koods said:

How is that trumps position?

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Shenmue said:

The country shouldn't have been shut down for more than a couple weeks. More people are going to die from the shut down than the actual virus. Unfortunately most people can't think logically about anything.

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Shenmue said:

The country shouldn't have been shut down for more than a couple weeks. More people are going to die from the shut down than the actual virus. Unfortunately most people can't think logically about anything.

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Metoo said:

koods said:

How is that trumps position?

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How is it not?

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bodhisatta said:

Shenmue said:

The country shouldn't have been shut down for more than a couple weeks. More people are going to die from the shut down than the actual virus. Unfortunately most people can't think logically about anything.

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Well that's simply not true.

More people will suffer because of lockdowns though

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koods said:

Seriously, I have never heard trump elucidate any policy about tackling covid. It’s nothing but “it will go away in its own”

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Metoo said:

koods said:

Seriously, I have never heard trump elucidate any policy about tackling covid. It’s nothing but “it will go away in its own”

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So you have never heard him talking up the vaccines and therapeutics as the way to go?

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koods said:

What does talking up vaccines do until they are available?

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Shenmue said:

I shouldn't have to stay home and lose money just because people are freaked out about a virus. It's not even that deadly! For the most part you have to be old and sick to even die from it. I don't even know anyone that's died from it! There's 700 members in my union and every month we have to pay 10$ for every member that dies. Not one fucking person out of the 700 has died from covid-19!!! So there's no fucking way its as bad as the fake news is telling you!

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Metoo said:

koods said:

What does talking up vaccines do until they are available?

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It creates momentum to develop them

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Quote:

"We will be reigniting our economic engines.  We’re going to be taking care of our most vulnerable, which are our senior citizens and some others.  We’re going to be working very, very hard on our senior citizens and our nursing homes and various communities to support those that are struggling in this very difficult time.  Others don’t have the same kind of struggle.

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koods said:

Yoy don’t need a cheerleader to create a vaccine. You need scientists and educated people working on the problem, two things trump is not.

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koods said:

Quote:

"We will be reigniting our economic engines.  We’re going to be taking care of our most vulnerable, which are our senior citizens and some others.  We’re going to be working very, very hard on our senior citizens and our nursing homes and various communities to support those that are struggling in this very difficult time.  Others don’t have the same kind of struggle.

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And how did he make this happen? He also says there will be a beautiful healthcare plan coming in two weeks. He’s been saying that for four years

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Metoo said:

koods said:

Yoy don’t need a cheerleader to create a vaccine. You need scientists and educated people working on the problem, two things trump is not.

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From the May speech:

"From the earliest days of the pandemic, we have marshalled the genius of American scientists and researchers from all across government and the private sector, from academia, from everywhere, to vanquish the virus.  And tremendous strides have been made, I can tell you. I get to see it every day.  Tremendous strides are being made. Scientists at the NIH began developing the first vaccine candidate on January 11th — think of that — within hours of the virus’s genetic code being posted online. So, January 11th.  Most people never even heard what was going on January 11th. And we were out there trying to develop a vaccine, not even knowing what we were up against. Then, my administration cut through every piece of red tape to achieve the fastest-ever, by far, launch of a vaccine trial for this new virus, this very vicious virus. And I want to thank all of the doctors and scientists and researchers involved because they’ve never moved like this, or never even close."

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falcon said:

That makes the Federal governments not making testing and masks more available look even worse than I had thought. I figured when Wuhan locked down everyone everywhere knew this was a fucking disaster.

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