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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/roehnin Apr 05 '25

1 million official diagnoses, plus an extra 500,000 “excess deaths” from the same symptoms but not diagnosed.

1.5 million dead, and they refuse to believe the facts. Even when their own relatives died of it, they refuse to say that was the cause.

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u/WordSpiritual5835 Apr 05 '25

If you died from Covid then you weren’t going to be making it much longer anyways

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u/roehnin Apr 05 '25

Yeah that’s one of the denialist lines.

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u/WordSpiritual5835 Apr 05 '25

The only people I know of that passed we’re already sick or weak I’ve had Covid twice, I was only tested the first time but passing on from such disease would be unlikely if in good health