And I either get “it wasn’t that bad” from the minimalists or the “actually the same level of death & destruction is happening right now” from the maximalists
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I grew up in Bergen county. I BELIEVE YOU. #saynocovid2.0
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The utility company came and installed a pole to wire the trucks into the grid because they realized nobody was claiming the bodies because the next of kin was hospitalized/dead too.
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I live on the same block as a hospital in Brooklyn. The freezer trucks were parked on my side of the street, and the sound of ambulances was basically a constant for about three months. Whole discourse is bewildering to me.
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What alarms me is the fact that so few people seem to be able to believe both that the mitigation efforts were very imperfect AND that they helped nonetheless.
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Jesus...
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I will never, ever forget the creeping dread in Silicon Valley as everyone realized we’d be one of the first regions affected.
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