were you better off four years ago?

[Anonymous]

Four year anniversary of this giant mess, still in gathering storm mode

“On March 3, Redfield wrote to his staff again, stressing the agency’s readiness, despite the growing evidence that it wasn’t. “We anticipated and prepared for the possible spread of COVID-19 in communities across the United States,” he said in an email.

The CDC said in its statement that Redfield was telling staffers that the agency would continue to be engaged in a sustained response to COVID-19. Redfield’s email was not characterizing the state of the outbreak, the CDC said.

By that point, it was clear that the coronavirus was gaining ground within the country, even if the inability to test for it was obscuring the true numbers. Physicians and public health experts begged for more tests while warning that thousands of cases would soon emerge.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/internal-emails-show-how-chaos-at-the-cdc-slowed-the-early-response-to-coronavirus?fbclid=IwAR1VaGcB0aY4sNtQFWAYJA2IC6ZUzHJqqonHH0k4JzF3UVxDi1H_G2Q7iDg_aem_Ac-ff9BWO1JPDzXRTPJSTawixNTgJ8nt9bzkPhMO1X749jVeo1OKL1-2juO_MtO3P7Q

[Anonymous]

There are a lot more homeless drug addicts in my neighborhood now than there were four years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are a lot more homeless drug addicts in my neighborhood now than there were four years ago.

Same. But there are less single-sex spaces for women, so - I dunno.

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that's a good ad

it's hard to even remember how bad things were back then. they were bad.

not just that they were bad, but Trump was actively making it worse with his rank incompetence.

+1

It was so so bad.

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Anonymous wrote:Absolutely without a doubt, hands-down I was better off when Trump was in office. Fortunately I’ve been able to shield myself and my wealth from most of the Democrats socialist and authoritarian policies the last 3+ years.

Wasn't the last tax overhaul implemented under Trump? What Dem policy of the last three years are you protecting your wealth from?

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I was trying to understand that as well. There have not been any changes in tax policy under Biden.

There hasn’t been and PP is not wealthy. I’m a multimillionaire and things have been great under Biden. My stock portfolio has done well and taxes are the same… so net positive. Maybe PP isn’t in stocks?

Your wealth provides immunity from issues others have, and to some degree gives you a voice that some Americans lack. That attracts populists of different political stripes. Biden masę many of them feel they might be heard last time. Can he convince them he’s listening and will continue to do so?If not, they will throw caution to the wind again and may go with the orange one.

Only the stupid would vote for Trump.

Yikes. That’ll win people over. 🙄 Distance yourself if you must, but you’ve got to know Dems are losing the reputation of being the party of the poor and working class. They have become the party of big business, specifically tech as well as lawyers.

Please do better. The election could be close and if it falls to Trump you’ll have yourself to carry some of the blame.

Who exactly is basing their vote on comments from anonymous posters on a mommy website?

If you need to be convinced not to vote to keep Trump out of office then PP is correct.

[Anonymous]

4 years ago, the US president disregarded pandemic concerns and let COVID enter the US. Social life shut down, commerce shut down. Call me crazy but I like economic activity to remain open and not affected by a virus. And Biden brought us back to status quo.

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Anonymous wrote:4 years ago, the US president disregarded pandemic concerns and let COVID enter the US. Social life shut down, commerce shut down. Call me crazy but I like economic activity to remain open and not affected by a virus. And Biden brought us back to status quo.

Good grief.
When Trump tried to shut down flights from areas in which the pandemic was growing, he was called xenophobic by the left.
Don't try to rewrite history.
And, a reminder.... more people died under Biden. And, that was AFTER a vaccine was made available. And, many of those who died were vaccinated.
And, it was the LEFT and the Democratic governors who kept their economies and schools shuttered for lengthy periods of time.
The red states that opened early fared just fine and actually fueled the recovery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:4 years ago, the US president disregarded pandemic concerns and let COVID enter the US. Social life shut down, commerce shut down. Call me crazy but I like economic activity to remain open and not affected by a virus. And Biden brought us back to status quo.

This is a joke, right? As if anyone could have kept COVID out of our country. Democrats are the ones who kept everything shut down way longer than necessary.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:4 years ago, the US president disregarded pandemic concerns and let COVID enter the US. Social life shut down, commerce shut down. Call me crazy but I like economic activity to remain open and not affected by a virus. And Biden brought us back to status quo.

Good grief.
When Trump tried to shut down flights from areas in which the pandemic was growing, he was called xenophobic by the left.
Don't try to rewrite history.
And, a reminder.... more people died under Biden. And, that was AFTER a vaccine was made available. And, many of those who died were vaccinated.
And, it was the LEFT and the Democratic governors who kept their economies and schools shuttered for lengthy periods of time.
The red states that opened early fared just fine and actually fueled the recovery.

Do you not remember *how* Trump tried to shut down flights? There was no planning, no warning...nothing. He didn't distinguish between Americans who were in the middle of overseas trips at the time and people from other countries looking to visit the US. The result was chaos, confusion and crowds at airports that only served to further spread the virus.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:4 years ago, the US president disregarded pandemic concerns and let COVID enter the US. Social life shut down, commerce shut down. Call me crazy but I like economic activity to remain open and not affected by a virus. And Biden brought us back to status quo.

Good grief.
When Trump tried to shut down flights from areas in which the pandemic was growing, he was called xenophobic by the left.
Don't try to rewrite history.
And, a reminder.... more people died under Biden. And, that was AFTER a vaccine was made available. And, many of those who died were vaccinated.
And, it was the LEFT and the Democratic governors who kept their economies and schools shuttered for lengthy periods of time.
The red states that opened early fared just fine and actually fueled the recovery.

Not even sure where to start with all of this BS but that last one is straight up false, given that most of the red states are actually still LAGGING in terms of recovery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are a lot more homeless drug addicts in my neighborhood now than there were four years ago.

Gee, the increase in drug addicts couldn't have had anything to do with the kid-glove treatment that Republicans gave to oxycontin manufacturers et cetera, or that they ignored the real sources of how fentanyl gets into the country and instead pretended it was illegal mexicans smuggling it in and so on... And voted AGAINST Democrat bills to increase capability to search for drugs at ports of entry... Nahhhh.... and homelessness couldn't have anything to do with grotesquely inflated housing prices, which Democrats have been trying to bring down but your GOP construction company and real estate donors don't like that...

[Anonymous]

Ahh yeah... four years ago, the good ole days of people fighting over rolls of toilet paper in the supermarket. Those were great times, I tells ya.

[Anonymous]

Four years ago people were wiping their asses with coffee filters and whatever else. Good times.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:4 years ago, the US president disregarded pandemic concerns and let COVID enter the US. Social life shut down, commerce shut down. Call me crazy but I like economic activity to remain open and not affected by a virus. And Biden brought us back to status quo.

Good grief.
When Trump tried to shut down flights from areas in which the pandemic was growing, he was called xenophobic by the left.
Don't try to rewrite history.
And, a reminder.... more people died under Biden. And, that was AFTER a vaccine was made available. And, many of those who died were vaccinated.
And, it was the LEFT and the Democratic governors who kept their economies and schools shuttered for lengthy periods of time.
The red states that opened early fared just fine and actually fueled the recovery.

And it isn't just COVID:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-in-republican-counties-have-higher-death-rates-than-those-in-democratic-counties/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:4 years ago, the US president disregarded pandemic concerns and let COVID enter the US. Social life shut down, commerce shut down. Call me crazy but I like economic activity to remain open and not affected by a virus. And Biden brought us back to status quo.

Good grief.
When Trump tried to shut down flights from areas in which the pandemic was growing, he was called xenophobic by the left.
Don't try to rewrite history.
And, a reminder.... more people died under Biden. And, that was AFTER a vaccine was made available. And, many of those who died were vaccinated.
And, it was the LEFT and the Democratic governors who kept their economies and schools shuttered for lengthy periods of time.
The red states that opened early fared just fine and actually fueled the recovery.

And it isn't just COVID:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-in-republican-counties-have-higher-death-rates-than-those-in-democratic-counties/

Wow. That’s pretty stark. Especially when you look at the actual numbers. Though I suspect that co-morbidities also played a substantial role.