Don't you hate liberals? They kept saying that red states that rushed to reopen would see a spike in Covid-19 cases. And as usual, they were ... completely right pic.twitter.com/SKY5qDJ6x5— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) June 16, 2020
Trump really, truly threaded the needle, doing immense damage to the economy that stopped just short of actually containing the spread of the virus. He's given us the worst of both worlds - a crippled economy w/o containment.
He took the marshmallow in the 14th minute.— Invictus (@TBPInvictus) June 16, 2020
As we move toward 200,000- plus deaths by early October, and 9.3 percent unemployment at the end of the year, it's comforting to know that if we only would stop testing, we'd have very few cases!
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I'm going to be “that person” who says I Told You So. I'm in SW Ohio and I've been in self-imposed quarantine to a degree in order to keep clear of Covid as much as possible. The only time I go out is to my mom's house and my mother-in-law's apartment. I bring them food and snacks and play cards to keep them entertained. My husband carefully gloves up and wears a mask to get groceries and is able to work from home.
Has it been fun? Well, it's a challenge to keep them from becoming depressed from isolation. I miss going out to shop or visit friends, too. But both of my moms are very high risk and Covid would take them down immediately. So some personal sacrifice is fine.
But the president has downplayed the threat, lied about it, and has brashly gone without wearing a mask, all the while banishing the experts from the White House and sending Mike Pence out to lie about the actual number of cases. 117,000 lives lost apparently aren't enough to slow down the lies and propaganda about Covid.
Yes, it's a free country. The flag wavers usually claim that when we ask them to put their guns away or to respect the rights of minorities, but their patriotism stops at keeping others safe from a pandemic.
Now the virus is building strength across the South, across the states who brag about their independence and right to do whatever they please. And it's coming back here, too, hitting nursing homes and factories, just like we never locked down in the first place.
People are stupid.
donnah-- a self- absorbed moron as "president," a cult following willing to take direction from said moron, and cowardly governors bending to the loudest, most craven, most insipid voices: put it all together and you have nearly 4 months of sacrifice, catastrophic job and business losses, and a shocking death toll for... nothing.
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