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Biden says he agrees with GOP governors: There's 'no federal solution' to pandemic

Yup. I enjoy the right-wing mindset that thinks they’re sticking it to liberals when they refuse vaccines that can save their lives.

If they want to commit ritual suicide in the name of "owning:" me, who am I to stop them? At least we'll have to put up with fewer idiots in the future.
 
A healthy person under 50 has a 99.75% chance of not getting severely I'll or dying.

That's good enough for me.
That's why no one should want you to be a leader in society. Given a population of 300M that would be 750K dead because that's "good enough". What a catastrophe of public health advice. I'm so glad Fauci leads on this and not you.
 
That's why no one should want you to be a leader in society. Given a population of 300M that would be 750K dead because that's "good enough". What a catastrophe of public health advice. I'm so glad Fauci leads on this and not you.
Still 1.6% death to infection rate
 
Right. It will take Federal, state, local, and individual comittment to reduce the impact of Covid. Water is wet.
 
Seems Biden recognizes States rights. So what are the Governors doing? I can say in my State the Republican Governor has been mostly silent and doing nothing the last 12 months. oh wait, he did sign some legislations the Republican controlled State Legislators passed that says locals cannot pass safety protocols like mask wearing, require vaccination or testing.

/sarcasm on
Yep, Covid is not an issue in Arizona. Just ask the Governor or the State Senate Republicans.
My governor, Death DeSantis is a member of the covid caucus meaning he's a part of the do nothing about covid caucus unless it's to pass laws to prevent folks from wearing masks or defunding school districts who do, sue cruise lines and try to prevent them from mandating masks or vaccines be mandatory. Anything to keep the economy going and screw the people of florida if they get covid.
 
The difference which you missed is that Trump had no plan in place to deal with covid.
Bidens plans may not work 100% for various reasons but at least the dude has plans he is trying.

What you didn't post in your op was Biden telling the governors he would back them 100% in helping them fight covid.

Just another dishonest op
Trump had a plan and he put it into effect early, lie.
 
Of course there is no federal solution to the pandemic but the federal government needs to provide leadership and direction. That is exactly what Biden is doing.
Leadership? How's that testing thing going? How about when asked about the delta an omicron variants? “No one saw it coming. Who in the world saw it coming?”
 
So older people and anyone with a comorbidity, over half the population, can go **** themselves.

I'm not telling anyone else to not get vaccinated. That's thier choice.

But, I'm not taking that shot.
 



Again, it appears that far too many bought the rhetoric and headlines only to find the results different than what was promised. Biden won the election due mostly to Covid and his claim that he had the solution, now we know that isn't the case but most of it knew it in November 2020
It's about time. Hopefully they will dut the hell out of it
 
Of course there is no federal solution to the pandemic but the federal government needs to provide leadership and direction. That is exactly what Biden is doing.

Tell me what he is doing to "lead"?
Did he order test kits in advance of this winter surge he warned about? Nope.
Did he manage to keep Delta or Omicron from getting into the country? Nope.
Did he roll out robust contact tracing? Nope.
Did me secure ample therapeutics? Nope.

What exactly has Biden done in his leadership role?
 
Leadership? How's that testing thing going? How about when asked about the delta an omicron variants? “No one saw it coming. Who in the world saw it coming?”
Do you know the context of the testing issue?
 
Oh this is priceless.

"There's no question of the effectiveness of the vaccine, that's 'russian disinformation".

Then

"Vaccinated people can still get sick"

Then

"You don't understand reality'

Just.... priceless 🤣😂😂
Another instance of extreme ignorance. Any medical procedure is not without its risks, and vaccination is not exempt. However, the data and it's analysis is rather clear. Vaccines work.
 
That's why no one should want you to be a leader in society. Given a population of 300M that would be 750K dead because that's "good enough". What a catastrophe of public health advice. I'm so glad Fauci leads on this and not you.

Soooo... failure to lead means 825,000 dead (99.75% survival with a population of 330 million), but under Fauci's fearless leadership we cut that to a mere 840,000 so far? :unsure:
 
Tell me what he is doing to "lead"?
Did he order test kits in advance of this winter surge he warned about? Nope.
Did he manage to keep Delta or Omicron from getting into the country? Nope.
Did he roll out robust contact tracing? Nope.
Did me secure ample therapeutics? Nope.

What exactly has Biden done in his leadership role?
Unrealistic stupidity .
 
There is some profoundly willful denialism within America. Nation with very poor people are desperate to get the vaccines and here we have it in wide abundance and people chose their denialist attitude. It's sad, but time will continue to create more orphaned children, and in some case will continue to decimate families.
Jobs will continue to add conditions and requirements, an those who refuse to comply should not be eligible to get public assistance if they lost their job because they refused to be vaccinated.

Certain types of Business will expand in denial of access to unvaccinated people. As people can be assured that business put the health of their staff and their customers ahead of "chasing dollars with disregard for health and employees"... will attack more people who have some vaccinated protections against severe consequences.

Insurance companies will increase their rates or if they don't increase rates, they will add surcharge to the unvaccinated.

Republican States should be required to show improvements in vaccinated rates, if they want Federal Funds.

We may see a decline in the cost of "Office Space" as many companies are learning how to "Manage Work From Home", I think company computers will be equipped "data logs" for work time usage to verify that people are actually working, when they are home.

Instead of Corporate Greed of buying and taking over and crashing companies, it needs to require any Merger and/or Acquisition to "Remodel and Modify" work areas and make it very difficult for companies to be predatory in destroying competetion. We need banking reform that applies to Mergers and Acquisition to require that a company must have 85 % hard cash and must have reserves to guarantee 5+ yr of ability to maintain what they buy when they buy other companies and add covenants that require them to pay employees, up to 9-12 months of pay if the company is sold within 10 yrs. That can put a curb to the "Competetion Killing Program" that some corporations are doing.
When it comes to tech firms that have social platforms, they should be banned from buying the competetion and within a short period crashing the company they bought.
Executive Compensation should No Longer Give "Stock Options" to executives! No exaggerated bonuses and No exaggerated perks and if they do try, those perks are taxes at the same rate as wages, and bonus have a 65+% tax imposed on anything that is 2 times above what the lowest paid employees earn, and set a a fixed dollar cap on what a bonus can be based on the lowest employees wage, so they can't skirt the process by giving exaggerated bonuses just to cover the taxes. (these are PUBLICLY TRADED COMPANIES and if they want to be listed on the Stock Exchange as Public Traded Companies, then they cannot any longer erode the public value by giving away the stocks to executives at crazy reduced cost. If the executive wants stock, buy it like everyone else for the market rate.
 
I voted for Biden because I expected him to make vaccines widely available. He has done so. In doing so, he has brought the pandemic under control for vaccinated Americans. For everyone else, it is their decision to exit the national gene pool. I don’t care much either way what they do. If they die, we can bring in some motivated immigrants to replace them. As far as I am concerned this is a win-win for the nation.

I strongly encourage those who spread vaccine falsehoods in hopes of ‘owning the libs’ to show how tough they are by snorting, licking or culturing and eating COVID.
From a results perspective it's hard to argue against the vaccination effort and those who complied:

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A healthy person under 50 has a 99.75% chance of not getting severely I'll or dying.

That's good enough for me.
Which would be great if most of the country were in tip top shape, but since it's not, then this changes the calculus quite a bit.
 
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