• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Anyone know why someone would think being in a house fire means you’re relatively unconcerned about dying in a fire?

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    23 days ago

    Our educations system has been in decline for the last 20 years. Instead foreign money has combine with private interests to blast us with complete made up bullshit propaganda 24/7. Almost all of our major news sources are now owned or operated by MAGA donors, who care more about money than public well being. Basically, half this country is now too stupid to determine if the information they’re viewing is corporate propaganda, or foreign government propaganda. Both are exploitative, and both want Americans sick because it’s profitable to them. So despite having a president that publicly threw out our pandemic response killing more Americans than in all the wars we’ve ever faught in combined - 4 years later we reelected him. That’s how bad the propaganda is here. Combined with poor education, we can no longer agree on how basic cause and effect works.

    TL:DR - We’re now too stupid and hopped up on propaganda to understand how preventing diseases works.

  • ickplant@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    I’m concerned but I don’t know what I can do about that other than make sure my whole family is vaccinated.

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        23 days ago

        They don’t even love life. They want to die.

        The USAmerican death drive is real. Not unique, but more prevalent than in any other country. It’s all just a suicide-murder pact.

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    23 days ago

    Americans are not a monolith. Tons of Americans are concerned. Tons are not. Also many Americans have lives where these issues the news typically stirs up don’t really actually impact their daily lives. Others are dramatically affected. It really depends on location and status, among so many factors.

    Various news and online channels might have you thinking all Americans are basically the same and experiencing things the same, but they are definitely not.

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      22 days ago

      And yet every state has the same leading causes of death. Nearly any two states are more alike than either of those states and another country.

  • peregrin5@lemm.ee
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    23 days ago
    1. The people who aren’t idiots are already vaccinated so they’ll be fine.

    2. The people who are idiots think they are safer without vaccination. They are the ones who will die (or their children) but they aren’t aware of it.

    3. The people who can’t get vaccinated but aren’t idiots are kind of just screwed but this is an incredibly small minority of the population.

  • ssillyssadass@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Because, quite frankly, Americans are idiots. They would rather scarf down misinformation given by their news anchors than open a book and/or think for themselves.