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[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 92 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Quite the difference from how half the US population reacted to a Covid vaccine. The power of political propaganda and social media conspiracy theories.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And how those same people are cheering about Captain Brainworm's intentions to discontinue the polio vaccine.

Behold the power of mass lead poisoning. We truly live in the most stupid timeline.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think this is just the US returning to its pre super power roots. More and more it seems like the last 80 years were seen exception and now they are returning back to where they were before the world wars.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Don't give them ideas!

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

The rise of the middle class in the 50s has definitely been proven to be an anomaly in our history.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

(edit: I think I misunderstood your comment so deleting my comment which wouldn't have made sense)

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Haha, no worries. I did find it a bit confusing. All good though.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think if COVID was leaving people paralyzed it would never have been what it became. The fallout from COVID was bad but maybe not bad enough.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I remember semi trailers being used as morgue extensions at hospitals. Every ventilator in the nation being claimed. People rasping out a good bye over FaceTime before going on a ventilator to probably die. It claimed a million people and the only reason that isn't the official number is because Trump and the GOP refused to count the bodies.

It was absolutely bad enough. But humans are capable of great self deception.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The problem was it was too quick: if you died of COVID, you were dead. You could be memory-holed and everyone would simply forget you and move on.

If you had Polio, though, you were paralyzed and stuck in a metal tube and kept alive.

Can't forget your not-dead kid who lives in a tube, and thus it was treated as more of a thing that should be fought because there was a clear and visible reminder of what this disease was doing to everyone's kids.

If COVID left a couple million people living in tubes, then we absolutely would have treated it differently, but it didn't.

(Alternately, if COVID had killed 10 or 20 million people, we would have also treated it seriously: it just wasn't sufficiently deadly OR left a wake of broken, but living, people.)

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Also, older people were more prone to dying from Covid. That left a lot of room for conspiracy theories regarding what actually killed them. Heard of lot of conservative family members say "oh, it was probably just a bad flu that killed them." And when the vaccines came out that quickly changed to "the vaccine killed them."

My dad died due to COVID and one of the dipshits we hired to help load his stuff into a moving truck kept going on about how incredulous he was that anyone would die from "the flu". These people, they are not intelligent.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, I remember the 'grandma wanted to die for the economy!' ghouls.

And the 'it's just a flu!' people pissed me the fuck off. Like have you morons never HAD the flu? It's not like the flu is somehow pleasant and fun. You don't want the flu! Nobody wants the flu! You idiots got a flu shot, get your damn covid shot.

[–] derfunkatron@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

And the ‘it’s just a flu!’ people pissed me the fuck off.

I think many people haven’t actually had the flu or have had it after a vaccination or a during mild year.

That shit is awful, and it can and has killed. Hell, 100 years before COVID there was the 1918 Flu Epidemic which killed nearly three times as many people as COVID. So when some chucklefuck prattles on about “it’s just the flu,” my response is always, “that doesn’t make it safer.”

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome might not be quite as bad as paralysis, but it is pretty fucking scary..

[–] mosscap@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

COVID is leaving people dead...and long COVID is definitely a thing as well.