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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
It was a completely new virus! No one could have predicted it. Just like climate change.
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.
Good points, although I don't know how "real" the lockdown was. Maybe it was real in a few cities, but in a lot of places you had Gamestops open and a good chunk of people still having parties.
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.
Rodriguez certainly viewed Guevara as an evil man, yet he wears his watch.
That would be like if the people who executed Benito Mussolini took some of his direct possessions and kept them proudly as their own.
War trophies are a thing. Probably a sicko domination thing.
It makes me sad to write 'sicko' and not have it be appropriate to to post the sicko emoji.
Can't imagine a better revenge than having to rely on the charity of your greatest foe, the man you killed, to save your life.
No need, reptilians opened up the windows of their soul to the devil
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?"
Most of em will just see it as an excuse to declare war on China tho
It could be 10 million dead that the people your trying to dunk would still not give one single fuck.
I keep hoping that things getting worse will change their opinion, and I keep getting disappointed.
If it isn't the Lathe of Heaven that does us in, it'll be the monkey's paw.
I used to date this woman back in uni, and she was a super chill art student. She later moved to Florida, and became uber materialistic. I visited her a few years back, and she was angry and shitty (to workers). I blame the culture there.
Oh God it would be funny to see what she's like on masks and vaccines.
honestly it always depresses me when I see people totally revamp their personality in non-trivial ways like that
Her dad had money. Honestly it's possible to be an OK 18 y/o bourgeois. But I think it's impossible once you're in your thirties.
this cute theater girl i knew in high school who loved the cure is now a wine mom in santa barbara married to a cop
life is funny
Lol, you dated the "college" version of her, the person you met a few years ago is her actual personality.
Especially because if you get sick there (knock in wood) they might not have a bed for you
Never go to Florida. I was in Peninsula (Matt Gaetz's district) recently visiting my cool Grandma. Bad vibes.
Democrats plan for winning florida in 2022: let the MAGA morons kill themselves off
there are lanyard eggheads absolutely running those calculations
I know a Dem party lanyard and this literally his take on the situation "more dead chuds mean more votes for us."
And libs call me the bloodthirsty one when I just want to knock off the landlords Maoist style
also worth noting this only includes fl residents. people on vacation who contract covid in fl count towards their home state. also school starts next week, with Mask mandates being punishable by withholding state funds
School started today for quite a chunk of Florida counties. So, you know, fuck.
I like how you can see where they stopped bothering to report weekends
Someone pointed out that the number of deaths in Florida since the election exceed DeSantis's margin of victory in the state.
The Villages aren't immune to this surge by any means, although I doubt they're the epicenter they deserve to be. But... like... shit is bad and getting worse. And the GOP still seems like they want to own it all to Own the Libs. What are they going to be running on in 2024? Are they still going to be doing Anti-vax and Anti-mask shit in the fifth year of the pandemic? What happens when the next big hurricane fucks up the Gulf Coast? Or the energy sector takes another gut punch, causing Exxon and Halliburton and the rest to hemorrhage another 100,000 jobs?
Mandate of Heaven, bitches. The GOP's deathgrip on this region has been slipping for the better part of a decade and a string of Own Goals isn't going to improve their position.
