• doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    Does he not realize that he’s pretty much in that group now? And a massive chunk of his voters already are? Is he saying he thinks mother nature has it out for him?

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    10 months ago

    He’s almost 60. He is not exactly a spring chicken.

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    10 months ago

    Didn’t realize only old people could have organ transplants, cancer, autoimmune disease, or just simply weaker immune systems.

    Good thing it’s only old people.

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      10 months ago

      I had a friend die from covid at 38. Another guy down the road died in his early 30s. They were both fat but probably should have had another 20 years at least.

  • 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    Imagine working your entire life and then dieing to covid during retirement. A tiny fraction of your life was free.

    • Deconceptualist@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      “Placental cancer is nature’s way of dealing with unborn babies.” – Boris Johnson, probably

    • TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page
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      10 months ago

      Its as true as saying AIDs was nature’s way of dealing with gay people. Which is to say it’s absolutely untrue and way of passing off moral responsibility to anthropomorphized concepts.

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        10 months ago

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        Disease and starvation has always been nature’s way of dealing with the elderly and weak. You can look to any species on earth and this is true. We aren’t special just because we are human, we have just been smart enough to mostly avoid it. Why the fuck did you feel the need to bring up aids and gay people? It has nothing to do with any of this.

        • TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page
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          10 months ago

          It’s literally the same argument. A virus exists that disproportionately affects a group of people. That group is uninteresting to me so instead of just saying I don’t give a shit I call it a force of nature.

          We are a little special because we can conceptualize how our actions will affect the spreas of a disease. A world leader is a little more special in that regard because they can enact policy to curb disease on a wide scale.

          Having the knowledge and power to help and not doing anything is a moral failing. Blaming it on nature is covering that failing with nonsense.

  • chakan2@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    He’s not entirely wrong…we’re due for a population correction of some sort.