• Turun@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    Maybe because they are not sensible precautions?

    Meet less people, wear a mask, wash your hands - please yes
    Wash your keys, buy delivery but then put it in the oven (including packaging) - I won’t stop you from having fun, but it was not exactly required to stay safe.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah, you didn’t know this back then. Maybe you did if you were a healthcare professional or a specialist in virology. In the US, all we had to go off of was the CDC, who are supposed to be the apex specialists, fighting with Trump who just had gut feelings about drinking bleach to kill the virus, and a literal ocean of misinformation and horrifying lockdown/mass casualty stories coming out of China.

      It was clear that nobody actually knew what was up, and that public safety advice was biased through this filter intended to get people back to work to save the economy. Someone at some point decided that X number of people might die to save X percent of the economy and apparently we were supposed to be okay with that?

      Hmmm.

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        8 months ago

        Fair enough, I’m not from the US and we did fine all things considered.