COVID-19 Response: An issue that shouldn't be at all political....yet here we are

[valade16]

you don't think Dems loved the fact much of the general public found Trumpublican responses to be bad?

I’m sure they liked Trump’s ineptitude from a political standpoint, but that’s a far cry from actively cheering the disease.

Democrats wanted to shut the entire country down specifically to stop the disease. What they said was incorrect partisan drivel.

[GGGGG-Men]

Prisons are being ravaged by COVID https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/21/o...e=articleShare

Guards and their families at high risk in small towns without infrastructure to take on a spike. Ugh

[Crovash]

There’s rarely any accountability for making obviously absurd political predictions.

Remember, the same people telling us COVID would disappear if Biden won are the same people saying the increase in mail-in voting would lead to rampant election fraud. Heck, they’re the same people that said thousands of little girls would get raped in bathrooms if we allowed transgender people to use their bathroom of preference. 4 years later... near zero instances...

If you go back and look at all their bogus predictions, you realize how frequently they are dead wrong. The only question left is: why do they keep believing these predictions given how often they’ve been wrong before?

You answered your final question in your opening statement.

[Crovash]

They didn't cheer for the virus but they sure the hell saw it as a political switchblade and politicized the ****ing **** out of it.

However, they did cheer for a failure from the trump administration in regard to a response. So in a massive roundabout way...I suppose you could say that they cheered that the virus would not be contained during Trump's administration.

In a sense, maybe.

But face it, it is about time that Trump and his supporters acknowldge that they completely fubarred the re-election (it WAS his to win) precisely because of his (and their) POS response to Covid-19.

Seriously, even at such a late date as it was, that assclump in the White House would probably have won if he had come out of his own recovery with any sense of humility, empathy, and leadership.

Screw your excuses. Covid-19 didn’t bring down Trump and his merry band of deplorables. His response to it did.

[ccugrad1]

I’m sure they liked Trump’s ineptitude from a political standpoint, but that’s a far cry from actively cheering the disease.

Democrats wanted to shut the entire country down specifically to stop the disease. What they said was incorrect partisan drivel.

What good is that going to do? Once you reopen, cases are going to happen. It isn't like a lockdown is going to do away with the virus. Plus, how many businesses and people's livelihoods will be lost? By god, you will be saved from a disease with a 99%+ recovery rate, but you won't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out.

When does people's actual livelihoods and economic well being take some precedence over the virus?

[valade16]

What good is that going to do? Once you reopen, cases are going to happen. It isn't like a lockdown is going to do away with the virus. Plus, how many businesses and people's livelihoods will be lost? By god, you will be saved from a disease with a 99%+ recovery rate, but you won't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out.

When does people's actual livelihoods and economic well being take some precedence over the virus?

First Bolded: Save hundreds of thousands of American’s lives...

Second Bolded: when do American lives take some precedence over the economy?

I agree an indefinite shutdown is too far, but seriously, the absolute indifference displayed towards hundreds of thousands of dead Americans is astounding.

[SiteWolf]

When does people's actual livelihoods and economic well being take some precedence over the virus?

therein lies the quandry....where is the point of diminishing return, where is the balance that slows this thing down to a crawl yet doesn't kill the economy.....

[valade16]

therein lies the quandry....where is the point of diminishing return, where is the balance that slows this thing down to a crawl yet doesn't kill the economy.....

A great question. Off hand I’d say somewhere in between total shutdown and Sweden’s “no restrictions” plans.

[WES445]

I’ll say 1/3 of eligible voters.

My bad, I should have said a little less than half of those who voted were for Trump. Either way, it doesn't give me much hope.

[dbroncos78087]

therein lies the quandry....where is the point of diminishing return, where is the balance that slows this thing down to a crawl yet doesn't kill the economy.....

There’s no business to be done on a dead planet.

[ewing]

What good is that going to do? Once you reopen, cases are going to happen. It isn't like a lockdown is going to do away with the virus. Plus, how many businesses and people's livelihoods will be lost? By god, you will be saved from a disease with a 99%+ recovery rate, but you won't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out.

When does people's actual livelihoods and economic well being take some precedence over the virus?

When the government decides to support them


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[ewing]

therein lies the quandry....where is the point of diminishing return, where is the balance that slows this thing down to a crawl yet doesn't kill the economy.....

The economy is fine. It it wasn’t we’d bail it out like we did under Obama. It’s people who are getting ****ed


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[SiteWolf]

There’s no business to be done on a dead planet.

well, there's also no virus that's going to be able to wipe out the entire population either, so moot point

[spliff(TONE)]

well, there's also no virus that's going to be able to wipe out the entire population either, so moot point

No it's not. Fixing the economy and fixing the pandemic go hand in hand. Can't do the former without the latter.

[dbroncos78087]

well, there's also no virus that's going to be able to wipe out the entire population either, so moot point

I feel like you got the point entirely and just drifted passed it because you weren't sure how to respond.