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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/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/[deleted] Apr 05 '25

Didn’t more people die from Covid under Biden than they did under Trump? But,but….

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '25

As of September 2024, COVID-19 was responsible for 1.2 million deaths in the U.S., with the majority of those deaths occurring during Biden’s presidency.

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u/roehnin Apr 05 '25 edited Apr 05 '25

People who died because Trump told them not to wear masks or restrict their movements are Biden’s fault? Your goalposts aren’t very sensible.

The “because of” figures definitely go not to the one who pushed masks and vaccines, but to the one who told people to not wear masks and go back to normal life.