Is there any excuse?

[Ben_Natuf]

no-one saw it coming… who could have known?

[WuWei]

Be nice.

[e7alr]

How many R’s don’t even bother to vote in Deep Blue states. How many D’s don’t bother in Deep Red states? We are a nation of 330 million, yet only around 155.5 million voted. I guarantee 10s of millions of voting age citizens didn’t bother to vote.

[Ben_Natuf]

the policy is idiocy on steroids.

what exactly are we going to do when 25-30% of the population tests positive and shows up at the ER in a panic? Keep in mind that more than 80% of those people would never even have known they had covid.

[e7alr]

Or they call into work to dutifully report to their employer that they are positive. And it cascades through the company with other employees in close contact now rushing out for a test simply because of possible exposure.

[Ben_Natuf]

they don’t even have to be positive, if someone in the household is everyone must quarantine

[e7alr]

Yeah, my wife was sent home Wednesday because the mother of the child she provided formal individual child care for was positive for COVID. The wife was exposed for about 20 hours, over 3 days to the mother. Now my wife is fine and has been vaccinated. But we still had to get her tested and inform her company about the mother testing positive.

[Jezcoe]

@e7alr

How many R’s don’t even bother to vote in Deep Blue states. How many D’s don’t bother in Deep Red states? We are a nation of 330 million, yet only around 155.5 million voted. I guarantee 10s of millions of voting age citizens didn’t bother to vote.

Doesn’t matter.

If they don’t vote they don’t care to be counted.

[e7alr]

Yet you want a popular vote. I happen to believe that the electoral college actually favors the big liberal states due to the concentration of liberal votes in major metropolitan areas. Unlike in the late 1700s, when voters had loyalty to their state over their party, States like California, New York, Florida and Texas have an out sized impact because, rather than in spite of, the electoral college.

[Jezcoe]

@e7alr

Yet you want a popular vote.

Where have I said that?

[Jezcoe]

@e7alr

I happen to believe that the electoral college actually favors the big liberal states due to the concentration of liberal votes in major metropolitan areas.

It doesn’t really.

It gives outsized power to smaller states.

That isn’t necessarily a bad thing imo.

[e7alr]

Don’t you want the person who gets the most votes to be President? The small states are only equal collectively, not as individuals.

[Eagle-Keeper]

@Ben_Natuf

Given how much Trump was raked over the coals for the lack of testing supplies that was both not his fault and which his administration actually fixed, is there any excuse at all for the lack of supplies needed here to support Biden’s policy when he not only knew the pandemic was here, but should have known this was needed to support it, and not just on a “what if” basis as Trump faced prior to the pandemic?

What pandemic, I thought Biden shut down the virus already?

[Jezcoe]

@e7alr

Don’t you want the person who gets the most votes to be President? The small states are only equal collectively, not as individuals.

Now comes the equivocation as to what my opinion is or isn’t…. Because you don’t really know…… just assume.

Kudos.

[e7alr]

And apparently shut down a proposal to spin up test kit production back in October.

[Supreme_War_Pig]

@e7alr

Yet you want a popular vote. I happen to believe that the electoral college actually favors the big liberal states due to the concentration of liberal votes in major metropolitan areas. Unlike in the late 1700s, when voters had loyalty to their state over their party, States like California, New York, Florida and Texas have an out sized impact because, rather than in spite of, the electoral college.

Wow, well disagree

But for the EC, Trump would have been swamped twice in California, losing the election by millions of votes.

Even more striking, just 44,000 votes in Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin separated Biden and Trump from a tie in the EC. In a popular vote, that would immaterial.

Twice this century so far, the popular vote winner went on to lose the EC. Both times, a Republican lost to a Democrat. I can’t help but notice that result seems to align with your preference.

It seems to me that if the EC favored the big liberal states, we’d actually see it…you know…favoring the big liberal states.

[Supreme_War_Pig]

@e7alr

Don’t you want the person who gets the most votes to be President? The small states are only equal collectively, not as individuals.

I do.

I’m also a huge fan of the 17th.

[Guilds]

@e7alr

How many R’s don’t even bother to vote in Deep Blue states. How many D’s don’t bother in Deep Red states? We are a nation of 330 million, yet only around 155.5 million voted. I guarantee 10s of millions of voting age citizens didn’t bother to vote.

Maybe we should make it easier to vote, and of course ensure it is secure as well.

Automatic registration.
national Holiday for in person voting.
Mail on voting an option for all.

[Ben_Natuf]

don’t see a problem, so long as you include requesting the ballot, mandatory id and no harvesting

[DMK]

@Jezcoe

Would rather not thank you.

Omicron is filling the hospitals yet again.

It is a terrible strategy to have a bunch of people sick at the same time.

Perhaps if instead of telling people to go home who are sick but not sick enough to be hospitalized, states should have the resources for monoclonal antibody next day treatments.