Some Covid-19 thoughts
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Why the US Performed So Poorly Against the Coronavirus
The big picture is plain: Generally speaking, we've done really well both in carrying out our plan (healthcare workers first, followed by the elderly) and in our overall speed of approval and delivery (one of the best in the world).
This really and truly does leave us with only one thing that potentially had a large and long-term impact on our response to the virus: Donald Trump. He's the one who initially downplayed it; who touted a wide range of quack cures; who made mask-wearing into a culture war battle; and who insisted on opening up the economy before we were ready—which kept our mortality rate high during the summer while other countries were pushing it down nearly to zero. Trump's malign influence spread to nearly every red-state governor, most of the Republican caucus in Congress, and of course to Fox News. This is truly the big difference between the US and the rest of the West, and the reason that our mortality rate was eventually one of the worst—though not the absolute worst—among our peer countries. Under any other president, things would have been very different.
More at https://jabberwocking.com/take-3-why-the-us-performed-so-poorly-agains
t-the-coronavirus/
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Why the US Performed So Poorly Against the Coronavirus
Don't even have to read past the first sentence to know the answer to that.
It's Trump, right Second?
No, Marcos. It's not illiteracy that keeps me from reading Second's posts beyond the first sentence.
It's pattern recognition that negates the need for me to even waste my time.
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Quote:He's the one who initially downplayed Covid; who touted a wide range of quack cures; who made mask-wearing into a culture war battle; whose malign influence spread to nearly every red-state governor, most of the Republican caucus in Congress, and of course to Fox News. Who's he I wonder?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It's pattern recognition that negates the need for me to even waste my time.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:He's the one who initially downplayed Covid; who touted a wide range of quack cures; who made mask-wearing into a culture war battle; whose malign influence spread to nearly every red-state governor, most of the Republican caucus in Congress, and of course to Fox News. Who's he I wonder?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It's pattern recognition that negates the need for me to even waste my time.
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Why pin all that on Trump?
Everything you mentioned above that was within my power I've been doing since day one, long before Trump even weighed in on it at all.
You're a terrified, gullible little bitch.
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Quote:Long before? Trump flip flopped: Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday recommended Americans get vaccinated.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Everything you mentioned above that was within my power I've been doing since day one, long before Trump even weighed in on it at all.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/16/trump-americans-covid-vaccine
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“And I would recommend it to a lot of people that don't want to get it and a lot of those people voted for me, frankly.”
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Originally posted by second:
Long before?
Yup.
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Trump flip flopped: Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday recommended Americans get vaccinated.
Don't give a shit.
But thanks for accidentally making the point that I don't take marching orders from Big Bad Orange Man for me.
You stupid, stupid cunt.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Long before?
Yup.Quote:
Trump flip flopped: Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday recommended Americans get vaccinated.
Don't give a shit.
But thanks for accidentally making the point that I don't take marching orders from Big Bad Orange Man for me.
You stupid, stupid cunt.
Dr. Birx Remembers When Trump Suggested Injecting Disinfectant to Kill COVID: 'Extraordinarily Uncomfortable'. "Frankly, I didn't know how to handle that episode," she said this week.
https://people.com/politics/dr-deborah-birx-talks-trump-bleach-comment
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Lysol Makers and Doctors Warn Against Injecting Disinfectants After Trump Comments
https://people.com/health/lysol-makers-doctors-warn-against-injecting-
disinfectants-after-trump-comments/
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Yup. Only he never actually did that.
But anybody who dies a horribly painful death by injecting themselves with bleach probably deserves what's coming to them.
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Quote:He actually did that:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yup. Only he never actually did that.
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Yup. Only he never actually did that.
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