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Even if the protests seemed to be a major vector (they don’t) the context of the protests is they came after Trump disbanded the pandemic response team, then 3 mo of him covering up the truth, then 3 mo of Republicans squandering lockdown by sabotaging any national strategy. https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1277579249210310658
My thoughts on protests as a vector for Covid is: that Republicans spent the months ahead of awareness of the true danger dumping stocks and warning friends, and the months before the protests telling us we had to prepare to die to help the economy.
My thoughts on protests as a vector for Covid is, in Feb Trump told a packed crowd it was an overblown hoax.
In March he said it would be gone by June.
In June, as cases spiked, he told a crowd it WAS gone
And in April he defunded research on a cure https://blog.ucsusa.org/jacob-carter/trump-administration-axes-coronavirus-research
In March he said it would be gone by June.
In June, as cases spiked, he told a crowd it WAS gone
And in April he defunded research on a cure https://blog.ucsusa.org/jacob-carter/trump-administration-axes-coronavirus-research
My thoughts on protests as a vector of Covid is, the president has always refused to wear a mask.
My thoughts on protests as a vector of Covid is, Trump knowingly mislead the nation about the effectiveness of bad tests
My thoughts on protests as a vector of Covid is, Trump knowingly mislead the nation about the effectiveness of bad tests
Pushed harmful drugs as miracle cures without proof
Suggested we inject the lungs with bleach
Put his stupid son-in-law in charge of pandemic response
Horded respirators, withheld them from political enemies, doled them out as political favors
Suggested we inject the lungs with bleach
Put his stupid son-in-law in charge of pandemic response
Horded respirators, withheld them from political enemies, doled them out as political favors
My thoughts on protests as a vector for Covid is, in April, as he was defunding research for a cure, he defunded the World Health Organization. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/14/trump-world-health-organization-funding-186786
My thoughts on protests as a vector for Covid is, the governors of Texas and Arizona and Florida and others were unified with Trump in their unwillingness to take any of the steps that might have curbed the spread.
And for that they received his approval.
And for that they received his approval.
My thoughts on protests as a vector for Covid is that last week, Trump gathered a crowd in defiance of Oklahoma's heath administrators and had his people remove the labels from seats encouraging distancing.
Then bragged* that he'd curtailed testing to make himself look better.
Then bragged* that he'd curtailed testing to make himself look better.
My thought on protests as a vector for Covid is, the response to a pandemic is a clear glowing sign of a government that exists to protect wealth and will commit mass murder in order to do so.
Which is exactly why protests need to happen.
Which is exactly why protests need to happen.
