Howdy yanks, it’s doomer time 😎

The linked editorials discuss how for every excess pandemic-related death, there is an average of 9 people who would be severely impacted by the death (and may even present PTSD symptoms). In short, the current mental health crisis is expected to get much worse.

Also there is a graph in the Ars article that can easily be misread. At first glance, it may seem to indicate a declining death rate per capita over time, but that’s not what it’s communicating. The deaths since May 10 include the deaths since June 7, and it’s presented that way to show what countries managed to slow infections in that May-June period (when it became very clear that significant government response was mandatory to curtail spread) and what other countries just let it keep on going.

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It really is amazing that the US was almost laboratory designed to fail a pandemic.

Can’t wait until the next one, with a high fatality rate, so people just start capping people for not wearing masks.

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I have to wonder how effective that rhetoric is.

Because 60% of the country lives paycheck to paycheck, many with 0 paid sick days, I have to wonder how much of that is cope. Like “I literally can’t afford to stay home with Covid, so actually Covid isn’t that big a deal and anyone I give it to will live through it” type shit.

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Oh, for sure. It’s fucking amazing how the US can just prop up the dumbest shit and make it controversial, while we just immediately normalize the truly horrible things.

ONE MAN in this entire country tried to free an ICE facility… That was the peak of the outrage. We literally spent more time squabbling about the definition of concentration camps than we did fighting them.

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RIP williem van spronsen. Rest in power hero. Never forget, never forgive. The pigs have blood on their hands.

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All they have to do is accidentally release the smallpox that the American military keeps locked down instead of destroying. New American Smallpox Plague.

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No. Their genes are sequenced all the possible studying to be done is done. It would be best to simply destroy all samples and move on.

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This is what the ruling class wants. I don’t think we deserve this as being citizens to this shit hole country, but we’re the ones that will be suffering from it while they line their pockets with our suffering.

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Line go up, everything is fine

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It’s pure ideology where you can’t even suggest any form of strong, decisive collective action. It turns out that a pandemic was the straw that broke the camel’s back, but a major famine or massive collapse of infrastructure could have lead to the same result.

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Between Coronavirus, the opioid epidemic, Mass incarceration, ending immigration, and deaths of despair, it seems like the ruling class is literally trying to kill us all off.

Their death cult is trying to get America to commit collective mass suicide.

Survival is resistance.

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*virus turning my lungs to sludge and destroying me heart valves and vains

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The Republican death cult is trying to get America to commit collective mass suicide.

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This would be so fucking funny if it wasn’t also killing non-chuds

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Yeah, I laughed when this whole shit started at Gen Zers calling it the boomer remover, but I’ve seen too many BIPOC grieve at the deaths of their mom, dads, aunties and uncles, cause this shit only seems to kill them.

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