https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

They had already made this a pretty useless metric earlier in the year by including 2020 data. Now they're removing it entirely in the middle of a surge.

  • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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    I was thinking about this just now looking at opinion polling on continued polling of funding Ukraine. If trump were to be elected, does that war end?

    Like say what you will about trump but he sent checks to people. They’re not going to forget that. A lot of the positive stuff that was implemented during covid got rolled back under Biden, like student loan pauses, the child tax credit etc.

    Not arguing for trump here bc he’s obviously a reprehensible demon but outside of minority communities he for sure is the harm reduction candidate… which happens to be the majority of the American electorate and ESPECIALLY the majority electorate in swing state rural districts.

    We are gonna get a second trump term I think which is as hilarious as it is terrifying

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      • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Absolutely. They're both complete puppets when it comes to something like this. Its the circumstances not the individual actor

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      he sent checks to people. They’re not going to forget that.

      Meanwhile people still remember that Biden promised them more money than he gave.

      • the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]
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        1 year ago

        Yeah if i only think I'm simple terms about the direct impact on my material circumstances under Trump, where i got checks deposited in my account automagically vs biden where i had to fill out a form and then never got my check at all?

        Gotta give that one to the cheeto.

        As an aside, i remember being surprised when those first checks got direct deposited into my account I never gave them the info. If they can do that, doesn't that prove quite soundly that the whole performative bullshit paperwork ive done throughout the times of my life, dilligently proving i meet the requirements for aid, were just that? Performative, deliberate roadblocks?

        Dems policy points are like pharma commercials. The only truth in them is written in the fine print.

        • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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          1 year ago

          Huh, maybe its because I'm on social security but I actually had the opposite experience? I never got Trump's (first???? idr the timeline) check but Biden's came into my account automatically.

          Yeah, must be a social security thing. Because I didnt have to fill out a form either.

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