2026-05-12 12:52 UTC
@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"
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@tshirtman@mas.to 2026-05-12 13:32
@johnzajac@dice.camp @croissant@zeroes.ca a lot of countries indeed did it more seriously (being in the netherlands, we had months of very strict, and more than a year of very encouraged remote work, australia probably did it the most, but at a very high social price), but ultimately they gave up, and we'll never convince the covid. skeptics that it was worth it (the avoided deaths being invisible). So i'm convinced the next health crisis will be handled with less precautions, not more.