AI6YR BenScientific American: COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show
We have severely undercounted the number of COVID deaths, scientists say (March 18, 2026)
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Nazo@N0tSure @ai6yr Given the way everyone has been gaslit like crazy and ultimately taught to ignore a currently ongoing pandemic as if it could somehow just go away and now are fully trained to pretend it doesn't exist while it continues to rage through the population...
My guess is the next big pandemic might just finish off a very large portion of humanity before people, as a whole, finally decide to not ignore it. (They'll have to see their neighbors dead first probably.)
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Tripping over corpses on sidewalks in the evening, that were not there that morning, will do it
@Edelruth @N0tSure @ai6yr I kind of wish people didn't seem to require it to come to that. We should never let things reach that point... But people pushed COVID-19 aside in their minds so quickly that I have a really bad feeling that nothing less than that will do it for them.
If the next thing has an even higher death rate than COVID-19 or damages our bodies even worse than it is doing with each new infection, we could well be doomed now with this attitude people have.
@nazokiyoubinbou @Edelruth @N0tSure So, that was happening during COVID-19, but people blocked it out. In the western world, people were taken to the hospital and died away from the street, lessening the trauma. I remember though an entire family was found dead in their home here, all dead of COVID-19.
@ai6yr @Edelruth @N0tSure Yeah, it has to be actually on the streets for people to acknowledge it I guess. Until people actually *see* the dead bodies I guess they'll just pretend it away.
It's just... it completely blows my mind that people are developing long covid symptoms from catching COVID-19 over and over and they... just don't even know... They think the brain fog is allergies or something. Children die of heart attacks. Eh, it just happens.
It's... actual mass madness...