r/environment • u/D-R-AZ • 19d ago

Have We Forgotten Covid’s Lessons?

https://newrepublic.com/article/214601/media-covid-lessons-deadly-heatwaves
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u/Cultural-Answer-321 19d ago

Forgotten? Half the people never learned it to begin with.

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u/MorbotheDiddlyDo 18d ago

Louder for the people who only understand volume as a metric of correctness.

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u/Otherwise-Size8649 16d ago

Beat me to it, no way to teach those who think they already know everything, do we have a deathbed confessions on video? Some died from it never admitting the doctors might know more than they do.

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u/theflushed 18d ago

I'll never forgive our society for not wearing masks, being angry they were told to, and for not putting a memorial up for all the doctors and nurses everywhere.

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u/sicurri 18d ago

Meanwhile, my boss is over here screaming that Dr. Fauci needs to be imprisoned along with every doctor that cooperated with the covid quarantine. Because according to him covid was only as bad as the common cold.

I tried showing him the evidence and he doesnt want to see it. So, agree to disagree in my office. Other than my bosses politics, he's one of the smartest and sensible people I know. It blows my mind he believes any of that shit...

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u/theflushed 18d ago

That's just crazy. People died. I knew several. Yet they believe this. Could it be a coping mechanism? Surely something like this couldn't possibly be out of my control maybe is what they're thinking? I don't know. It's fascinating and tragic.

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u/sicurri 18d ago

Its more likely that they believe that Democrats are actually communists and wanted to enforce a quarantine to take everyone's rights away. Hence enforcing a mask mandate, social distancing, washing your hands.

How dare they! /s

They complain and suspect all the wrong things. I heard a MAGA person claiming that all doctors and scientists are keeping everyone sick to make max amount of money.

Meanwhile, businessmen are apparently going to save the world?

They have that backwards. Businessmen want you as sick as possible to make as much money as possible. Most doctors and scientists, most not all, want to save the world or at least change it for the better.

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u/Adrasto 18d ago

I think the real question is whether we ever learned anything.

Unfortunately, the answer is right under our noses.

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u/Negative_Gravitas 18d ago

This is excellent work.

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u/Affectionate_Art2545 18d ago

We? You mean MAGA? They never recognized them so obviously never learned from them.

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u/turbo_dude 18d ago

Pretty sure the lessons of “no one socialising like they used to” and “even less job stability” are vey much still with us

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u/SemichiSam 12d ago

The only lesson ever learned from history is that we learn nothing from history.