always fun to observe twitter Democrats rediscovering non-hardline Trump conservatives who still don't like Democrats, as if it's some ancient species thought to be extinct https://twitter.com/_Jason_Dean_/status/1293332276948992002
I live in the reddest state in the Union and I will be voting for Biden, but I'm not going to start screaming at my conservative friends who are sitting this out that they have the bodies of 160,000 people at their feet, that's just ridiculous and... a little unhinged
if you want an uncomfortable truth that people on here don't like it admit, it's that the actions of governors in these states has been far more influential on the death toll than anything Trump has done

New York had policy in place to put covid-19 positive nursing home/
jesus christ the rest didn't fucking tweet??
god fucking damnit twitter i hate this shit site

here's the cliffnotes:

the AP is reporting that new york seems to be fudging their nursing home numbers and Cuomo's policy of shipping people back into nursing homes after they tested positive for months https://apnews.com/212ccd87924b6906053703a00514647f
likely got thousands killed, but hasn't received 1/100th the attention hydroqychloroquine pissing fights have, despite it actually, you know, having gotten thousands killed

the main area i was worried about the federal response was in ventilators and PPE - our stockpile was old/
and depleted, but after a few weeks of uncertainty we had governors like Cuomo himself and Newsom in hotspots saying the federal gov't had done a good job getting them the supplies they needed

that's the most important job they were needed for
i also pointed out that we had Joe Biden tweeting this dumbassery about xenophobia out immediately after Trump restricted travel to China https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1223727977361338370
my overall point is that this blindsided pretty much everyone, and rewriting this as purely a failure of your political opponents is a lie, since there's blame to go around

that's a hard fact
and what the fuck is this "millions unemployed line"

son what kind of fucking lockdown doesn't cause unemployment? you need to pull your head out of your ass if this is something to blame Trump for, that's just ridiculous
and to reiterate, because i know when we're within a few months of an election everyone starts losing reading comprehension, but this thread is NOT saying:

1. you should vote for Trump
2. Trump's response has been great, much less even good
3. Democrat's are all to blame!
4. there's nothing we could've done better
5. we should cast unilateral blame on our political opponents

if you read any of the above 5 points into my thread, please try going over it again.
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