Posted on 08/20/2020 6:47:02 PM PDT by karpov
Is it reasonable to blame a single politician for the spread of a highly infectious virus, especially in a free country with 50 states and 330 million people? Joe Biden is lucky that wasn’t the standard a decade ago.
If the Democratic convention produced one theme it’s that Donald Trump is personally at fault for every coronavirus death. The message is that crazy, that blunt. Kamala Harris: “Donald Trump’s failure of leadership has cost lives.” Barack Obama: “Donald Trump hasn’t grown into the job because he can’t. And the consequences of that failure are severe: 170,000 Americans dead.”
Democrats even claim Mr. Biden saved lives in 2014. Michelle Obama: “Our leaders had worked hand in hand with scientists to help prevent an Ebola outbreak from becoming a global pandemic.” Ms. Harris last week: “Remember that pandemic? Barack Obama and Joe Biden did their job. Only two people died in the United States.”
Ebola is a terrifying disease, but outbreaks tend to happen only in very poor nations, and if caught early the virus is difficult to transmit outside hospitals. Anthony Fauci said in 2014 that a U.S. outbreak was “very, very, very unlikely.” Mr. Obama told Americans to chill out: “Ebola is actually a difficult disease to catch. It’s not transmitted through the air like the flu.”
The Ebola example is designed to divert attention from a more relevant comparison: the H1N1 swine-flu outbreak of 2009-10. Democrats don’t like to talk about H1N1, because it didn’t go well. If it had been as deadly as Covid-19, the toll would have been catastrophic. The history is a powerful reminder that governments can’t stop a virus—although they can make epidemics worse.
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That H1N1 lockdown and mask mandates was brutal/sarc.
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........ During the Obama Administration it’s estimated that 150, 000 to 575,000 people in the US died from (H1N1) pandemic virus infection.
.... There isn’t an accurate count ... WHY??? ............ They decided to STOP COUNTING ... The Deaths .......
..... BTW ......... They didn’t shut down the entire country for some reason ....
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I remember working from my home in my underwear.
Put on your muzzle like a good little peasant. /s
In January of '10, the increasing curve flat-lined...no new infections reported.
How?
Hussien & Biden stopped official recording of new positive test results (called positivity in '20).
*Noted that Positivity is not a medical term, but was coined by CNN in 2020 to be such.
Funny, I don’t remember Dr Faustus going on to CNN to contradict Hussein and Plugs , demand a lockdown or masks. Boy, I have so much to learn about “science.”
Bottom line: China lied, people died.
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