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Originally Posted by berettafan
Correction: The RESPONSE to Covid was the problem. Covid itself was not the problem.
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i care about a million americans dying. its amazing to me how few people do. they still are dying too.
i was in 9th grade when 9/11 happened. about ~3,000 americans died that day. i came of age while being lectured by 50% of americans why we needed to spend 8 trillion dollars, and thousands of my friends lives invading arab nations that had no effect on 9/11, and to do anything less was unamerican and siding with terrorists. even questioning the nesssiety of these wars, and the money and lives lost, was fighting for terrorists. people accepted any cost, of life and money, and it all justified to never have a day like that ever again.
and i cannot compromise that those very same people, when 3,000 americans a day were dying of covid, also told me it unamerican to do *anything* about it. having meltdowns in target over wearing a mask for 10 minutes.
the utterly profound lack of caring for other people, its astonishing. the only thing i can figure out, is that demanding we send 18 year olds to die in arab nations, expensively, for no real purpose, is not really personal work that someone has to do. and actually having to do something slightly inconvenient for a short time, is actually something that person has to do. its amazing how low that bar was though right? telling 18 year olds to die for pointless reasons: easy. not having a meltdown in target: a lot of work.
the rebranding of anger as "not an emotion" and the the rebranding of not caring about your fellow human beings as "not an emotion" and "not a mental disorder" is wild.