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I chose 100 years as a timeframe intentionally.
by breakyerself 5y ago
I chose 100 years as a timeframe intentionally.
- saagarjha 5y agoWhat’s the point, then? Why purposefully exclude the last pandemic of similar scale?
- breakyerself 5y agoBecause its outside of the lived experience of pretty much everyone alive right now. It's not the reaction to the disinformation thats special. Its the circumstances under which people are spreading disinformation that is special. These aren't JFK assassination conspiracy theories. Almost 2000 Americans died yesterday. A lot of them needlessly because a huge segment of society is treating reality as optional.
- saagarjha 5y agoOh I certainly agree with the effects, I just don’t think it’s worth excluding the last pandemic where similar things happened (even if it was a while ago). It just seems to be a perpetual problem and when there are consequences for that misinformation spreading we see bad results :(
- xupybd 5y agoI think it's more than 2000. Many are dieing from over eating, over drinking, drug addictions, and other bad choices. It's just that we have gotten used to all the other reasons people die.
- breakyerself 5y agoYeah If they weren't jamming up the fucking intensive care units with their stupidity it might be something we could abide.
- vorpalhex 5y agoCanada, Israel and Japan have marginally the same vaccination rate as we do. Our deaths per capita is a bit high but generally in range.