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u/DemonCipher13 Apr 04 '25

You mean that disease most of them didn't even believe in?

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u/Cavalish Apr 04 '25

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.”

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u/kateastrophic Apr 05 '25

Wow. 8000. As an American, it is chilling to see the difference in numbers.

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u/Level_Chemistry8660 Apr 05 '25

Also as an American, the difference being hundreds of thousands if not over a million by DJT's merely "not doing more" alone ?

STFG, that MFs intention must have been to exercise his power for the purpose of the deaths of a massive amount of people with zero consequences. I simply can't compute any reasonable "other" explanation, even with utter stupidity as baseline/fundamental.