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   Zephyr Leif Renner (zephyrleifrenner@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 00:40:48 JST Zephyr Leif Renner

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   @sidereal It is a good question. The counterpoint I return to is that worldwide “people” dropped masking at the very first allowance. There might have been a tribalistic masking vs not move to be played by Biden, but it wouldn’t have been a long term position. @johnzajac

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     John (johnzajac@dice.camp)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 00:40:45 JST John

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     We know this because when Omicron hit in late 2021 and the vaccines didn't prevent it, corpos flexed their control of Biden and his admin started making extremely self-defeating and population-damaging anti-science decisions, while simultaneously suborning and corrupting the data we had from key sources like hospitals and schools.

     Never in my life has the corruption of US policy been so obvious as when Biden started to bury the ongoing pandemic for his owners.

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     John (johnzajac@dice.camp)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 00:40:46 JST John

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     @zephyrleifrenner @sidereal

     That fully 70% of Americans, according to Pew, supported universal masking in public offices, healthcare facilities, and schools until 2023 is memory holed. That 1 out of 5 Americans still practice high levels of caution and masking in everyday life isn't worth reporting, apparently.

     The entire idea that "people won't do it" was an op designed to convince people that people wouldn't do it. It was a manipulation, not data about people. IN service to capital.

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     John (johnzajac@dice.camp)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 00:40:47 JST John

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     @zephyrleifrenner @sidereal

     A key tenet of pragmatism is predicting an outcome is impossible and then doing everything possible to make sure your prediction comes true.

     Public health experts committed this grievous logical error early on in COVID, encouraged by capitalists who saw people released from suffering and knew they'd get a taste for it.

     "We didn't recommend [these highly effective and cheap countermeasures] because we *KNEW* nobody would do them!" was a common refrain.

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     John (johnzajac@dice.camp)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 00:42:30 JST John

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     @zephyrleifrenner @sidereal

     BTW, an uncounted number of people didn't show up for Biden because his policies murdered their loved ones or disabled them. But it was significant.

     The washing of public opinion and shaping of subjective reality is a full-time effort by our media and its owners the ruling class.

     Sidereal is 100% correct when he says Biden would have won if he'd actually stopped COVID rather than buried it.