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It’s amazing that we’re literally talking about a major geopolitical rival’s negligence leading to the deaths of millions of people, but the right wing talking

It’s amazing that we’re literally talking about a major geopolitical rival’s negligence leading to the deaths of millions of people, but the right wing talking point continues to be “how can we pin this on Fauci?” Americans have been taught to hate each other more than anyone else.

civilitty 3y ago
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- dang 3y ago
  Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. You've posted good comments in the past, so this should be easy to fix.
  - civilitty 3y ago
    beep boop I will tweak the RLHF. d(dang)/dt++
    - deleted 3y ago
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splendor_spoon 3y ago
Conservatives need for the lab leak theory to be correct as they were wrong about basically all other points on covid. They refused to believe in masks, lockdowns, and social distancing and paid the ultimate price at a much higher rate. [0] [0] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/03/03/the-changing-political-geography-of-covid-19-over-the-last-two-years/ https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/03/03/the-changing...
- hsjqllzlfkf 3y ago
  > Conservatives need for the lab leak theory to be correct as they were wrong about basically all other points on covid This is the most persuasive point I've read on HN the entire week, thank you.
  - nomel 3y ago
    It would be interesting to see this with better detail, like age, weight, etc.
- 0xy 3y ago
  Lockdowns were a failure, hence why millions of children were irreparably damaged by them socially and academically. The legacy of lockdown proponents is plummeting test scores and massive IQ drops, because children were merely collateral damage to their hypochondria. [1] [2] [1] https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183445544/u-s-reading-and-math-scores-drop-to-lowest-level-in-decades https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183445544/u-s-reading-and-ma... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/12/children-born-during-pandemic-have-lower-iqs-us-study-finds https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/12/children-born-...
- kyrra 3y ago
  I don't think your link proves your point like you think it does. It's a correlation, not causation. The question is, what other variables may impact conservatives. One of the main factors in if you die from getting covid is age. And conservatives tend to be older. I would love to see an age normalized version of that data. I'd bet it would be about a wash.
  - rootusrootus 3y ago
    The only people in my circle of friends and family who died from COVID were middle age or older obese men who were ideologically opposed to taking a vaccine. I do have a number of conservative friends & family who did vaccinate, none of them got more than the sniffles.

civilitty 3y ago

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dang 3y ago
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. You've posted good comments in the past, so this should be easy to fix.
- civilitty 3y ago
  beep boop I will tweak the RLHF. d(dang)/dt++
  - deleted 3y ago
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splendor_spoon 3y ago

Conservatives need for the lab leak theory to be correct as they were wrong about basically all other points on covid. They refused to believe in masks, lockdowns, and social distancing and paid the ultimate price at a much higher rate. [0] [0] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/03/03/the-changing-political-geography-of-covid-19-over-the-last-two-years/ https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/03/03/the-changing...

hsjqllzlfkf 3y ago
> Conservatives need for the lab leak theory to be correct as they were wrong about basically all other points on covid This is the most persuasive point I've read on HN the entire week, thank you.
- nomel 3y ago
  It would be interesting to see this with better detail, like age, weight, etc.
0xy 3y ago
Lockdowns were a failure, hence why millions of children were irreparably damaged by them socially and academically. The legacy of lockdown proponents is plummeting test scores and massive IQ drops, because children were merely collateral damage to their hypochondria. [1] [2] [1] https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183445544/u-s-reading-and-math-scores-drop-to-lowest-level-in-decades https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183445544/u-s-reading-and-ma... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/12/children-born-during-pandemic-have-lower-iqs-us-study-finds https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/12/children-born-...
kyrra 3y ago
I don't think your link proves your point like you think it does. It's a correlation, not causation. The question is, what other variables may impact conservatives. One of the main factors in if you die from getting covid is age. And conservatives tend to be older. I would love to see an age normalized version of that data. I'd bet it would be about a wash.
- rootusrootus 3y ago
  The only people in my circle of friends and family who died from COVID were middle age or older obese men who were ideologically opposed to taking a vaccine. I do have a number of conservative friends & family who did vaccinate, none of them got more than the sniffles.