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The US was also prepared for a global pandemic, or at least had a plan.. just a certain person in power decided it was unnecessary.

by swang 6y ago

radegast 6y ago
Imagine being the Democratic party and the best candidates you have are: - a warhawk psycho who has seizures and faints often. "Women were always primary victims of war because their husbands and sons died" my ass. - a guy whose most remarkable achievement is falling asleep on the TV when reading sentences from paper - an angry woman with the visage of a school teacher - a billionaire mogul who tried to pay his way into becoming president - an ultra-borderline communist leftist I am sorry, but Trump is gonna win again.
swang 6y ago
lol. to the dead comment, i agree! except i don't really see bernie being an ultra-borderline commie. but i guess that's how you would view someone when the entire "right" calls joe biden a socialist. man if only those labels were actually true of those people. the entire us system is broken because there are basically only two parties, and the democrats have decided to keep pushing further right because they assume actual leftists will have to vote for them. so i don't really give a shit that you bag on them. they suck. trump probably would have had the election in the bag if he didn't muck up the pandemic so badly. and that's not my opinion. the polls show it happening. now will trump get a big enough bounce coming back the other way come november? i don't see it, and neither does trump and the gop considering the ways they're trying to basically suppress the general vote. the democrats suck, but the gop are straight up using fascist tactics. he already tried to "suspend" the election so can't wait to see what happens when he loses and he decides that, no, he actually didn't lose. (again assuming polling is right, i guess we'll find out in 2.5 months)
mensetmanusman 6y ago
PPE manufacturing had to be 24/6 the last decade to prepare for an aerosol virus, which COVID happens to be. We are lucky that we don’t have a U-shaped fatality curve like the spanish flu. Also, states need testing regimes and plans in place to handle millions of tests per day. tl;dr: We are learning a lot! Lack of preparedness is not a <5 year story.
- the8472 6y ago
  > We are lucky that we don’t have a U-shaped fatality curve like the spanish flu. You mean W-shaped. Regular flu is U-shapped. Covid is more of a ᜴
skocznymroczny 6y ago
orange man bad

The US was also prepared for a global pandemic, or at least had a plan.. just a certain person in power decided it was unnecessary.

by swang 6y ago

The US was also prepared for a global pandemic, or at least had a plan.. just a certain person in power decided it was unnecessary.

radegast 6y ago

Imagine being the Democratic party and the best candidates you have are: - a warhawk psycho who has seizures and faints often. "Women were always primary victims of war because their husbands and sons died" my ass. - a guy whose most remarkable achievement is falling asleep on the TV when reading sentences from paper - an angry woman with the visage of a school teacher - a billionaire mogul who tried to pay his way into becoming president - an ultra-borderline communist leftist I am sorry, but Trump is gonna win again.

swang 6y ago

lol. to the dead comment, i agree! except i don't really see bernie being an ultra-borderline commie. but i guess that's how you would view someone when the entire "right" calls joe biden a socialist. man if only those labels were actually true of those people. the entire us system is broken because there are basically only two parties, and the democrats have decided to keep pushing further right because they assume actual leftists will have to vote for them. so i don't really give a shit that you bag on them. they suck. trump probably would have had the election in the bag if he didn't muck up the pandemic so badly. and that's not my opinion. the polls show it happening. now will trump get a big enough bounce coming back the other way come november? i don't see it, and neither does trump and the gop considering the ways they're trying to basically suppress the general vote. the democrats suck, but the gop are straight up using fascist tactics. he already tried to "suspend" the election so can't wait to see what happens when he loses and he decides that, no, he actually didn't lose. (again assuming polling is right, i guess we'll find out in 2.5 months)

mensetmanusman 6y ago

PPE manufacturing had to be 24/6 the last decade to prepare for an aerosol virus, which COVID happens to be. We are lucky that we don’t have a U-shaped fatality curve like the spanish flu. Also, states need testing regimes and plans in place to handle millions of tests per day. tl;dr: We are learning a lot! Lack of preparedness is not a <5 year story.

the8472 6y ago
> We are lucky that we don’t have a U-shaped fatality curve like the spanish flu. You mean W-shaped. Regular flu is U-shapped. Covid is more of a ᜴

skocznymroczny 6y ago

orange man bad