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by lamontcg 1108 days ago
> For the vast majority if people, there are way bigger problems than covid.

So the people living paycheck-to-paycheck should just continue business as usual and their families will be the ones dying during the pandemic, because they've got way bigger problems, got it.
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superooled 1108 days ago
1. Given that the vast majority of Covid deaths happened above retirement age, and this was pretty obvious very early on, there's very little weight to this argument.

2. What we did do in response to Covid will instead financially, educationally, and socially cripple those who already were living paycheck-to-paycheck, and make sure they stay that way for a long time.

3. So I assume you are mad at all of the upper-class families, especially those in political power who enacted the school closures, who continued to send their kids to private schools throughout the pandemic, thus furthering the spread of Covid?

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lamontcg 1107 days ago
> 1. Given that the vast majority of Covid deaths happened above retirement age, and this was pretty obvious very early on, there's very little weight to this argument.

COVID killed 19k people 30-39 which is 6% excess deaths, killed 46k people 40-49 which is 10% excess deaths and 201k people 50-64 which is 11% excess deaths.

The Vietnam war killed 58,000 Americans.

> 3. So I assume you are mad at all of the upper-class families, especially those in political power who enacted the school closures, who continued to send their kids to private schools throughout the pandemic, thus furthering the spread of Covid?

If they were doing that, yes. (And I can't understand how you'd think this would be some kind of 'gotcha' or that I wouldn't consider that actually worse).

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spookthesunset 1108 days ago
> So I assume you are mad at all of the upper-class families, especially those in political power who enacted the school closures, who continued to send their kids to private schools throughout the pandemic, thus furthering the spread of Covid?

Once you realize most of the people in favor of those mitigations fall into this bucket… it kinda starts to make sense. There is a reason so many in the laptop class supported this crap. They directly benifited from it.

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