• Zak@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Four years ago there were refrigerator trucks full of corpses and a mob was storming the capitol to overthrow the government on behalf of a would-be dictator.

    Nothing resembling either of those things has happened yet this year, so I think in a lot of ways we’re all better off regardless of our individual circumstances. Only the second one has much to do with who’s president though.

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      8 months ago

      Fully agree with you on the second one, but I will say that the first one very much has to do with who’s president, too. Remember when Trump was insisting to everyone who wanted to obey him that they shouldn’t wear masks, and should go to work / school while they’re sick? And those people started affirmatively attacking people who were doing nothing but try to protect themselves and others? Remember when Anthony Fauci had to have a security detail from the US Marshals?

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        8 months ago

        The one person keeping Ohio in check on covid safety (Amy Acton) was getting death threats until they resigned.