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06-20-21 05:36 #3560
Posts: 5381"Pandemic", not "virus"
Originally Posted by ChrisP [View Original Post]
I have no idea how the virus was born and neither does anyone else. The most common way is in nature and so that is why Fauci and most scientists familiar with the subject said that was the most likely source of origin before it spread in the Wuhan wet market. But, as Fauci has said many times, we should study the origins so we can better guard against any possible mistakes that were made along the way.
But if you feel better imagining it was created in a lab funded by the Trump administration, intentionally weaponized and released by the people Trump praised and thanked for their "transparency" and contribution to mythically ridding us of it in early 2020, that it popped out of a Jon Stewart comedy bit or whatever, have at it.
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06-20-21 04:06 #3559
Posts: 1604Originally Posted by ChrisP [View Original Post]
You fascists keep repeating "the travel ban was good" while, at the same time, reminding everybody that COVID was in the US as early as November. So, how can closing the barn doors be good if all of the horses have already escaped? That's all you fascists have, the travel ban and operation warp speed. You conveniently forget that you refused to count as lies all of trump's "it is one case", 'it will magically disappear", etc.
Gee, nobody has ever heard the term "Trump Derangement Syndrome" before. Did you just make that up? 'Cause that's brilliant. It must have come from someone suffering from "Trump Cult Syndrome."
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06-19-21 19:28 #3558
Posts: 1041Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
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06-19-21 19:25 #3557
Posts: 1041Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
Brazil, Italy, Belgium, Croatia, Poland, Argentina and the UK, among others, are all higher (though interestingly Sweden, which had no lockdown, is slightly lower).
Of course there is no way to accurately measure the cases per millions as so many people had the disease without knowing or reporting it. But most American and European countries are around the same level: the US is in no way an outlier (though it may have been an upper outlier if Trump had not banned flights from China in January 2020, which Biden and Pelosi opposed at the time).
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06-19-21 19:14 #3556
Posts: 1041Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
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06-19-21 19:12 #3555
Posts: 54Originally Posted by PVMonger [View Original Post]
If you insist on being political though, it probably didn't help the death count when blue state governors such as Whitmer and Cuomo ordered nursing homes to accept covid 19 patients. It is a fact that if you lived in a blue state during the pandemic you were 2. 9 times more likely to die of covid 19. If you were to subtract all of the blue state deaths from the national death count, the USA would have done quite well compared to the rest of the world. Too bad the democrat led states had to drag us down.
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06-19-21 19:03 #3554
Posts: 1041Originally Posted by CrowExplorer [View Original Post]
They have no answer to facts like this, and the fact that Biden boosted Putin while crippling America by okaying the Russia-Germany pipeline while cancelling the Keystone pipeline. They simply have a Pavlovian reaction, conditioned by fake news, to oppose anything Trump does or says. He could quite literally say that the sky is blue and they would shriek that it isn't. There is a name for this well-known condition: Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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06-19-21 16:50 #3553
Posts: 1604Originally Posted by CrowExplorer [View Original Post]
Republikkkans will all say "Bbbbbbut COVID". They will conveniently forget that trump LIED about it for a year and personally caused the deaths of more Americans in 1 year than all of the US combat deaths in WWII.
Please explain WHY Thailand's Death rate per capita is 23/ million vs. The US death rate of 1853/ million and why Thailand's unemployment rate during COVID didn't nearly match the USA's. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator...ocations=TH-US https://www.worldometers.info/corona...=homeAdvegas1? COVID is COVID, right?
The only plausible explanation is that trump screwed the pooch but kkkonservative will do and say anything to try to BS the rest of us.
"You can lead idiots to wisdom but you can't make them think" perfectly describes the QOP!
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06-19-21 13:25 #3552
Posts: 1604Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
If the trump 4-year fiasco has taught us anything, it is that you can lead idiots to wisdom but you can't make them think.
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06-19-21 06:31 #3551
Posts: 1925So reps have become cold warriors again, LOL
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
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06-19-21 06:17 #3550
Posts: 54Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
It's very simple. Reduced government regulations are good for capitalism.
For example, in the USA, prostitution in almost all areas of the country is illegal (Highly regulated). These regulations lead to a shortage of ladies willing to offer services. Shortage of pussy=High prices.
In Mexico, prostitution is legal in most places, these lack of regulations leads to an abundance of ladies willing to offer services. Abundance of pussy=Lower prices.
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06-19-21 04:18 #3549
Posts: 5381Thanks, Obama-Biden
Originally Posted by Canada [View Original Post]
The fact that it continued its steady and dramatic downward trajectory for several months after January 2017 while Trump played golf is not surprising. But it also had nothing to do with how well Trump played golf or, more likely, how well he cheated on his score card.
The other far more important factor in the blacks, hispanics and women unemployment rate decline and increased entry into the labor force than anything Trump or other Repubs would have a thing to do with was there had been a big movement in mostly Dem states and cities to begin incrementally raise the minimum wage. Minimum wage jobs being more likely than most filled by blacks, hispanics and women, those demographics were naturally enticed into taking jobs that would finally actually pay enough to survive.
You know, the raises in the minimum wage that Trump and his fellow Repubs railed against then as now.
LOL. But they had no problem falsely taking credit for the lower unemployment rates, increases in the labor force and higher wages for those demographics that come about when you raise the minimum wage as long as the Dems were the ones making it happen. LOL. Typical Repub behavior.
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06-19-21 03:47 #3548
Posts: 5381FUX News got it right but for the former guy
Originally Posted by ChrisP [View Original Post]
LOL. Priceless.
An "utter, embarrassing train wreck" indeed.
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06-19-21 03:35 #3547
Posts: 5381You missed an interesting quote
Originally Posted by ChrisP [View Original Post]
I pay federal taxes and I imagine so do you if you are a USA citizen. Which means you and I had more to do with getting as many Americans successfully vaccinated as there are today than Donald Trump.
Trump's most significant contribution to the development and administration of the vaccines is his working mightily to create a worldwide need for them when such an outcome could have been avoided without his 2018 defunding decision, his early consistent lies and mockery about the problem.
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06-19-21 03:17 #3546
Posts: 5381Here is a better analogy
Originally Posted by CrowExplorer [View Original Post]
Oh, and let's have Biden also defunding and hobbling the "Hurricane Prevention and Response" systems a year prior to the event for no good reason economic or otherwise just to make this hypothetical Biden/Trump national security response analogy a bit more comparable to what Trump did.
Of course, a POTUS can't effect the growth, power and direction of a natural event like a gale force wind or a hurricane due to his disastrous economic decisions, his cowardice and lies about it the way one can and Trump did with the development of this virus from endemic to pandemic.
Thank god. If he could, Trump would have figured out a way to do that with every gale force wind that came along from January 2017 to January 2021.