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>If COVID has taught us anything there's a lot of capacity to ignore diffuse death How has COVID taught us that? Is it because the response wasn't as perfect
by SantalBlush 5y ago
>If COVID has taught us anything there's a lot of capacity to ignore diffuse death
How has COVID taught us that? Is it because the response wasn't as perfect as we would have liked? I really don't think I've seen a lot of ignorance about diffuse death from COVID; quite the opposite actually.
- rtkwe 5y agoEssentially yeah. Look at the proposed alternatives from the right in the US which basically amounted to "If he dies he dies" but scaled up to millions of people. One of the most consistent deflections is that "only the already sick" are dying of COVID which beyond being wildly untrue also has the strains of "it's your own fault you're dying why should I do anything to prevent it?" which doesn't bode well for our response to climate disasters.
- kayodelycaon 5y agoIn the United States, I've heard a number of people say they would rather old people die than have their freedoms violated. Their reasoning is people who die of COVID would have died anyway if COVID didn't happen. My own parents still claim COVID isn't serious, despite my grandfather dying and me being very sick for four months.