SkyDekker
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Two things here: Trump's administration decided early on to downplay the pandemic. They believed the pandemic's effects would hurt Democratic areas more than Republican areas. They figured that the death toll in Republican areas would be less dramatic than the economic toll on Democratic areas. They were more than happy to gamble with your life to try and gain politically. This lead to and continues with staunch Republicans having to downplay the pandemic and overplay the economic toll. Secondly, experts like Fauci have generally provided quality information based on what was known at the time. This idea that in a constantly changing environment a message has to be consistent to be accurate is the problem.
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I would question the timing, but years start blending together after a while. From what I can see he would not have gotten to Italy until well into '84.
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It was a politically calculated move. Trump's team believed that the damage of the pandemic and the reaction to it would be more damaging to states and cities with Democrat leaders. That the damage to the economy in those areas would be worse than the death toll in areas with Republican leaders. A gamble that is now very much turning against them.
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That's easy, you already give that to shoplifters.
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Elections have consequences.
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Pardons should be for fundamental miscarriages of justice. The path to weaponizing pardons has certainly sped up. -
You find it odd Falun Gong blames the CCP?
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The excess death rate is pretty damn clear. The argument that people are getting purposely mislabelled is really quite stupid.
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You think the chart below looks like that because of baby boomers aging? That's cute.
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Good way to have "tourism" pay for the development of a private exploration company. Lot's of money to be made.
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Like I said, if you think the US is better off without it's best producing State, whose production is outperforming the rest of your country, we will gladly take it.
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Let's just take cause of death out of it all together. During the period January 26th, 2020 - October 3rd, 2020, 360,000 more people died than the average of the 5 years prior for that period. (The COVID death count for that period was 209,000). A LOT more people died in 2020 than what historical averages would suggest, something called excess death rate. Now, you may think that has nothing to do with COVID, but that is a pretty weird opinion to have.
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You would think that somebody who is as incredibly smart as you are would know income taxes are not the only source of revenue. Borrowing to invest during historically low interest rates makes perfect sense. Of course Republicans have been all in favour of borrowing to give to rich people and now object to borrowing to invest in infrastructure.
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5th largest economy AND has been outperforming the US economy. Sure, we'll take it.
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I thought they didn't like cancel culture.....
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No, I am saying your statement might be the exception, but it certainly isn't true as a generalization.
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Coming from old money, going to school with old money and at one point belonging to an old money fraternity in university I can say without hesitation you are wrong about that too.
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Like taking a vaccine and promoting a vaccine. Unfortunately there seem to be people who think or at a minimum imply that Vitamin D and zinc will keep them safe.
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Like somebody who suggests to take Vitamin D to protect against COVID since autopsies show a vitamin D deficiency?
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Gym Jordan does have a rather obvious history of not noticing things when convenient.
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And for some reason they are not allowed to touch the millions of gallons of fresh water flowing right beside them.
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You could see this posturing coming a mile away. Pelosi rejects him, then McCarthy will say how they are not going to cooperate since Democrats are blocking Republican participation. Pelosi will go ahead, Republicans win the PR war with their base and make sure they can discredit any outcome as partisan.
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And for the same reason as the civil war, the right to stay racist.
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I have a feeling the lawyers said they needed a soundbite for court.
