I dont know if it would have gone unnoticed, but if they would have put up a health alert, l think it would have been better.
There was a bad flu year when my parents were young. My dad remembers it because everyone in his family got really sick, but my mom doesn't remember it.
By the numbers, I think the severity was pretty similar to Covid, but nobody thought about it as more than a bad cold and flu season.
I'm not saying ignoring it or withholding information would have been the right thing to do. I'm proposing that if the media and governments hadn't tried to freak everyone out, we might not have noticed that anything particularly different was happening.
Remember that coronaviruses are one of the causes of common colds. It seems plausible to me that there's a version of history where people just remember 2020 has having had a really nasty cold going around.
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49 sats \ 2 replies \ @Satosora 3h
Spanish flu? There was something connected from families that experienced it and didnt. The covid symptoms were different or something. What really gets me is how in on it the politicians were. They were not following any of the guidelines they put out.
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They knew the risks were small on an individual level.
Being as charitable as possible, it's similar to how they fly around on their own private jets and lecture us about driving cars. Their one jet doesn't make a big impact, but all of our cars do.
It's an extremely sick attitude of narcissistic elitism, but it does have a certain logic.
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46 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 3h
Yeah. I dont remember any of the politicians dying from covid. Maybe they got invermectin before everyone else. I remember Trump got it, then they gave him some advanced medicine. I wonder what that was?
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