2026-05-12 12:48 UTC
@tshirtman@mas.to @croissant@zeroes.ca
Lockdowns didn't exist in the United States; most States had 2-4 weeks of precautions, followed by...literally nothing but death and disease. A few States (with big cities and blue govts) kept precautions for ~6 months, but they were never compulsory and people literally stopped caring about them by midsummer.
It's why our death toll and LC burden per capita is literally multiples larger than any other modern nation.
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@johnzajac@dice.camp 2026-05-12 12:52
@tshirtman@mas.to @croissant@zeroes.ca As with all half-measures poorly implemented with one foot out the door, these didn't work, and that lack of efficacy due to half-assery was attributed to *the technique* not the *amount of effort and fidelity put into implementing it*, because we live in a clownshoe full of toe fungus Add to that the necessity for neofascists to shut down COVID social programs ASAP and we get the Long Con of "vax and relax" coupled with "but the death toll is low!" and "it's just a cold"