Just absolutely hilarious how some people can twist their morals to claim all abortion is killing a human, but then just have not a care in the world in regards to protecting others from a virus that has killed millions in 2.5 years.

The short version is it's unclear whether covid kills more people than lockdowns when you consider many other factors that unemployed people living in fear may have gotten fatter, more depressed, or more likely to use drugs or crime. Even after the lockdowns inflation is one of the biggest things that causes poverty, which then can causes those things. Say there's a person who can't take a job cause the commuting math doesn't check out anymore, and that job is the difference between them turning their life around and OD-ing in two years.

For old people there is an argument the negative emotional impact of not seeing their grandkids literally makes them wither away and die faster, plus not being in the sun has some negative impact.

There are also people who skipped doctors appointments because of lockdowns or fear of covid, and some surgeries that the hospital had to delay because they were concentrating on covid or were full.

This is only people who literally died. Someone who lost their job and their wife from covid and will live unhappy the next 30 years may not have been killed by lockdowns, but their life was figuratively ended which is nearly as meaningful.

If covid is really as dangerous as the media said, then it likely outweighed the deaths caused by lockdowns, but if a lot of it was inflated by dying "with covid" instead of from it, it's possible the negative impact of lockdowns were bigger. And as zwackerm said we could technically save some lives if we made people live a more miserable and empty existence, but there is an assumption that some increased risk is worth it. I was never as afraid of a disease with 99% survival rate that mostly affects people much older than me as I am the 2000 pound metal objects flying past me at 50 miles an hour every day, as it turns out I don't know a single person who died of covid or came close, but I did have a 16 year old coworker get killed by a car last year.

Finally in the bigger picture, millions of people were murdered or starved to death just in the last hundred years due to tyrannical governments who told the people they should be controlled for their own good. To prevent that from happening again, it's worth it to fight back while we can when a portion of the population starts making the same mistake of thinking the government loves them and that all that is needed to create utopia is to give them more power.

No doubt in my mind that Pete Bootedgedge will be the net major Dem leader. Every time I see him, its obvious. His communication skills are simply next level.

It is humorous how underrated Kamala Harris is. The notion that sexism or racism is applied to something is often overused, but not here. Like Hillary, Kamala has faced an immense barrage of hit jobs by people fearful of her future political power.

People are seriously acting like Harris didn't ace her big speeches as VP candidate. They're acting like she didn't decisively beat Mike Pence - the same Mike Pence who soundly whooped Tim Kaine in 2016. They're like she was not an absolute fundraising juggernaut.

This happens in between every election cycle. Everyone thinks Corey Booker, Rick Perry, Scott Walker types will dominate, but they never do.

Looks like Mike Pence is really pushing hard against Trump. If Trump does not stand down this could be a disaster for the GOP.

Pence grasps what Trump tried to do and is obviously beyond furious. The hearings have been utterly devastating for DT and he 100% should be indicted for treason.

To half the people (which is about the % that supports the hearings), milking J6 makes it look like the Democrats care more about scoring political points trying to make their probable 2024 opponent look bad, than actually trying to solve some of the current problems like inflation. Hence it's not a win for them and is possibly contributing to why Biden is -20 in approval.

The Democrats are basically saying "we must imprison our main political opponent to save democracy" A very basic knowledge of third world politics proves how laughable that idea is.