"Americans remain shaken by the covid experience, including the government’s feeble and at times counterproductive responses. The coronavirus cost more than 1 million Americans their lives and left millions more disabled by extreme fatigue, neurological issues and other symptoms of long covid. At the same time, people are angry that government efforts to keep covid from causing even more harm cost many their jobs, set children back in academic development, and led to an uptick in depression and poverty.
Better public health policies could have prevented this devastation."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/21/congress-pandemic-preparedness-budget-deal/
@cyrilpedia @amymaxmen
In reality, when you get outside of leftwing thought bubbles, you will find that most Americans don't care about Covid all that much. It was at the beginning and remains a mild flu. It is entirely the government's response to covid and the media's lack of pushback against that response that American's are shaken by.
@jlcrawf @cyrilpedia @amymaxmen
You are exactly right. It was a big deal because it seemed to have come out of nowhere. It will now be just like the flu, with yearly vaccinations and seasonal cycles of return. Although, I don't think it was leftwings that created the panic - it was the media in general, looking for a big story and causing mania instead. Media is the driver of a lot of what happens in our world! Thus - mastodon for people who actually think instead of reacting.