not that this necessarily would have that much of a systematic effect, but for many reasons if his approach had been to give even a few million dollars (chump change for governments) for them to harden their defenses, it would have built trust if nothing else
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as for HCQ, i agree that there's been a smear campaign not based in any quest for the truth, but whether or not it works, trump's promotion of it was itself motivated by an agenda of promoting an alleged deus ex machina. so it comes off to me as part of the apathy
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all this being said, this is by no means *solely* his fault. what i'm mad about most of all is *both* camps at different points in time willing to pooh-pooh the pandemic to score cheap points. it started with liberals pooh-poohing it, but for the past few months it's the opposite
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Fair on many points; mostly the blase attitude, his role as a figurehead, and cutting pandemic preparedness. Also fair to blame him for government mobilization... kinda. Big chunk of it falls to bureaucratic failure, esp at the state level, + just background American shittiness
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Lack of PPE / ventilators kinda supports his general anti-globalism argument, though. Super embarrassing that we had to beg for masks and equipment from foreign countries, including China. I think everyone agrees about this now though.
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John Henry Retweeted Oliver Omicronwell
Yeah; polarization needs to die and we need to desperately stop partisanizing every fucking thing. I think every person agrees. Gonna say that Trump and anti-Trump are equally at blame for this, maybe Trump a little more.https://twitter.com/interpretantion/status/1293949013356683267 …
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Oliver Omicronwell @interpretantionReplying to @interpretantion @spiderfoodsall this being said, this is by no means *solely* his fault. what i'm mad about most of all is *both* camps at different points in time willing to pooh-pooh the pandemic to score cheap points. it started with liberals pooh-poohing it, but for the past few months it's the opposite1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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John Henry Retweeted Oliver Omicronwell
Re: HCQ... This is the critical issue, IMO. If -- IF -- it is shown, beyond doubt, to be substantially effective (say 10% mortality reduction), then ENTIRE narrative of coronavirus changes. Anti-Trump crowd becomes directly responsible for 10k+ deathshttps://twitter.com/interpretantion/status/1293948680677056514 …
John Henry added,
Oliver Omicronwell @interpretantionReplying to @interpretantion @spiderfoodsas for HCQ, i agree that there's been a smear campaign not based in any quest for the truth, but whether or not it works, trump's promotion of it was itself motivated by an agenda of promoting an alleged deus ex machina. so it comes off to me as part of the apathy1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
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Imparting intent that he only boosted it for his own ego or whatever seems super weird to me. Seems like he just looked at facts / data coming from other countries, said "hey, this might be good", and then the entire anti-Trump world shifted to "HCQ is dangerous and evil"
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Now for where I think the anti-Trump crowd *really* fucked up: Nationwide lockdowns were, and are, a complete and utter disaster -- easily worse than coronavirus itself, in my estimation. Especially now that Sweden looks to be achieving herd at only 15 - 20% seroprevalence.
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really dispute that Sweden is achieving herd immunity, they have other public health interventions, not just herd immunity, test and trace and social distancing and no mass gatherings. no (minimal?) riots / protests, no school also seroprevalance is unclear as a measure
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*no secondary school. i am not sure about primary
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