WuWei
July 27, 2020, 9:39pm
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Blackwolf:
WuWei:
Honestly, what do you think would be different with a dem in the chair? Would we be more appropriately terrified? More serious? Would Fauci not have told us we don’t need masks? Would a dem not be trying to open back up?
Honestly, what would be different?
I’m not going to argue it along party lines; rather, what would be different if someone other than Trump was in office? Hard to say anything with certainty because we’re dealing in alternate realities that can’t be proven. But what do I think?
Perhaps a non-Trump POTUS would not have dismantled the executive branch’s science infrastructure
Perhaps they’d be less enthusiastic about rejecting the role science should have in informing policies of both Democratic and Republican administrations
Perhaps they wouldn’t dismiss a mysterious new outbreak by saying “Just stay calm. It will go away” and the next day hear WHO say it was officially a pandemic.
Perhaps they’d have more respect for the advice of virologists, epidemiologists, and experts in biomedicine
Perhaps they wouldn’t push unproven treatments/preventatives
Perhaps they wouldn’t undermine the recommendations of medical experts
But yeah - what could anyone have done differently.
None of that happened with Trump. You just got told that’s what he meant.
I can tell you what would have been different. Nothing. Because the same bureaucrats who ran the show would be running the show.
Everything you mentioned is style, not substance. You don’t like his style, I get it. Neither do I. But it’s just style.
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Camp
July 27, 2020, 9:40pm
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That is nonsense. The protests have been encouraged by city D.
To be fair, a lot of Americans are like this, period. The downside of elevating individualism to the degree this society has is too many people orient themselves to short term gains only, or fail to see how a benefit to the community is an indirect benefit to them.
WuWei
July 27, 2020, 9:41pm
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I’m almost to the point where I hope Biden does win so I don’t have to listen to the same freakin’ whining anymore.
There’ll still be whining, but it’ll be different whining.
WuWei:
I’m almost to the point where I hope Biden does win so I don’t have to listen to the same freakin’ whining anymore.
There’ll still be whining, but it’ll be different whining.
So Biden can count on your vote soon? Great!
Camp
July 27, 2020, 9:44pm
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There would have been ZERO travel restrictions.
Camp
July 27, 2020, 9:46pm
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Media will go bankrupt with a Biden win.
I get your point. The hysterics are unsustainable.
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I recall a conservative “expert” on this board saying it was no different than the seasonal flu.
WuWei
July 27, 2020, 9:47pm
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He would have had to do it eventually. There certainly wouldn’t have been one on China as soon as there was.
Camp
July 27, 2020, 9:48pm
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It isn’t so much different.
Super flu is appropriate.
Virus is spreading and less deadly.
DMK
July 27, 2020, 9:49pm
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I hope that for everyone that is affected by this. Politics shouldn’t even enter the picture.
Camp
July 27, 2020, 9:49pm
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They wouldn’t do it for Ebola. They would have resisted until every other nation had the restrictions first.
WuWei
July 27, 2020, 9:50pm
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Materially it’s not. Flu isn’t seasonal. It happens all year. Spread is seasonal.
WuWei:
I’m almost to the point where I hope Biden does win so I don’t have to listen to the same freakin’ whining anymore.
There’ll still be whining, but it’ll be different whining.
Who knows. Maybe we’ll get back to the serious things to whine about like mustard and tan suits.