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> Biden continues to fuck it up to this day In what way? Don't get me wrong, I think Biden sucks. But when wearing a mask became an issue of deepest political
by digging 3y ago
> Biden continues to fuck it up to this day
In what way? Don't get me wrong, I think Biden sucks. But when wearing a mask became an issue of deepest political ideology before Biden was elected, it's a tough task to change public opinion when you're a politician.
- mrguyorama 3y agoThere's something to be said that we literally lost the war on covid and just kinda pretended that it ended, but I'm not sure what other option there was. If democrats pushed to keep fighting covid with gusto, it would not have been popular and would easily lead to Republicans running everything in the next decade. History books will hopefully acknowledge just how terribly the entire world handled it.
- digging 3y agoYeah I agree but, like I say, we were defeated by COVID before Biden was elected, just like we were defeated in Afghanistan before he was elected. He could have pulled off something excellent in either case, but that would have been very difficult and I don't know how he would have done it.
- asdff 3y agoHow was this country defeated by covid? What could he have done otherwise? Hospitals aren't overwhelmed today, that was the entire concern of the pandemic.
- Kamq 3y agoPeople forgot about the whole "flattening the curve" thing, and a bunch of narratives cropped up about what the end goal was. The goals, which were never real, started to have political consequences and it became a whole thing.
- asdff 3y agoPeople forgot about flattening the curve because we literally did flatten the curve. It was about hospital capacity: https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/flattening-curve-covid-19-what-does-it-mean-and-how-can-you-help https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/flattening-curve...
- digging 3y agoWe were defeated in the sense that the very idea of fighting covid became a political hot button and a huge percentage of the US population decided not to fight. Yes, it could have been worse, maybe we could have had utter collapse. But hospitals did get overrun multiple times and many people died completely unnecessarily because we stopped fighting. I really wouldn't call this a win; covid is now endemic and continuing to evolve inside us. At best this is a bloody stalemate.
- nonethewiser 3y agoCovid is over. It might still be around but we are done melting down over it.
- asdff 3y agoWe won the war on covid though, it was always about hospital capacity.