Gotta say, I am enjoying the right-wing hysteria over this potentially (likely?) happening under a Biden/Harris admin.
Meanwhile their one-term potus will push through three justices during the same term in which he was (bipartisanly) impeached, while their Majority Leader gleefully stacks the judicial while also ignoring basically all legislative responsibility… and all of this to much fanfare.
Not really possible. America doesn’t have the state capacity, geography or the population density to replicate it.
They could have stopped flights back in January.
Indeed. Not much for it now though.
What’s interesting here is to note the properties of complex dynamic systems - had the administration banned incoming flights in January (and allegedly there was a still unnamed individual in Trump’s inner circle who advocated this based on a NECI paper) there would be a massive uproar, talking heads and politicians on both sides harping about the “colossal economic costs” of such a move - inconveniencing what, a hundred thousand people at most.
Nine months later these costs seem almost laughable in comparison to the actual costs of the pandemic.
I’m sure someone could do that maths for us. I imagine it would have saved trillions in economic damage. 10’s of trillions globally.
Alas, half a year late, and a few trillion dollars short.
An argument here could me made about the decadence of Western societies and their highly fragile lifestyles that couldn’t bear even the tiniest systemic inconveniencies - which means that the ensuing economic/societal shock is much, much greater.
Ironically, the “freedom” crowd are actually spoiled globalists.
We must have a lot of alt-right doctors in Canada
If they did that right at the beginning it could have worked, but maybe not. When flights were starting to be cancelled and travel restrictions were announced there was absolute chaos at the Toronto airport, thousands of people were stuck in customs for hours without a mask is sight and some customs agents tested positive a few days later. I don’t know about the US, but Canada was fucked from the beginning and all we have managed to do since then is cripple the economy.
Two from the article?
Even the mainstream news is starting to see the light
Not one Republican representative voted for impeachment. How is that bipartisanly?
100% this, perfectly stated.
In other words, a vaccine would save lives.
Has herd immunity ever worked? Polio, yellow fever, cholera, typhus…how come they were never eliminated thanks to the supposedly miraculous herd immunity?
In the 19th centuries cities and whole regions regularly went into quarantine over disease outbreaks, but apparently this isn’t possible in the 21st?
If it actually works and doesn’t have side effects that are worse than the disease itself. So far three COVID vaccine trials have been stopped due to severe side effects.
Polio was a childhood illness, you got it once and that was it. That and cholera are spread through contaminated water, so improved sanitation, hygienic practices, and access to water are also major factors for those, and there are currently vaccine-strain polio outbreaks.
https://www.who.int/csr/don/01-september-2020-polio-sudan/en/
Yellow fever is a mosquito-borne disease, eradicating mosquitoes is also a major part of combatting such diseases. There was malaria in Canada at one time too.
Ummmm, Sen Romney voted for conviction and removal of DJT.
And pls spare us the semantics over the Lower Chamber’s vs Upper Chamber’s precise roles in the full impeachment process (given how little respect yall have for the former when in the minority)
So yes indeed, bipartisanly impeached.
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So ignore the actual definition of the words you used and pretend you were correct. Gotcha!
Fine, fine.
He was bipartisanly convicted, which in turn entails removal, of abuse of office.
You need to look up the definition of that word also. He wasn’t convicted.