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mrussel1 said:mcgruff10 said:Someone please answer me this: why does the right dislike Fauci so much?0
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dignin said:mrussel1 said:mcgruff10 said:Someone please answer me this: why does the right dislike Fauci so much?
This is going to get a fucking shit storm way worse before it gets better. But keep believing Team Trump Treason, he’s got YOUR best interests at heart.09/15/1998 & 09/16/1998, Mansfield, MA; 08/29/00 08/30/00, Mansfield, MA; 07/02/03, 07/03/03, Mansfield, MA; 09/28/04, 09/29/04, Boston, MA; 09/22/05, Halifax, NS; 05/24/06, 05/25/06, Boston, MA; 07/22/06, 07/23/06, Gorge, WA; 06/27/2008, Hartford; 06/28/08, 06/30/08, Mansfield; 08/18/2009, O2, London, UK; 10/30/09, 10/31/09, Philadelphia, PA; 05/15/10, Hartford, CT; 05/17/10, Boston, MA; 05/20/10, 05/21/10, NY, NY; 06/22/10, Dublin, IRE; 06/23/10, Northern Ireland; 09/03/11, 09/04/11, Alpine Valley, WI; 09/11/11, 09/12/11, Toronto, Ont; 09/14/11, Ottawa, Ont; 09/15/11, Hamilton, Ont; 07/02/2012, Prague, Czech Republic; 07/04/2012 & 07/05/2012, Berlin, Germany; 07/07/2012, Stockholm, Sweden; 09/30/2012, Missoula, MT; 07/16/2013, London, Ont; 07/19/2013, Chicago, IL; 10/15/2013 & 10/16/2013, Worcester, MA; 10/21/2013 & 10/22/2013, Philadelphia, PA; 10/25/2013, Hartford, CT; 11/29/2013, Portland, OR; 11/30/2013, Spokane, WA; 12/04/2013, Vancouver, BC; 12/06/2013, Seattle, WA; 10/03/2014, St. Louis. MO; 10/22/2014, Denver, CO; 10/26/2015, New York, NY; 04/23/2016, New Orleans, LA; 04/28/2016 & 04/29/2016, Philadelphia, PA; 05/01/2016 & 05/02/2016, New York, NY; 05/08/2016, Ottawa, Ont.; 05/10/2016 & 05/12/2016, Toronto, Ont.; 08/05/2016 & 08/07/2016, Boston, MA; 08/20/2016 & 08/22/2016, Chicago, IL; 07/01/2018, Prague, Czech Republic; 07/03/2018, Krakow, Poland; 07/05/2018, Berlin, Germany; 09/02/2018 & 09/04/2018, Boston, MA; 09/08/2022, Toronto, Ont; 09/11/2022, New York, NY; 09/14/2022, Camden, NJ; 09/02/2023, St. Paul, MN; 05/04/2024 & 05/06/2024, Vancouver, BC; 05/10/2024, Portland, OR; 05/03/2025, New Orleans, LA;
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what dreams said:I don't understand why anyone thinks half ass measures are going to do anything except prolong the suffering, both to our health and the economy. Either we try again with a fully national, close to 100% shutdown (we got to about 50% at best, according to estimates I've seen), or we just say fuck it and give up. I see and hear people all around me going with the give up route. Masking, social distancing, hand-washing -- those are mitigating behaviors. Those are not "Let's squash this fucking virus" behaviors. Seriously -- all these idiots at the beach this summer. You couldn't go one damn summer of your life without a beach vacation???
I'm a teacher trying to get my students back in school so their parents can go back to work. Taking them on a beach vacation shows me these parents are not serious at all about getting back to work or school.hippiemom = goodness0 -
Halifax2TheMax said:dignin said:mrussel1 said:mcgruff10 said:Someone please answer me this: why does the right dislike Fauci so much?
This is going to get a fucking shit storm way worse before it gets better. But keep believing Team Trump Treason, he’s got YOUR best interests at heart.0 -
I'm going to continue my rant, if you will allow me.
Yesterday I had to go into school for a non-Covid related meeting. I interacted with about 10 people. Four of them were not wearing masks, including the assistant principal I was meeting with in a tiny ass book closet regarding inventory. Over the course of our meeting, something she said led me to believe the school board will vote tonight to go back in person 100%. That will be determined later, but I will not be surprised because my district is led by a bunch of white Open-Er-Up Republicans who hate spending their tax dollars educating brown Spanish speaking children. They don't give a crap at the end of the day what happens to these kids, though they all pay lip service to how much they do.
For the record, I have said before that I prefer the 100% going in option because the hybrid plan is just another half ass, feel-like-we're-doing-something-but-not measure, and fully online will not work for my student population. I walked by my classroom yesterday to see what cleaning looked like. While the room was in fact cleaner than any summer cleaning I've seen, I noticed in all the rooms I passed that the custodians must have been instructed to only set up half the desks facing forward to model what a hybrid would result in. (The other half were stacked against a wall.) With only half the desks set up, there was about, and certainly no more than, three feet between them.
When I came home, I told my mother that we needed to start talking about what happens when I go back to school, and what happens when I get sick. She didn't want to talk about it. She said it was a terrible thing to say and think about. Since she didn't appear ready, I didn't push, but closed the conversation by telling her that once school starts, we will both have to start wearing a mask *in the house* and that I will mostly be hanging out in my bedroom or office.
I say all of this to reinforce why I am madder than freaking hell right now that this country has FAILED miserably at sacrifice and self-discipline. We have WASTED SEVEN MONTHS if you start with January, not March, with our hand-wringing and arguing and whining about this or that. Now we want to put ALL THE BURDEN on our schools/teachers to "save the economy" (the way we do with every other social ill out there). Meanwhile, let's prop up the tourism industry with hundreds of billions of dollars so people can go on fucking beach vacations this summer. It's sickening. If our leaders and our citizens had just done their fucking part, 100%, months ago, my mother and I would be having a completely different conversation right now.0 -
dignin said:mrussel1 said:mcgruff10 said:Someone please answer me this: why does the right dislike Fauci so much?Yep. First, Trump relies on domestic enemies to rile his base up. The GOP, for most of my life, has relied on foreign enemies. But for Trump it's a myopic view of how to win an election (since it's all that matters to him); rile up his people against the people that might vote for his opponent. For Reagan and W it was about trying to unite the country against a foreign enemy. Politically, Trump's tact is stupider because he's also riling up his opponents and missing opportunities with the apolitical and undecided.Second, yeah, they seem to be wishing away this inconvenient truth and there is a parallel to their response to the environment. It's a worse look, though, in that most people have an immediate nervousness about the virus, whereas the environment has been an issue for decades that has always seemed almost abstract. In both cases, the GOP responds with "economy first" but this issue is just more in our faces.
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cincybearcat said:what dreams said:I don't understand why anyone thinks half ass measures are going to do anything except prolong the suffering, both to our health and the economy. Either we try again with a fully national, close to 100% shutdown (we got to about 50% at best, according to estimates I've seen), or we just say fuck it and give up. I see and hear people all around me going with the give up route. Masking, social distancing, hand-washing -- those are mitigating behaviors. Those are not "Let's squash this fucking virus" behaviors. Seriously -- all these idiots at the beach this summer. You couldn't go one damn summer of your life without a beach vacation???
I'm a teacher trying to get my students back in school so their parents can go back to work. Taking them on a beach vacation shows me these parents are not serious at all about getting back to work or school.
Here's the deal: start putting your papers in order. Make sure you have a plan for when you get sick/die. At the rate we are going, every single one of us will get this disease. Don't plan on a vaccine. It's not happening. We have never once had a successful vaccine for a Coronavirus, studies are now showing the antibodies are not permanent, the virus is mutating, and about 90% of the population has a dysfunctional metabolic system of some sort. Good luck. That's become my replacement farewell to everyone.0 -
JW269453 said:dignin said:JW269453 said:dignin said:JW269453 said:dignin said:pjl44 said:JW269453 said:Bentleyspop said:
Didn't even need the internet for that one.
Sure you do, it's American exceptionalism!
I have no idea what you're going on about. Accepted? Found my home?
Any objective person can see your president has fucked this up beyond any imaginable measure. A complete and total fraud. I'm just glad the Canadian border in (mostly) closed.
https://www.statista.com/chart/22102/daily-covid-19-cases-in-the-us-and-the-eu/
Population of EU: 445 million
Population of the US: 331 million
Yea, nobody does it better than 'Murica. And anyone, anyone, could have done a better job of reacting to and managing Covid in the US than Team Trump Treason.
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Halifax2TheMax said:JW269453 said:dignin said:JW269453 said:dignin said:JW269453 said:dignin said:pjl44 said:JW269453 said:Bentleyspop said:
Didn't even need the internet for that one.
Sure you do, it's American exceptionalism!
I have no idea what you're going on about. Accepted? Found my home?
Any objective person can see your president has fucked this up beyond any imaginable measure. A complete and total fraud. I'm just glad the Canadian border in (mostly) closed.
https://www.statista.com/chart/22102/daily-covid-19-cases-in-the-us-and-the-eu/
Population of EU: 445 million
Population of the US: 331 million
Yea, nobody does it better than 'Murica. And anyone, anyone, could have done a better job of reacting to and managing Covid in the US than Team Trump Treason.0 -
what dreams said:I'm going to continue my rant, if you will allow me.
Yesterday I had to go into school for a non-Covid related meeting. I interacted with about 10 people. Four of them were not wearing masks, including the assistant principal I was meeting with in a tiny ass book closet regarding inventory. Over the course of our meeting, something she said led me to believe the school board will vote tonight to go back in person 100%. That will be determined later, but I will not be surprised because my district is led by a bunch of white Open-Er-Up Republicans who hate spending their tax dollars educating brown Spanish speaking children. They don't give a crap at the end of the day what happens to these kids, though they all pay lip service to how much they do.
For the record, I have said before that I prefer the 100% going in option because the hybrid plan is just another half ass, feel-like-we're-doing-something-but-not measure, and fully online will not work for my student population. I walked by my classroom yesterday to see what cleaning looked like. While the room was in fact cleaner than any summer cleaning I've seen, I noticed in all the rooms I passed that the custodians must have been instructed to only set up half the desks facing forward to model what a hybrid would result in. (The other half were stacked against a wall.) With only half the desks set up, there was about, and certainly no more than, three feet between them.
When I came home, I told my mother that we needed to start talking about what happens when I go back to school, and what happens when I get sick. She didn't want to talk about it. She said it was a terrible thing to say and think about. Since she didn't appear ready, I didn't push, but closed the conversation by telling her that once school starts, we will both have to start wearing a mask *in the house* and that I will mostly be hanging out in my bedroom or office.
I say all of this to reinforce why I am madder than freaking hell right now that this country has FAILED miserably at sacrifice and self-discipline. We have WASTED SEVEN MONTHS if you start with January, not March, with our hand-wringing and arguing and whining about this or that. Now we want to put ALL THE BURDEN on our schools/teachers to "save the economy" (the way we do with every other social ill out there). Meanwhile, let's prop up the tourism industry with hundreds of billions of dollars so people can go on fucking beach vacations this summer. It's sickening. If our leaders and our citizens had just done their fucking part, 100%, months ago, my mother and I would be having a completely different conversation right now.Good thoughts to you and your mom, and all of those kiddos.0 -
dignin said:JW269453 said:dignin said:JW269453 said:dignin said:JW269453 said:dignin said:pjl44 said:JW269453 said:Bentleyspop said:
Didn't even need the internet for that one.
Sure you do, it's American exceptionalism!
I have no idea what you're going on about. Accepted? Found my home?
Any objective person can see your president has fucked this up beyond any imaginable measure. A complete and total fraud. I'm just glad the Canadian border in (mostly) closed.
But yeah, back to the virus (which has become very much politicised). I nervously watch the dumpster fire in the US hoping it doesn't spread to my country, the intensity of the virus and stupidity.
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what dreams said:Halifax2TheMax said:JW269453 said:dignin said:JW269453 said:dignin said:JW269453 said:dignin said:pjl44 said:JW269453 said:Bentleyspop said:Some countries get it....One would assume it is easier to control 4.8 million people compared to 326.7 million people who already can't agree on anything...just slightly though.
Didn't even need the internet for that one.
Sure you do, it's American exceptionalism!
I have no idea what you're going on about. Accepted? Found my home?
Any objective person can see your president has fucked this up beyond any imaginable measure. A complete and total fraud. I'm just glad the Canadian border in (mostly) closed.
https://www.statista.com/chart/22102/daily-covid-19-cases-in-the-us-and-the-eu/
Population of EU: 445 million
Population of the US: 331 million
Yea, nobody does it better than 'Murica. And anyone, anyone, could have done a better job of reacting to and managing Covid in the US than Team Trump Treason.While I think it's disingenuous to blame Trump for 135,000 out of 135,000 deaths, I do think it would be going a bit better with Hillary. I don't think she'd be actively trying to wish away all negative news and contradicting actual experts for the sake of her election. Yeah, she'd have made missteps (as do the experts; it's science, not the bible). Not to mention that even without missteps we weren't going to get through this unscathed. But the focus from the White House would be on actually trying to mitigate as opposed to dividing us and winning an election.But I agree that the lion's share of the problem is simply "America." We're probably the most individual-focused (i.e., least collective-focused) country in the world. We look out for ourselves in America and we don't generally like to make personal sacrifices for the greater good. And we don't like to be told what to do. This would still be a factor under Hillary. And she's hated enough that her wearing a mask might have the same outcome as Trump not wearing one (i.e., people not wearing them to own the libs). So either way, this was probably a perfect disaster for the US to show the world what it is.
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Halifax2TheMax said:JW269453 said:dignin said:JW269453 said:dignin said:JW269453 said:dignin said:pjl44 said:JW269453 said:Bentleyspop said:
Didn't even need the internet for that one.
Sure you do, it's American exceptionalism!
I have no idea what you're going on about. Accepted? Found my home?
Any objective person can see your president has fucked this up beyond any imaginable measure. A complete and total fraud. I'm just glad the Canadian border in (mostly) closed.
https://www.statista.com/chart/22102/daily-covid-19-cases-in-the-us-and-the-eu/
Population of EU: 445 million
Population of the US: 331 million
Yea, nobody does it better than 'Murica. And anyone, anyone, could have done a better job of reacting to and managing Covid in the US than Team Trump Treason.
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Heres my recent experience.....
This past weekend my S.O. and I went to 2 different car show type events in 2 different settings. This was the first time we had done anything or gone anywhere that wasn't a "necessity" since the first week of March.
Saturday was your run of the mill American classics in a suburban parking lot outside 2 local craft breweries (literally next door to each other).
Out of the 2 hundred or so people in the parking lot and brewery taprooms we were the only people wearing masks except for may 4 or five others. No staff, no volunteers, nobody. It was scary. Even outside. We didn't hang around long.
Sunday was high end cars in the parking lot of the local Bentley dealership. Ferrari, Lamborghini, Ford GT, Porsche, Etc. Out of a few hundred people maybe 15-20 including us were wearing masks. When we went into the crowded Bentley showroom we were the only ones wearing masks. It was scary. We went into the high end cocktail/whiskey bar next door. Nobody wearing masks. No staff, no guests, nobody. It was scary. Went back outside did another lap of the cars and left.
America and Americans are not dealing with this in a good safe way. Maybe this will end up being Darwinism at play and the herd will be thinned.0 -
Bentleyspop said:Heres my recent experience.....
This past weekend my S.O. and I went to 2 different car show type events in 2 different settings. This was the first time we had done anything or gone anywhere that wasn't a "necessity" since the first week of March.
Saturday was your run of the mill American classics in a suburban parking lot outside 2 local craft breweries (literally next door to each other).
Out of the 2 hundred or so people in the parking lot and brewery taprooms we were the only people wearing masks except for may 4 or five others. No staff, no volunteers, nobody. It was scary. Even outside. We didn't hang around long.
Sunday was high end cars in the parking lot of the local Bentley dealership. Ferrari, Lamborghini, Ford GT, Porsche, Etc. Out of a few hundred people maybe 15-20 including us were wearing masks. When we went into the crowded Bentley showroom we were the only ones wearing masks. It was scary. We went into the high end cocktail/whiskey bar next door. Nobody wearing masks. No staff, no guests, nobody. It was scary. Went back outside did another lap of the cars and left.
America and Americans are not dealing with this in a good safe way. Maybe this will end up being Darwinism at play and the herd will be thinned.0 -
OnWis97 said:what dreams said:Halifax2TheMax said:JW269453 said:dignin said:JW269453 said:dignin said:JW269453 said:dignin said:pjl44 said:JW269453 said:Bentleyspop said:Some countries get it....One would assume it is easier to control 4.8 million people compared to 326.7 million people who already can't agree on anything...just slightly though.
Didn't even need the internet for that one.
Sure you do, it's American exceptionalism!
I have no idea what you're going on about. Accepted? Found my home?
Any objective person can see your president has fucked this up beyond any imaginable measure. A complete and total fraud. I'm just glad the Canadian border in (mostly) closed.
https://www.statista.com/chart/22102/daily-covid-19-cases-in-the-us-and-the-eu/
Population of EU: 445 million
Population of the US: 331 million
Yea, nobody does it better than 'Murica. And anyone, anyone, could have done a better job of reacting to and managing Covid in the US than Team Trump Treason.While I think it's disingenuous to blame Trump for 135,000 out of 135,000 deaths, I do think it would be going a bit better with Hillary. I don't think she'd be actively trying to wish away all negative news and contradicting actual experts for the sake of her election. Yeah, she'd have made missteps (as do the experts; it's science, not the bible). But the focus from the White House would be on actually trying to mitigate as opposed to dividing us and winning an election.But I agree that the lion's share of the problem is simply "America." We're probably the most individual-focused (i.e., least collective-focused) country in the world. We look out for ourselves in America and we don't generally like to make personal sacrifices for the greater good. And we don't like to be told what to do. This would still be a factor under Hillary. And she's hated enough that her wearing a mask might have the same outcome as Trump not wearing one (i.e., people not wearing them to own the libs). So either way, this was probably a perfect disaster for the US to show the world what it is.
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Gern Blansten said:OnWis97 said:what dreams said:Halifax2TheMax said:JW269453 said:dignin said:JW269453 said:dignin said:JW269453 said:dignin said:pjl44 said:JW269453 said:Bentleyspop said:Some countries get it....One would assume it is easier to control 4.8 million people compared to 326.7 million people who already can't agree on anything...just slightly though.
Didn't even need the internet for that one.
Sure you do, it's American exceptionalism!
I have no idea what you're going on about. Accepted? Found my home?
Any objective person can see your president has fucked this up beyond any imaginable measure. A complete and total fraud. I'm just glad the Canadian border in (mostly) closed.
https://www.statista.com/chart/22102/daily-covid-19-cases-in-the-us-and-the-eu/
Population of EU: 445 million
Population of the US: 331 million
Yea, nobody does it better than 'Murica. And anyone, anyone, could have done a better job of reacting to and managing Covid in the US than Team Trump Treason.While I think it's disingenuous to blame Trump for 135,000 out of 135,000 deaths, I do think it would be going a bit better with Hillary. I don't think she'd be actively trying to wish away all negative news and contradicting actual experts for the sake of her election. Yeah, she'd have made missteps (as do the experts; it's science, not the bible). But the focus from the White House would be on actually trying to mitigate as opposed to dividing us and winning an election.But I agree that the lion's share of the problem is simply "America." We're probably the most individual-focused (i.e., least collective-focused) country in the world. We look out for ourselves in America and we don't generally like to make personal sacrifices for the greater good. And we don't like to be told what to do. This would still be a factor under Hillary. And she's hated enough that her wearing a mask might have the same outcome as Trump not wearing one (i.e., people not wearing them to own the libs). So either way, this was probably a perfect disaster for the US to show the world what it is.
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JW269453 said:Halifax2TheMax said:JW269453 said:dignin said:JW269453 said:dignin said:JW269453 said:dignin said:pjl44 said:JW269453 said:Bentleyspop said:
Didn't even need the internet for that one.
Sure you do, it's American exceptionalism!
I have no idea what you're going on about. Accepted? Found my home?
Any objective person can see your president has fucked this up beyond any imaginable measure. A complete and total fraud. I'm just glad the Canadian border in (mostly) closed.
https://www.statista.com/chart/22102/daily-covid-19-cases-in-the-us-and-the-eu/
Population of EU: 445 million
Population of the US: 331 million
Yea, nobody does it better than 'Murica. And anyone, anyone, could have done a better job of reacting to and managing Covid in the US than Team Trump Treason.
https://www.gzeromedia.com/the-graphic-truth-are-new-us-covid-deaths-surging-vs-euUpdated as of 7/13/2020
The United States and the European Union have comparable population sizes, but their COVID-19 death toll trajectories have recently become very different. Since the beginning of July, the average number of both new fatalities and new deaths per 1 million people is rapidly increasing in the US while it remains mostly flat in the EU. We compare this to the average number of new cases each seven days in both regions, where the US trend continues upward but is not surging like the death toll. EU countries' robust public health systems and citizens' willingness to wear masks and maintain social distance could explain the disparity.
US=1.93 deaths, three day rolling average, per million > EU=.15
I love the "it can't be done in the US" mantra. Well, we'll suffer the consequences then, won't we? We're free to be stupid, I get it.
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mrussel1 said:Gern Blansten said:OnWis97 said:what dreams said:Halifax2TheMax said:JW269453 said:dignin said:JW269453 said:dignin said:JW269453 said:dignin said:pjl44 said:JW269453 said:Bentleyspop said:Some countries get it....One would assume it is easier to control 4.8 million people compared to 326.7 million people who already can't agree on anything...just slightly though.
Didn't even need the internet for that one.
Sure you do, it's American exceptionalism!
I have no idea what you're going on about. Accepted? Found my home?
Any objective person can see your president has fucked this up beyond any imaginable measure. A complete and total fraud. I'm just glad the Canadian border in (mostly) closed.
https://www.statista.com/chart/22102/daily-covid-19-cases-in-the-us-and-the-eu/
Population of EU: 445 million
Population of the US: 331 million
Yea, nobody does it better than 'Murica. And anyone, anyone, could have done a better job of reacting to and managing Covid in the US than Team Trump Treason.While I think it's disingenuous to blame Trump for 135,000 out of 135,000 deaths, I do think it would be going a bit better with Hillary. I don't think she'd be actively trying to wish away all negative news and contradicting actual experts for the sake of her election. Yeah, she'd have made missteps (as do the experts; it's science, not the bible). But the focus from the White House would be on actually trying to mitigate as opposed to dividing us and winning an election.But I agree that the lion's share of the problem is simply "America." We're probably the most individual-focused (i.e., least collective-focused) country in the world. We look out for ourselves in America and we don't generally like to make personal sacrifices for the greater good. And we don't like to be told what to do. This would still be a factor under Hillary. And she's hated enough that her wearing a mask might have the same outcome as Trump not wearing one (i.e., people not wearing them to own the libs). So either way, this was probably a perfect disaster for the US to show the world what it is.I agree with Gern that anyone else would be encouraging masks. I do think you're right that you'd have some on the right fighting it to own the libs. But a lot of this crap (corona and non-corona issues alike) is about following Trump because 1) that REALLY owns the libs and 2) it's a cult. So it's hard to say just how badly dum-dums like DeSantis would be behaving right now. And it's hard to say where that 135,000 would be at. Less, but how much less? Sadly we'll never know. We'd have better leadership but we'd still be terribly divided and terribly American.1995 Milwaukee 1998 Alpine, Alpine 2003 Albany, Boston, Boston, Boston 2004 Boston, Boston 2006 Hartford, St. Paul (Petty), St. Paul (Petty) 2011 Alpine, Alpine
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what dreams said:Halifax2TheMax said:JW269453 said:dignin said:JW269453 said:dignin said:JW269453 said:dignin said:pjl44 said:JW269453 said:Bentleyspop said:
Didn't even need the internet for that one.
Sure you do, it's American exceptionalism!
I have no idea what you're going on about. Accepted? Found my home?
Any objective person can see your president has fucked this up beyond any imaginable measure. A complete and total fraud. I'm just glad the Canadian border in (mostly) closed.
https://www.statista.com/chart/22102/daily-covid-19-cases-in-the-us-and-the-eu/
Population of EU: 445 million
Population of the US: 331 million
Yea, nobody does it better than 'Murica. And anyone, anyone, could have done a better job of reacting to and managing Covid in the US than Team Trump Treason.
Good luck with the school year re-opening and try to stay safe. I'm still mostly self-isolating and working from home and expect to be until the end of the year and most likely, through next summer.
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