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My mom was one of them. not get the shot. She was starting to come around to the idea of getting the J&J shot because it's a traditional vaccine, then she was spooked off by the news telling her that it caused blood clots...

CW: Death She fought for about a day to take her breathing mask off because having things strapped to her face caused panic attacks for her. They sedated her as best they could, but any further and it would have likely killed her. For hours on end she wrestled with my partner, the nurse, and I, flailing in a blind panic until she couldn't keep it up anymore. Her lungs were obliterated and showed solid white on the X-rays; she wasn't even a candidate for intubation. I held her hand while she drowned in her own liquified lungs, till her pulse just faded...

I wouldn't feel an ounce of sympathy for the individuals responsible for allowing it to play or like it did. But the capitalist system is what made these monsters, and I don't want the heads of the Hydra, I want to stab straight into the heart.

I really don't like thinking about how many people have died, having libs tell me they're the harm reduction people just makes me angry, like what the hell have you even done

Federated Lemmy liberal today :"ACTUALLY the Covid response was overblown from the start and not that many people actually died."

The worst is that it's over a million that we know of.

Like half the country stopped recording any statistics 3 months into the pandemic, before the worst spikes even occurred.

It's possible the true number is at least twice that.

The mass death from COVID is also weird from a cultural perspective. There's never been a national grieving for all the deaths. There was this massive event that touched huge numbers of people all over the country and it's been erased from the cultural memory despite it still being ongoing. There was a bigger event for the queen finally kicking the bucket than there has been for all the deaths from COVID. People don't even talk about it anymore, it's like those people just disappeared as if they never existed. We truly live in a completely atomized society, this was treated as a million individual deaths. America has absolutely no shared cultural experience outside of pop culture and consumerism.

Ongoing social murder.

Fuck that blue MAGA asshole. That's the kind of bullshit we never would have had to deal with prior to federation. They don't usually anger me. Their logic pervert pedantry is too silly to actually get angry about. But the fact that it happened in the middle of a thread about over 1,000,000 people dying. A mass murder event by this fucking government. I can't not be honestly pissed off.

COVID is one thing that really broke my brain. I knew i was veiwed as expendable refuse in this society, but this took it and shoved it in my face every day for years. And i can't ever go back to a mind state pre-COVID. I got it even though i did everything not to get it, and my lungs have been fucked up since then. Fuck liberalism

Love to all you comrades

Remember when the trump staff guys, especially whatever that bald nazi fuck's name was, said "let er rip" because it would affect blue states the worst? Into the memory hole it went, genocidal rhetoric against political opponents swept under the rug

It’s crazy how Joe Biden, one of the most milquetoast men in history, is one of history’s greatest killers now

Wow, you just reminded me of this post I made 3 years ago about the grief I was feeling about the mass death we were experiencing. It's almost strange to think about the grief I felt then, compared to how numb I feel to it now. I mean, I can still get sad and angry over specific things that are happening, but I'm not feeling the weight of the mass death the same way anymore. Coping mechanisms are wild.

Also, shoutout to @[email protected] for helping me talk through my feelings at the time.

I remember an early struggle session where I asserted that Fauci was a piece of shit for not using his platform to explain that a lockdown was the only way to contain covid.

I'm still a hermit, because covid is still incredibly dangerous to me. I inject myself with weekly "turn-off-your-immune-system-because-its-being-a-dick-juice", so one bout and I could be dead. Or wreck my brain, which is about all I've got left to survive for myself, because my body is already disabled.

I love that my comrades still care about me and people like me.

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