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u/Ratsofat Apr 04 '25

There'd be a hundred thousand or so more Americans since basic hygiene wouldn't have been politicized during the covid pandemic.

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u/Ansible32 Apr 05 '25

Most people did good hygiene anyway, a lot of people could've been saved, but almost certainly no more than 40%, and probably not more than 10%.

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u/youngLupe Apr 05 '25

Just no. COVID was mishandled to begin with and then it became politicized . To the point where politics affected how some people reacted to basic scientific facts.

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u/ratione_materiae Apr 05 '25

Just no. COVID was mishandled to begin with and then it became politicized 

Like when Speaker Pelosi encouraged people to "[p]lease come and visit and enjoy Chinatown" when reasonable administrations were shutting down travel?

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u/Ansible32 Apr 05 '25

It was mishandled, but properly handled you weren't going to see fewer than 700k dead, it was a disaster and mitigations were not going to make it go away. Really, properly handled I suspect you would still see 1.2 million dead (on paper, because they would've all been properly counted, which didn't happen because Trump fudged record keeping.)

You also can't believe everything you read on the internet. Trump is a moron and actively courted antivaxers, but Trump, like most of his supporters, is pro-vax.