I do truly believe that almost any reasonable person will look at the death rate and realize that the US has fucked up the response in a big huge way. The conspiracy people saying that the death rates are a lie are not that many. This is one where the silent majority does realize whats going on and how bad the administration is fucking it up.

Anyone can go look and see that south korea, a far more urbanized state is open for business right now.

"examine this discrepancy" vs. "it's fake news" - for some the latter just makes more sense.

Active disinformation campaigns work.

Saying SK is open while we're not leads to "let's open America" for that mindset.

They'll have that mindset regardless of the reasoning for it. We'll just all have to watch as they show up on the news going "I never believed this could happen to me!".

> Don't forget the gaslighting "100k people dead is doing a good job" BS.

It always looked bad and looks worse the closer 100k becomes. It can’t be too long before some measures will say it has been exceeded. Then what will the claim be?

Goalposts can be moved - in fact, hasn't that happened before? Next claim will be 150k, then 300k. It will never be enough to actually do anything until/unless Prince Prospero or his castle gets sick.

Stumbled on the below - just denying covid is the cause of death is another angle. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/us/politics/coronavirus-d...

Not all countries in Europe are going full benefits. Mine has given peanuts to all those people who cannot work at all due to the lockdown (and only a tiny fraction got the money). Or worse, it has offered them loans.

> Don't forget the gaslighting "100k people dead is doing a good job" BS.

Now do the per capita numbers and see that we’re actually doing better on a deaths/million basis than several European countries.