Trump (Or any Subject) Derangement Syndrome

[Ironhold]

1 hour ago, NeuroTypical said:

This is a halfway decent look into the similarities and differences.   https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/flu-vs-covid19.html   It's hardly perfect and gets some things wrong, but no, the lab-engineered covid wasn't/isn't "just another flu".   There's no such thing as long-haul flu, flu doesn't give you blood clots or MIS, for example. 

 

The humans will probably be arguing for the next decade, not just about the impacts and how many people have died of covid, but the efficacy and tradeoffs of all the measures govts took in response.   I think there's growing consensus that closing the schools was a bad idea that will have negative ripple effects for the next decade or two as our children grow.  There will never be a consensus about the government writing stimulus checks after sending us all into quarantine and the link to 14% inflation, because there never is a consensus about economics.  And most everybody has already forgotten about the various horror stories about nonvaxxed getting fired, people arrested for walking on an empty beach, criminalizing religious gatherings while protecting riots, etc.   2020 and 2021 were such crapfest years.

Trust me - there are people who remember. 

[Ironhold]

In all seriousness, the town I live in is relatively peaceful. 

In a normal year, we have 1 - 2 homicides, and the police generally crack the case within a reasonable amount of time. 

In 2020, we had 6+ homicides. 

...With most of the deaths coming from a family annihilation. 

...That has been attributed to the lockdown. 

That's what is going to stick with me more than anything else, the fact that the stress caused by the lockdown led to an entire family no longer being alive. 

[mirkwood]

6 hours ago, NeuroTypical said:

It's hardly perfect and gets some things wrong, but no, the lab-engineered covid wasn't/isn't "just another flu".   There's no such thing as long-haul flu, flu doesn't give you blood clots or MIS, for example. 

 

Good point.

 

@Carborendum's response has good points as well.

Edited yesterday at 12:15 AM by mirkwood