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Feb 2022 is when they started transitioning from pcr's for everyone to home tests.

May 2023 is when they declared an "end to the public emergency" and ended the emergency and stopped requiring hospitals to test people.

This year they stopped requiring hospitals to report much of anything.

I guess this is just how it's going to be from now on, and we'll have to figure out what damage it's doing by analyzing excess death rates

BTW many parts of the US (Hawaii and SF, and my little town apparently) and world are experiencing a pretty sizeable covid surge at the moment. Most likely from the FLiRT variant, and there is also a different variant coming up called kp.3, so that's fun.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Honestly saw the writing on the wall since the 2000s. How many people denied climate change not necessarily because they weren't sure it was happening, but argued from consequence.

"Climate change? Environmentalism? BUT MUH FREEEDUMBS!"

Point is, anglo culture is too focused on its pleasures to sacrifice anything even for its own survival.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The climate change thing is the number one reason that I still keep up precautions. Like oh how did ignoring scientists for the last 70 years go for us?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

grillman: "Yeah, but, have you considered just how COOL we looked ignoring those nerds!?"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Point is, anglo culture is too focused on its pleasures to sacrifice anything even for its own survival.

You can't blame this one on anglos (other than in the sense that they engineered it), everyone is non-masked and pretends it's gone

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Anglos as a group did far worse than many other people though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fort Detrick lost containment briefly right before the “vaping disease” which proceeded Covid. In reality we will probably never know where Covid came from, but if we were going to blame a specific group, the only one we have significant evidence in favor of would be the United States government. Additionally, the first cases in China only appeared after Americans visited in a large number for the Olympics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The Beijing Winter Olympics were in 2022, so I think your timeline's off by a few years?

On another note, the virus almost certainly originated naturally in China due largely to chance and the fact that 1/6th of the global population lives there, meaning the diceroll of something jumping the species barrier is happening more frequently. As far as I'm aware, Chinese researchers (and the Chinese government) also agree on this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

It was the Wuhan military games. It took place October 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Military_World_Games

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You’re probably right. I’m just a stupid dog. I probably should talk about politics honestly.