(05-25-2021 04:49 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(05-25-2021 02:33 PM)Danforth Wrote:  

(05-25-2021 01:50 PM)geosnooker2000 Wrote:  

(05-25-2021 01:43 PM)Danforth Wrote:  Trump stimulus good
Biden stimulus bad
You just can't make up the hypocrisy.

If you can't see the difference between giving people checks because you are NOT ALLOWING them to go to work, and giving people checks now that they CAN return to work, but you would rather they stay home and tank the economy with MASSIVE inflation, you are either beyond stupid, or genuinely disingenuous. So, yes, Trump stimulus good, Biden stimulus bad. Because... timing.

The majority of this country was still run by Republicans at the time the pandemic was at it's peak so if they weren't allowed to work then that's on the Republicans.

Actually, that's on the public health bureaucrats, who should never have been in control. This was an emergency response situation, and the two are as far apart as night and day. Bureaucrats always go by the book, the first rule of emergency response is to throw the book in the trash.

What we should have done is limit international travel, everybody wear masks and practice good hygiene and social distancing, isolate the at-risk population from anyone who might be affected, and leave the economy open with those restrictions in place. You want to stay open, wear masks, you don't want to wear masks, shut down.

Again I agree 100% with what we should have done but we didn't do that.

Trump was in power not the CDC. He could have easily done the things you mentioned and I wouldn't have had a problem with it.

Unfortunately, he made mask wearing something evil and bungled the entire pandemic.

With all his faults, had he handled the pandemic better, he would have won re-election.