• Neuromancer@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    I will admit, sometimes I start to think, maybe they are on to something…

    My best friend from childhood sometimes slips into SC territory. We don’t talk often but when we do, it can be a doozy. HE was never like this before COVID.

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      10 months ago

      COVID hit hard on mental health for many of us

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        10 months ago

        COVID hit hard on mental health for many of us

        That I understand, when you had the Democrats going full fascist on everyone, it wears people down. The Democrats made it hard for normal life to function. It’s why they are suffering the consequences to this day.

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          10 months ago

          Dude, one party advocated for following recommendations made by medical professionals. The other, not so much.

          It was hard for a normal life rhythm precisely because those same normal behaviors did nothing to curb the spread of a contagious virus.

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            10 months ago

            The Democrats didn’t follow the science. Had they followed the science, we would have been like Sweden. They followed the science.

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              Can you point to how you believe the Democrats went full fascist while not being in total control of the government?

              Then, can you point to how Sweden followed the science but the Democrats did not?

              I think there’s a nugget of overlap and truth here, but I haven’t experienced it

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                  I was in Virginia during most of the pandemic and I have not seen or experienced any of what you’ve said. The government responded a little later than other countries on imposing restrictions. I distinctly remember being in charge of a small group of individuals who worked in close proximity, all concerned with their health and being unable to do much about it because the government had not yet pushed down any actionable information. This was during the Trump administration by the way.

                  Cloth masks weren’t advertised to be absolute protections against COVID. Again, the information passed down meant to demonstrate that masks would be one tool in your toolbox meant to help mitigate the spread of the virus. We all know that peeing your pants doesn’t prevent urine from escaping. It does help reduce the amount that gets on the person sitting next to you. Even better if they’re wearing pants too, as some of those airborne droplets get trapped at the cloth layer before making contact with your skin.

                  Fauci did not have trust because he was actively admonished by around half of the US population. The expert was not treated as such by numerous non-experts. Not too much to say here. We cannot place absolute trust in others as a level of healthy skepticism keeps us from moving forward, even in science, but you do need to be able to exercise critical thought and the possibility that you may be wrong. I’ve seen none of the latter.

                  I think what really sucks is that those who chose to ignore the COVID guidance died in higher proportions than those who did not. I guess they died according to their principles.

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          The Democrats didn’t make it hard for normal life to function, COVID did.

          Also lmao at ‘full fascist’ as if there were forced vaccination camps that the government was tossing idiotic republicans into. Ironically that probably would have been a lot more successful at disease prevention than the ‘ignore the problem, prevention is the real enemy, I want to die attempting to breath god’s free air through my ventilator and that’s my right’ strategy that many red states adopted

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          10 months ago

          So what’s your favorite method of ivermectin use? Do you just take a dewormer cocktail or do you butt-chug it?