re: #384 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

No, and neither is the Russian construction ralphieboy mentioned. Just throwing out the ways English can note an action without also mentioning an agent.

I guess if we’re going to continue to noodle about this, Russian is like Spanish as the subject pronoun is mostly unnecessary and can be dropped. So, the easiest way to say something indirectly is just to not insert a subject: “mistakes were made” becomes “made mistakes.” No actual passive construction required. Formal Russian is full of this stuff, as is passive construction in formal English (and Microsoft Word bitching about it because it’s stupid).