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son, you must have fallen down and hit your head, and missed the last go around from 2016 to 2020 when over One Million Fucking Americans died, bad, from a sandbagged and purposefully inept Trump led Federal Global Pandemic response, that saw The United States post higher numbers per capita of infections, hospitalizations, and death that any other countries in the world besides Russia, North Korea, and China. You aren't confusing any of the rest of us who lived through that horrorshow, and know he's going to make those numbers seem insignificant this time around. Go away. You're a trash troll.
But it's ok because he selected companies run by his chronies to handle distribution, netting them billions of dollars in government awards. Surely we won't see that this time around?!
/s
The numbers will be much smaller this time. An important lesson conservatives learned from the pandemic was that if the government doesn’t monitor and report numbers then you can claim it’s not a problem.
Here’s an example.
If another pandemic were to strike, they will be much more brazen in their “don’t give a fuck” approach.
What does obsessing over it every day and complaining on the Internet constantly do though? It not like Trump and his goons are gonna see all the comments y'all are making and suddenly change their minds. If there is something tangible you can do to make change absolutely do it, but letting it ruin your daily life is just letting them win.
Y'all do whatever you want. Your choice how you spend your energy.
One of the most impactful forms of activism is education. Talking about issues, putting effort towards things that we might not necessarily be able to directly impact, is how we garner new ideas from other perspectives.
You’re such an odd specimen.
Pretty sure that's an exaggeration. I get your point, but I don't think we were behind Brazil on how we handled it.