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Double_Stuffd_Whoreo t1_jaef6vh wrote

Reply to comment by Tor451 in What the pandemic ruined more than we actually realise? by Ok_Kiwi9847

Yup, the claim that Fauci said “masks don’t work” was grasped onto and used as political fuel for Trump’s supporters and his conspiracy-minded friends in the media.

Two questions:

Search mask effectiveness for covid - the CDC and Mayo are among the top results, both of which still recommend mask usage (including data) for reducing the contraction/transmission of covid. This directly contradicts your view. What do you make of that?

How would you have liked the mask policy to be handled in America?

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Joe-Schmeaux t1_jaef41e wrote

Reply to comment by ImInJeopardy in What the pandemic ruined more than we actually realise? by Ok_Kiwi9847

I think about this from time to time. If the government, which basically runs on taxes, cannot be trusted to take care of the people, but there aren't many alternatives, and their programs are becoming more and more ineffective...should we listen when they say they need more tax revenue?

On the one hand, things like social security, disability, medicare/aid, education, highway safety, military defense, etc., are paid for with taxes, and all of those things except for military are suffering or inadequate. People on fixed incomes cannot afford to live anywhere. Public education is notoriously underfunded and constantly under attack. Infrastructure in this country is decades behind maintenance. Healthcare has been hijacked by for-profit interests to the point where thousands of people die every year not because they couldn't be treated, but because they couldn't pay.

On the other hand, if we dismantled those programs and allowed the public sector to attempt to fill the gaps, corporate interests would misalign with humanitarian challenges, and arguably things would get much worse. It's sort of a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario. I'd gladly pay a higher percentage of taxes if (1) rich people had to, too, and (2) those taxes were actually used for the things we so desperately need if we don't wish to become some sort of hellscape.

At this point, I don't know what government could do to regain trust from the people, but not trusting them at all would leave us in the hands of the oligarchs, whose solutions would in all likelihood be much more calculating and cruel. Ooh, look, something shiny!

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Tor451 t1_jaeedss wrote

Reply to comment by Double_Stuffd_Whoreo in What the pandemic ruined more than we actually realise? by Ok_Kiwi9847

Debunked now? Lol I expect experts who claim to represent science, like Fauci did, to have some type of scientific evidence to back up their changing guidelines. I expect them to be honest with us, to not say one thing publicly then another privately.

If he believed masks worked then he should tell us. If he wanted medical professionals to have them and was concerned about supply he should have done what my governor did, tell us to donate medical grade masks and use cloth masks.

Masks did not work. We know that now. We need a to accept where we were wrong and move on I was wrong about masks too. I was lied to and I was wrong because I believed those lies instead of fact checking Millions of people wore dirty masks because of a shortage , how many were harmed by that?
At work I am to change my filters every 8 hours. Those are the guidelines. Did they ever tell us to do that? Nope, they said "wear two instead"

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rando23455 t1_jaeeb9c wrote

Reply to If you had no heirs, to whom or what would you leave all your assets? by mugsimo

I would start to use the money to add joy to people’s lives before I died.

If it’s millions I would probably think about charities, etc, but giving my car to someone who needs reliable transportation seems like it would be more impactful than leaving it to a charity who would probably just sell it cheap to a wholesaler, and the money might not have that much impact.

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Katerina1996 t1_jaedu6x wrote

Reply to What's the fastest way you've seen someone ruin their whole life? by Msweet5300

A family friend shot herself, but she survived. Half her face was missing (basically her whole bottom jaw was blown off and I think her nose was split or something) and had to have multiple reconstructive surgeries and she could barely talk. She regretted her decision. She was also a very beautiful woman.

Before she woke up her husband was actually charged with murder because she used his gun (that was only licensed to him - we don't live in the US and there are strict gun laws here), but luckily she woke up and was able to testify that she attempted suicide and he played no part! This happened while he was walking the dog for only 20mins...

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