Anthony Fauci testifying in front of congress in the year 2026 is so funny.
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@healyn the other funny part is everyone forgot that trump was literally the president then
@dankwraith Operation Warp Speed is by far his greatest accomplishment, and he cannot brag about it
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there are a lot of "memory-holed" events in US history, but Covid's peak was only 6 years ago
There were freezer trucks parked outside of hospitals to store corpses, because so many people were dying
It was not some kind of irrational panic, and there is a wildly large contingent of people in the world that views it as such
@healyn those of us who were listening to the NYC scanners in March and April of that year won't forget
And it wasn't what was said, it was the whole atmosphere and tone of what was being said.
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there are a lot of "memory-holed" events in US history, but Covid's peak was only 6 years ago
There were freezer trucks parked outside of hospitals to store corpses, because so many people were dying
It was not some kind of irrational panic, and there is a wildly large contingent of people in the world that views it as such
.3% of the country died.
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there are a lot of "memory-holed" events in US history, but Covid's peak was only 6 years ago
There were freezer trucks parked outside of hospitals to store corpses, because so many people were dying
It was not some kind of irrational panic, and there is a wildly large contingent of people in the world that views it as such
@healyn Covid is an ongoing concern. Although there are fewer deaths from the acute infection happening, the virus has continued to spread year-round at high levels and there's an estimated 400-million people worldwide dealing with some form of Long Covid.
The US is heading into its 13th wave of Covid. It hardly matters what the root cause was for initial outbreak when practically everyone shoulders blame for perpetuating its spread now.
Image source: https://www.pmc19.com/
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there are a lot of "memory-holed" events in US history, but Covid's peak was only 6 years ago
There were freezer trucks parked outside of hospitals to store corpses, because so many people were dying
It was not some kind of irrational panic, and there is a wildly large contingent of people in the world that views it as such
They didn't have enough space to BURY bodies in NYC. They had boxes stacked 2 deep on Hart Island.
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@healyn Covid is an ongoing concern. Although there are fewer deaths from the acute infection happening, the virus has continued to spread year-round at high levels and there's an estimated 400-million people worldwide dealing with some form of Long Covid.
The US is heading into its 13th wave of Covid. It hardly matters what the root cause was for initial outbreak when practically everyone shoulders blame for perpetuating its spread now.
Image source: https://www.pmc19.com/
@thatkatharine I agree that it's an ongoing concern
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They didn't have enough space to BURY bodies in NYC. They had boxes stacked 2 deep on Hart Island.
@carpetbomberz forgot about this...horrifying images
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@carpetbomberz forgot about this...horrifying images
Never Forget. Long trenches dug out with excavators and bull dozers.
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Never Forget. Long trenches dug out with excavators and bull dozers.
Families often found out AFTER the fact, their loved one was whisked out to Hart Island without so much as a phone call, text message or forewarning, 'cuz it was an Emergency and we were under attack and extreme measures had to be taken,... yeah it was bad.
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@healyn I think many people convinced themselves that it had to have been an irrational panic because they found the idea that the problem was so bad that the response was rational to be utterly terrifying. Fear does strange things to the mind
@jalefkowit @healyn not to mention that if we just kinda shrugged and went back to normal while letting it continue to spread, it must not be that bad because otherwise it means the powers that be decided continued death was a small price to pay to get the economy (in the "rich people's yacht money" sense) back on track
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@jalefkowit @healyn not to mention that if we just kinda shrugged and went back to normal while letting it continue to spread, it must not be that bad because otherwise it means the powers that be decided continued death was a small price to pay to get the economy (in the "rich people's yacht money" sense) back on track
@funkula @jalefkowit well that's the other thing people forget. The S&P dropped like 30% within 8 weeks before the Trump administration realized they had to do something
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@funkula @jalefkowit well that's the other thing people forget. The S&P dropped like 30% within 8 weeks before the Trump administration realized they had to do something
@funkula @jalefkowit all that government money was a reaction to a market crash that would have continued
(imo, good reaction from an administration that still had adults in the room)
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@funkula @jalefkowit all that government money was a reaction to a market crash that would have continued
(imo, good reaction from an administration that still had adults in the room)
@healyn @funkula @jalefkowit I'm re-reading William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition" and it really brings back the months after 9/11. And makes me think we memory-holed that first - the sheer enormity of that day could not be processed in any culturally-available way. So we've been getting a lot of practice.
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@healyn @funkula @jalefkowit I'm re-reading William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition" and it really brings back the months after 9/11. And makes me think we memory-holed that first - the sheer enormity of that day could not be processed in any culturally-available way. So we've been getting a lot of practice.
@akamran @funkula @jalefkowit I think about 9/11 way more than I should lol
Totally agree
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@akamran @funkula @jalefkowit I think about 9/11 way more than I should lol
Totally agree
@akamran @funkula @jalefkowit (particularly the immediate aftermath, living near NYC as a white guy, how friendly it all was. Then later hearing stories from anyone who looked like they could possibly be from the Middle East)
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@akamran @funkula @jalefkowit (particularly the immediate aftermath, living near NYC as a white guy, how friendly it all was. Then later hearing stories from anyone who looked like they could possibly be from the Middle East)
@healyn yeah, people oozed goodwill for like 2 weeks. I wore Navajo jewelry for months afterwards but my brother caught it hard (we're half Pakistani).
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there are a lot of "memory-holed" events in US history, but Covid's peak was only 6 years ago
There were freezer trucks parked outside of hospitals to store corpses, because so many people were dying
It was not some kind of irrational panic, and there is a wildly large contingent of people in the world that views it as such
@healyn Worked in and still work in health care and research. Like I can't forget it.
The best estimates I saw indicate a million deaths in America.
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@healyn Worked in and still work in health care and research. Like I can't forget it.
The best estimates I saw indicate a million deaths in America.
@StevenSavage sorry you went through that, truly
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@StevenSavage sorry you went through that, truly
@healyn my job is tech project management. A lot of people had it much worse.
But a factor that does get forgotten is that medicine involves a huge amount of people. Pharmacists, admins, janitors, doctors, nurses, warehouse workers, IT staff, etc. A lot of us saw this directly.
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@healyn my job is tech project management. A lot of people had it much worse.
But a factor that does get forgotten is that medicine involves a huge amount of people. Pharmacists, admins, janitors, doctors, nurses, warehouse workers, IT staff, etc. A lot of us saw this directly.
@StevenSavage I know ER doctors who are conservatives, and they were like, "these fucking dopes". Still somehow doesn't change their politics
