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Originally Posted by musth
In some ways, in my darkest moments, I kinda wish it had ravished humanity unchecked and caused us to collectively go 'whoa, we need to get our #### together' rather than affecting people so diametrically differently and causing the hate, isolation, the separation, the divides and ostracization based on race and religion and politics and intelligence and science.
It's really very strange how it all played out for a so called intelligent and technologically advanced species in the 21st century.
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Covid walked a tightrope of being severe enough to cause major damage to health and infrastructure but not severe enough for many to take seriously. If it had killed kids at a much higher rate you can bet your ass it would have been handled differently.