And permantly disfigured even more with long COVID.
They knew what would happen. The US is wealthy with a huge military force. They could have locked down and mobilised their army to protect people until it was over.
But the oligarchs didn't want to slow their profits and give up even an inch of their wealth and power, so COVID was allowed to run rampant. They sacrified their own people to the virus. These people did not willingly sacrifice themselves, they were killed through purposeful negelect.
They also encouraged other countries to do the same. My own country hardly had any deaths before US officials visited and pressured them to open again.
It's no longer tracked properly so who knows the full extent of the death.
This could be one of the largest mass killings in history.
The worst part is when the news tries to spin how traumatic it was for kids to endure our pathectic excuse for a 'lockdown', instead of how traumatic it was to watch our countries murder millions for nothing and hear our friends and families parrot eugenics talking points to try and justify it.
EDIT: [CONTENT WARNING] There is a blue MAGA from another instance in the comments who is hand waving away peoples COVID experiences, so if you have lost a loved one to this disease or had your life or loved ones affected by it, reading the comments here might stir some trauma. Just a heads up.
You're not helping your case by saying something and immediately denying you said it. I haven't seen anyone mischaracterize you, you've said plenty of off-putting stuff without needing to embellish.
From our perspective you're rolling up to minimize everyone's lived experience witnessing people die of a preventable illness. Like it took a lot of restraint for me not to just yell at you for doing a whataboutism, showing up to tell me how bad republicans are. I know how bad republicans are, but the democrats have got a lot of people killed by prematurely rolling back all restrictions.
Under Trump there were fat unemployment checks, Democrats ended that.
Under Trump there was a massively expanded child tax credit, that also got ended by democrats. Do you see how this is a pattern that you can't just make go away by calling it a tankie?
Under Trump there was a mask mandate, that also got ended under Biden
and before you misrepresent me, I fucking hate Trump- but you guys have managed to actually be worse on this front somehow, in addition to stoking culture war shit in defense of your dogshit record.