Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

You contradict yourself in this post. The first graf leads to the last.

Instead of letting a competent person run things behind the scenes, he demanded he be front and center the entire way. When he talked about his press briefings getting high ratings about a week in, that told you all you needed to know.

There is wrong and there is right, and this guy clearly was on the side of wrong. Why are we even wasting time talking about it? He’s clearly the reason an extra 400,000 people died.

 

Something's afoot at the Circle K, I suppose.

 

Would definitely be feasible in much of the country, but NYC, metro DC, Kansas City, St. Louis, Portland et al would have had a tough time with it.

 

There's no such thing as "the" reason. He's a reason

 

If Hilary had been president and we only had 200k or so dead, she would have been ejected from the White House by voters Evel Knievel style and Fox News would be calling for summary execution 24/7/365.

 

Probably.

But FAR more than 200,000 would have died. Seven European countries STILL have a higher per capita death rate than "Trump's America." Who's their boogeyman?

And Trump WAS kicked out of the White House, too.

So "what would" have happened to Hillary DID happen to the guy who beat her. As it should have been.

 

Trump was defeated. HRC would have endured a 40-state ass kicking, and Congress would look like a Liberty trustees meeting.

 

The left absolutely did discourage people from wearing masks. Remember, we had to lie to people and say they don't work in order to save them for hospital workers? Oh never mind we didn't mean that everyone needs a mask now. You absolutely *cannot* gather with other people outside, oh wait we want to do some protesting now it's ok but only if you wear masks.

That sort of disingenuousness erodes public faith in health measures and causes non-compliance. The entire approach of "we have to lie to people to get them to behave the way that we want" consistently came back to bite us in the ass.

The left was thoroughly disinterested in any approach to handling the pandemic that wasn't sticking it to Trump.

Public health experts were begging for leaders to stop focusing on pure shutdowns and start giving people safer alternatives. Instead of shutting down churches, offer them public outdoor spaces on worship days. Don't shut down playgrounds and beaches, encourage their use. We had no interest in any of that, we only wanted to focus on the right wanting to open up too quickly, so we had to be the side that wanted everything closed. Being the opposite of them is the only path we considered, as if there weren't infinite other directions to choose from.

We got none of that, and then we got pandemic fatigue, and don't think for a minute it was limited to people who voted for Trump. Instead of a sustainable approach to mitigating the pandemic, we got what we wanted: A worsening pandemic we could blame on the people we wanted blamed.

 

Rick, a lot of what you say didn't happen, did happen. I don't think it was a partisan thing, just trial and error. Nobody KNEW outdoors was so much safer in March. Nobody KNEW it was almost all aerosol spread. Remember wiping down groceries? People did that because they didn't know any better. Now there's fewer excuses for risky decisions.

 

When did we start using outdoor spaces properly? Half the time the left doesn't want to acknowledge outdoor spread is negligible because they want the rose garden pictures to be a dunk

 

When people were jamming the beaches here in May and June, it probably wasn’t the best idea.

That said, there was a lot we didn’t know about the behavior of the virus then. We’ve learned that outdoor transmission is, for the most part, minimal if everyone is masked. If everyone is unmasked and hemmed into a small area, like they were at the Amy Comey Barrett shindig, that’s obviously different.

 

Deep-red trump state of connecticut will be lifting all capacity limits on March 19