• @akhenaten0
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    221 year ago

    Big ol’ asterisk on the 2020 election, though:

    • Covid
    • Wide action to change voting to get around Covid
    • Wide belief among Republicans that Covid wasn’t real
    • Ergo, wide movement against changing elections around Covid

    For these reasons alone, using any election map like this from 2020 is outside any norm. What about the 2016 or 2012 map? It may look similar, but won’t be nearly as drastic.

    • @DadamOP
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      1 year ago

      Good point! I’ll see if the author has the same map for any previous elections.

      Edit: So it seems like the maps were made as a part of a series by u/DustinGibson a while back. As far as I know, he has not posted any other elections.

    • @Blamemeta
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      -311 year ago

      For the record, covid was a real disease, but completely overblown. The measures were mostly not helpful, and targeted small businesses.

      • @BB69
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        181 year ago

        My father died due to somebody else believing the same, ignoring the guidelines, and spreading Covid to him.

        So kindly shut the fuck up, yeah?

        • @Blamemeta
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          -71 year ago

          My grandpa also died. Stage four lung cancer, but he spent the last year of his life locked up in a nursing home. Funnily enough, he had his first shot, but not the second.

          • @SomeoneElse
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            21 year ago

            I’m sorry your grandpa died, and it was heartbreaking that some people died apart from their families. I believe they changed the restrictions in the UK to allow terminal patients to have visitors by 2021. But if they hadn’t restricted visits to hospitals and nursing homes, so many more elderly and ill people would have died from covid - and not just the people who opted to take the risk and see their family. It was an awful time for everyone whether you died or lost someone, had to shield, missed crucial time at school, lost your job or your business, had to continue to work on the front lines, or even just had to follow the lockdown rules. But I don’t think any of the precautions taken at the time were done so lightly or heavy-handedly considering the uncertainty at the time.

      • @SomeoneElse
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        161 year ago

        At least 7 million people died as a very conservative estimate. Some estimates go as high as 30 million deaths. It’s the 4th most deadly epidemic/pandemic in the last millennia after the Black Death, Spanish flu, and HIV/AIDS. And that’s with all the lockdowns, social distancing measures and a truly groundbreaking rollout of vaccinations. There’s nothing overblown about that.