• akhenaten0@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Big ol’ asterisk on the 2020 election, though:

    • Covid
    • Wide action to change voting to get around Covid
    • Wide belief among Republicans that Covid wasn’t real
    • Ergo, wide movement against changing elections around Covid

    For these reasons alone, using any election map like this from 2020 is outside any norm. What about the 2016 or 2012 map? It may look similar, but won’t be nearly as drastic.

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      1 year ago

      For the record, covid was a real disease, but completely overblown. The measures were mostly not helpful, and targeted small businesses.

      • BB69@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        My father died due to somebody else believing the same, ignoring the guidelines, and spreading Covid to him.

        So kindly shut the fuck up, yeah?

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          1 year ago

          My grandpa also died. Stage four lung cancer, but he spent the last year of his life locked up in a nursing home. Funnily enough, he had his first shot, but not the second.

      • SomeoneElse@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        At least 7 million people died as a very conservative estimate. Some estimates go as high as 30 million deaths. It’s the 4th most deadly epidemic/pandemic in the last millennia after the Black Death, Spanish flu, and HIV/AIDS. And that’s with all the lockdowns, social distancing measures and a truly groundbreaking rollout of vaccinations. There’s nothing overblown about that.