Remember when Australia was praised as the model for stopping the Rona?

Don’t twist

NorthwestFresh said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

doogie said:

2.3-3.5 Million, mostly children and young healthy people DEAD in 30-60 days.


now we talkin Cases. And white upper-middle class terrorists chanting Black Lives, in Gucci stores stealing free shit, Matter!

No, sorry, you simply are wrong

Did you believe that?

Many people did believe it, which is the point. Now you’ve got spazzes like @HHusky flailing away every day trying to remember where he moved the goalposts to last night, and sadly, it seems many elected leaders are setting policy based on the same mentality.

If you want to use 2.2MM as a rhetorical cudgel to claim Trump saved 2 million and change, have at it, that's fair game as the rules were laid out in mid-March. But I knew that number was horseshit and I hope any serious person knew that too. Race nearly canceled me for my Trump takes in March.

Someones tender parts have been injured by the MEAN ORANGE MAN!

PostGameOrangeSlices said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

NorthwestFresh said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

doogie said:

2.3-3.5 Million, mostly children and young healthy people DEAD in 30-60 days.


now we talkin Cases. And white upper-middle class terrorists chanting Black Lives, in Gucci stores stealing free shit, Matter!

No, sorry, you simply are wrong

Did you believe that?

Many people did believe it, which is the point. Now you’ve got spazzes like @HHusky flailing away every day trying to remember where he moved the goalposts to last night, and sadly, it seems many elected leaders are setting policy based on the same mentality.

If you want to use 2.2MM as a rhetorical cudgel to claim Trump saved 2 million and change, have at it, that's fair game as the rules were laid out in mid-March. But I knew that number was horseshit and I hope any serious person knew that too. Race nearly canceled me for my Trump takes in March.

What should Trump have done?

You're dying on a hill that isnt even a hill

I'm dying on no hill. I have an opinion, and that opinion means absolutely nothing.

Here is my actual hindsight 20/20 take: Trump goes hard on a national lockdown the last week of February. The #Resist movement looses their shit, pledges not to be cowed by authoritarians dictates from Washington, and we're wide ass open through the worst of it. TDS could have worked for the people.

Another take I've put out there a half dozen times that My Trump Guysm™ might like better, regarding Trump culpability for the Vid being a thing. If somehow Trump and Trump alone got a vision of the future in late December that the Vid was coming, the only possible (and even then unlikely) way to stop it showing up here would have been a hard national quarantine. No international air or ground admittance to foreigners. US nationals abroad could only return into a 14-day quarantine, etc. Even if we had done that, it probably still squirts through. No one would have gone for that Jan. 1, as demonstrated by the #resistance to the modest international travel restrictions that actually did go in place late January.

Therefore, in my mind, he's off the hook for that. Shit just happens sometimes, and that's really hard to accept for most of us.