COVID's aftermath.

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Almost 1.2M lives of human beings in the US were lost. But that doesn't mean anything to some people.

Just two weeks to shorten the curve.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

How long have you suffered from delusional paranoia?

DeSantis says he disagreed with Trump’s decision to shut down economy at start of pandemic​

DeSantis says he disagreed with Trump’s decision to shut down economy at start of pandemic

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Thursday that he disagreed with then-President Trump’s decision to shut down the economy at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.DeSantis appeared on conservati…

thehill.com

Man on motorcycle drives head on into a semi at eighty mph dies of Covid.

 

[eagle7-31]

How a Pandemic Malaise Is Shaping American Politics

Public confidence in institutions — the presidency, public schools, the criminal justice system, the news media, Congress — slumped in surveys in the aftermath of the pandemic and has yet to recover. The pandemic hardened voter distrust in government, a sentiment Mr. Trump and his allies are using to their advantage. Fears of political violence, even civil war, are at record highs, and rankings of the nation’s happiness at record lows. And views of the nation’s economy and confidence in the future remain bleak, even as the country has defied expectations of a recession.

“The pandemic pulled the rug from people — you were never quite as secure as you were,” Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, a Democrat, said in an interview. “We’re starting to get our grounding back. But I think it’s just hard for people to feel good again.”

High rates of office vacancies have crippled urban downtowns, adding to the sense that the country has yet to recover fully. Depression and anxiety rates remain stubbornly high, particularly among young adults. Students remain behind in math and reading, part of the continued fallout from school closures. And even positive news has been met with skepticism: F.B.I. data released this month confirmed that crime declined significantly in 2023, though polling conducted at the end of last year has shown that voters believe otherwise.

Elected officials, strategists, historians and sociologists say the lasting effects of the pandemic are visible today in the debates over inflation, education, public health, college debt, crime and trust in American democracy itself. The lingering trauma from that time, they said, is contributing to a sense of national malaise that voters express in polling and focus groups — a kind of pandemic hangover that appears to be hurting Mr. Biden and helping Mr. Trump in their presidential rematch.
How a Pandemic Malaise Is Shaping American Politics

It disrupted every aspect of life in profound ways. So how could it not remain in our collective consciousness? The irony being Trump gaining advantage from the "pandemic hangover" after his admin botched the response to it. Vanity caused his reluctance to act aggressively in its initial stages. Apathy prevented a coordinated distribution plan for the vaccine as his focus turned to insurrection in the last months of his presidency.

Biden vents frustration with Trump on transition

President-elect Joe Biden on Monday vented frustration with President Trump for obstructing the transition process, saying that “more people may die” from the coronavirus because the incoming administration has not been included in the plans to distribute a vaccine.

Speaking from near his home in Delaware, Biden warned that the nation faces a “dark winter” from a resurgence in coronavirus cases. He called on Congress to take up a House-passed stimulus bill to provide economic relief to those who are struggling amid the slowdown.

And Biden ripped the Trump administration, which has so far declined to acknowledge Biden’s victory and has taken steps to keep the president-elect locked out of the customary transition process.

Biden said Trump’s transition delays would lead directly to more coronavirus deaths, as the incoming and outgoing administrations have no plans to coordinate their vaccine distribution efforts.

“More people may die if we don’t coordinate,” Biden said.
Biden vents frustration with Trump on transition

Guess China got what it wanted when they exported the virus.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

How a Pandemic Malaise Is Shaping American Politics

Public confidence in institutions — the presidency, public schools, the criminal justice system, the news media, Congress — slumped in surveys in the aftermath of the pandemic and has yet to recover. The pandemic hardened voter distrust in government, a sentiment Mr. Trump and his allies are using to their advantage. Fears of political violence, even civil war, are at record highs, and rankings of the nation’s happiness at record lows. And views of the nation’s economy and confidence in the future remain bleak, even as the country has defied expectations of a recession.

“The pandemic pulled the rug from people — you were never quite as secure as you were,” Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, a Democrat, said in an interview. “We’re starting to get our grounding back. But I think it’s just hard for people to feel good again.”

High rates of office vacancies have crippled urban downtowns, adding to the sense that the country has yet to recover fully. Depression and anxiety rates remain stubbornly high, particularly among young adults. Students remain behind in math and reading, part of the continued fallout from school closures. And even positive news has been met with skepticism: F.B.I. data released this month confirmed that crime declined significantly in 2023, though polling conducted at the end of last year has shown that voters believe otherwise.

Elected officials, strategists, historians and sociologists say the lasting effects of the pandemic are visible today in the debates over inflation, education, public health, college debt, crime and trust in American democracy itself. The lingering trauma from that time, they said, is contributing to a sense of national malaise that voters express in polling and focus groups — a kind of pandemic hangover that appears to be hurting Mr. Biden and helping Mr. Trump in their presidential rematch.
How a Pandemic Malaise Is Shaping American Politics

It disrupted every aspect of life in profound ways. So how could it not remain in our collective consciousness? The irony being Trump gaining advantage from the "pandemic hangover" after his admin botched the response to it. Vanity caused his reluctance to act aggressively in its initial stages. Apathy prevented a coordinated distribution plan for the vaccine as his focus turned to insurrection in the last months of his presidency.

Biden vents frustration with Trump on transition

President-elect Joe Biden on Monday vented frustration with President Trump for obstructing the transition process, saying that “more people may die” from the coronavirus because the incoming administration has not been included in the plans to distribute a vaccine.

Speaking from near his home in Delaware, Biden warned that the nation faces a “dark winter” from a resurgence in coronavirus cases. He called on Congress to take up a House-passed stimulus bill to provide economic relief to those who are struggling amid the slowdown.

And Biden ripped the Trump administration, which has so far declined to acknowledge Biden’s victory and has taken steps to keep the president-elect locked out of the customary transition process.

Biden said Trump’s transition delays would lead directly to more coronavirus deaths, as the incoming and outgoing administrations have no plans to coordinate their vaccine distribution efforts.

“More people may die if we don’t coordinate,” Biden said.
Biden vents frustration with Trump on transition

Wait a second, you mean wishing people a winter of severe illness and death is NOT a winning plan?

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

So you’re gonna pass it on to someone who has a less than 80% of having even mild symptoms.

Some folks scare wayyyyy to easy.

Those same folks seem to get scared every four years.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

MAGA does not give a shit about the Covid casualties.

 

[scruffy]

You’re Trumper

You say stupid shit with no basis all the time

I can prove my bullshit, and you can't.

 

[scruffy]

MAGA does not give a shit about the Covid casualties.

Go tell Cuomo, shit for brains.

 

[Lesh]

I can prove my bullshit, and you can't.

You accused me of lying.

Prove that

 

[frigidweirdo]

How a Pandemic Malaise Is Shaping American Politics

Public confidence in institutions — the presidency, public schools, the criminal justice system, the news media, Congress — slumped in surveys in the aftermath of the pandemic and has yet to recover. The pandemic hardened voter distrust in government, a sentiment Mr. Trump and his allies are using to their advantage. Fears of political violence, even civil war, are at record highs, and rankings of the nation’s happiness at record lows. And views of the nation’s economy and confidence in the future remain bleak, even as the country has defied expectations of a recession.

“The pandemic pulled the rug from people — you were never quite as secure as you were,” Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, a Democrat, said in an interview. “We’re starting to get our grounding back. But I think it’s just hard for people to feel good again.”

High rates of office vacancies have crippled urban downtowns, adding to the sense that the country has yet to recover fully. Depression and anxiety rates remain stubbornly high, particularly among young adults. Students remain behind in math and reading, part of the continued fallout from school closures. And even positive news has been met with skepticism: F.B.I. data released this month confirmed that crime declined significantly in 2023, though polling conducted at the end of last year has shown that voters believe otherwise.

Elected officials, strategists, historians and sociologists say the lasting effects of the pandemic are visible today in the debates over inflation, education, public health, college debt, crime and trust in American democracy itself. The lingering trauma from that time, they said, is contributing to a sense of national malaise that voters express in polling and focus groups — a kind of pandemic hangover that appears to be hurting Mr. Biden and helping Mr. Trump in their presidential rematch.
How a Pandemic Malaise Is Shaping American Politics

It disrupted every aspect of life in profound ways. So how could it not remain in our collective consciousness? The irony being Trump gaining advantage from the "pandemic hangover" after his admin botched the response to it. Vanity caused his reluctance to act aggressively in its initial stages. Apathy prevented a coordinated distribution plan for the vaccine as his focus turned to insurrection in the last months of his presidency.

Biden vents frustration with Trump on transition

President-elect Joe Biden on Monday vented frustration with President Trump for obstructing the transition process, saying that “more people may die” from the coronavirus because the incoming administration has not been included in the plans to distribute a vaccine.

Speaking from near his home in Delaware, Biden warned that the nation faces a “dark winter” from a resurgence in coronavirus cases. He called on Congress to take up a House-passed stimulus bill to provide economic relief to those who are struggling amid the slowdown.

And Biden ripped the Trump administration, which has so far declined to acknowledge Biden’s victory and has taken steps to keep the president-elect locked out of the customary transition process.

Biden said Trump’s transition delays would lead directly to more coronavirus deaths, as the incoming and outgoing administrations have no plans to coordinate their vaccine distribution efforts.

“More people may die if we don’t coordinate,” Biden said.
Biden vents frustration with Trump on transition

Because people are manipulating social media to spread such feelings.

I wonder who that could be?

The Chinese, the Russians, and plenty of Americans too.

Millions of Americans caught up in Chinese hacking plot - US

Seven Chinese men have been charged over a "sinister" hacking plot, the justice department says.

www.bbc.com

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Millions of Americans caught up in Chinese hacking plot - US"
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[CowboyTed]

Trump was not a politician. He relied on those who were supposed to be experienced in the fields needed for a virus. Government style. Little did he know they were a bunch of Joe's.

That is utter bullshit...

He had experts but decided that he would make descisions.. You are right an actual politician would have known what to do, i.e. let the experts take control like in countries that were far better handling the outbreak. Instead Trump felt threatened by them and undermined them, then started spitballing unproven ideas (some dangerous)...

Trump failure to learn or adapt to the changing conditions cost hundreds of thousands of Americans lives...

If Trump didn't know how to do the job, he shouldn't have gone for it.

 

[HeyNorm]

That is utter bullshit...

He had experts but decided that he would make descisions.. You are right an actual politician would have known what to do, i.e. let the experts take control like in countries that were far better handling the outbreak. Instead Trump felt threatened by them and undermined them, then started spitballing unproven ideas (some dangerous)...

Trump failure to learn or adapt to the changing conditions cost hundreds of thousands of Americans lives...

If Trump didn't know how to do the job, he shouldn't have gone for it.

And the Dems put active covid patients in nursing homes………..

BRILLIANT FOLKS!

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Actually, he didn't. If he had, the warnings he received would have resulted in a more vigorous response to COVID that prioritized the public's health, not his poll numbers.

Dude, the govt ie cdc, nih, fda were flailing and flip flopping every other second like a fish on the jetty. They had no clue of what they were doing. Dont even try to gaslight. It aint gonna work. Do you really think we all forgot what happened 4 years ago? Lol. Unbelievable.

 

[Billiejeens]

......and by couch time, shoud I assume you mean being tied to one and set adrift in the open sea?

Or set on fire?

 

[berg80]

Man on motorcycle drives head on into a semi at eighty mph dies of Covid.

When desperation sets in you folks always resort to denying the credibility of the irrefutable facts. And you are always desperate.

 

[berg80]

Do you really think we all forgot what happened 4 years ago?

Not all of us, but apparently you did. I agree that the health agencies struggled with a consistent message as they tried to interpret the data. That is not the same as Trump's attempts to downplay the threat COVID represented because of how it might affect people's behavior if he took it seriously.

 

[HeyNorm]

Not all of us, but apparently you did. I agree that the health agencies struggled with a consistent message as they tried to interpret the data. That is not the same as Trump's attempts to downplay the threat COVID represented because of how it might affect people's behavior if he took it seriously.

I never changed a single part of my life because of covid. And that was me taking the minimal risk seriously.

 

[berg80]

That is utter bullshit...

He had experts but decided that he would make descisions.. You are right an actual politician would have known what to do, i.e. let the experts take control like in countries that were far better handling the outbreak. Instead Trump felt threatened by them and undermined them, then started spitballing unproven ideas (some dangerous)...

Trump failure to learn or adapt to the changing conditions cost hundreds of thousands of Americans lives...

If Trump didn't know how to do the job, he shouldn't have gone for it.

Trump viewed COVID as a political problem, not a pandemic threatening the lives of US citizens.

 

[HeyNorm]

Trump viewed COVID as a political problem, not a pandemic threatening the lives of US citizens.

And the Dems looked at it as a political sword.

Do you have a point yet after all these pages?

 

[CowboyTed]

Lest we forget all the DEMONCRAT Governors, who locked their states down FAR longer than the "two weeks to flatten the curve" lie.

Trump lied to the nation and to governors about how serious the pandemic.... It was sheer incompetence...

Governors were guilty of believing their President in a crisis...

You need more than two weeks to flaten the curve...

Could please stop creating yourselves as hindsight geniuses... There was information available at the time, Trump chose to hide that information and misinform the nation that this pandemic would be over in a few weeks, when he was told the opposite...

Governors were informed that two weeks could flaten the curve. It did considerably but not enough... So they extended to try and get it as far down as possible...

You are trying to equate the two... You don't give a fuck how many Americans died or what could have been learnt... You are pissing on dead Americans to try and cover up for Trump...