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“These policies could have saved hundreds of lives but it inconvenienced me a tiny bit so I will not stand for it!”
If you think government overreach during covid ‘inconvenienced’ people a ‘tiny bit’ you’re crazy.
My wife lost her job 3x, 3 different jobs, all because the government kept shutting down businesses.
Even my barber lost his business, I donated to a go fund me he put up to try to save it, but it wasn’t enough.
Because he stepped out in his own and took the risk of starting his own business (dude had 5 kids and he and his wife both ran the barbershop together) but hadn’t been in business for two years or whatever, the government shut him down and didn’t pay him anything.
He still had to pay rent on the space though, he still had to pay his loans to get the business up and running. I hope he’s recovered somewhat financially from that, but he never returned to that business.
Maybe he killed himself, I sure hope not, but people surely did.
So no, government overreach didn’t ‘inconvenience’ people ‘a little bit’
It hurt a lot of people.
deadly virus shows up
“Gotta be the deep state plan to ruin us!”
Nope, just governmental incompetence as usual.
No conspiracy needed. Government is simply incompetent. Which is why you shouldn’t have them making decision that effect your life as much as we allowed them to during covid.
But lemmy users just love to put big daddy government in charge of everything they can think of. Idiots