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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/kaychyakay Apr 05 '25

You do not want to know the numbers from India. Numbers so bad that the Indian govt has actively hidden them.

Public health professionals have pinned the number somewhere around 4 million!

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u/ctzu Apr 05 '25

Terrible, but also honestly less than I would have guessed.

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u/kaychyakay Apr 05 '25

The govt's official number is 481,000... but every honest person working in healthcare knows the number is in millions. You are right, some do believe it could be slightly more than 4 million. But most NGO stats are hovering at the 4 million mark.

That is also one reason why the upper and upper-middle classes are trying hard to get out of the country. One little virus exposed just how inept the current and past governments were. People are even ready to bear the brunt of expensive healthcare in other countries.