And permantly disfigured even more with long COVID.
They knew what would happen. The US is wealthy with a huge military force. They could have locked down and mobilised their army to protect people until it was over.
But the oligarchs didn't want to slow their profits and give up even an inch of their wealth and power, so COVID was allowed to run rampant. They sacrified their own people to the virus. These people did not willingly sacrifice themselves, they were killed through purposeful negelect.
They also encouraged other countries to do the same. My own country hardly had any deaths before US officials visited and pressured them to open again.
It's no longer tracked properly so who knows the full extent of the death.
This could be one of the largest mass killings in history.
The worst part is when the news tries to spin how traumatic it was for kids to endure our pathectic excuse for a 'lockdown', instead of how traumatic it was to watch our countries murder millions for nothing and hear our friends and families parrot eugenics talking points to try and justify it.
EDIT: [CONTENT WARNING] There is a blue MAGA from another instance in the comments who is hand waving away peoples COVID experiences, so if you have lost a loved one to this disease or had your life or loved ones affected by it, reading the comments here might stir some trauma. Just a heads up.
Check out this cold-blooded crybully hissing and snarling in the federated megathread.
https://hexbear.net/comment/3758823
Cool. Love how we can't let people know this guy was dismissing covid trauma on our instance, because we'll just be falsely accused of brigading again. Love federation.
I already called him out over there. Brigading accusations be damned
I almost commented to tell you not to get involved in other instances. But ya, he was the one pulling that shit.
Yeah normally i wouldn't comment in another instances megathread like that, but i feel he crossed a line in a way there's no excuse for.
He really did
I don't want any of you getting banned, please.
1 hour until we get another post whining about how we need to be nice to liberals
You know, if he just apologized early for being insensitive and not thinking his comments through, we all could've been cool.
How hard is it to see someone venting their grief, realize you missed the tone and back off?
There was a cold blooded "I am sorry if any of you were offended"
apology and it was packaged with "woe is me the tankies have rejected logic and reason" masturbation paragraph.
EDIT: Found it.
BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!
Oh yeah, fuck that. They were totally in bad faith, but if after the first comment they backed off, it would've been different. The community here would have moved on and been cool if they did some self crit.
But they just had to hold onto the sense of superiority. And all because we checks notes had an issue with the US government causing the deaths of millions.