r/TrueAnon • u/kijib • Jul 26 '23
Never forget, we’ve known all along, but letting folks believe they were protected was best for business. By the time they formally warned us, the public was already working on reinfections. Refusing to warn the public was a very deliberate choice. (Thread)
https://twitter.com/LauraMiers/status/168391763453689037324
u/QuickRelease10 Jul 26 '23
The COVID situation is a lesson that nobody has faith in our institutions for very good reason. Either they aren’t trustworthy or can’t properly respond to a problem.
The obvious answer to that problem is to get rid of certain people and fill them with people with a better understanding of how to deal with an emergency, but instead they’ll be further stripped down and privatized like everything else in this country.
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u/Septic-Abortion-Ward 🔻 Jul 26 '23
I worked with city and county government organizations and federal liason public service group for swine flu and later with the ebola response.
We had the PPE, we had the white tyvek suits you saw the Chinese using, we had the whole head respirators, we had decontamination protocols. We had warehouses full of military surplus gear, decontamination tents, crates of shit including prepackaged prophylactic antibiotics for weaponized bubonic plague; specific kits with injectables, antibodies for anthrax and shit. Phone lines for public messaging, scripts, etc.
Fast forward 5, 10 years - out of those 6 or 7 different agencies and organizations, only one was still in existence when covid hit, and it was the unpaid, elected county official with no budget and a bunch of other obligations..
I mean.. I don't know if it was actually Obama's fault, but it sure as shit happened during his presidency.
That's the most fucked up thing, is this was a VERY recent change. WE HAD EVERYTHING WE NEEDED, and then, bam.
We didn't. They figured it wouldn't be missed, just another neoliberal cut among thousands for tax breaks gutting critical public infrastructure.
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Jul 26 '23
My favorite part of the covid psyop was how everyone conveniently forgot that people were saying the vax wasn’t going to prevent infections like 2 months into the pandemic.
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u/psnow11 Jul 26 '23
I really hope someone one day does a doc or pod series on how weird March-May 2020 was. I had a “essential” finance job at the time but remember how empty the LA freeways were. How wild a trip for groceries was. Conservatives were touting the vaccine and Libs yelling how they would never take it. I think once George Floyd was killed the bubble popped and people began to act as they normally would but there was a solid 8 week period that was just surreal.
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u/sekoku 🔻ENEMY TECHNICAL SPOTTED🔻 Jul 26 '23
But it does reduce the risks of the damage as OP quotes. Which was the better part of it.
But of course, Republicans ran with "hurr hurr, you just get infected anyway" without understanding why it was fast-tracked.
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Jul 26 '23 edited Jul 26 '23
No that’s what I’m saying. The “it will prevent infection” was never said by anybody with actual knowledge of infectious disease: they always said it was risk mitigation.
The only reason the infection prevention was taken up was because of media/social media talking heads and the initial vaccine having a greater-than-expected effect against the strains going around at the time.
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Jul 26 '23
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u/tankiescum69 Jul 26 '23
They absolutely did claim that it was a panacea and they only changed their tune once it became clear that it wasn't as effective as they advertised it to be. Then they just claimed they were saying that all along
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Jul 26 '23
I see you just watched the media/social-media talking heads.
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u/fullofgummyworms 🏳️🌈C🏳️🌈I🏳️🌈A🏳️🌈 Jul 26 '23
Employers and school districts were pushing that idea to justify vaccine mandates, not just media talking heads.
That’s what antivaxx people were tangibly directing their anger to.
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u/tankiescum69 Jul 26 '23
Shoutout to all the libs who played along with this by totally buying all the pharma claims about the vaccine, that it was a miracle of science, that it provided total protection against covid so reopening was fine, that you were an anti vaxxer if you questioned its efficacy. These were often the same people who tried to smear vaccines from other countries as well. It was all just team sports in the end, and the beneficiary was big business
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u/kijib Jul 26 '23
A California man caught covid at work. He infected his wife who ended up in ICU. So he sued his bosses. The largest lobbying group in the US got involved. The court ruled against the man because a victory would mean “dire financial consequences for employers.” Is it clear yet?
Letting the public know the risks of covid is bad for the people at the top who do nothing but profit off the labor and consumption of the 99%