Not the pandemic per se, but certainly the reason every leftist is absolutely LOVING how compliant everyone's being with our response to it. Show me a hand-wringing, pearl-clutching leftist who is all "wE MuST cOnTInUe tHiS qUArAntIne fOr aT LeAst 18 mORe mONtHs!" and I'll show you someone who is saying that in order to push for mail-in voting.
When Trump suggests lifting the shelter-in-place orders, they WILL say it's too soon. They will then get all the media to scour the country to look for the one person who got the coronavirus recently (bonus points if a transgender Muslim of color) and start pushing the narrative that an uncontrollable second wave of the illness has started, and continue repeating it ad infinitum no matter the evidence.
Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure I saw my tin-foil hat in one of these closets somewhere....
I'm honestly baffled as to how anyone can continue to maintain the pretense that this pandemic has been anything more than a MASSIVE nothingburger when every day that passes makes that more and more clear. Using the official (likely very inflated) numbers, this virus is on track to cause about as many US deaths as occur each year from a typical flu season. And as with the flu, the very old and the very sick will make up the overwhelming majority of those deaths. Not only should we "reopen the country" immediately, we should acknowledge that closing it in the first was place was an insane 100-fold overreaction. Seriously, what the absolute fuck?! How does anyone not see that? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
Anyone starting to think this is the ACTUAL REASON the pandemic was created? To push mail-in voting, which can easily get Trump out?
adjusts tin foil hat
Not the pandemic per se, but certainly the reason every leftist is absolutely LOVING how compliant everyone's being with our response to it. Show me a hand-wringing, pearl-clutching leftist who is all "wE MuST cOnTInUe tHiS qUArAntIne fOr aT LeAst 18 mORe mONtHs!" and I'll show you someone who is saying that in order to push for mail-in voting.
When Trump suggests lifting the shelter-in-place orders, they WILL say it's too soon. They will then get all the media to scour the country to look for the one person who got the coronavirus recently (bonus points if a transgender Muslim of color) and start pushing the narrative that an uncontrollable second wave of the illness has started, and continue repeating it ad infinitum no matter the evidence.
Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure I saw my tin-foil hat in one of these closets somewhere....
I'm honestly baffled as to how anyone can continue to maintain the pretense that this pandemic has been anything more than a MASSIVE nothingburger when every day that passes makes that more and more clear. Using the official (likely very inflated) numbers, this virus is on track to cause about as many US deaths as occur each year from a typical flu season. And as with the flu, the very old and the very sick will make up the overwhelming majority of those deaths. Not only should we "reopen the country" immediately, we should acknowledge that closing it in the first was place was an insane 100-fold overreaction. Seriously, what the absolute fuck?! How does anyone not see that? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.