• Coreidan@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The problem with people like you is you take everything so literally and then easily get offended.

    No one in the US refers to lockdown in a way that implies they were forced into their homes and literally locked in side.

    It’s just a word people use to describe loosely that they were staying home.

    I don’t know where you live but where I live the state was placed into a state of emergency and hardly anyone was on the roads. Normally there is traffic every where I live but at time the roads were empty. People were home instead of at school or at the office or off on vacation. Stores were either closed or open but empty.

    Sure there were plenty of people that didn’t care but clearly enough did care that there was a noticeable decrease in the amount of traffic every where.

    What word would you use instead of “lockdown” that doesn’t offend you so much? Maybe you just live in a deep red state.

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      10 hours ago

      Do you think “offended” means “correcting incorrectness”? Did your grade school teachers seem offended to you? No. And this helped me understand your style.

      I get it, you’re speaking emotionally through exaggeration to make a point. And by “you don’t live in the US”, you must’ve meant that they didn’t understand your American style of over exaggeration.

      But if you want to be understood, it helps to use words as they’re intended, or make it more clear that you’re being dramatic for effect.

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      17 hours ago

      as an aussie, who lived in melbourne, so was inside for 80% of 3 years enforced by police including curfews enforced by police helicopters… all of which the general public by a very large majority agreed with in order to save lives

      what yall in the US went through was absolute hell. what was forced on you was in many ways worse than what we went through… the constant fear must have been horrible

      but the US response was pathetic and needs to be remembered for exactly what it was: a complete shit show, that SPECIFICALLY DID NOT INCLUDE LOCKDOWNS… australia and countries that did lock down… a real lockdown had significantly lower death rate… your lack of lockdown led to over 1 million deaths

      by using language like that, it leads to things like holocaust denial: people forget, and then people say it didn’t happen

      never forget that trump and his administration, along with that of many republican governors, were directly responsible for a huge number of those millions of deaths. never let them spin the narrative

      … also, yknow, saying what you went through was a lockdown completely trivialises our hellish experiences… you didn’t lock down; we put in the fucking work and saved lives… it’s a comment on the US and how toxic individual liberty at all costs can be, and something that we are very proud of how we handled: for years we traded individual freedoms to save the lives of those around us