still think it's fucking WILD how many leftists are critical and disbelieve the gov't on everything, but totally buy the "covid is over" narrative
@charli_gremlin I’m not sure it’s a COVID is over narrative so much as COVID is forever. We will never put that cat back in the bag, it’s no longer an emergency because it’s now the norm for both society and government.
@Siberian @charli_gremlin Normalising mass death and disability-- in the tens and hundreds of millions-- is not exactly a leftist position.
@anarchautist @charli_gremlin We have done so for heart disease and cancer, both of which killed more people last year. Cancer certainly is also in the running for disability as well. COVID is going to join those diseases as a normal cause of death and disability. This isn’t a political position, it’s reality, there isn’t a leftist position - beyond the normal support for medical care for all.

@Siberian @charli_gremlin You're betraying how un-normal this situation is when you have to lump hundreds of diseases (re: cancer) together to surpass the death toll from ONE virus and disease.

No, this is not a normal situation, and it's completely avoidable.

@anarchautist @charli_gremlin As someone personally affected by cancer on multiple occasions I do not see it as hundreds of different diseases. It’s one.

If you truly feel the need to argue brain cancer is a different then lung cancer, different then thyroid cancer… well how many different varieties of COVID are there now? Hundreds?