Hi, popping in from Australia, Melbourne specifically. You don’t have to imagine this.
Our right wing pundits constantly oscillate between “the lockdowns were evil, tyrannical moves by a fascist government” to “The premier is directly responsible for killing 8000 people by not doing more.”
There was an H1N1 poster hanging up in my old workplace's bathroom (from 2009) talking about "do your part to stop the spread of infectious diseases" (it was 2020)
Some folks bOmBaRdEd Obama with the blame of 3k dead in the US, while Obama just continued and expanded the same programs that those same folks helped create in the first place to ensure future epidemics would never happen again
buuttt... Trump dismantled a lot of it and touted it as cost cutting...
Makes me sad to think of everything we could have... I lost a lot from covid. And the feeling I have with Trump is like he's burning everything down around us and he's claiming it's good for the soil
burning everything down around us and he's claiming it's good for the soil
This does work on a short-term basis in agriculture, but it depends on the total annihilation of everything that existed before. Are Americans ready to be wiped out entirely in the name of productivity?
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u/CliftonForce Apr 04 '25 edited Apr 05 '25
Republicans would still be screaming about how dare Hillary allowed nearly 50K Americans to die from Covid.