Another Goofball COVID thread!!! For Royamcr!!!

[Tiny]

Originally Posted by Lucas McCain

This is a lighthearted thread. How about just keeping it that way without hijacking it and it gets closed because so many folks in this forum are too fucking stupid to stick to a simple topic?

Maybe it's just me, but I'd much rather see threads like this pop up than a 20th covid or election denier thread pop up from the usual goofball suspects.

I got some good news and some bad news McCain. I'm moving my reply to royamcr out of your lighthearted thread. However this will be the 163rd Goofball COVID thread!!!

Originally Posted by Tiny

I honestly think he and his administration saved several hundred thousand lives worldwide by pushing the mRNA vaccines through the FDA and assisting Pfizer and Moderna with Operation Warp Speed. Without those, the vaccines might have hit the market months later than they did.

However, on topic, yes, saying he wasn't going to get the booster was stupid. Anyone his age and in his physical condition should have gotten the booster, as he ultimately did. Holding super spreader events at the White House and at his rallies was stupid too.

Originally Posted by royamcr

Saved 100s of thousand lives??? All the while mishandled the whole thing and over 1.2 million died. Warp speed didn't need a name, it just needed done. Really think Clinton would have just sat around and did nothing? Bullshit. I don't think the pandemic would have gotten out of hand at all if Clinton were president. She probably would have been more prepared to begin with, then when it hit would have been on top of it all. Trump only gave a fuck about getting reelected and how everything he did looked in that regard.

You say saved 100s of thousand lives, I say most likely caused 1 million extra deaths in the US alone.

You are an anti-Trump, partisan Democrat. That is to say, you're a wee bit biased.

Trump did not kill 1 million Americans with COVID. That's laughable. "Only" about 360,000 died while he was president. And 1.2 million have died to date.

One argument Democratic Party operatives make is that if the Trump administration hadn't pulled out so many CDC personnel from China, we would have stopped the epidemic in its tracks and it never would have left China. It would have been like the Andromeda Strain. This is laughable too. The Chinese weren't going to let the CDC do jack, and the CDC probably couldn't have done jack anyway. Remember how China covered up what was happening in Wuhan for weeks.

Remember too when Democrats criticized Trump to high heaven for stopping flights from China and later Europe. Biden called him xenophobic for doing that! Crazy!

Another argument is that Trump allowed USA supplies of personal protective equipment to deplete and reduced our pandemic preparedness with budget cuts. Well, George W. Bush had us better situated for a pandemic at the end of his second term than we'd ever been. We started to slip during Obama, and then admittedly the slippage went into overdrive during Trump's term.

But that too wouldn't have made a lick of difference. We weren't going to have 5 billion N95 and KN95 facemasks in reserve under any president, including a President Royamcr. Look at where we are now after three years of Biden. Many of the factories that started up during the Trump administration to manufacture face masks and the like have closed, and hospitals are back to buying mostly from China, Taiwan and South Korea. Our Strategic National Stockpile run by Biden's HHS is fucked up. It spent $1 billion on anthrax vaccines while failing to stock up on N95 masks. States can't give away stockpiled pandemic gear so they're trashing it. That's bull shit. In 2020 I had about 50 expired N95 masks left over from the SARS scare and was damn glad of that. If another 1918 influenza pandemic or 2020 coronavirus epidemic comes along, we won't be prepared.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavir...91a14daadecaba

We have a federal system of government where states and localities and private businesses provide public health care services, and the NIH and CDC provide advice. What exactly would a president Biden have done about that? Maybe called out the military to enforce mask mandates? How do you think people like texassapper and WYID and 40% of other Americans would have reacted to that? Hell, Trump stood up in a rally in Dallas and told people they should get vaccinated and he practically got booed off the stage. If you indeed were going to save 1 million American lives versus the 1.2 million we lost, then Trump and Biden would have had to enforce restrictions on freedom of movement and association, mask mandates, vaccine mandates and the like at gunpoint.

The United States is not an island unto itself, figuratively speaking. It's not socially cohesive. It was never going to perform like Taiwan or New Zealand or South Korea or Australia in terms of limiting Death from COVID.

Trump received universal acclamation from people who knew what they were talking about for Operation Warp Speed. People like Fauci and Redfield. I'm not getting that from Fox News. I'm getting it from Doctor Radio, Sirius XM channel 110.

And there's no way Biden would have pushed approvals for the vaccines through the FDA as quickly as Trump did. You correctly state that a big motivation for Trump was that he figured it would help him in the election if we had a vaccine by, say, October, 2020. But so what. We would have been waiting months longer for a vaccine if Biden had been president. About 40,000 people a month were dying from COVID. Assume three months of lives were saved with a vaccine that was initially 95% effective. That's 120,000 in the USA, and translates to hundreds of thousands of lives saved worldwide, like I said.

I've been dancing around Hillary. I don't know how she would have done. If she governed like her husband Bill during his second term, she would have done better than Biden. She would have been much more likely to pursue public/private partnerships like Operation Warp Speed than Biden, who places his faith in the hands of big government. But I don't think she would have gotten the vaccine through the FDA as quickly as Trump. On the other hand she wouldn't have been holding super spreader events like Trump rallies, and she probably would have used the bully pulpit better than Trump.

[royamcr]

Originally Posted by Tiny

Trump did not kill 1 million Americans with COVID. That's laughable. "Only" about 360,000 died while he was president. And 1.2 million have died to date.
Was just saying that if Trump didn't ignore the situation for about a month and half, Mid Jan 2020 to end of February 2020, I'm pretty sure the whole situation would have been mitigated early on and the whole pandemic may have not gotten as bad as it did. I think many would have died, maybe 200-300k but not the almost 1.4 million to date in the US alone. Biden won the election and inherited a disaster from Trump. Saying more died under Biden is a weak argument.

One argument Democratic Party operatives make is that if the Trump administration hadn't pulled out so many CDC personnel from China, we would have stopped the epidemic in its tracks and it never would have left China. It would have been like the Andromeda Strain. This is laughable too. The Chinese weren't going to let the CDC do jack, and the CDC probably couldn't have done jack anyway. Remember how China covered up what was happening in Wuhan for weeks.

Remember too when Democrats criticized Trump to high heaven for stopping flights from China and later Europe. Biden called him xenophobic for doing that! Crazy! This has been debunked, Biden's speech was shortly after trumps announcement of restrictions and he wasn't aware of it at the time. Biden supported the restrictions later on.



Another argument is that Trump allowed USA supplies of personal protective equipment to deplete and reduced our pandemic preparedness with budget cuts. Well, George W. Bush had us better situated for a pandemic at the end of his second term than we'd ever been. We started to slip during Obama, and then admittedly the slippage went into overdrive during Trump's term.

But that too wouldn't have made a lick of difference. We weren't going to have 5 billion N95 and KN95 facemasks in reserve under any president, including a President Royamcr. Look at where we are now after three years of Biden. Many of the factories that started up during the Trump administration to manufacture face masks and the like have closed, and hospitals are back to buying mostly from China, Taiwan and South Korea. Our Strategic National Stockpile run by Biden's HHS is fucked up. It spent $1 billion on anthrax vaccines while failing to stock up on N95 masks. States can't give away stockpiled pandemic gear so they're trashing it. That's bull shit. In 2020 I had about 50 expired N95 masks left over from the SARS scare and was damn glad of that. If another 1918 influenza pandemic or 2020 coronavirus epidemic comes along, we won't be prepared.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavir...91a14daadecaba

We have a federal system of government where states and localities and private businesses provide public health care services, and the NIH and CDC provide advice. What exactly would a president Biden have done about that? Maybe called out the military to enforce mask mandates? How do you think people like texassapper and WYID and 40% of other Americans would have reacted to that? Hell, Trump stood up in a rally in Dallas and told people they should get vaccinated and he practically got booed off the stage. If you indeed were going to save 1 million American lives versus the 1.2 million we lost, then Trump and Biden would have had to enforce restrictions on freedom of movement and association, mask mandates, vaccine mandates and the like at gunpoint.

The United States is not an island unto itself, figuratively speaking. It's not socially cohesive. It was never going to perform like Taiwan or New Zealand or South Korea or Australia in terms of limiting Death from COVID.

Trump received universal acclamation from people who knew what they were talking about for Operation Warp Speed. People like Fauci and Redfield. I'm not getting that from Fox News. I'm getting it from Doctor Radio, Sirius XM channel 110.

And there's no way Biden would have pushed approvals for the vaccines through the FDA as quickly as Trump did. You correctly state that a big motivation for Trump was that he figured it would help him in the election if we had a vaccine by, say, October, 2020. But so what. We would have been waiting months longer for a vaccine if Biden had been president. About 40,000 people a month were dying from COVID. Assume three months of lives were saved with a vaccine that was initially 95% effective. That's 120,000 in the USA, and translates to hundreds of thousands of lives saved worldwide, like I said. You can't really say that Biden wouldn't have pushed for emergency approvals. You are speculating that Hillary would have just said fuck everyone I don't care about the citizens. In this context also, we have to assume Hillary would have been handling the Covid situation not Biden, Biden wasn't in the picture until nearly a year after it started.

I've been dancing around Hillary. I don't know how she would have done. If she governed like her husband Bill during his second term, she would have done better than Biden. She would have been much more likely to pursue public/private partnerships like Operation Warp Speed than Biden, who places his faith in the hands of big government. But I don't think she would have gotten the vaccine through the FDA as quickly as Trump. On the other hand she wouldn't have been holding super spreader events like Trump rallies, and she probably would have used the bully pulpit better than Trump.
Here is how I think Hillary would have handled it. No "warp speed" bullshit marketing. Behind the scenes all information available would have been gathered and analyzed. Work on vaccines for this variant would have been started, they weren't anything new technology wise. No time would have been wasted telling people it was a "flu" and would go away by April. When ready a single CDC recommendation on who should get vaccines and when. No conjecture about alternate treatments or cures would have happened, especially on live TV. Lockdowns and shutdowns would have happened at least a month earlier and would have been much more effective. By the end of 2020 the situation would have been winding down and world wide economic issues would have been avoided. Hillary would have done everything with the health of citizens in mind. Trump on the other hand took his reelection bid first cause he had to get reelected to avoid many court cases looming. Hillary wouldn't have had any of these concerns. Lock her up was never a real thing, to this date she hasn't had one indictment... After Trump lost he pretty much said fuck all to the pandemic and left Biden a monumental disaster to unfuck.

That's all I have time for, for now. If trump didn't fuck up the pandemic and let it get out of control he would probably be president still.