I know its just that they're ignorant as fuck but sometimes I can't help but wonder if the whole "all governments ignoring covid" thing isn't because they all want us sick and exhausted and cut off from each other so we don't get any funny ideas like rioting over the absolute state of things

@eniko I see where you're coming from here, but the actual literal justification given by the Biden admim circa 2022 was that the lockdown was harming the economy too much. That's why they justified lifting said lockdown despite covid still being widespread, and likely why a number of other nations are following suit.

Now, as for the current administration? It could be malicious, but it's pretty evident that RFK Jr is an anti-vaxxer and otherwise a fucking moron when it comes to being the Secretary of Health.

@eniko "Why not both?"

I think it's a lot like other social issues where a few ill-intentioned parties fabricate convenient excuses for the ignorant to do ignorant things. An "inconvenient truth" is less inconvenient if someone else is telling you it's not really true πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™€οΈ

@eniko some of the conspiracy-sounding things really are just happy (for them, horrible for humanity) side effects of whatever stupid bullshit they want to do

@sinvega @eniko I don't think the conspiracy goes that deep. I think, more like it, some very smart and very evil people ran the numbers, and decided it was better for the business class to continue par for the course than do any real protections.

Not even long-term, just short-term like all of our suicidal economic policy is.