You can't deal with reality. You run your big mouth to spread propaganda but you are incapable of adult conversation.
US COVID Failure
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This pandemic and its handling in America will be the subject of many future scholarly papers. It was the perfect storm of an incompetent egotistical buffoon at the top, and a pool of dupes willing to believe any nonsensical crap flowing from his blowhole. Trump instantly politicized a disease that cares not for your political POV, with the help of the propagandists at Fox, OAN, etc. In Florida and other states this is still going on. FL leads the country currently in new infections, yet its Trumpian governor threatened the Special Olympics with millions of dollars ($75M) in fines if they mandated vaccines for competitors and others attending. History will not treat DiSantis or Trump kindly.
Interestingly, Sweden has fewer active infections currently than does the state of Florida. Can you explain the difference?
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
round four of the nearly non-lethal Biden variation hasn't spread to Sweden.......meanwhile the current daily deaths from virus is lower per capita in Florida than in Sweden.....(Florida had 7, Sweden had 4).....did you know twice as many people live in Florida than in Sweden?......
by the way, you are more likely to be stabbed in NYC than to die of corona virus in Florida......
He can't read my posts due to forced ignore. But you can tell him that Israel and the Jews charge the Mars batteries with their space lasers.
I mean the poor guy is obviously off his rocker. But I wish he/she would find some other way to release the crazy. Most people just stand on top of soap boxes, naked, on street corners yelling like moon bats into the ether.
I guess JP's this guy's street corner. It's better this way - because no one can see that the troll is naked.
LOL, Oh, my God I am truly laughing at you in real life. I'm so sorry you hate yourself so much you have to attempt to inflect your excruciating pain upon others.
Suck a dog's butt.
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If you have some argument you'd like to make, feel free to share it in your own words. Linking to a 48 minute long right-wing British Youtube video isn't going to cut it, because I won't watch.
Aww... I think I'm going to cry at that "expert" smack, moron. The fact you think you sound clever is one of the most hilarious things about you!
I think in some cases there really was something beyond incompetence. I think that once Biden took office, Republicans took the view that failing to get COVID under control would hurt him politically, and so they did whatever they could to stop him. That included things like asserting state rights against federal authority to block anti-COVID measures, and also asserting state rights against municipal, local, or even corporate authority, when anti-COVID measures were happening there. DeSantis was the king of that, with his imperial governorship working to fight any effort to reduce COVID infections, including threatening to punish companies and other private organizations that tried to protect their workers and customers.
Some of that maliciousness was abuse of the "bully pulpit." Trump, for example, used his presidency to set a terrible example, by hosting super-spreader events and ridiculing those who wore masks, as well as sowing confusion by hyping snake-oil cures. He also encouraged complacency by assuring people COVID was just going to magically disappear.
Biden hasn't been a whole lot more effective, but at least it wasn't a lack of trying. Unfortunately, by the time he took office, the Republicans had thoroughly politicized what ought to have been apolitical public health policy questions, such that right-wingers, from the grass roots up through the high court, saw it as a test of tribal loyalty to push back against anything he tried to do to fight the virus.
Fortunately, COVID vaccines have proven to be very safe in children. What isn't safe is COVID itself. It has killed 1,086 children in the US, alone. That's more than 30 years of school shootings combined!
Maybe, but that has nothing to do with our weak COVID response, so it's a topic for a different thread.
Agreed. And it's a top-to-bottom thing. It involved Republican governors, Republicans on the high court, and wingnuts in media, but also everyday people who proudly avoided taking any measures that might protect the vulnerable around them. It was effectively a Plague of Sociopaths.
Yep. You saw that particularly with military personnel, who regularly rolled up their sleeves for any number of vaccines, no questions asked, as part of their job... including some pretty nasty cocktails before deploying to tropical areas. But then, the moment they saw this as a test of tribal loyalty rather than a simple public health matter, they dug their heels in and refused to take the COVID vaccine (especially bizarre given the fact that the unprecedented breadth of the vaccine roll-out globally means that we're surer of its safety and efficacy than almost any other vaccine they previously had).
It was little green aliens hand-cranking generators, obviously.
I just wish the Repukes had picked another topic to be assholes about. But, no, just to be dicks and show everyone how "free" they are, they held a bunch of superspreader events and killed more people.
Many more people would be alive today if Repukes and their propaganda wing, Fox News, would have supported mitigation efforts instead of being cynical opportunists.
Exactly. You know the story about the frog and the scorpion? Republicans are America's scorpions. It's their nature to self-destruct and try to take everyone with them. They're like a psycho boyfriend who kills his lover because "if I can't have her, then no one else can". <--- I tell you I think it's like that with these rednecks.
There's the right-wing conspiracy goon in a nutshell. Now, somehow, we're meant to believe it's impossible to charge a battery on Mars, even though we know exactly how they did it:
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2018/12...aker sunlight than,of the production on Earth.
https://mars.nasa.gov/news/1264/curiositys-daily-update-curiositys-batteries-get-a-charge/
It really can feel like we're living in the movie "Idiocracy." We've got a bunch of halfwits who struggled even to get through remedial high school science classes, and who haven't improved their scientific understanding in decades, yet who now are convinced they're privy to some secret scientific wisdom that has eluded those of us with far better educations, including those who actually work in relevant fields.
Sweden isn't a very good analog for the US, since it's relatively isolated. A better comparison for Sweden are its own neighbors: Norway, Finland, and Denmark. Sweden has had 1,004 cumulative excess deaths per million residents. Norway has had 418, Finland 889, and Denmark 300. Sweden was actually doing even worse, relative to its neighbors, back in 2020, when they tried their catastrophic "let's just let the virus run wild and see what happens" policy. But, fortunately, they eventually realized that was a tragically stupid move, and when vaccines showed up, they adopted them aggressively. 75% of Swedes are fully vaccinated against COVID, which isn't far behind Finland and Denmark, and is actually ahead of Norway. By comparison, in the US it's just 67%. That Swedish campaign of mass vaccination meant that they compared just fine to their neighbors in 2021, so all that increased excess mortality we see relative to those neighbors for the pandemic as a whole is just the lasting impact of the harm they did themselves back in 2020.