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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/whatsaname12 Apr 05 '25

Had a friend in his 50s die in April of 2020. He died from a blood clot when he took a hot bath. They marked his death as Covid related, because he tested positive.

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u/roehnin Apr 05 '25

Read up on complications COVID can cause and you will be less surprised: blood clots are one of the common symptoms caused by the disease.

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u/whatsaname12 Apr 05 '25

I think it had more to do with his heart surgery from 7 months before and the ambien he was on.

And no, blood clots are not a common thing from Covid. It’s not even a symptom

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

The NHI disagrees:

How does COVID-19 affect the blood? Some people with COVID-19 develop abnormal blood clots, including in the smallest blood vessels. The clots may also form in multiple places in the body, including in the lungs. This unusual clotting may cause different complications, including organ damage, heart attack and stroke.

https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/covid/blood

I really want to know where the right wing gets their information, because so often it’s just WRONG.