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[–] 1 point 6 months ago* (1 child)

Democrats can't say shit about Trump's covid response after fully adopting the playbook themselves once they were in power

If anything they were worse because they turned it into a bipartisan consensus on reality and made all the 'normal' people take their masks off.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    If the public isn't on board with something, it'll cost the ruling party dearly. This wasn't like 1918 where the public wanted to help each other by limiting the spread of the disease. This was rugged individualism, "you can't tell me what to do." Dems were honestly smart to get on board or a red wave would have wiped them out.

    When we want to change things like this, we have to change the norm in advance, not reactively.

    BTW epidemiologists I used to work with at the CDC have long said "the big one is coming" and after Covid, many of them said "this wasn't the big one," so we still need to change that norm, but like climate change and a dozen other pressing crises, we can't deal with it because fascism.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago*

    A complete inversion of reality. Democrats actively manufactured consent for the 'end' of the pandemic. They were pushing for a return to school before the vaccine was even out. The moment covid was their responsibility instead of a cudgel with which they could barely win the election, they started adopting the exact same language they were criticizing. Minus of course the meme shit like horse paste and bleach.

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