re: #11 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

Pence isn’t an idiot.

He’s a public health hazard who has no business involved in any public health decisions.

He’s enabling Trump’s know nothing approach to covid19, which is to ignore the problem entirely, claim it’s not a problem, all while cases soar, deaths continue to pile up, and the economy remains in neutral because the overwhelming majority of people aren’t going to risk their lives to go to work or restaurants or engage in leisure travel because covid19 kills people.

New Zealand is the opposite case - they not only got containment, but zero cases for 3 weeks.

They’re actually back to public sports and crowds - all without masks.

They successfully contained covid19.

We could have done that. Trump made it impossible.

And we have fucknuts like DeSantis and Abbott who thought they could bluster and bulkshit their way through this all while the cases pile up.

The cases are piling up, and the economic damage continues to mount. I fully expect the hard work done by NY and NJ to be undone because assholes take the Trump view on masks and ignore social distancing and masking and get others infected here.

Practically every other country was able to control the first wave of cases.

The US gave up after NY/NJ controlled the worst of their outbreaks. Now we’re watching the cases soar in places where the local idiots in charge have no clue what they’re doing beyond trying to deflect, ignore, and outright lie about the cases and deaths.