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		_vbnz on Sept 27, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lockdown, distance learning likely to increase soc... Indeed, we might have a serious issue with illiteracy again. All over a virus with a 99.5+% survival rate, with 92% of the deaths in the UK in over 75s (and mostly with diabetes and dementia).

spookthesunset on Sept 27, 2021 | [–]

The median age of death in many states was well above the average life expectancy of a healthy human. You’d never know this unless you bothered to check the state covid dashboard.

lithium_throw on Sept 28, 2021 | [–]

I have maintained for a long time, that this will be regarded as an outbreak of mass hysteria of truly historic proportions.

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