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It is becoming more and more evident that a democrat president would have mismanaged covid just as badly as Trump did. Hillary Clinton wouldn’t have told people to drink bleach but she would have been just as blinded by liberal market fundamentalism to make an adequate response.
I guess a funny outcome of Biden’s developing covid disaster is that it will eventually rehabilitate Trump. Democrats are going to move from “Trump killed hundreds of thousands!” to “It was a completely new virus. What do you expect them to do? Those things just happens.”
Florida schools are putting in mask mandates anyway and desantis isn’t holding true to his threat. now just a weak ass response that he’s going to withhold funding from superintendents and school board members
Biden is powerless too, but in this case that’s because we have 50 countries in a trenchcoat pretending to be 1 country.
It was a completely new virus
the 2nd SARS, like the 5th plague of the last 25 years
The bigger problem seems to be that 30-40% of the country, at minimum, is eager to oppose anything that might slightly inconvenience them or (not and!) moderately improve anyone else’s life. Say we somehow had uniform, bipartisan consensus back in March 2020 that we were going to do a nationwide mask mandate and a real lockdown for six weeks. Is there any chance the tens of millions of hooting chuds out there would have gone along with that?
Every day it gets harder to fault AES states for attempts at mass political re-education.
We did have a “real lockdown” for 4-6 weeks back in March/April 2020. The problem is that a lockdown isn’t enough. You have to provide places to isolate people, away from healthy household members as much as possible, as well as robust contact tracing and both targeting and mass testing. “Everybody STAY HOME” and ride it out doesn’t work - it takes way, way longer than “two week” or even “six weeks” for a serious outbreak to die down without actual intervention, not just isolation. Vietnam was doing testing of 3rd and 4th degree contacts, for instance. In America, we just did cargo cult bullshit.
gusanos are about to sail to cuba on makeshift rafts to get healthcare
Fun fact: Mario Teran, the man who killed Che Guevara, later took advantage of Cuba’s healthcare system to get a cataract removal operation, albeit under a false name.
Yeah but what’s the alternative? A comprehensive national three week shutdown with lump sum payments so people can stay home? Using the militarised police state for something other than renegotiating the civil rights act? Using the completely-controlled mass media to shame people into wearing masks by challenging their masculinity/individualism/patriotism?
We need to hit one million dead. It’s a nice round number and I won’t settle for saying “flag-waving hogs have killed more Americans than WW2 did” or “the neo-confederacy got more Americans killed than the original hicks did”. One million dead means I can ask my pet libertarians, “if this isn’t the number that makes you believe in germ theory then what is?”
It could be 10 million dead that the people your trying to dunk would still not give one single fuck.
they’ve finally flattened the curve
Arkansas has 11 open ICU beds in the state.
