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Ha! That kinda flies in the face of facts. The UK and the US did NOT "over-quarantine" and this is precisely the problem. Nations, even some bad-old-authoritar
by hootbootscoot 6y ago
Ha! That kinda flies in the face of facts. The UK and the US did NOT "over-quarantine" and this is precisely the problem.
Nations, even some bad-old-authoritarian ones, that didn't dilly-dally and turn the question of lockdown into a political issue, but took it as a public health issue, those are the nations that are re-opening now with low enough numbers to claim to be over the first wave.
The Tory's and GOP's treatment of a pandemia as a political football, instead of a public health menace, led to spotty lockdown actualities that precisely resulted in MORE spreading of the virus. I.E. The Wisconsin Supreme Courts decision and the immediate opening of the bars and no masks, no social distancing, etc.
These are FAILED policies and the ideology behind them is incorrect.
What you are spouting might have been debatable several months ago, but I'm going to have to rub your nose in the reality that your entire set of talking points are demonstrably rubbish.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoIt seems to me that the Tories and GOP correctly understood that it was a political football, and their friends across the aisle would start organizing mass gatherings the instant it was politically convenient for them to do so. I certainly think there's something to be said for nations that were willing to reliably comply with pandemic control measures, and I'm very glad I live in a region of the US that did comply (even in our gun stores everyone's wearing masks!), but I don't think you can lay this at the feet of some particular political parties.
- mnm1 6y agoI'll just lay it at the feet of the people who stole ppe, shut down testing sites, encouraged people to drink bleach, refused to lockdown the nation, didn't implement contract tracing, didn't shut down the borders (only pretended to), didn't quarantine arrivals, and said that less testing will lead to less deaths. Interestingly all those assholes belong to the same political party.