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by jmnicolas 2006 days ago
I almost stopped commenting about it on HN, it feels like a wall of downvotes if you don't agree with the mainstream opinion.
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We will have some very interesting textbooks about the mainstream public response to this in 50 years, I'm sure.
Doubtful. The victors write the history. The Church of “If It Saves Even One Life” and “Anti-Lockdown and Anti-Maskers are Murderers” are clearly the victors in this timeline. Your children and grandchildren will be taught about the backwards racists who were willing to sacrifice old people in the name of money, but how the fascist Donald Trump was finally defeated by the forces of democracy and justice and health was restored.
Well, I agree with you on trump but I feel like the people who have to live with the economic reality of all the mom and pop stores never reopening in favor of big international companies wont be very happy with us
At what point AREN'T you contributing to the deaths if at the very least you can't even wear a piece of cloth over your face?
The places with the strictest mask orders are having surges in cases just the same. E.g. California hospitalizations per capita are now far outpacing Florida. Masks work, kind of, I’m sure, under very particular conditions. But the net effect seems to be minimal.