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> a deadly disease that also paralyzes healthcare VS. a tyrannical government that is ever encroaching on our freedoms using scare tactics. It used to be ter
by reedjosh 5y ago
> a deadly disease that also paralyzes healthcare
VS.
a tyrannical government that is ever encroaching on our freedoms using scare tactics.
It used to be terrorism.
I suppose we're both kinda motivated by fear here, I'm just way more afraid of losing my freedoms than I am COVID.
The same messaging system that brought us the `terror meter` and pegged it to red
https://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/terror_alert.png https://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/terr...
is providing similar hyperbolic messaging about COVID.
- Twixes 5y agoTerrorism very broadly kills a couple hundred people a year in the developed world, and has been around that for a long time. Obviously it's a bogus excuse most of the time. Meanwhile, this particular virus has correspondingly killed ~10 000 times more people. That is not hyperbole. That's not even comparable to terrorism, much more like a war instead.
- reedjosh 5y agoHow many people died of the flu this year?
- CRConrad 5y agoPerhaps somewhat paradoxically, much fewer than usual. Partly because some that might have, in stead died from Covid-19, and partly because the countermeasures against SARS-CoV are also very effective against a lot of other diseases like the flu. Why; does that have anything to do with anything? Naah, thought not.