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Don't forget that hospitals in desperate need of PPE had shipments hijacked and stolen by the feds, given to corrupts pop-up resellers run by cronies and auctioned off back to the hospitals that originally bought them.
Having a memory and attention span longer than 2 weeks is fucking exhuasting
I, like Pepperidge Farm, also remember. That was such a massive shit show, I have no idea how the Administration Responsible for PPE Hijacking managed to get a second installment of the show going. That really should have been the end of them all.
Thats because the people who voted for him the second time either don't know, or don't care.
The New England Patriots used their private plane to smuggle PPE into the country because the regime was stealing shipments off the runway.
IT happened in Maryland too. The took it right off the Tarmac.
I swear I read that some hospitals had to have it shipped to odd places or roundabout fashions just so they'd have a chance to actually get it delivered.
Yeah, supposedly that's how we worked around it.
The hilarious thing is that half the 'masks cause brain damage' crew is now masked up as ICE agents so no one can see their crimes against humanity.
To be fair, ICE agents do demonstrate a correlation between masks and brain damage. (The causality just happens to go the other way.)
Working in a retirement home. Covid arrived and within a few weeks, a third of the elderly died. The doctor that said it was just the flu didn't dare come near the place after the first few deceased. And still so many people didn't wanted to take it seriously.
Thank you for being there with our elders during such a horrifying time. If not for brave people like you they would have been alone.
I was delivering packages on Sundays during Covid, and retirement homes were always the scariest to deliver to because I was very conscientious of the fact I could be infected and I did not want to pass it through those doors. Fortunately most places had notes to drop packages at the front doors, but each of those deliveries was another chance to worry for the elderly inside. Thanks for working through that time, but also I’m sorry you did.
It's worse actually, he took PPE from states he didn't like and sent it to Russia. There's a phone call proving it. Literally giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
And ventilators, testing kits and actually useful medications (not bleach or horse dewormer)
A century ago, Fauci would have been lauded as a hero.
He is in my book.
Another fucked up part of this is how much this brain dead conservative American anti science rhetoric spread across the rest of the world.
The brain dead right wingers are poisoning the world with their special flavour of idiocy.
"Mr. Fauci, how dare you tell people not to inject bleach and snort Ivermectin?!"
I hope to never be a hero, this country treats its heroes so poorly.
An example I learned of recently is Smedley Butler. Super decorated military careerist, but once he got out, he wrote War is a Racket and called out the corporate profiteers directly. The man basically singlehandedly foiled an attempt to coup the US government and prevented fascism from corporations like JP Morgan, City National Bank (Citibank), General Motors, Goodyear, Standard Oil, and more. Congress investigated and confirmed there was a coup planned and they would have acted. And since these companies don't exist anymore, we can see that they were prosecuted and held accountable.
Oh wait, that's right, they slandered Butler, called the whole thing a hoax and paid off the papers and members of congress to run the stories so that no one faced accountability.
It sucks that this is political here. Like, what the fuck? How much paint thinner are these people ~~inhaling~~... Chugging!?
Fauci is a hero.
Republicans--- every single one of them--- are fucking morons and pedo protectors.
A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
I guess she won't read this but she is a real life hero.
Id love to send her some love and thanks — but that probably requires me joining a corrupt and toxic social network I’m purposely trying to avoid.
Fauci was trying his best to navigate a shitty situation and you had fuckers like Krystal and Sagaar on Breaking Points spewing hatred at him. All of them are fucking assholes. Fauci isn't a fucking politician or pundit or anything ... he's trying to save lives by making choices and decisions where people were ready to sacrifice him regardless for political reasons. But Breaking Points are oh so happy to shit on him and the comment section is full of antivax and covid deniers.
Anyone with family in medicine with even half a brain or heart during this time is keenly aware.
Yellow ribbons for days for troops, but largely thankless, brutal work for medical personnel. Turnover was high throughout and following covid from burnout and disrespect.
Dr. Fauci is a national treasure, up there with Mr. Rogers.
Trump and Republicans were responsible for so much loss of life during that time. People still don't fully grasp.
Yeah, kinda hard to forget how millions of people said "some fucking idiot politician doesn't think this is real/as bad as doctors and scientists say it is, so clearly the politician is right because I'm an entitled overconfident asshole who doesn't wanna give up muh freedom". For the first time in human history (probably), we had the ability to prevent millions of deaths with knowledge. The circus of morons threw that in the trash.
Weird part is that they say that politicians are lying and corrupt, and still somehow believe them.
Only the politicians not vomiting back their preconceived ideas are lying.
We stopped teaching science decades ago...
No Child stripped all the critical thinking out and made it all short term rote memorization.
You don't learn science by memorizing things, you learn science by learning to think analytically
We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through (higher education). If not, we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people. That's what happened in Germany. I saw it happen.
-- Roger Adolf Freeman, economics professor at Stanford, advisor to President Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon
Once again, it leads back to Reagan. Not that he's a root cause, but he enacted the legislation that did the bidding of capitalists to fuck us all.
c/ootl - got the context for this? Who's criticizing him and why?
Dr. Fauci got called to a Senate committee that Rand Paul put together to question him on COVID-19 after publishing his personal diary. The Republicans tried to do anything to make Dr. Fauci look bad and publicly insulted him over and over to his face. It was all an attempt to get him to say something they could construe as perjury. So, because he's not some idiot, he invoked his Fifth Amendment rights over and over. Now, the Republicans want to hold him in contempt for...using his constitutionally protected rights. The same constitution, by the way, they swear to support and defend.
Rand Paul yelling “Who the fuck do you think you are?!!” In a congressional hearing should embarrass all Americans, but we’re well past that point, I guess.
I've been embarrassed since he turned our politics into reality tv.
Republicans are dogpiling him right now because after appearing before congress like 20 times already to talk about covid, during the latest appearance he stopped giving AF and exercised his right to remain silent while basically calling Rand Paul an asshole lol.
So in typical conservative fashion, despite hundreds of hours of context leading up to this moment, all the headlines are like “SEE HE MUST BE A LIAR OTHERWISE HE WOULD TESTIFY”
They basically blame him directly for covid. And by covid they mean the social and economic harm of masking and social distancing, because the actual virus itself obviously isn’t real. And if it is real it was made in a lab. But despite being made in a lab it does absolutely nothing to you, total nothing virus, basically just a bad cold. Actually it’s the vaccines that caused all the deaths. The same vaccines that are Joe Biden’s fault despite them literally being produced and released under the direction of Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed”, all during his first term as president. Which isn’t true Trump would never do that. And if he did it’s because Fauci lied to him
Make it make sense
It doesn't, that's the problem. A problem a lot of us Americans are dealing with - when you can't make any sense of what or why these politicians and their supporters have these ideas and do the things ... It's very hard to not be worried. Like I have anxiety bad enough it's a disorder but I feel like every thinking man woman and child in the USA right now is walking around just holding onto that low-key anxious energy because nothing makes any sense.
Like even if you try to find a reason there isn't one and if there is a reason it's nonsensical, probably racist, and one hundred percent not grounded in our shared reality.
But it does make sense (just not good). You and I might not agree with the motives, but they do exist. There are entities both external and internal to the US that want to tear society down. Causing disfunction, fomenting hate, allowing infrastructure to decay, creating chaos, sowing discord and more are all a part of that effort. There might be differing reasons these entities have, but it boils down to greed and authoritarian control. It is happening elsewhere, as well. We see right-wing ideology/politics springing up in Latin America, Europe and Asia.
The Foundation of Geopolitics is one of the texts that lined out the (Russian) path for the future and how to disrupt the West that was aligned against them and it appears to be working. The other large influencer is Israel. I am certain the Mossad is out there thwarting the democratic process to help shape their goals. The billionaire club are the other parties that are helping to bring all this together. I thought I read somewhere that they are pressing the gas-pedal for human extinction b/c they believe they are better and above that. Therefore they will survive and will start the new (improved) human cycle or something after we are removed. Again, their reasons might vary, but the results are the same. Shackles for you and me and the world is theirs to conquer. So far.
I am sure I have a less than perfect perspective and two paragraphes doesn't cover much here really, but this is roughly how I see current affairs from my limited proto-human lense.
Conservatives have been wrong about everything for a few centuries now. Covid was one of those most clear and unambiguous examples of their world view and ideology being wrong. It broke them, because there was no longer a single grain of doubt to hide behind, as millions died around them. So now they just manufacture a separate reality whole cloth, because it's easier than trying to spin objective reality in their favor.
