• SOB_Van_Owen@lemm.ee
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      5 days ago

      In Appalachia, it was unlikely to not know someone on a vent or dead from Covid, yet…

      • john89@lemmy.ca
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        4 days ago

        Trust me. I’ve been along live enough to recognize that if people don’t want to believe something, then they won’t.

      • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online
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        5 days ago

        I knew three people who died from COVID and another after they recovered from COVID, unfortunately unless it’s their direct family they would just assume ‘theyre just making it all out to be covid’

        I assume most people would blame social media for this, but here’s my c/unpopularopinions take, it’s inevitable with a profit oriented news platform, where they try to scaremonger in both ‘we are all going to die’ and ‘government is putting chips in our bloodstream’ directions

        In other nations, unless a blunder by government policy, they werent as affected by the anti vaccine shenanigans, even though they were as affected by social media and such

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        5 days ago

        Fox News tells you not to believe your eyes, and conservatives trust Fox News more than their own eyes.

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          Why wouldn’t they trust Fox News over their own eyes? Fox News is the most trusted name in news. At least that’s what the viewers get told when they come back from commercial breaks. It’s not like Fox would lie to them. They are the most trusted name in news after all…

          Circular logic at its finest.

        • infinite_ass@leminal.space
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          5 days ago

          I didn’t see anybody die of covid. 2 relatives died after getting the shot tho, of apparently unrelated cause.

          Tell me what to believe.