• ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I mean, they see it as mostly the virus’s fault, not really the government’s fault.

    Just like how they view the famine during the Great Leap Forward, not Mao’s fault, its just natural disaster.

    Also, my mom suggested that the virus could’ve possibly originated from the US as an engineered bioweapon against China…

    (the same virus somehow got into the US? 🤦‍♂️ Idk anymore, this world is so absurd with the assasination attempts, a convicted felon being elected president, and CEO getting shot, coup attempt in South Korea out of nowhere… I’m wondering if I’m in a dream/nightmare, its just bizzare…)

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      Mao ordering the death of all sparrows, which then led to mass locust swarms eating all the crops, followed by mass starvation. Not his fault at all…

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        Um yea, tell that to my parents.

        Their logic is:

        Leader fuck up their leadership = Natural disaster

        People with non-visible diseases (such as: Depression) not being able to fuctions properly = Laziness

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      I mean, they see it as *mostly* the virus’s fault, not really the government’s fault.

      Which is funny since the Republican/conservative stance on the virus seemed to be “no big deal.”