• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    8 months ago

    Also would have accepted the meme with the Muppet like puppets being asked "and what did we learn?’ and they all scream “Nothing!!”

    I wonder if it would’ve been on net better if COVID had been deadlier. Like if people had been dying from a new disease with blood gushing out of their eyes, would idiots have taken it seriously? Probably not.

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      8 months ago

      The funniest thing is watching all those pandemic/deadly virus movies before 2021. In all those movies, governments, people, scientists, the military and world leaders all work cooperatively together in an orderly way to solve the problem and try to save people and in the end succeed because they worked together.

      In reality, we had a world leader suggest that we could inject disinfectant or use UV light inside the body, panic buying for toilet paper and people in North America start near riots for being asked to wear a mask.

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        8 months ago

        It was a lot more like Jaws where the mayor won’t close the beach to save lives because it will mess with the tourism business.

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      8 months ago

      Not long before covid took off, the first case of ebola in the US was confirmed and people flipped the fuck out. I’m fairly certain that if ebola were actually spreading even a little, those same assholes who treated masks like some kind of human rights violation would have been more than ready to quarantine it, lock everything down, and burn the entire affected area to the ground.

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        Some of those people would have formed a militia to hunt down anyone who they suspected of being infected. It would have been a long, drawn out, paranoid massacre.

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        There actually were lots of people who started out being like “they are sweeping it under the rug wel are all going to die!” Only to turn around and become anti mask zealots when the public policy controls went into place. Some people really do just have a very childish take on authority of any kind, and I say that as a person who is very skeptical of authority myself.

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      8 months ago

      I think Covid was right in the bad spot of seriousness. If it was less deadly, it would be less of an issue. If it was more deadly, it would have been taken more seriously. But it was right at the point that people could say ehhhhhh (encouraged by their media of course).

      Although I’m still amazed over a fucking million Americans dead and people are acting like it didn’t even happen.

      *US 1,180,025 deaths. Worldwide 7,037,007 deaths.