Over 90% of those deaths are Americans.

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    Don’t forget, they stopped reporting a lot of COVID related deaths as COVID a while back. Lots of sweeping things under the rug.

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      This whole epidemic was sweeping under rugs from start to probably forever. Insane malpractice on so many levels and right wing nut jobs cry about governments asking them to wear masks or getting a shot as if that was a problem.

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        I find some irony in the fact that a lot of those that refused to wear masks during Covid are now wearing masks as ICE.

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    COVID broke public health. You can’t even get tested where I live. Nobody has any idea of the prevelance.

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      I’ve been saying it’s endemic for the whole earth for years. Now it’s just another thing to test for (in my area) when people come in for upper respiratory issues along like flu and strep.

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    I got long COVID and now my memory is like the guy from Memento.

    Obviously I’m exaggerating, I have trouble remembering what I’ve done yesterday though

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    There’s a really bad surge in Texas right now that hit me like a truck. I’d had it a few times before, but this was by far the worst and the shortness of breath and brain fog aren’t going away this time.

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      Meanwhile RFK Jr, the anti-vaxx nut job that is in charge of the HHS, is doing his damnedest to prevent the most recent version of the covid vaccine from making it to market.

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          My husband and I still have not had it. At first we thought maybe we were just asymptomatic. Nope, I got sick and hospitalized from the vaccine with myocarditis and the doctor said if I got actual Covid I’d probably die. So my husband has masked up really thoroughly as well.

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          Never tested positive for Covid over here. One cold one time in 2025, other than that I just haven’t been sick since 2019. I also had a stockpile of N95 masks before the pandemic because I was worried about a pandemic. I figured it would last about 5-10 years, and so far I have sadly been basically correct.

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              Probably, also I’m a recluse playing videogames all day not going out of my house 😂

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              Yeah that’s me. I tested and had it, back in January 2021, when my whole family had it. No symptoms for me. I always say I never get sick, but I’m fairly confident I’m just a disease vector at this point and I just never get symptomatic. My kids will bring stuff home from school, my wife will get it, and fortunately I’m able to just carry on.

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        It’s been 6 years. It’s not that weird. I got it in July of 2022, sometime in 2024, and at the very end of August this year.

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      Lucky you. I got that the first time I had Covid during the pandemic. I was one of the “lucky” 35% or of people that ended up with those long term effects. I still lose words in mid sentence and can’t remember what I was going to say next. The word is there in my head, and then instantly gone. It’s the worst thing in the world…

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        I had that. I used nicotine to recover from it. Sounds strange but it worked. Low dose nic patch, worn 24/7, for about 3 weeks.

        The downside is I started vaping again (very low dose nic) but I got my brain back.

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      I got the covid brain-fog back in 2023, it took me almost 18 months to recover. It almost felt like I was getting Alzheimers, forgetting names of everyday things.

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    Yesterday I heard that in my country of the Netherlands, 4 people received euthanasia last year due to long covid. Euthanasia is doctor assisted suicide, and to receive it you must prove “unbearable suffering” with no hope of improvement. They weren’t super old either, the youngest was 51.

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      Young people too are increasingly requesting assisted suicide. I read an article about how in 2025, of the 8 people that made a request through the largest assisted suicide association (DGHS) due to ME/CFS, 5 were between 24 and 29 years old. There are sadly no official numbers for total assisted suicides due to ME/CFS (or any other reason) available.

      Looking at a statistic I found, in 2024 the same association helped just 4 people in the same age range request assisted suicide:

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    I know some folks who think the vaccines are the cause of covid. They have other weird beliefs based on gossip and stories.

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    I’ve been coughing for 2 weeks now. Nothing serious, but I took a covid test today, out of curiousity. Test was expired. Inconclusive

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    That’s not too much. If anything I’d consider other countries don’t report it, hard to believe the US is hit that much harder

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      Unlikely, it remaina a reportable disease in the UK. We’re about 1/6 the population of the US yet we’re not getting 1/6 of the deaths. Most of Europe will also closely monitor covid deaths and the population of europe as a whole is over twice that of the USA.

      I suspect one reason more people are dying in the US is because more people.refused to get vaccinated during the pandemic? And if those people are disproportionatelt more elderly (because elderly people tend to be more conaervative) then they are also more vulnderable to dying from covid when they get it.

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        Still, we are talking about 90+% for 4ish% of global population. It’s not school shootings, these numbers should be outlandish for everyone