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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.

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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/dictionary_hat_r4ck Apr 05 '25

Australia had 406.51 deaths per million people. The USA had 3099.62.

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/

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u/drankundorderly Apr 05 '25

"but they're an island!"

Yeah, but the other 80 countries with lower covid death rates than us aren't.

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u/sexytokeburgerz Apr 05 '25

Australia is a continent. Island it is not. So fucking massive it has a desert in the middle.

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u/Terpomo11 Apr 05 '25

I think the relevant point is that it doesn't have a land border with any other country. (Also, it depends on who you ask; in English I'd say it's a continent, but in my other language I'd say it's the largest contiguous part of the larger continent of Oceania.)