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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m covid cautious (tripe vaxxed, still wear medical masks in stores etc) and yet I still remember DCUM falling all over itself just a few months ago to agree with this thread. Such ridiculous nonsense. I am tired of this hysteria.

[twitter]https://twitter.com/tmprowell/status/1476445160129114112[/twitter][/quote]

I work in an ER and this wasn’t hysteria, it was true! Wait times were over 24 hours for patients. It only lasted a few weeks but it was horrific. Not necessarily in terms of deaths (thankfully) but in terms of sheer numbers of patients.[/quote]

Lol. Life was not "unrecognizable" for most Americans. [/quote]

DP I think we can acknowledge the situation was really bad for healthcare workers and people needing ER care, while also understanding:
- Many people were going to the ER not because they had urgent symptoms but because they wanted COVID tests. This was preventable but the average American could not have done anything to stop that from happening. We created a system where people need tests in order to travel/work/get child care but didn't expand testing capacity. That's on the Biden administration.
- While many Americans caught omicron, the vast majority of Americans did not experience "unrecognizable" life - just a lot of systems under a lot of stress. There was still food, most schools were open (in contrast to one year prior) and many people's lives proceeded as normal.[/quote]

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