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darkknight109 posted...

Fake news.

It's absolutely the case and you know it. The regions hit hardest first in the initial outbreak were places that neither listened to nor respected the president.

darkknight109 posted...

Also does not explain the current status, where nearly all of the COVID hot-spots are conservative bastions.

You mean conservative bastions like New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut? Connecticut has absurdly draconian measures yet it's very spiraling out of control.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state/

Otherwise it's a lot easier to try to stem an initial outbreak than it is to try to stop an outbreak from impacting other areas. The spread of COVID within the US is largely the result of those major cities failing to control things on their side and it spreading outward.

darkknight109 posted...

Which is why the courts have reversed the orders of governors who mandated shutdowns or masks...

Oh, no, wait, those orders have been found to be well within a governor/president's scope of powers and the courts have largely left them in place.

...overlooking that many of the measures HAVE been overturned by courts, you're talking about measures passed by GOVERNORS vs a president. Governors have a greater ability to issue that kind of thing than a president and, if a governor was challenging a president's order concerning their state, often the president's order is overturned.

darkknight109 posted...

This is laughable.

The reason why the PPE stock was not replenished was because Tea Party Republicans refused requests by the Obama administration for budget to restore the PPE stockpile and train medical responders. Republicans stripped out funding equivalent to $321 million dollars since they retook the House in 2010.

https://www.propublica.org/article/us-emergency-medical-stockpile-funding-unprepared-coronavirus

Suggesting that it was all the Democrats' fault is laughably wrong considering Republicans' persistent and ongoing efforts to kneecap pandemic preparedness over the last decade. Trump himself disbanded the Global Health Security and Biodefence unit Obama created in 2015 specifically to deal with pandemics like COVID and either reassigned or fired its entire staff.

You're using an alt-news op-ED (why? Because you couldn't find a legitimate source!) and then it notes that the move was bi-partisan ("Lawmakers in both parties raised the specter of shortchanging future disaster response even as they voted to approve the cuts.") as well as the fact that Obama hadn't made it a real priority over other spending DESPITE massively depleting the stockpile himself.

darkknight109 posted...

Trump had two years of unopposed control of both houses of congress and the courts. At no point did he even attempt to restore the funding that Republicans stripped away in 2010 or return the national stockpile of PPE to sufficient levels of readiness.

This pandemic occurred at the end of his term, not the start. Any lack of preparedness is entirely on him.

Which is a piss-poor excuse because previous administrations were covered because PREVIOUS administrations had covered the stockpile. And prior to using PPE during his term, Obama hadn't ever made that a priority even when he had a SUPER-MAJORITY as opposed to an easily filibustered or obstructed simple majority that Trump briefly had.

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