[Zanneth]

Naomi has taken to an extreme view on COVID, claiming that policies that are any less authoritarian than the (now provably failed) “zero COVID” policy are attempts by the state to purposefully kill elderly and sick people so that survivors can apparently enjoy greater tax revenue.

https://x.com/realsexycyborg/status/1647827136416464896?s=46

This is only one of many examples where she used her platform to stoke the intercultural flamewars between China and the West.

[nextaccountic]

I don't know, in the context of my own country (Brazil) there seems to be some (probably small) amount of intentionality [0] of government officials in measures that are obviously malicious, like rejecting vaccines [1] and other actions that aided the spread of the virus. We shouldn't live in a world where the incentives of government officials coincide with excess deaths of elderly or any other population group.

But the trouble with conspiracies is that they ascribe a level of competency that's unrealistic. So it's unlikely there is a government program specifically targeted to kill the elderly, not because governments are above this, but just because this kind of thing can't be made secret for too long (just like this specific remark from some specific government official in Brazil quickly became public).

Anyway I didn't find this specific tweet hateful.

[0] "Covid deaths improve the bottom line of social security", in Portuguese https://www.estadao.com.br/economia/morte-de-idosos-por-covi...

Google translation: https://www-estadao-com-br.translate.goog/economia/morte-de-...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...