I've seen people try to write this off as "not wanting to start a panic" and "trying to secure masks for hospitals" but that's just a copout.
If they'd initiated a lockdown sooner millions of people wouldn't have died. They killed them on purpose because they were elderly and didn't serve the machine. Also millions of people wouldn't have gotten long-COVID with nearly as bad a viral load.

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[–] Voidance@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It’s hard to see any kind of overall scheme with Covid other than sheer incompetence. Personally as someone that lived in a place outside the US with extremely hardcore lockdowns, - and like many others, my life suffered significantly for it - nowdays I honestly wonder what the fuck the point of it even was. The people we were trying to help despised us, Covid is here forever, and afaik countries like Sweden that basically didn’t lock down at all did not have excess deaths.

[–] blight@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah the fact that even if China had done perfect lockdowns and successfully contained the virus and developed 100% effective vaccines, during that entire time westerners had been breeding every virus variant imaginable and just waiting frothing at the gates to spread it to their enemies.

:xi-plz:

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