Jason Rapert, AK State Senator tests positive

[WuWei]

@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.

[Camp]

That is nonsense. The protests have been encouraged by city D.

[Blackwolf]

@Forcefield

Why is it Republicans only seem to care about something once it affects them directly?

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.

[Blackwolf]

@WuWei

None of that happened with Trump. You just got told that’s what he meant.

Okay, if you say so.

[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.

[Blackwolf]

@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!

[Scratch]

@WuWei

Not to mention painting the whole side of the barn in one stroke.

You gotta admit…That’s pretty efficient…

[WuWei]

@Blackwolf

@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!

Yeah, count on it.

[WuWei]

@Scratch

@WuWei

Not to mention painting the whole side of the barn in one stroke.

You gotta admit…That’s pretty efficient…

Half-assed job.

[Camp]

There would have been ZERO travel restrictions.

[Camp]

Media will go bankrupt with a Biden win.

I get your point. The hysterics are unsustainable.

[Borgia_dude]

@WuWei

@Blackwolf

@WuWei

That’s because that’s what the media is telling you

Did Trump downplay the seriousness of the pandemic? Or was that the media being tricksy?

No. He regurgitated what he was told by the experts and added his own 10%.

I recall a conservative “expert” on this board saying it was no different than the seasonal flu.

[WuWei]

@Camp

There would have been ZERO travel restrictions.

He would have had to do it eventually. There certainly wouldn’t have been one on China as soon as there was.

[Camp]

It isn’t so much different.

Super flu is appropriate.

Virus is spreading and less deadly.

[WuWei]

@Camp

Media will go bankrupt with a Biden win.

I get your point. The hysterics are unsustainable.

And unnecessary.

[DMK]

@Apocalypto

Most Republicans are anti-science. So, nope.

That’s pretty silly.

[DMK]

@calirepub

Hopefully he’ll get better soon and isn’t one of the many people permanently damaged or even die from this horrible disease. Thoughts and prayers.

I hope that for everyone that is affected by this. Politics shouldn’t even enter the picture.

[Camp]

They wouldn’t do it for Ebola. They would have resisted until every other nation had the restrictions first.

[WuWei]

@Borgia_dude

@WuWei

@Blackwolf

@WuWei

That’s because that’s what the media is telling you

Did Trump downplay the seriousness of the pandemic? Or was that the media being tricksy?

No. He regurgitated what he was told by the experts and added his own 10%.

I recall a conservative “expert” on this board saying it was no different than the seasonal flu.

Materially it’s not. Flu isn’t seasonal. It happens all year. Spread is seasonal.

[Borgia_dude]

@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.