I imagine in terms of medical care access and affordability or welfare stimulus, practically negligible, but in terms of CDC funding, science literacy, public policy, and general preparedness, it would be a whole lot better put together.

So I'd say... 10% fewer deaths? 200K vs. 220K deaths sounds about right.

  • thefunkycomitatus [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I could see half the deaths. I mean it's all about the early days. I can see Hillary and Dems acting about a month earlier than Trump. That's not insignificant. PPE probably would have been distributed better as well. Remember that Kushner was just taking shit from states and reselling it to businesses. Also they cut Obummer's pandemic response shit in 2018, which Hillary probably wouldn't have done. So we would have been slightly more prepared. I don't think 100-150K is unreasonable.

    The right's response to quarantines and mask mandates would be on a whole nother level though. I could see someone taking a shot at Hillary over it. Arguably we'd be more afraid of the right rn.

    If Hillary won, T_D would have lost steam by now. Which means r/cth wouldn't have been deleted because nobody would have cried about JB posting. Then that means chapo.chat wouldn't be here.