I’m moving my posts from Reddit to Lemmy before delete them.

This post is from 2021-03-06.

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    1 year ago

    Better to die free than be lied to, right? 😂

    And America definitely hasn’t lied at all about its COVID numbers! 🤣

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        1 year ago

        We got lucky with COVID being something we can make a vaccine for - it could have been a lot worse!

        I brush off China lying because they definitely, unarguably had a lower infection rate. We know the surplus death rate because they can’t hide that, and that’s literally the worst the COVID death rate could possibly be. In all likelihood there are other factors that account for surplus deaths during the pandemic, so assuming literally every excess death was from COVID isn’t even correct! The numbers are in fact probably better than my rough math, because I was just assuming the worst case scenario for the sake of argument.

        China’s COVID response was absolutely stellar and saved millions of lives and they should be praised for it. They probably lied (to maintain social cohesion and keep up public support for the extremely effective zero COVID policy) and I don’t agree with that choice, but I recognize that they blew everyone else on the fucking planet out of the water even though they were literally ground zero! That’s amazing!

        Meanwhile, the West sacrificed us all for the money line and also lied. Objectively worse.

        Even if you don’t think China is good, it’s pretty clear they are a lesser evil.