(03-08-2023 08:26 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: (03-08-2023 06:48 PM)Bronco14 Wrote: (03-08-2023 06:43 PM)natibeast2.0 Wrote: (03-08-2023 06:40 PM)Bronco14 Wrote: They immidiately started talking about mail-in ballots when the lockdowns started, & only didn't start easing restrictions until after the Puppet crept ahead. Tells me all I need to know.
From the start, I was on the train of lockdowns themselves will likely cause more deaths and harm than the virus itself. It’s hard to quantify that but it’s become a more mainstream thought on just how bad locking down people was and the impact will last long into the future in every facet of peoples lives.
The “pandemic” handling was a failure on all fronts. Unlike the doc above I doing think those in charge had the best interest of people in decision making granted he only noted that in regards to gain of function.
Fauci ran the country for a year. Trump s/h fired his ass at least June of that year.
The problem was that all Trump had to rely on was bureaucrats like Fauci. The USA has no emergency response agency. FEMA isn't. NIH, CDC, and FDA aren't. There is no capacity to deal with something like COVID.
The bolded sentence is, at least to my recollection, flat-out incorrect.
There was not an single, unified narrative on the covid response until the moron Trump anointed Fauci and Birx to become the first, middle and last word on the subject:
—> Bronco14’s concern about covid being used to introduce mail-in ballots to the 2020 election is not an after-the-fact, hindsight comment. Many, and not just on this board, were warning of that reality in real time. Yet DJT was too arrogant, too susceptible to the mealy-mouthed flattery from Fauci and Birx and too fond of all of the repetitive “I Love Me” rallies he was treating himself to in front of his already committed supporters.
—> natibeast’s recognition of the dangers of lockdowns was not a solitary voice. LOTS of people were staying the same thing in real time. Yet Trump allowed those voices to be shut down as “science deniers”, even though the only science that his infinitesimal attention span considered was what was fed to him by Fauci.
—> We on this board, and on countless similar forums, had countless debates over herd immunity, over the constantly changing mask requirements, over the criminally selfish behavior of the teachers’ unions, etc. None of those open debates among the populace were ever given ANY credence by the Trump administration. He was having way too much enjoyment preening in front of press conferences, while his control of our nation’s response was handed over to a wormy little criminal like Fauci.
Now, three years later, the only mystery to me is why ANYONE is not equally furious about what Donald Trump allowed to happen to our nation on his watch.