On the 74 Days

[Latrinsorm]

We have been fighting alone for months.

And losing.



In early October we went two weeks with no day seeing a thousand deaths for the first time since July.
The week starting 10/19 saw one.
The week starting 10/26 saw two.
This week we've seen four so far and will see another today.

The Dakotas will be in the top five of deaths per capita within a month.
In the same time frame, Pennsylvania will become the eighth state to lose ten thousand souls.
In the same time frame, we will have the most coronavirus deaths of any country in the entire world.
Mostly because we already do, but it'll be by an even bigger margin.

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President-elect Joe Biden is not a magician. He's not a doctor. He's not even that great a politician.
He won't try to do half as much as is needed, and he won't get even half of that done.
But for the first time in months, the very first time, we know.

Help is on the way.

Just hold on a little while longer.

Nothing in this world can stand against us once we all work together.

[caelric]

Don't worry, help is the way. Super Biden has come to save the day...

[Back]

Biden is being handed a really shitty situation. Cases have exploded over the last few weeks. Deaths are up too. Remember this a few months from now. 125k new recorded cases yesterday. The mid west is seeing the worst right now and need major help.

[Merzbow]

This whole thread is satire, right?

[caelric]

This whole thread is satire, right?

Pretty much everything Latrin says is satire, even if he doesn't mean it that way.

[time4fun]

We're on day 5 of 100k+ cases I believe.

Part of me wants to say- this is the price of incompetence. But the things Trump has done- it's so far beyond incompetence. It's borderline sociopathic. He's so abjectly incapable of basic human empathy, that it never dawned on him that the hundreds of thousands of American lives might be worth more than his re-election. AND he was clearly incapable of looking ahead more than one step, or he would have realized that actually saving lives would have been better for him.

They're going to study this in the history books for a long time. That American President who, upon learning the nation was facing a deadly pandemic that was incredibly contagious and incredibly dangerous, decided his best option was to try to politicize the whole situation and try to convince the country that there was no real pandemic. And then proceeded to systematically attack anyone who tried to take the pandemic seriously, convinced people that doing basic things to keep themselves safe was the wrong thing to do, and then decided to hold dozens of super spreader events all across the country- knowing full well that it would lead to hundreds- if not thousands- of deaths just so he could get people to vote for him.

And most disturbing still- it worked, and 70 million Americans thought he deserved another 4 years at the helm.

We're never going to be able to explain to future generations how any of this happened. We can't even really explain it now.

[Merzbow]

Funny how all the European countries that did the exact same things people said Trump should do and hope Biden will do -- universal mask requirement -- got slammed with even more massive case increases in late summer than the USA did, and had to go on strict lockdowns. There is jack shit we can do until the vaccine comes, and Biden will make exactly jack shit of a difference. Until he takes all the credit for the vaccines that will come about as a result of Trump's Warp Speed initiative.

[Candor]

What is Vermont doing that the rest of the nation isn't doing?

[Solkern]

Funny how all the European countries that did the exact same things people said Trump should do and hope Biden will do -- universal mask requirement -- got slammed with even more massive case increases in late summer than the USA did, and had to go on strict lockdowns. There is jack shit we can do until the vaccine comes, and Biden will make exactly jack shit of a difference. Until he takes all the credit for the vaccines that will come about as a result of Trump's Warp Speed initiative.

Are you sure about that? Thailand, Vietnam, and pretty much all of SEA and EA have this virus totally under control. Do they have a secret vaccine?!
the majority of people in Europe weren't adhering to the guidelines set actually. Try again.

[Ardwen]

Vermont has no large crowds, the single largest issue this nation has is people refuse to social distance and wear masks. In Vermont it is a lot easier to avoid a crowd since they mostly don't exist.