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Interesting and rather tragic.

The part about supressing the cause of death was especially gutwrenching. Silencing hurt people out of fear of encouraging nutters is a horrible thing to do.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The problem with global media is that every single outlier event gets hyped to such a degree that it appears to be a common occurrence.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

bird flu just got like three people sick and everyone at my work talks about it

Covid killed almost a thousand last week