• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    So you mean it’s not “just the flu” like the antivaxxers have told me so often? (Ignoring the fact that the 1918 flu killed between 20 and 50 million people.)

    • Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 months ago

      Now: “People die all the time, whatever.”

      Eventually: “My family are dead and I feel sick, help.”

      When people fabricate a short-term reality based on convenience rather than facts, people make a worse world for everyone.