I'd say to my kids: "I was there when it was written"
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I was there, $name. I was there 4 years ago when the strength of men failed.
We're going to look like such fucking idiots when people read about how we collectively handled it.
The only consolation, is that most of us looked at how many people were handling it at the time and said, "well they're fucking idiots."
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"It's true, all of it"
Another one for my once in a lifetime crisis collection.
Why only once? The best things always have a sequel.
I hear they're going to get a lot more frequent. I expect two Katrina-like events in the next ten years in Florida.
Maybe the tenth will be free.
The past tense in the book is concerning
Every pandemic that ended up as a seasonal disease is still active.
You can try denying they ended in this way, but you will end up with an unusable language because most things are technically not over as they had a continuation in some form.
Almost every sickness you get infected with had its hayday of mass genocide. It will die down and then occasionally reoccur.
Dont worry about it, they are mutating heck of a lot. 2020 pandemic is a lot different than the current situation is with the completely different strains we now have.
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I mean, the pandemic has been over for over a year.
Covid is just endemic now like the flu. It’s seasonal and is never going to go away.
"For a small number of people, the disease could be fatal." Is three million people a small number? And as others have pointed out, the pandemic isn't over. https://www.who.int/data/stories/the-true-death-toll-of-covid-19-estimating-global-excess-mortality
I don't want to be that guy because it is a big number. However, in terms of the human population, there are 8 billion of us and when it comes to the difference between a million and a billion. It is about a billion. So about 0.04% of the human population. Terrible tragedy, yes however it is true.
But they didn't say a small percentage, which would be accurate, but a small number, which is not.
That is fair, I thought I read percentage. My mistake.
Calculating impact by dividing the number of deaths caused by a thing that has existed for 4 years over a population size that includes people more than 100 years old won't arrive at any sort of meaningful number. That's why you use rates, or per capita, or some other way of adjusting for population size and time. COVID 19 is the third most common cause of death in the US in 2020 and 2021. Calling one of the most common causes of death a small number of people is grossly inaccurate.
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Does it mention how badly trump fucked us with his COVID response?
I'll be honest, even without Trump most Americans proved they were too stupid or stubborn to follow instructions, so he didn't really need to do anything to slap the whole US with more infections.
I'm sure Trump didn't help much with his stupidity.
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What "was" covid
Reported Dec 31, 2019, eh?
I was terminally online during that time, and some reports of a truly awful pneumonia in China were going around as early as mid-November. It was definitely known to be a major outbreak by early December. A lot of the early reports were taken down; just ~~CCCP~~ CCP doing ~~CCCP~~ CCP things.
Edit: whoops thought it had that extra C in there. Should probably use CPC anyway.
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They say history is written by the victors. I wonder who wrote this.
Inb4 'Probably Victor'
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Now you kids know what it was like when 9/11 was in every history textbook by 2002.
A history textbook which goes past the 1960s? This definitely is not a book used in American classrooms
The first time I felt old was when my youngest sister learned about events I remembered in school.
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How long until Republicans get that book banned for spreading false information? Lol
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Are they going to leave out the part where the president called it a hoax while simultaneously spitballing ideas about UV light, bleach and horse dewormer cures all while thousands of Americans were dying every day. Or the part where he emptied the treasury with zero oversight?
It's World History not American History. Different subjects.
What a bizarre experience.
When I was in school...I'm pretty sure the state history cirriculum was designed to be America centric, and pro-America. Any nation a boomer would remember being at war with? Not in the history books, or they appear out of nowhere, do something pro-America, and then disappear again, like Russia did from 1939 to 1945. And both World and US history classes end at 1950 because 1. to the limp dicks that actually make the policy, "The fifties are practically now" and 2. we haven't done much "being the good guys" since the jitterbug fell out of fashion.
So I'm not used to seeing something in a history textbook that isn't from at least two of my lifetimes ago.
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For a summary skip to Harambe.
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