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9/11 cost us ~ 3000 lives? And we spent 20 years fighting wars, killing 100s of 1000s of people, bombing the shit out of entire countries, and trillions of doll
by 1024core 4y ago
9/11 cost us ~ 3000 lives? And we spent 20 years fighting wars, killing 100s of 1000s of people, bombing the shit out of entire countries, and trillions of dollars in trying to exact revenge.
COVID kills 1,000,000 people (and counting...), which is 333X the death toll from 9/11; and we just shrug and do nothing?
Just doesn't compute.
- jahewson 4y agoOne is an intentional act by a group of people. The other is, at worst, an accident where the main actor is a molecule.
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- YeBanKo 4y agoWhere the main actor is a scientific institution funded by public and private money from multiple countries.
- chrisco255 4y agoHow can you ascribe motives if you don't even know the facts? Even if it was an accident, it would be gross negligence and worthy of intense investigation.
- 1024core 4y agoMy point is that we spent so much effort in response to 9/11, but when COVID happened, we didn't even care to look into what caused the death of 1M Americans, and just took China's word for it.
- rory 4y agoThe bigger problem there is the response to 9/11, not the response to Covid.