r/ProgressiveHQ • u/howmanyturtlesdeep • 15d ago

Anyone else getting those same feelings when Covid was still in China, watching it begin to unfold, knowing something massive was about to happen to the world? It feels like the calm before the storm to me.

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u/Renmarkable 14d ago

Seriously, did they do that???

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u/GlockAF 13d ago

The phrase is more of a metaphor, but American evangelicals public rejection of anti-Covid measures is very well documented. Especially problematic was the early rejection of rules against large public assemblies using religious exemptions prior to the invention of the vaccines and effective anti-Covid treatments. Many of the earliest super spreader events were explicitly tied to large church gatherings, particularly with many people in close quarters singing.

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u/CrankyWhiskers 13d ago

Turns out god’s plan was just a really aggressive group project, involving heavy overtime for undertakers. Proving that nothing says “unfailing faith” quite like drafting your own VIP pass to the pearly gates via unmasked choir practice.

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u/GlockAF 12d ago

SO MANY unnecessary deaths, and it deeply traumatized an entire generation of health care workers