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When deaths lagged infections by weeks it was all over. Just seeing the tsunami of people dividing today's deaths by today's infections and loudly proclaiming it was no worse than the flu was just wow. People are that dumb aren't they. After that, there was no hope for any related topics more complicated or nuanced.

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there were crematoriums falling apart because of constant use. Morgues overflowing with coffins.

Three of my direct coworkers died from covid. One guy didn't get his sense of taste back for a year.

People just gasping to death in their bedrooms waiting for things to improve and only going to the overloaded ER when it's too late.

I'm an asthmatic, I've been close to that feeling where sub 90% oxygen saturation made me feel like death. Anything like 80% your lungs start to fail. You're dead in a hurry.

I seem to remember that for some cases, some covid patients didn't even notice the low oxygen levels.

It really proved to me that fear is the mind killer. When fearful, people will truly believe anything. Delusions go from something that only applies to the psychotic to something you see in every person.

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