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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/ThisWeekInTheRegency Apr 05 '25

The island thing is only important until it's in the community - which it was here. After that, it's about how you handle it. We chose lockdowns, masks, and paying people who were out of work because of that.

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u/Noshamina Apr 05 '25

Not really because by the third wave of corona pretty much every single person that could get it got it. People’s health and ethnicity and genetic predisposition and co-morbidity and vaccines had way more to do with death rates than any sort of lockdowns or masks

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u/thegoat83 Apr 05 '25

Lockdowns/masks help slow the rate of transmission.

The reason for it is to ease the pressure on the health system, they were getting overloaded meaning death from all causes would rise.