Both sides were wrong on COVID

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BartenderElite

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Dems were wrong: shutting down our schools for SO long has hurt this generation of children, academically and socially. That is undeniable at this point.

Republicans were wrong: it wasn't a hoax, and a lot of people died & have long-term problems.

Yet again, partisan differences prevented us from arriving at common sense solutions. Both sides dug in & went further to the extreme of whatever position they had. Just because they hated the other side, and didn't want them to be right.

Will we learn from that?

Nope.
 
BartenderElite said:
Dems were wrong: shutting down our schools for SO long has hurt this generation of children, academically and socially. That is undeniable at this point.

Republicans were wrong: it wasn't a hoax, and a lot of people died & have long-term problems.

Yet again, partisan differences prevented us from arriving at common sense solutions. Both sides dug in & went further to the extreme of whatever position they had. Just because they hated the other side, and didn't want them to be right.

Will we learn from that?

Nope.
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We refuse to learn.
 
BartenderElite said:
Dems were wrong: shutting down our schools for SO long has hurt this generation of children, academically and socially. That is undeniable at this point.

Republicans were wrong: it wasn't a hoax, and a lot of people died & have long-term problems.

Yet again, partisan differences prevented us from arriving at common sense solutions. Both sides dug in & went further to the extreme of whatever position they had. Just because they hated the other side, and didn't want them to be right.

Will we learn from that?

Nope.
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HORSESHIT AS USUAL.

NO ONE SAID "COVID IS A HOAX".


THE "HOAX" WAS THE SHUT DOWNS AND MASK MANDATES....AND, LATER, THE VACCINE MANDATES, ALL OF WHICH CAME FROM THE CORONACRATS.


NO "BOTH SIDES" WERE NOT WRONG.
 
Grokmaster said:
HORSESHIT AS USUAL.

NO ONE SAID "COVID IS A HOAX".


THE "HOAX" WAS THE SHUT DOWNS AND MASK MANDATES....AND, LATER, THE VACCINE MANDATES, ALL OF WHICH CAME FROM THE CORONACRATS.


NO "BOTH SIDES" WERE NOT WRONG.
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You're party-line, all the way. You've been posting here for ages, and I doubt you could produce a single post that wasn't as party-line as the most hardcore partisan on here.

So, I'll take that w/ a grain of salt.
 
BartenderElite said:
Dems were wrong: shutting down our schools for SO long has hurt this generation of children, academically and socially. That is undeniable at this point.

Republicans were wrong: it wasn't a hoax, and a lot of people died & have long-term problems.

Yet again, partisan differences prevented us from arriving at common sense solutions. Both sides dug in & went further to the extreme of whatever position they had. Just because they hated the other side, and didn't want them to be right.

Will we learn from that?

Nope.
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It was an emergency



Yes we had to close them down



Now we have to deal with the fallout



Life is like that
 
evince said:
It was an emergency



Yes we had to close them down



Now we have to deal with the fallout



Life is like that
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We erred on the side of saving lives. I agreed at the time.

But in hindsight, it was an overreaction. There were some hard consequences for the teens and twenties among us.
 
Our medical system had to be kept from collapsing



We managed to save it



We’re their bad sides to our needed reaction?




Yes



Mental illness due to isolation and stress



Hard decisions sometimes have to be made


Hind sight always leaves out a few things



We had to stop the spread



We had to make people isolate



We did the right thing
 
BartenderElite said:
We erred on the side of saving lives. I agreed at the time.

But in hindsight, it was an overreaction. There were some hard consequences for the teens and twenties among us.
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We erred on the side of not having our medical system completely collapse



It nearly did dude



We came really fucking close to mass infection and no medical staff to deal with it



You are forgetting aspects
 
People sick and dying at home from covid


Heart attacks killing people who would survive with care



People getting no cancer care and dying



Accident victims dying without treatment



We came very close
 
BartenderElite said:
Dems were wrong: shutting down our schools for SO long has hurt this generation of children, academically and socially. That is undeniable at this point.

Republicans were wrong: it wasn't a hoax, and a lot of people died & have long-term problems.

Yet again, partisan differences prevented us from arriving at common sense solutions. Both sides dug in & went further to the extreme of whatever position they had. Just because they hated the other side, and didn't want them to be right.

Will we learn from that?

Nope.
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It seems like ancient history, and it's easy to forget the reality at the time. N.Y/N.J./California were hit first, no doubt due to the airports. By the time the truth was out, it was too late. The trump virus had already been spreading for 3 months or more.

Middle of the country had very little. That's when the shit show started. If only this wasn't an election issue by MAGA, we might not have needed to shut down schools for so long. Can't get fully on board with the 'wrong' moniker given that the fight against common sense measures was idiotic.
 
BartenderElite said:
We erred on the side of saving lives. I agreed at the time.

But in hindsight, it was an overreaction. There were some hard consequences for the teens and twenties among us.
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Shutting down schools for so long will have profound consequences in years to come, especially amongst the poor and minorities.
 
BartenderElite said:
We erred on the side of saving lives. I agreed at the time.

But in hindsight, it was an overreaction. There were some hard consequences for the teens and twenties among us.
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Unnecessary, if only we could have come up with a national policy.

It was an election year

No wonder Congress has a 7% approval rating.
 
BartenderElite said:
We erred on the side of saving lives. I agreed at the time.

But in hindsight, it was an overreaction. There were some hard consequences for the teens and twenties among us.
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Props for acknowledging this. Not easy in such a partisan environment. When 'science said' it was ok for schools to reopen we still kept a bunch of them closed.

This is anecdotal but I can speak personally to it being in California where we kept them closed longer than most. I heard from both friends but closer than that my sister and the effect/damage it did to her three kids. And as you stated the details/data has been coming out about the short and long term damage.

You're right, partisans on either side rarely ever want to acknowledge something that contradicts a strongly held belief and you're seeing it in this thread. But the school sh*t is serious.
 
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