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ReadsTheScience OP t1_j6t0fim wrote

Reply to comment by Easywind42 in Remember when the Rhode Island National Guard went door to door looking for New Yorkers? by ReadsTheScience

Fuck anyone moved to RI 4 months before the pandemic with a 1997 honda civic and still had NY plates? Or anyone who left New York to go live with a relative in RI?

You seriously think this only affected people with big ass waterfront mansions?

>Between 2019 and 2021, non-Latino whites lost 2 years on average, while non-Latino Blacks lost 3.5 years and Latinos lost 3.7 years of life expectancy.

Nobody is saying that the discrepancy can be mainly explained by differing covid rates/severity. It was the lockdown policies.

But yeah fuck those rich out of staters.

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Proof-Variation7005 t1_j6t1t1w wrote

>Fuck anyone moved to RI 4 months before the pandemic with a 1997 honda civic and still had NY plates? Or anyone who left New York to go live with a relative in RI?

A) You have 30 days from moving to change your registration

B) How common do you really think that was? In a state with a million people, I doubt that even 100 people fit that criteria.

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>Nobody is saying that the discrepancy can be mainly explained by differing covid rates/severity. It was the lockdown policies.

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Except we've got a mountain of data at the time and before about racial inequities in our profit-driven healthcare industry and we knew that COVID was disproportionately hurting minority populations. This was pointed out many times in real fucking time.

Also, we didn't have a lockdown. You couldn't go to a restaurant for like 2.5 months. How can people still be such fucking babies about this shit? Like, it's bad enough that you wouldn't shut the fuck up then, but we're 2.5 years removed from any restriction whatsoever.

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ReadsTheScience OP t1_j6t4jxc wrote

> A) You have 30 days from moving to change your registration

And? So if you forgot, and wanted to go get RI plates to not be targeted, you could just go to the DMV and get the process done like normal?

> B) How common do you really think that was? In a state with a million people, I doubt that even 100 people fit that criteria.

If you say so.

>it's bad enough that you wouldn't shut the fuck up

True. We're pretty militant and active everywhere, we're stripping public health of any powers it once had.

We're getting quite good results actually 😊😊

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Proof-Variation7005 t1_j6t5wth wrote

This is like those Japanese soldiers who sat on random islands for years with no idea that war was over. What the fuck are you whining about? My brother in Christ, it is the year 2023. The only reason I even remembered today that COVID-19 was thing that happened is because you randomly came to this sub to whine about it.

The whining was pathetic and selfish then and now I'm not even sure I know if there are adjectives that can describe what it's like to still complain about this? Arguing about a defunct policy in the subreddit for a state you don't even live in?

Do you realize how fucking sad that is? Millions of people died from that virus and this is sadder than all of their deaths combined.

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ReadsTheScience OP t1_j6t6xv1 wrote

>The whining was pathetic and selfish then and now I'm not even sure I know if there are adjectives that can describe what it's like to still complain about this?

We have spent years waiting for the end of the public health emergency so we can go into crunch time. May 11.

😊

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