual information against a COVID denier, then they say it doesn't apply because they live somewhere else, but fail to actually provide any information that is relevant to them. Not to mention that vaccination rates are low worldwide so there is no herd immunity or any mechanism to prevent infection rates from homogenizing worldwide so if there's a huge bump in America there necessarily has to be a bump worldwide, how could there not be?
um actually i live in antarctica(Which did not even escape covid https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Antarctica)
I had covid 2 weeks ago that made me take 7 days off work lol but yeah it's over
In your body the pandemic has been over for at least 2 weeks.
Covid stays in your body for up to years after. The party is never over.
It commonly does this! We don't know enough to say how often exactly. But yeah :<
unless you live in nutomic's basement then your local conditions don't apply 🙃
Betting they're totally granting extra sick time for that right?...
1st I got it was a few weeks after extra covid sick time ended in my company.
No, but if i had been here for over a year then yes i would have.
Provincial government mandated 5 paid sick days during the time when governments pretended to care and we get to keep them forever.
My job is actually pretty good but only if you've passed the year mark
People still catch it routinely where I live, and the local chuddery get hyper aggressive and confrontational if you mask up, so I have some coworkers that despite being immunocompromised won't because of the logic that a beating by a deranged chud will end them quicker than covid, and the results are what one would expect which is enraging.
it really sucks that nutomic is still an admin at .ml, Dessalines is cool as hell and I respect them a lot, but I have no idea how this fash sympathizing unequivocal piece of shit is allowed to stick around. it makes no sense.
Must be good at something specific that most people aren't.
I needa get off .ml but my application to hexbear never got approved :(
Dessalines is cool as hell
Do cool people often hang out with fash sympathizers or does Dessalines get a pass
they have a GitHub page with essays on communism and US atrocity documentation, that's pretty cool imo.
"Those stats are from some foreign country, completely irrelevant to me"
Has your country locked down all international travel? By that logic Covid being found in Wuhan in 2020 was irrelevant to the rest of the world because it's "a foreign country." This mf not understand the modern globalized world?
at -50 votes now
imagine being too much of a lib for lemmy.world
Oh apparently from Germany, so basically the same chauvinism.
Germany: That famous isolated island in the middle of the sea with no contact to anywhere else in the world.
