Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
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Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
3d ago
Diamond Princess had 712 confirmed cases and 14 deaths, a 2% mortality rate, which indeed makes sense for a ship full of old people.
The people didn't rise up, as they were told that these are temporary measures, which they indeed were, stupid as many of them were. The conspiracy theory crowd - insofar as it still remembers Covid and hasn't moved out to other topics - tends to nowadays just take continuous victory laps over how "conspiracy theorists are still 100% correct" whenever some authority admits that some of the measures were less-well-than-thought out or there's news about lab leak possibility being considered or whatever. However, they confidently predicted that the sheeple are wrong about all this being temporary and its just going to be an endless cycle of lockdowns and mandatory vaxx from here to eternity. It wasn't. That probably has a lot to do with why it's been forgotten so quickly (it shouldn't be, it should be pored over in detail for lessons on how to answer similar crises better in the future.)
Most historical Marxist-Leninist orgs would consider this proposal to represent irresponsible left-deviationist adventurism (well, unless you actually really succeed in getting a revolution going, obviously).
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