• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    And since the CDC has been muzzled and WHO departed from, guess we’ll see if we’re magically healthier without them.

    That won’t matter either.

    There’s very obvious evidence that some average American homesteading Greenland, or invading neighbors, is a Bad Idea, but that doesn’t matter because its not penetrating people’s reality bubbles filled with influencers incentivized to push this stuff for attention.

    …So why would real health data matter? Trump can just claim victory and say everyone is healthier. How would the average American know otherwise? Sure, maybe they’re personally miserable, but the world as they know it is telling them their leader is fighting it.

    What’s especially troubling is that Trump is “drinking his own Kool-aid” in this situation. I don’t want to say its unprecedented, but usually despotic regimes are more self aware that that and less “Idiocracy.”