• wewbull@feddit.uk
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    5 months ago

    Indeed. COVID showed that the populace would defer to the government and do as they were told. Before lockdown there was a general feeling that only a country like China could lockdown it’s population. In the west, freedom and liberty were too precious.

    And then they went and locked us down showing the government had far more power than it realised.

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      5 months ago

      Literally no one thought of medical lockdowns in any way prior to COVID. There was no general feeling as it wasn’t on anyone’s radar.

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        5 months ago

        Many many Americans think this way and its turned them all against government and into the arms of our benevolent billionaires like never before.

        Its pretty sad.

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      5 months ago

      “Lockdown” in quotes, because it wasn’t a full lockdown. They started, but then realized that the economy would really tank, so they loosened it up a bit and made some nice PR (“6 feet” and “15 days”) to convince us that things were fine and under control.

    • village604@adultswim.fan
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      5 months ago

      Bro, entire states were ignoring lockdowns. The reason so many people died was because people weren’t following the restrictions the government put in place.