Terrorism very broadly kills a couple hundred people a year in the developed world, and has been around that for a long time. Obviously it's a bogus excuse most of the time.
Meanwhile, this particular virus has correspondingly killed ~10 000 times more people. That is not hyperbole. That's not even comparable to terrorism, much more like a war instead.
Re:What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?
by reedjosh on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @03:20PM
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How many people died of the flu this year?
Re:What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?
by CRConrad on Sunday June 27, 2021 @11:49AM
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Perhaps somewhat paradoxically, much fewer than usual. Partly because some that might have, in stead died from Covid-19, and partly because the countermeasures against SARS-CoV are also very effective against a lot of other diseases like the flu.
Why; does that have anything to do with anything? Naah, thought not.
VS.
a tyrannical government that is ever encroaching on our freedoms using scare tactics.
It used to be terrorism.
I suppose we're both kinda motivated by fear here, I'm just way more afraid of losing my freedoms than I am COVID.
The same messaging system that brought us the `terror meter` and pegged it to red
https://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/terr...
is providing similar hyperbolic messaging about COVID.