Current Events > Why a virus is political?

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How is that even done
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Politicians and media mainly

But they need stupid people

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Because Trump, in his vanity and entitled ignorance, downplayed the virus. That allowed many right-wingers to latch onto the notion that this was some liberal hoax.

Say what you will about Bush, he would have told people to comply with fighting the virus.

Because the brain drain has left very few Republicans with an IQ higher than room temperature.

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because the last person to leverage something has lost.

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Honestly, I think because it initially hit "blue" states first and the hardest, so it was easy for the "red side" to claim everyone was overreacting to it.

It's kinda like how most of the country knows how bad the California wild fires are every year, but unless you're right there, it's kinda "out of sight, out of mind".

And once the Government (both local and national) was making the rules on what people could and couldn't do, and where they could and couldn't go, it then riled up another pocket of the country.

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FortuneCookie posted...

Say what you will about Bush, he would have told people to comply with fighting the virus.

Bush was actually the one that took the notion of a pandemic seriously, and Obama continued what Bush passed to him. Then Trump decided it wasnt worthwhile.

https://www.businessinsider.com/george-bush-said-prepare-for-a-pandemic-that-trump-ignored-2020-5

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I mean, politics is how a society decides how its collective resources and efforts are spent, and viruses frequently require those to be spent.

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