Anthony Fauci testifying in front of congress in the year 2026 is so funny.
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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
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Anthony Fauci testifying in front of congress in the year 2026 is so funny. A government run by 4chan guys
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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 freezer trucks? you mean mobile incinerators.
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@healyn I still know people who derisively call it "the deadly COVID," and I'm like "Motherfucker it was deadly, here almost like nowhere else because of people like you."
@BustaMarx @healyn it nearly killed me, and it did kill several people i knew directly. fuck these assholes trying to actively erase and forget that.
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had to block someone who quote posted this one, saying that peak has yet to come (scrolled through their timeline, and they're just constantly promoting a podcast)
@healyn that person explicitly listed she/her pronouns in her handle
maybe it'd be nice if you do not misgender her even if you disagree with her
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@BustaMarx @healyn it nearly killed me, and it did kill several people i knew directly. fuck these assholes trying to actively erase and forget that.
@june @BustaMarx @healyn one of my really good online friends died of 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
I kept some measure of emotional balance by reading Mark Sumner's posts on DailyKos (now writing at Uncharted Blue) tracking nearly every aspect of the developing pandemic from case fatality rates in Italy in February to NYC transmission rates in March to info about masks, and on and on as we stocked up on canned goods and donated the latex gloves and handful of N95 masks we managed to find to the local hospital having no idea how bad it might get.
Fauci is a damn hero if anything.
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I kept some measure of emotional balance by reading Mark Sumner's posts on DailyKos (now writing at Uncharted Blue) tracking nearly every aspect of the developing pandemic from case fatality rates in Italy in February to NYC transmission rates in March to info about masks, and on and on as we stocked up on canned goods and donated the latex gloves and handful of N95 masks we managed to find to the local hospital having no idea how bad it might get.
Fauci is a damn hero if anything.
@joeinwynnewood seems rational. You could have just listened to the wealthiest people in the world who thought it would work itself out within a couple months
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@june @BustaMarx @healyn one of my really good online friends died of it
@Tattooed_Mummy @BustaMarx @healyn something particularly rage making about this moment in 2026 is how theres hardly any space available for reckoning with the impacts, which are of course ongoing, but that initial few years was massively traumatic in ways nobody is able to socially/culturally process
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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 @healyn My sister worked a vax bus in Nashville. Had a magno lassi today and remembering her story of when the bus went to a local Indian community center, who kept them stocked with mango lassies and as much as they could eat all day. It truly was a weird time.
