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EuterpeThelo

(429 posts)
4. This
Sat May 9, 2026, 08:41 AM
21 hrs ago

is triggering the hell out of me. His deliberate mismanagement of COVID last time cost me the love of my life. I participate in a group for people who lost loved ones to the virus and NONE of us are OK, despite society trying to shove our pain down the memory hole as fast as they possibly can.

"It's very much, we hope, under control..."

“We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”

“Looks like by April, you know in theory when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.”

“The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”

“It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”

I intended "to always play it down.”

“I don’t take responsibility at all.”

"They are dying. That's true. And you — it is what it is.”

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