• mr_world [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    They fucked up in a rush to build back better and now they're going to have to reverse their rhetoric and get gibbed by republicans. Republicans will completely reverse their positions immediately because there's no real political consequence to doing that. Then they get to outflank Dems by being harder on vaccine safety than they were. They realize the same thing that fucked Trump can fuck Biden so they're going to go with that. We're about to see Dems get absolutely rolled by their own actions. It never fails.

    Even without a mask mandate, there's people protesting in my state right now against vaccines and masks. Even when you're free to cough in each others' mouths in public and everything. It literally does not matter. But Dems had to be bullied by the chamber of commerce into declaring 4th of July freedom day. Biden last week says there's no pandemic except for unvaccinated people. But obviously there is a pandemic and it's going to start getting worse again because the vaccines aren't everything. We should have been wearing masks the whole time even when vaccinated. More oopsie daisy mixed messaging on what vaccines can do and how they interface with masks. You tell people vaccines make you immortal because you want people to take them. So they take them. But if the vaccines are so good you shouldn't need to wear a mask. But the vaccines don't stop the spread of infection, they just keep you from dying from it. So the virus still spreads. Remove masks and you get more spread.

    Anyone with a little bit of awareness knew we'd hit a vaccination ceiling. People a year ago were rightly laughing at the idea that we'd see over 60% vaccination rates. There's no excuse. It's an absolute shit show and this is going to lead to a lot of shit down the road. They just can't stop doing this thing every time they're in power.