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by thesaintlives 1544 days ago
What pandemic?

The whole situation is the most crazy shit I ever experienced in my 45 years on the planet. Non of it adds up. We have a dangerous but not very contagious initial 'flu' outbreak. Drug companies heavily tied into governments proceed to profit massively. The ordinary citizen pays in many different ways, reduction in freedom and civil liberties mainly.

We now really have a pandemic (of a much reduced nature) which is effectively by comparison ignored. Nearly all my friends and acquaintances have had the omicron variant (relatively mild flu). Omicron is fairly contagious. I got it from a friend and gave it to a friend. Nearly nothing in the media now when the situation is actually much worse.

With regards to the actual 'meat' of the article Americans have not changed, good times make soft people. There are many soft people out there now. Maybe that is what will really change now..
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rnk 1544 days ago
Sorry, I don't agree with the notion that the pandemic was somehow about 'freedom reductions' or control. The us has had many pandemics like all other countries where millions of people have died. During previous ones in the US, we did have new health regulations that were enforced. Examples were the 1918 flu pandemic in the US, and multiple times we've had required vaccinations for public health reasons such as around polio. So only a million people died, that is a million families with someone missing at the table, thousands of kids where both parents died.

The pandemic plans were about trying to avoid huge numbers of people dying unnecessarily, and all the grief that was caused by it to their loved ones. The US did a particularly bad job, considering that we are an advanced society with lots of money spent on health care.

Some people didn't get a bad reaction or die if they got it. Plenty of people did. I think something that kills a million people, overwhelms hospitals for years at a time, drives people out of the medical profession, that is more than the false narrative that it's just like the flu.

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