• ssillyssadass@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Europe will be fine. Asia will be fine. Africa will be fine. Australia will probably be fine.

    But America?

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      "America will be more than…“fine.”

      "We will be Great. Yes we will be more than fine because we…are the greatest country the world has ever known, and our god-fearing liberty loving citizens won’t be stopped by a communist virus to stop our way of life. The wheels of America will march on and we will not cower to the godless other side of the world who hides with “lockdowns” and “vaccines.” Oh yes we are too great of a people to be hindered by such a preposterous, radicals and anti-american ideal…so much that it will never happen he–

      CDC: uh sir you may want to check out what we hav–

      – NEVER HAPPEN HERE."

      by the way, can you tell I just played Helldivers 2?

  • Komodo Rodeo@lemmy.world
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    Good thing that the POTUS isn’t an incompetent sack of shit then, right? He’ll get things under control and keep them from getting out of hand, leading to tens-of-thousands of deaths, and overwhelming the U.S. healthcare system, right? Right? /s

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      17 hours ago

      If not POTUS, then at least person in charge of healthcare is a real professional and reliable.

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      20 hours ago

      Clearly this why Trump did the tarrifs. To stop the flow of COVID infected goods from China into the US. A true 4D chess master at work. /s

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      18 hours ago

      ICE agents have shown they are okay masking so surely MAGA will be ok to follow their lead and mask now

  • Roman the last@api-dev.rabotaem.app
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    10 hours ago

    I don’t understand what could be wrong with this. How can a virus be eradicated? It just mutates and continues to kill, just like the flu virus.

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        9 hours ago

        Technically only smallpox has been completely eradicated in humans. Polio is just almost eradicated.

        Which, given how awful polio is as a disease, is still a huge goddamn win.

        So much disinformation centers around “how can we ever completely stop it!?!?”

        But we don’t talk about fire this way. Fire is inevitable - literally, fundamentally, inevitable. As long as humans live on Earth, or as long as humans require oxygen to live and energy to thrive, we will have fires, whether we intentionally make them or not.

        That doesn’t mean we stop trying to fight fires.

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          7 hours ago

          According to the World Health Organization, 290,000 to 650,000 people die of flu-related causes every year worldwide. COVID-19 has killed over 5 million people worldwide in just 2 years. So you bet wrong.

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            6 hours ago

            What if we look at it from a slightly different perspective? 16,000 people died from the flu in the United States in 2024, and about 29 million more were infected. For the first time in five years, the mortality rate from seasonal flu surpassed the number of coronavirus victims.

            Be that as it may, I regard COVID like the flu; it takes down the weak, and this is normal from an evolutionary standpoint.

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              6 hours ago

              I’m really not interested in entertaining any social darwinist trash like this. The nazis tried it, it was dumb then, and it’s dumb now. Keep this kind of nonsense to yourself.

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    18 hours ago

    I literally cannot go through another pandemic in my lifetime. Just let nature run its course at that point.

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      13 hours ago

      I miss the quiet. And people not being allowed to shake hands and breath in my neck.

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        And people not being allowed to shake hands and breath in my neck.

        Not sure I’ve ever breathed on someone’s neck when shaking their hand. I can’t believe I’ve been failing proper etiquette this whole time, how embarrassing… I’ll have to start doing this at work from now on before meetings.