Post Reply - A new pandemic

   To continue with https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/institutional-covid-denial-has-killed or https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/institutional-covid-denial-has-killed ;
We can’t talk about how we got to total state abandonment on COVID without discussing the billions of dollars that went into disinformation campaigns, pushing people to think of public health as an individual responsibility. Sure, liberals were easily able to call out Trump-era minimizing and their subsequent anti-vaccination rhetoric.

 But what about the mild-mannered TV news-platformed “experts” and unqualified reporters who continually pushed lines like “personal risk tolerance”, “you do you,” “back to normal,” “we have to live life,” “only vulnerable people are at risk,” and that old chestnut, “we can’t live in fear”? (I truly can’t overstate how much demanding clean air and clean water is not “living in fear” but simply expecting the bare minimum of a democratic society to which we pay taxes and refusing to be a bootlicker for billionaire talking points.)

DJ, the next pandemic is a political choice...(not even the outcome of "bad decissions"-when you give up on spending enough on GOOD public health-because the only thing that maaters is profit-you decide to accept next pandemics...for very wrong reasons...).

"Getting rid of a burden to society" is genocide by pandemic. 

The Spanish Flu did kill a lot of young people-with strong immunity reactions...because if co-infection with other diseases did not kill them their over-recation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm did kill a lot of them...

Older people may NOT have such a strong immunity any longer...but fascists politicians do hate facts/science...