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[–] 74 points 6 hours ago* (13 children)

And for a while during Covid, we beat the 9/11 immediate death toll for several weeks straight, every single day.

But it didn’t matter one fucking bit, because we care more about optics than numbers.

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  • [–] 32 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

    The attitude was off the charts odd.

    People yelled. People refused to wear masks. People (non-patients) were hauled out of emergency rooms by security. People accused healthcare of lying about diagnoses. People accused healthcare of being paid off to lie about all covid diagnoses (by whom is far less clear). People went so far as to tear breathing apparatuses off the “loved” one it was helping breathe. People won the country a full hospital ban on visitors that didn’t fully go away until very recently. People died of covid or covid complications and their own people still didn’t believe Covid existed.

    And why? Because they didn’t want to wear a mask? Because they didn’t want to stay home from work when sick? (Remember, everyone mostly dosed themselves with cold medicine and then took their crud into work, infecting everyone, in before times.)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    You weren't paying attention to the alt media igniting and fanning the flames as the pandemic unfolded, it was like Covid itself started broadcasting and posting on forums. Unbelievable shit. Felt like one of those "wacky wednesday" books but with, you know, more people choking to death on their own blood.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    Genuinely speaking, considering this same shit happened in other flus and other public health emergencies, and like look at the ebola thing in Africa rn..

    I think most humans are just big unhappy about things they feel they can’t control, and want to ignore them until they go away. That’s played out historically with doctors just poo pooing germ theory because they didn't understand how it could be the case, and didn’t care to look into it, even as their own patients died by the dozens.

    and.. Look.. I'm very uncomfortable saying this because I don't actually view people this way, but the dumber you are the less you understand the world around you and the less control you likely feel you have over things. The more likely you are to just be obstinate about shit if it goes against what you think you know. People are stubborn because they are stupid and don’t understand what they are fighting with and against. And unfortunately education campaigns aren't a silver bullet, neither is literally anything, including over 100 years advancement.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)

    There's still like 200 US covid deaths a day month too lol

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  • [–] 4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    200 per month, worldwide. But that’s still a lot

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago (1 child)

    https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

    Roughly 200 per month in the past 3 months is All Deaths Involving COVID-19, and for 2026 it also says about death certificates "In at least 67% of these [6,028 for the entire year of 2026 so far] deaths, COVID-19 was listed as the underlying cause of death. For the remaining deaths, COVID-19 was listed as a contributong cause of death."

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago

    Covid matters but comparing death counts doesn't exactly mean the deaths in 9/11 didn't matter. That would be the relative privation fallacy. I wouldn't shrug it off just cause it was "only 3000 people" or something.

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