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.
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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.
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.
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.
Oh of course they aren't always lying. Just when they disagree with me!
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)
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 worked in a rural hospital in a blue state throughout the entire pandemic and do not remember this. Can someone add sources bc I'm not seeing much when I Google it. The hospital I worked for had serious problems with misappropriation of funds from government funding but we did have PPE.
The New England Patriots used their private plane to smuggle PPE into the country because the regime was stealing shipments off the runway.
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.
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.
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.
I have never heard of Krystal Ball until recently, and she's making the rounds for an interview with Adam Smith, and seems to be portrayed as some leftist pundit. And now seeing this comment, it feels like life has been and will be ok not hearing from her ever again.
I generally like Krystal's other views and she's married to Kyle Kuklinski (whom I like) and they have shows together and she has good takes going up against Bill Maher. I started to watch her like a year or two ago. It was just when Fauci was getting an award around his retirement or whenever and I just saw an episode of Breaking Points just attacking him. They were like, he's just a liar and he doesn't deserve any awards for his career and it completely put me off for a while. I did restart listening to her myself ... but I'm more "critical" or aware around her. Destiny popped into my feed recently and I really like him and then people say he's pro-Israel ... so I'm going to just pay more attention around those areas.
That being said I turned off Breaking Points the show itself entirely. The covid denial comments were overwhelming during the Fauci episodes and then Saagar (or however you spell it) was a Trump supporter to a degree for a while. He did a mea culpa from the "manosphere" stuff eventually though.
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.)
"Mr. Fauci, how dare you tell people not to inject bleach and snort Ivermectin?!"
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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.
Years ago, someone sent posted a listing of 200 reasons why Reagan sucked. All seemed accurate. As you say, he wasn't necessarily the root, but man did he help facilitate the future we got shoved down our throats.
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