People largely weren't on their deathbeds with covid claiming it was a hoax either so I'm not sure how that's a relevant analogy. The response to Covid was far more disruptive to my life than the disease itself, which would obviously not be the case with starvation.

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singleshot_ an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> weren't on their deathbeds with covid claiming it was a hoax

Have you treated many patients with COVID? I’ve heard the opposite of your claim from those who have.

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mothballed an hour ago | parent [-]

People with first hand experience offering counterpoints like Dr Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi did but unfortunately their videos explaining their side of the story were conveniently removed from places your YouTube -- while conveniently leaving the videos remaining to hear the kind of stories you heard.

	▲	Retric 37 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Step back a moment and ask yourself, “How exactly would Dr Dan Erickson know if someone else’s patient said this?” There was massive regional differences in how different parts of the country and even different parts of the same state responded to COVID.
	▲	defrost 15 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The issue was their extrapolation of their local keyhole perception to the entire country. Flawed in many ways: https://www.acep.org/corona/COVID-19-alert/covid-19-articles...

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toofy an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

many people i know personally who, to this day deny covid was real, they personally knew people who died or were hospitalized and ventilated. yet they still deny it was real.

one of my family members who was in a coma for over a month and in the hospital for months still denies it was covid despite multiple doctors telling him otherwise. some people live in a very real state of denial entirely separated from reality.

sadly i’m not sure the person you replied to is too far off.

	▲	ryandrake 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Same here. The extreme politicization of the disease, plus the social isolation, plus over reliance on inflammatory social media as one's only channel to the outside world, fully broke some people's grip on reality. Permanently for some.

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llbeansandrice an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> People largely weren't on their deathbeds with covid claiming it was a hoax

There were actually lots of people doing exactly this. Perhaps "largely" is the key word here but there were plenty of people dying of covid and refusing ventilators because they believed it was a conspiracy theory.

	▲	netsharc 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Apparently the virus was able to ruin cognitive function that people struggling to breathe thought they're fine. (Ok, it seems too convenient that the virus can do this...).