Still waiting for Obama to take all my guns and outlaw Christmas tbh.
I assume the accepted copout is something along the lines of, “You can thank us for making enough noise that they backed down. Sheepdogs, sheep, blah blah something something…”
No, they just moved on to repeating verbatim every other talking point they’re spoonfed. Hunter’s laptop, “it’ll be gone after the election”, Hillary’s emails, election hoax
And the email BS that transpired after “Hilary’s emails” was much worse than what they were crying about in that election. It was a great way to take the eye off the ball.
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I’ve seen Facebook nutters screaming about 20mph limits in residential neighbourhoods.
Apparently this is a Chinese scheme called “20 minute neighbourhoods” to prevent anyone travelling outside their hometown. I’m not entirely sure of the fucking mental gymnastics required for those leaps of logic. I decided not to argue, because nobody wins pigeon chess, and also she was kind of hot.
Dont put your dick in crazy
Bad advice. Crazy can fuck like no other. Just don’t do it at your place, and use a nickname.
Fairpoint, I stand corrected. I guess using my real name and address was my mistake
The problem of doing it at your place is that they’ll learn your address.
The concept of 15 minute cities is just urban planning being used as the boogeyman.
It’s amazing to me how that happened. It almost feels like it’s part of some one-upmanship campaign for different propagandists.
One says “Ok, I’m going to take a boring, UN plan about sustainable development called ‘Agenda 21’ and make people think it’s some evil conspiracy, despite the full text being available online.”
The other says: “Nicely done, but you think that’s good, I can make people hate the concept of pleasant, walkable cities!”
Yeah, I don’t think it’s about one upmanship, that would be almost forward thinking.
I just think it’s the old boring people don’t want to change.
And that basically is what we have in the Netherlands and it’s awesome. Literally everyone raves about how nice it is when they see it but they hate evil government 15 minute cities
It’s not like Canada hasn’t had 30 km/h school zone speed limits forever. They’re completely deranged, you did good not arguing.
I’m broke 2 weeks before I’m broke 2 weeks, then I’m broke 2 more…
Edit: Guess you folks can’t catch a joke. They said lockdown would only be 2 weeks, then 2 more weeks, then on and on and on.
Eventually people had no choice but to get back to living life, working and obtaining groceries and such.
Lockdown itself was about a joke, as if people can live indefinitely without fresh food or earning money to pay the bills.
Reality is this is an English thread, I don’t speak or read whatever language that is.
And don’t tell me to use Google Translate, this phone is degoogled and I ain’t about to change that to read a foreign article when I live in and experienced the USA side of things.
Would you care to translate for the audience?
Especially since there are people in places of the world that would kill for a vaccine
Like Africa where the overall population wasn’t able to get it and yet had a significantly lower mortality rate than the rest of the world? 🤔
FOUND ONE!!!
70% of Africans are under 30. Age was one of the highest risk factors for COVID.🤔
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Thankfully we are vaccinating newborns now.
The minimum age is six months.
Damn lemmy is harsh on misinformation
Tbh tho I’m down for it
Truth, above all.
I wonder if that’s because there’s a high rate of overall mortality, i.e. they’re only living past 30 sometimes?
It’s because of a drop in child mortality which hasn’t yet been matched by a drop in the fertility rate:
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2023/07/nigerias-demographic-moment-wishful-thinking/
To layman’s terms, people used to make 5 children and 3 of them would die. Then this mortality has dropped. People still make 5 children. The country has too much children. The country is really young and very few per capita are susceptible to covid.
The opposite happens in Western countries. Old people don’t die. People don’t make children anymore. Population is really old, covid really affects a lot of people per capita.
Makes sense. Thanks for the info!
I’ve heard someone tell me “it’s a hoax but I got sick twice” in the same sentence.
My boss lost his sense of smell (it’s been over a year). He copes by saying he’s never been much of a foodie! He tells employees not to take covid tests.
Shall I assume you don’t live in the USA?
They withheld any information about C-19 to US citizens until into 2020. Yet I found myself sick with ‘influenza’ for Christmas 2019.
That was the closest thing worth calling a ‘hoax’, the fact that it came out in 2019, but the US public wasn’t even made aware of it until later into 2020.
By then people were already sick, and it was spreading out of control. Lockdown was about a joke at that point, they waited too long for lockdown to do a damn thing.
BTW, it didn’t affect me any worse than any other case of a strong cold or the flu, though I totally realize it affected others differently.
I definitely heard about it on NPR in Christmas 2019. Not invalidating your experience, but I definitely heard about it on NPR. People were watching it
Live in the US. I saw the news covering it in 2019 and showing footage of people passing out in China. China was the one downplaying it to the world back then.
Yeah my mil was avaxx. Then she infected the entire damned family, including two kids under five.
I have a cousin who still insists that her mom died of pneumonia and that it wasn’t COVID. Her husband is currently in prison for storming the capitol on January 6th, which tells you all you need to know. It’s weird because she’s the only one in my extended family who’s even remotely into far right craziness.
I had a shopkeeper tell me it was a hoax and a few members of his family died of it.
The sheer mental gymnastics that would take…
On the other hand, I can imagine that if one has fallen into the conspiracy rabbit hole, not done anything to reduce risk like getting vaccines or masking, or even going out of your way to avoid taking those precautions, then losing some family members to covid might make doing those mental gymnastics much easier. Because if one admitted one was wrong after such a thing happened, that would also mean accepting the idea that one might be partially responsible for the deaths of one’s own family members, and that is such an awful truth to accept that I can easily imagine someone desperately clinging to any belief that would make it not so, regardless of how absurd it was. Indeed, the longer one hangs on to it afterwards, the worse one’s actions look once you abandon the conspiracy theory, and so the motivation to cling to that belief no matter the evidence just would get stronger.
Like he said it was a hoax and then after a passage of time a few members of his family died, or those were both things said in one conversation?
Straight up my uncle was in the ICU for over a week and has been basically crippled by long covid. He still denies it’s real.
Dude can barely check his own mail 18 months after getting it.
My cousin ranted about COVID and evil masks and Fauci. He then started talking about how he installs 5g antennas for a living and is blown away that people believe conspiracy theories about 5g, and how sometimes his favorite news programs bad mouth 5g, but they’re ignorant and should listen to experts. I lost a little hope that day.
That’s a long time to wait to check your mail.
Being a republican means you never have to admit you’re wrong. You just live in a whole other universe where chemtrails turn the frogs gay, and Trump is an innocent, Christ-like patriot.
What I never understood (not from America), is that one party claims to really care about freedom and less involved government.
Whenever I hear that I think cool, so the freedom to have full autonomy over your body? Legal drugs, abortion, etc. Or the freedom to marry who you want, whatever gender. The freedom to legally end your own life, for example if you are terminally ill.
But usually it’s just large companies shouldn’t pay tax and we want guns, but for everything else fuck freedom.
Also while they claim to oppose the government, somehow the military and police don’t count. Plus how most veterans vote for the party that routinely wants to reduce benefits for veterans.
What gets me is the obvious con of it all. They preach anti establishment rhetoric… while being the establishment. They tell people not to trust the government… while in government… and expect people to trust them. And it works.
No, you understand completely. The people voting for that party are just brainwashed morons and middle class dipshits with a few stocks who think they’ll become billionaires if only regulations were looser. You understand American politics better than like 80% of Americans.
Dude that’s a generalization and is just not true.
While it is a generalization, it accurately covers the majority of Republicans who have been vocal online over the last few years.
As far as I’m concerned each side has been just as annoying and incorrect as the other. Have you seen some of the stupid and objectively false things people say? It’s not just conservatives.
One side wants to advance and protect human rights, and the other side wants to ensure some people never have those rights. While there are boneheads on both sides, the core arguments aren’t same-same-but-different. And there seem to be way more people on the far right who are coal and in greater numbers than there are radical leftists.
USA is not the center of the world
Is the term Republican used outside the US? I honestly don’t know and Google won’t tell me
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USA is not the center of the world
I’d love to see a full discussion from those who are downloading and uploading that comment, to try to understand the discrepancy between the people voting for and against the comment.
I upped because I don’t understand the perspective of the downies
Like many things about humans, I think it just comes down to perspectives moreso than truths.
I would think people are downvoting because it doesn’t make sense in context, like when was the OP claiming the US was the center of the world?
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And I don’t get why they hate the King so much either. The monarchy brings lots of tourism money into the country.
Right, it was only a 2 week lockdown, just like they said! And the vaccine took care of covid once and for all!
It would have been if not for idiots refusing to wear masks and lock down
“We refused to cooperate and look: it didn’t work!”
Well it certainly didn’t kill us all :) x
COVID mortality basically dropped to a rarity with the vaccine. You can also check public data and see the population of non vaccinated against vaccinated. There is plenty of data to show the vaccines are working. Don’t trust the talking heads, check for yourself!
So you don’t believe in the flu? Since we’ve had a vaccine for it for decades and yet it’s still a thing.
It’s crazy how if we had all managed to stay away from each other for roughly a month, we might have eradicated the flu and possibly the common cold as well.
I mean if you also separated all the other animals that can get the flu from each other, including most mamals and birds, then sure, you might be able to get rid of the flu that way, but good luck actually doing that.
Now please shut up and let the adults talk, okay?
Try increasing your ability to comprehend the written word before criticizing anyone else’s ability to do so.
Learn to communicate if you expect others to assume you’re an adult.
You have a remarkable inability to do the above, work on that, and you might be able to actually carry on a conversation.
“Stop hitting yourself! Stop hitting yourself!”
Experts: “If absolutely everybody stops coughing on each other for like two weeks then this can still be another non-event like H1N1.”
Morons who didn’t mask or quarantine or do anything different whatsoever: “TWOOO WEEEEEEKS!”
MAGA: wrong about everything
Make
Anyone
Go
Away
- Tell them that’s what it really stands for
- Say it over and over and over and over
- Country fixed. America is great again!
I mean, it’s already worked on them already…
They did it to woke, let’s do it to maga
Suggestion: Let’s NOT do the shit they do instead!
Operation warpspeed? Never heard of her
Be careful they might actually think there trucks and protests is what saved the world.
It’s amazing to imagine an oppressive government wanting everyone to wear masks forever without a religious demand for modesty. Like you have surveillance that relies on facial recognition.
What’s funny is wearing masks in public was illegal in a lot of places
Can’t admit it to others if you can’t admit it to yourself!
Joke’s on you. I am 5G now and thanks to Bill Gates I can control The Windows with my mind.
