And permantly disfigured even more with long COVID.
They knew what would happen. The US is wealthy with a huge military force. They could have locked down and mobilised their army to protect people until it was over.
But the oligarchs didn’t want to slow their profits and give up even an inch of their wealth and power, so COVID was allowed to run rampant. They sacrified their own people to the virus. These people did not willingly sacrifice themselves, they were killed through purposeful negelect.
They also encouraged other countries to do the same. My own country hardly had any deaths before US officials visited and pressured them to open again.
It’s no longer tracked properly so who knows the full extent of the death.
This could be one of the largest mass killings in history.
The worst part is when the news tries to spin how traumatic it was for kids to endure our pathectic excuse for a ‘lockdown’, instead of how traumatic it was to watch our countries murder millions for nothing and hear our friends and families parrot eugenics talking points to try and justify it.
EDIT: [CONTENT WARNING] There is a blue MAGA from another instance in the comments who is hand waving away peoples COVID experiences, so if you have lost a loved one to this disease or had your life or loved ones affected by it, reading the comments here might stir some trauma. Just a heads up.
My mom was one of them. not get the shot. She was starting to come around to the idea of getting the J&J shot because it’s a traditional vaccine, then she was spooked off by the news telling her that it caused blood clots…
CW: Death She fought for about a day to take her breathing mask off because having things strapped to her face caused panic attacks for her. They sedated her as best they could, but any further and it would have likely killed her. For hours on end she wrestled with my partner, the nurse, and I, flailing in a blind panic until she couldn’t keep it up anymore. Her lungs were obliterated and showed solid white on the X-rays; she wasn’t even a candidate for intubation. I held her hand while she drowned in her own liquified lungs, till her pulse just faded…
I wouldn’t feel an ounce of sympathy for the individuals responsible for allowing it to play or like it did. But the capitalist system is what made these monsters, and I don’t want the heads of the Hydra, I want to stab straight into the heart.
Remember when the international community hoarded vaccines, and decried “Russian and Chinese vaccine diplomacy” when Russia and China supplied vaccines to developing countries
Remember when it finally became undeniable that China had done a better job responding to covid so the NYT started pushing the idea that China didn’t care at all about mental health. It was essentially, “they showed us how to successfully contain covid, but at what cost?”
“they showed us how to successfully contain covid, but at what cost?”
the anti-China rhetoric obviously started pre-pandemic but this shit is when it hit comically deluded levels. BAWCing at every single moment that China did anything to stop the spread of the virus or the deaths of people while simultaneously going “Well, those million people were all going to die anyway, because they’re old!!!” truly should have gotten every single journalist who peddled that bullshit fired.
(out of a cannon, into the sun)
There really aren’t many professional journalists left. The profession has been utterly mauled, and it started years ago, more than a decade I think. Most of the people writing now aren’t journalists, and the ones who are lack the resources that made any degree of credible reporting possible in the past. Go look up how most newspapers have shut down all their foreign offices and investigative offices. Most news now is either re-worded reuters and ap briefs or just reading off government and corporate press releases.
“China’s lockdowns destroyed its economy even though its economy has regularly outpaced the USA’s by three or four times since the pandemic began!”
I’ve been told by very people that actually china didn’t contain the virus at all and they cremated millions and millions of people because communism governments lies blah blag blah.
That and the the bipartisan antivax position on Russia’s and China’s vaccines
I did see some fairly compelling studies at the time I could dig up again about Russia’s vaccine only being 60% or so effective. Still, something is better than nothing, and the shameless cash grab from Bill Gates over vaccine patents was sickening.
I’d be curious what it was 60% effective at? The vaccines to date lower the chance of hospitalization and death but not much else.
I really don’t like thinking about how many people have died, having libs tell me they’re the harm reduction people just makes me angry, like what the hell have you even done
I love getting called a tankie in an edit as you slink away, absolutely craven behavior
There is more to covid reduction than just supporting the vaccine. Paying people to stay home, like more humane countries, making vaccines mandatory for most, and not declaring covid over prematurely are things libs could have done.
But noooope, COVID over!! APPARENTLY!
Saying “oh the conservatives are worse” when democrats enabled disease through inaction is fucking gross my dude.
What the fuck do you even think my complaint is? it’s the rollback of covid precautions at a federal level, cutting the aid they were giving out, ending mask mandate.
You shitheads acted like vaccines were a magic bullet because it was a convenient lie to tell everyone try to get ‘back to normal’. Instead you abdicate responsibility and act like it’s the most anyone could done.
oh good it’s a lemmy liberal
the only way to handle covid was how china handled it, joe biden didn’t do dick differently than Trump (except hit the “covid is over” button a few months ago, cutting $200/mo from my food stamps. Thanks Obama Biden)
you are brainless blueMAGA fuck if you really think any harm has been reduced here
Unlike you, the paragon of empathy.
You jumped a into a discussion about the death of over 1,000,000 people on a communist instance just to throw out some lame lib “muh team bleu slightly not as bad as le ebil team red” bait take, just to pointlessly argue over people “not getting your simple (pointless) statement.”
That’s tasteless enough, that you disregard the over 1,000,000 lives that were lost in this country because of liberalism, but then you insult and trivialize the trauma of one of our users in the most callous and condescending way. And not just any of our users, but one of the best ans most loved comrades on this site.
I don’t think its possible for us to go down a dark enough path to be callous toeard the death of 1,000,000 people, and then hurl reddit nerd, logic pervert insults toward someone who experienced personal tragedy related to the mass death of over 1,000,000 people.
Here’s a little something just for you lib. Wait for it
It’s my genuine opinion that a lot of this rhetoric is originating from propaganda and astroturfing.
You came into thread on a sensitive topic on another instance clearly trying to pick a fight with people, and then when people call you out for it, you double down and accuse them of astroturfing while also smearing them with some McCarthyist nonsense about “tankies”? Can’t you see that you are the astroturfing troll here? I’m dumbfounded that you’re acting this way and then think you’re somehow the victim in all this.
I would love to know which organization or agency is paying a bunch of online leftists to pretend to care about covid this late in the game. Like do they have any idea what astroturfing even means?
Biden and his could have done MANY things. They could have threatened to lift federal funding over misinformation being spread by conservatives, they could have continued masking mandates, they could have done a litany of things that would have actually been meaningful.
Doing the barest minimum is not something worthy of support, and willfully misinterpreting people’s anger at liberals’ failure to do better then that is disingenuous at best.
Fuck you and all the people like you that have condemned me to having to take care of COVID patients forever. Plenty of my patients have had the vaccine and gotten COVID still, several of them died or were so damaged afterwards that they couldn’t go back to a remotely similar living situation. I work with the vulnerable populations and just saying it’s up to vaccines is a fucking joke. Harm reduction would be doing a proper lockdown and eradicating COVID, letting it rip over populations and turning the vaccine into an individualist choice is no different than what the red team would do.
If there’s a sucking chest wound, do I just cover it with some petroleum gauze and call it a day, or do I go to the fucking hospital to get it properly healed? The vaccine is part of the treatment process but not the goddamn solution.
Federated Lemmy liberal today :“ACTUALLY the Covid response was overblown from the start and not that many people actually died.”
“Not that many” compared to what lmfao, fucking global nuclear winter??? Climate change??? An asteroid cutting earth in half???
The worst is that it’s over a million that we know of.
Like half the country stopped recording any statistics 3 months into the pandemic, before the worst spikes even occurred.
It’s possible the true number is at least twice that.
Countless millions more have lasting illness, including disability, from persistent damage done by covid. But because it’s not a statistical death, liberal assholes can do victory dances while the field burns around them.
The whole open question of how many deaths now are a result of damage caused by prior covid infections.
