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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 11 points 26 minutes ago

Working in a retirement home. Covid arrived and within a few weeks, a third of the elderly died. The doctor that said it was just the flu didn't dare come near the place after the first few deceased. And still so many people didn't wanted to take it seriously.

[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 57 minutes ago

Another fucked up part of this is how much this brain dead conservative American anti science rhetoric spread across the rest of the world.

The brain dead right wingers are poisoning the world with their special flavour of idiocy.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 hour ago

A century ago, Fauci would have been lauded as a hero.

He is in my book.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 18 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yeah, kinda hard to forget how millions of people said "some fucking idiot politician doesn't think this is real/as bad as doctors and scientists say it is, so clearly the politician is right because I'm an entitled overconfident asshole who doesn't wanna give up muh freedom". For the first time in human history (probably), we had the ability to prevent millions of deaths with knowledge. The circus of morons threw that in the trash.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 14 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Weird part is that they say that politicians are lying and corrupt, and still somehow believe them.

[–] regedit@lemmy.zip 7 points 53 minutes ago

Only the politicians not vomiting back their preconceived ideas are lying.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago

Oh of course they aren't always lying. Just when they disagree with me!

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 10 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Anyone with family in medicine with even half a brain or heart during this time is keenly aware.

Yellow ribbons for days for troops, but largely thankless, brutal work for medical personnel. Turnover was high throughout and following covid from burnout and disrespect.

Dr. Fauci is a national treasure, up there with Mr. Rogers.

Trump and Republicans were responsible for so much loss of life during that time. People still don't fully grasp.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 33 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It's worse actually, he took PPE from states he didn't like and sent it to Russia. There's a phone call proving it. Literally giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 16 points 1 hour ago

And ventilators, testing kits and actually useful medications (not bleach or horse dewormer)

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Fauci was trying his best to navigate a shitty situation and you had fuckers like Krystal and Sagaar on Breaking Points spewing hatred at him. All of them are fucking assholes. Fauci isn't a fucking politician or pundit or anything ... he's trying to save lives by making choices and decisions where people were ready to sacrifice him regardless for political reasons. But Breaking Points are oh so happy to shit on him and the comment section is full of antivax and covid deniers.

[–] sleepdrifter@startrek.website 2 points 16 minutes ago

I have never heard of Krystal Ball until recently, and she's making the rounds for an interview with Adam Smith, and seems to be portrayed as some leftist pundit. And now seeing this comment, it feels like life has been and will be ok not hearing from her ever again.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 107 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (3 children)

Don't forget that hospitals in desperate need of PPE had shipments hijacked and stolen by the feds, given to corrupts pop-up resellers run by cronies and auctioned off back to the hospitals that originally bought them.

Having a memory and attention span longer than 2 weeks is fucking exhuasting

[–] socsa@piefed.social 12 points 1 hour ago

The New England Patriots used their private plane to smuggle PPE into the country because the regime was stealing shipments off the runway.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 28 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I, like Pepperidge Farm, also remember. That was such a massive shit show, I have no idea how the Administration Responsible for PPE Hijacking managed to get a second installment of the show going. That really should have been the end of them all.

[–] ZebulonP@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

Thats because the people who voted for him the second time either don't know, or don't care.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

IT happened in Maryland too. The took it right off the Tarmac.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 18 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I swear I read that some hospitals had to have it shipped to odd places or roundabout fashions just so they'd have a chance to actually get it delivered.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, supposedly that's how we worked around it.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 120 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The hilarious thing is that half the 'masks cause brain damage' crew is now masked up as ICE agents so no one can see their crimes against humanity.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 32 points 3 hours ago

To be fair, ICE agents do demonstrate a correlation between masks and brain damage. (The causality just happens to go the other way.)

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 21 minutes ago (2 children)

You should be criticizing Fauci for not doing nearly enough.

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 1 points 16 minutes ago (1 children)

Ohhhhhh do fuck off, you blithering imbecile

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 13 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 1 points 4 minutes ago (1 children)

Why would I waste my time with you?

Fauci was doing the best he could in the face of an idiotic and oppositional government

If you think he should have somehow been doing more, then you're not just stupid, you're disingenuous

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 minute ago

This is true even in his time under Biden and he collaborated with Biden's bad response as well.

[–] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 1 points 16 minutes ago

He's a doctor who was forced to act like a politician. He was probably doing his best.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 38 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

"Mr. Fauci, how dare you tell people not to inject bleach and snort Ivermectin?!"

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

We stopped teaching science decades ago...

No Child stripped all the critical thinking out and made it all short term rote memorization.

You don't learn science by memorizing things, you learn science by learning to think analytically

[–] godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through (higher education). If not, we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people. That's what happened in Germany. I saw it happen.

-- Roger Adolf Freeman, economics professor at Stanford, advisor to President Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon

Once again, it leads back to Reagan. Not that he's a root cause, but he enacted the legislation that did the bidding of capitalists to fuck us all.

Years ago, someone sent posted a listing of 200 reasons why Reagan sucked. All seemed accurate. As you say, he wasn't necessarily the root, but man did he help facilitate the future we got shoved down our throats.

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