Simple question. Why does Biden get all worked up about Americans dying of Covid?
I refer to the statics that show chances of dying from Covid are minuscule?
And at the same juncture he (or whoever) is marching us toward world extinction via WW3
How do we square the two?
To a certain degree, there was/is an argument to be made that if we had quarantined people more, required social distancing more, and so on and so forth, the disease would have spread slower and the existing care infrastructure wouldn't have been overwhelmed by Covid symptom cases to the point where they couldn't care for everyone in at least a few places.
The result of this was more people dying than would have in an ideal situation where everyone got sufficient care while undergoing Covid symptoms.
That said, I think we're currently not in the "oh **** so many cases we can't handle it" mode anymore.
Still, I think a small percentage of everyone who gets the virus dies no matter what the hospitals and other such do.
Part of what Biden ran on was basically "Trump isn't doing it right, elect me and less people die from Covid".
So I assume this is what remains of that.
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As for the WWIII thing, based on the apparent quality of Russian conventional forces as applied to Ukraine, I'm seriously wondering how many of their ICBM's are just rusted out shells masquerading as threats.
I think Biden and his staff are going to try and do as much as they can to ensure Ukraine wins this war, and also that they'll try to avoid direct conflict with Russia.
Russia/Putin are, I hope, not crazy enough to use nuclear weapons. But I just don't know.
Yet, it'd be too much to expect Biden to do nothing. Ukraine has done more harm to Russia's perceived power than anything in the past few decades. It'd be foolish not to capitalize on that as much as possible.
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