wgdsr wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 9:18 pm
hillary put up a psa on her twitter in february about social distancing, etc. 1st check in i believe. then a week plus later hosted what looks like a 500-1000 person premiere to promote her own documentary. then went on talk shows and let a host kiss her.
then jumped in on nationwide watch parties where people were hanging all over themselves. well into the 1st 10 days of march. just what i can see from her twitter feed only.
she retweeted an interview where she talks briefly about being involved in obama's admin during sars (which was 2003.. sic).
biden and other prez contenders were holding rallies until march 10+? biden had to have his big rally cancelled for him by a governor, so he held a smaller one anyway. dems ran polls until march 17th and biden thanked those states for doing them.
the obama administration tested a total of 600k? maybe a few more... people over 9-10 months for h1n1. 50-60 million americans got it, tens of thousands died, vaccine was a cluster though discovered. he played the cards that it wouldn't be 100s of thousands or millions and was ok with that loss and that people wouldn't notice. or be worth the effort.
but never acted in any forceful sense to save those lives.
the partisanship and hate /scorn whatever you want to call it won't cure itself or its damage unless and until people start demanding more of our leaders, not our opposing parties' leaders.
Nonsensical garbage.
First of all, H1N1 was a very different situation. A third of the elderly population already had immunity to it from earlier variants of the virus. The CDC and federal response was hardly perfect, but was certainly relatively quick and timely compared to what we have seen from Trump. Sixty million were infected, but “only” about 12,000+ died in a ONE YEAR period. In comparison, we’re going to see 12,000 dead from the novel coronavirus in about ONE MONTH.
Here ... learn the facts for change:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resour ... demic.html
https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/cdcresponse.htm
Furthermore, the leadership problem in the United States has NOT been a bipartisan problem, it has almost uniquely been a REPUBLICAN PROBLEM in the past three decades. Those decades have seen the rise of some truly abhorrent Republican leaders.
Newt Gingrich arguably established the bitter, take-no-prisoners partisanship in the 1990s. Later, the Republicans elevated a pedophile rapist to the Speakership (Hastert). Mitch McConnell, who was once considered an embarrassment to the entire GOP caucus because of his shameless (corrupt) efforts to bring federal pork to Kentucky, was elevated to Senate Majority Leader. And that brings us to Trump and George W ... two of the most incompetent and dishonest presidents in American history. Trump also made racism, bigotry, and misogyny centerpieces of his national policies.
It is intellectually lazy and factually incorrect to say both parties have had serious problems with their leadership.
The Democrats are hardly perfect, but you can’t say Pelosi, Clinton (either of them), or Obama were incompetent or worked towards a racist agenda. That can only be said of the Republicans.
Democrats have had good, competent leaders because Democrats ALREADY demand more of their leaders.
As for the Republicans? Donald Trump is president. That pretty much says all you need to say about the sub-basement standards the Republicans have for their leaders.
Don’t lecture Democrats. Your admonishments should be directed solely at the morons in the Republican Party.
DocBarrister