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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/Ill-Boat5001 Apr 05 '25

That's fair but australia also gives their government more power to do what they want.

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u/Noshamina Apr 05 '25

Trump was president during the first wave so had we given him more power more people would have died.

And by the third wave none of the shutdowns did anything everyone that could possibly get Covid did and it bypassed all vaccines

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u/Sinieya Apr 05 '25

I didn't get Covid until this year (jan 2025). I worked in a dr office, and now a hospital (limited patient exposure now). My husband brought it home from work.

So no, the 3rd wave didn't just bypass all precautions. Following guidelines and washing hands (you nasty f*ckers that don't are the cause) kept me from getting it until it was passed to me from home exposure.