It’s all Putin’s fault!

Nope. Dems said you were discrimination against Asian people if you talked about the virus. Then later they blew the numbers up, and many states revised their numbers down. The CDC never did. It helps if you know the facts.

Or, you know, assholes were just hoarding for no reason.

? What does that have to do with anything I said?

Oh, we were talking about the toilet paper shortage.

Did I step on your talking points?

The toilet paper shortage is caused by individual idiots and has nothing to do with the covid plandemic.

Correct.

Pretty ironic, you depicting me as the NPC, when you are the one who is unquestionably lapping up the media's BS.

Yes because I don’t question the media ever:

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Well it's strange how you don't actually remember the reality you lived through two years ago...

So do you have anything poignant or you just got “mmm news bad ok”

Okay, let's see. Late january, the alternative media sources I was watching and listening to mentioned this pandemic in China after/during their lunar new year. People were being interviewed over there, there were lockdowns, vehicles going through the streets spraying some chemical, people being welded into their homes.. media coverage in the US? Nothing.

Then (I happened to be working at a Home Depot at the time) Chinese people were coming into my store and buying up every mask in the paint section. Every. Single. One. They had carts and carts full of them, totaling well over $500. The lamestream media? Nothing.

I called up my grandfather before the superbowl telling him about what was going on. He wasn't really worried. Of course not, because Fox News and MSNBC didn't tell him to be. He gets a nasty cold in February, and my grandmother in hospice, who was already suffering from some heart problems, dementia, COPD, DIES. IS THAT POIGNANT ENOUGH FOR YOU?

Finally, the "news" starts picking up on this pandemic, but probably only because Trump caught wind of it and started doing something. They called him a racist for wanting to place travel bans on China. And of course, it was just racist to even insinuate that a disease that originated from China had absolutely anything to do with the Chinese.

In March, as the numbers start rolling in, and well after the virus has already had a chance to circle the globe three times over, THEN the media starts pushing the panic button. Now there's runs on supplies. People want masks, but the asians already bought them all up months ago and are keeping them to themselves. Shortages on lysol wipes and other disinfectants, toilet paper and other necessities and people are expecting the worst. This is when lockdowns were being discussed. Travel between states was being restricted, businesses were shut down. I even know of a highway that was locked down for a while.

By then it was far too late, though. Covid had already been spreading everywhere, and sure it was probably mutating, but there was pretty much no way to undo or prevent the damage anymore. Still, after the damage was done, then the media kept faking death and medical records and doctoring their statistics. They kept making it out to be a threat that it no longer was. And so here we are today. Two years into "two weeks to flatten the curve".

Trump was never called racist for his travel bans on China.

The only person who did this was Trump himself who speculated the media would do so.

Biden did call Trump’s response to the pandemic xenophobic, but he never established this was specifically due to any travel bans.

Interesting and anecdotal. Easily countered with my own. My family was paying attention to several news sources covering the Pandemic. My uncle said experts were already comparing this to the Spanish Flu. In January. My grandmothers, one living on her own and the other in a nursing home because she had dementia were informed as early as February and precautions went into effect sometime mid March if not earlier.

As is custom for winter in my family, we keep our stocks of cans and necessities overstocked during the winter. I also was doing carpentry work and kept my N95 mask on hand and even donated my additional masks to my local hospital. Picking up a two-layer mask being sold online. My sister who already has an immune disorder was already wearing masks years before this so some of us even had masks on hand.

We knew the epidemic could explode into a pandemic along with at least several waves that may occur in Fall or Winter, if not into Spring of 2021! Despite us living in a mostly Republican area, we took the pandemic seriously. We got our shots and boosters the moment we qualified. And yes, we were never infected when the yahoos were protesting in mass either for blm or the lockdowns. Or even again with the anti-vac hysteria.

Not one single death in my family due to covid. My step-mother did pass away last fall due to cancer.

Now, some people were not so lucky. They may have even been prepared for it and still didn’t come out on top.

As Lokaire admitted, the toilet paper shortage had nothing to do with the pandemic. It had to do with assholes who were either hoarding for monetary gain or personal gain. Were they doing this for the pandemic? Perhaps but it was not because everyone scrambled to stock up due to being uninformed but rather greed.

We’re two years into this pandemic because the states only locked down when it was too late, lack of coordination and massive public disdain for the general public health and safety, and people claiming the pandemic wasn’t as deadly as the media was making it out to be. Of course we never flattened the curve. We never had a general public cooperation with experts. Instead we had too many people skeptical that such a thing was even happening.

I’m truly sorry for your loss.