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Regarding mass graves:
New York:
https://time.com/5913151/hart-island-covid/
Peru:
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/12/04/1060167105/a-mass-covid-grave-in-peru-has-left-families-bereft-and-fighting-for-reburial
Brazil:
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN22C0D2/
Trucks full of bodies:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/05/07/us/new-york-coronavirus-victims-refrigerated-trucks/index.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/texas-arizona-coronavirus-deaths-refrigerated-trucks-morgues/
Mass cremations and associated issues:
https://www.vox.com/first-person/22434028/india-covid-cremations
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/mass-cremations-begin-indias-capital-faces-deluge-covid-19-deaths-2021-04-23/
Now granted, some of those spilled over to when vaccines were available in the west. China had issues with lots of cremations as late as early 2023.
Thanks for the sources.
You’re welcome.
And for what it’s worth: it’s a good thing to question sources and claims in general. Especially since we might not always have the complete picture in our own specific bubble.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bodies-750-covid-19-victims-new-york-city-remain-refrigerated-n1266762
How?
Really. What missteps were made? The hysteria from ~~hesitant~~ anti-vaxxers and political fear mongerers were real, I would call "hesitant" people the ones who realize vaccines are a likely necessity but didn't understand how the COVID vaccines worked and were probably influenced by lies from the ant-vax crowd.
What middle ground could possibly be made here regarding "truth"? Vaccine risks are known and fairly well established. The risks of early COVID strains were known. The only people straddling a fence in the middle are those who lack the knowledge of the risks or have objectively real medical problem with vaccines, not some made-up junk about mercury or something.
OMG this is binary JAQing off. Nobody suggests either of these and it's ridiculous to even posit this phrase.
Plenty of people do. They're idiots of course, but there are a lot of them. My next door neighbor for one, I can't even talk to him anymore because it's always "you hear about how many people the vaccine has killed now?"
The post has likely disappeared by now, but fuck off anyway.
And mods, PLEASE ban me. This place is like a really bad drug and my life is better without it.
CaptMoron
Fuck you
Buy me dinner and vote lefty and then you can fuck me.
Since there's no other way of asking mods a question, could one of you please explain how, exactly, this post was "misinformation"?