Damn, posted a new comment in the previous megathread as it was replaced by this one; so I'll repost, sue me:
It has begun: as of a day ago or so hospitals are once again having to pick who lives and dies here in France, and postponing tons of surgeries due to COVID, with many of those postponements also resulting in deaths. The government finally put a national lockdown in place and closed schools - about 2 months too late.
The official scientific council created for the pandemic already warned in December that a full similar lockdown should be put in place in January but the government ignored them; and in fact there was an article in Le Monde that describes how Macron took to reading scientific publications on the pandemic and has been arguing with actual epidemiologists when taking decisions at about the same level as a reddit user having read two peer reviewed papers and thinking he's an expert. That same article has ministers explaining how he (Macron) gets a lot of his info on the pandemic from a well-known twitter account :agony:
I suspect the exact same thing is coming for the US, by the way; stay safe.
Also, thanks to @lydiaaaaaaa for this new megathread. I would also have added that Kaczynski was a victim of the infamous CIA program MKUltra.
I've been saying since November that just because Biden was elected, people are going to start showing even less care and cases were going to start to explode. I was saying late Jan or Feb, so I guess I was off by a couple months...but Massachusetts just turned around and cases are going back up, so here we go!
Damn, posted a new comment in the previous megathread as it was replaced by this one; so I'll repost, sue me:
It has begun: as of a day ago or so hospitals are once again having to pick who lives and dies here in France, and postponing tons of surgeries due to COVID, with many of those postponements also resulting in deaths. The government finally put a national lockdown in place and closed schools - about 2 months too late.
The official scientific council created for the pandemic already warned in December that a full similar lockdown should be put in place in January but the government ignored them; and in fact there was an article in Le Monde that describes how Macron took to reading scientific publications on the pandemic and has been arguing with actual epidemiologists when taking decisions at about the same level as a reddit user having read two peer reviewed papers and thinking he's an expert. That same article has ministers explaining how he (Macron) gets a lot of his info on the pandemic from a well-known twitter account :agony:
I suspect the exact same thing is coming for the US, by the way; stay safe.
Also, thanks to @lydiaaaaaaa for this new megathread. I would also have added that Kaczynski was a victim of the infamous CIA program MKUltra.
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Thanks again for the thread :af-heart:
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I've been saying since November that just because Biden was elected, people are going to start showing even less care and cases were going to start to explode. I was saying late Jan or Feb, so I guess I was off by a couple months...but Massachusetts just turned around and cases are going back up, so here we go!
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