Post #3888868

2026-07-17 15:55 UTC

Excess deaths from heatwaves and wildfire smoke will absolutely be normalized because the same playbook can be used that was used to normalize forever covid infections: people dying or disabled were "vulnerable" anyway (whatever the fuck that means) so it doesn't count, because it doesn't affect normal* healthy** individuals This is of course not true, but nobody let that stop them with covid and nobody will let that stop them with this

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@luxliquida@lgbtqia.space 2026-07-17 15:57

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place And ironically, Covid's effects made many more people "vulnerable" to heat and smoke

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@CppGuy@infosec.space 2026-07-17 21:57

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place Agreed. We didn't beat #Covid: we grew bored of it, abandoned all infection control measures, and called it victory. There are striking parallels between Covid and #GlobalWarming: both get politicised; both get denied; both are subjects of wishful thinking (vax-and-relax and carbon capture, respectively); and we have the tools to deal with them both, but we refuse to use them. Our response to Covid was a speed-run of our response to global warming, and both responses are caused by the same human characteristics. If people just wore a respirator in the office and the supermarket, their risk of Covid would be substantially reduced, but that's apparently too much to ask. The sacrifices people would have to make to reduce #GHG emissions are far larger than that. There's not a chance that people will make them. I hope you're enjoying this summer, because it only gets hotter from here.

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@Cosmix@mastodon.art 2026-07-17 15:59

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place I can't believe this can just be the norm. *Grumbles* why must we live in the dumbest timeline?

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@karolherbst@chaos.social 2026-07-17 16:00

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place the heat wave in June here caused a new record on excess deaths in a single day. Yes, even more than during COVID on any single day 😢 We don't have ACs rolled out across the entire country, soo.... And the conservative government currently instead of using the money that was supposed to be used for climate change projects (e.g. making ACs affordable to those who need it) they want to build more natural gas power plants instead with it 😭

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@keydelk@fosstodon.org 2026-07-17 16:01

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place remember when the right was losing their minds over "death panels" in the Affordable Care Act?

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@gabrielesvelto@mas.to 2026-07-17 16:20

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place I feel we can change the narration this time, not because we've somehow become better as societies - arguably we've become worse - but COVID was wiped under the rug as something that "simply happened" while here we have a direct connection between people dying and people profiting from it

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