Read: It would theoretically be salvageable, but under Trump/the Republicans and Biden/the Dems, it won't be.

We had one shot to do it right like China did (Who have been pretty much actually back to normal for months now), but our government on both a federal and state level have just absolutely, royally fucked it all up. Mainly because they were/are too much of greedy, stingy, capitalist assholes to give people the aid they need so that their lives aren't completely destroyed.

After 8 months of annoying-ass variable on/off lockdowns (Instead of doing 1 sustained national lockdown at the beginning), the public will to continue has overall been destroyed, and it ain't comin' back.

  • T_Doug [he/him]
    ·
    4 years ago

    In Febuary, and after, that fucker said :

    you look at the masks that you buy in a drug store, the leakage around that doesn't really do much to protect you ... now, in the United States, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to wear a mask

    Later on he admitted that he was lying when he said that. Of course the CDC and every other Health org knew masks were effective against COVID from the very start. And yet, even now he says that he has "no regrets" for lying to the public.

    But the biggest lie is the idea that he said that for reasons only relating to Public Health. Not true, there's no reason he couldn't admit to the Public that N-95 like masks would need to be prioritized for Healthcare providers, but that makeshift masks would be effective against Covid, that would've been the best move from a Public Health POV because it's not fucking lying, which will always raises future skepticism against anything you say.

    He lied about masks for the same reason he lied in MARCH about cruises being safe, his job is primarily to protect Capital, and at the time that meant preventing peoples well founded panic from causing economic disruption.

    Now we can of course see that sane Public Health measures would've done far more to preserve the American economy in the long run than the short sighted policy, and lies, overseen by Fauci. Unsurprisingly Capital is as stupid as it's deadly.

    • HntrKllr [he/him]
      ·
      4 years ago

      To the last part, capital isnt stupid. It literally only cares about the short term. Who gives a fuck if you can make a billion next week, if today you can make half a billion