GOP’s Lauren Boebert faces brutal backlash over ‘unbelievably ignorant’ tweet about COVID-19
“The easiest way to make the Delta variant go away is to turn off CNN. And vote Republican,” the Colorado Republican wrote on the social media platform.
“Lauren Boebert proves once again that stupidity has a champion in Colorado,” said Colorado state lawmaker Steven Woodrow in response.
American carnage: What we are now learning about Trump’s nightmarish mishandling of COVID
The authors, Washington Post reporters Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta, tell the coronavirus story from the perspective of the science advisers as well as the political people around Trump who were desperately trying to get him to take the problem seriously. We knew from Bob Woodward’s earlier reporting that Trump had consciously made the decision to “downplay” the virus, ostensibly to keep people from panicking. Nobody really believed that, of course. It was obvious that he was “downplaying” the virus because he was afraid that the stock market would panic and that the ensuring economic turmoil would cost him the election. It seemingly never even occurred to him that mass deaths might be a bigger drag on his campaign.
New Virus Variants Could Kill Thousands In Red States
While multimillionaire well-vaccinated Fox “News” hosts continue to sow doubt about masks and Covid vaccines to jack up the billions in revenue the channel brings in every year for the Murdoch family, the CEO of a hospital chain in Missouri is begging them to tell the truth.
People in red counties across America are reporting on social media the same thing Louise and I saw when we visited a rural town in Oregon last weekend: nobody’s wearing masks or practicing social distancing. They believe rightwing media’s lies that Covid’s “just like the flu” or “vaccines are experimental” or “it’s all a Democrat hoax.” They’re following Trump’s notion that masks make men look “weak.”
As a result of this, Eric Frederick, the chief administrative officer of Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Missouri, tells the AP that they have been “inundated with COVID-19 patients as the variant first identified in India rips through the largely non-immunized community.”
When the Covid virus first showed up in the United States in January of last year, then-president Donald Trump quietly told reporter Bob Woodward that it was both deadly and airborne.
“This is deadly stuff,” Trump told Woodward on February 7th, 2020. “You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flu.”
That’s not, of course, what Trump and his lackeys told the American people, as they set up the deaths of over 600,000 Americans with more to come this year. “I wanted to always play it down,” Trump told Woodward a month later. “I still like playing it down…”
Sadly, many of the ones that survive and/or have mild symptoms it will only reinforce it’s not a big deal. They will blame the people that died for having some kind of weakness. It’s just the way evil people think.
Make the USA sick AGAIN? Really? There’s been a sickness about the place since the introduction of extreme neo-liberalism in the eighties. As have a host of other countries which adopted the same ideology. Not least my own poor country, where the current government still pushes the line that “the market will be the economic saviour of us all”. This from a conservative government that put all its eggs in one bloody Astra Zeneca vaccine and now finds out that lots of people need the Pfizer, so the vaccine roll out has become the vaccine stagnation. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-01/one-in-five-australian-covid-19-jabs-not-being-used-data-shows/100256096
Then we have a thing called the Intergenerational Report, which predicts smaller population growth, rapidly ageing citizens and the Treasurer tells us we cannot tax our way to prosperity, proudly touting the fact that total taxation revenue collected in Australia in 2019-20 was $552.0 billion. Total taxation revenue decreased by $8.0 billion (1.4%) on the previous year. Now, what he doesn’t tell us is the corresponding decrease in services like health and education and the tightening of monies to the poorest of the poor. They also babble on about the need to ‘increase productivity’, whilst seemingly failing to realise the roll out by business of robotics from super markets to factories. You can’t get more bloody productive than a machine that doesn’t take holidays, sick days, require compulsory superannuation, or an HR department. To quote an old Aussie saying, ’Things is crook in Tallarook!" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-28/intergenerational-report-ageing-population-growth-covid-debt/100248642
The reason the red states are passing anti-voting laws is because they know the vast majority of the dead in those states are red voters so look on the bright side. They are mainly killing their own base.
MaryBethJavorek1 almost 3 years ago
So true!
Same2Ubuddy almost 3 years ago
Fearmongering, race-baiting, and lies are all the democrats have.
ArtieEl almost 3 years ago
MASA, kind of apropos of their slavish devotion.
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
GOP’s Lauren Boebert faces brutal backlash over ‘unbelievably ignorant’ tweet about COVID-19
“The easiest way to make the Delta variant go away is to turn off CNN. And vote Republican,” the Colorado Republican wrote on the social media platform.
“Lauren Boebert proves once again that stupidity has a champion in Colorado,” said Colorado state lawmaker Steven Woodrow in response.
https://www.rawstory.com/gops-lauren-boebert-faces-brutal-backlash-over-unbelievably-ignorant-tweet-about-19/
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
American carnage: What we are now learning about Trump’s nightmarish mishandling of COVID
The authors, Washington Post reporters Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta, tell the coronavirus story from the perspective of the science advisers as well as the political people around Trump who were desperately trying to get him to take the problem seriously. We knew from Bob Woodward’s earlier reporting that Trump had consciously made the decision to “downplay” the virus, ostensibly to keep people from panicking. Nobody really believed that, of course. It was obvious that he was “downplaying” the virus because he was afraid that the stock market would panic and that the ensuring economic turmoil would cost him the election. It seemingly never even occurred to him that mass deaths might be a bigger drag on his campaign.
https://www.rawstory.com/american-carnage-what-we-are-now-learning-about-trump-s-nightmarish-mishandling-of/
Radish the wordsmith almost 3 years ago
New Virus Variants Could Kill Thousands In Red States
While multimillionaire well-vaccinated Fox “News” hosts continue to sow doubt about masks and Covid vaccines to jack up the billions in revenue the channel brings in every year for the Murdoch family, the CEO of a hospital chain in Missouri is begging them to tell the truth.
People in red counties across America are reporting on social media the same thing Louise and I saw when we visited a rural town in Oregon last weekend: nobody’s wearing masks or practicing social distancing. They believe rightwing media’s lies that Covid’s “just like the flu” or “vaccines are experimental” or “it’s all a Democrat hoax.” They’re following Trump’s notion that masks make men look “weak.”
As a result of this, Eric Frederick, the chief administrative officer of Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Missouri, tells the AP that they have been “inundated with COVID-19 patients as the variant first identified in India rips through the largely non-immunized community.”
When the Covid virus first showed up in the United States in January of last year, then-president Donald Trump quietly told reporter Bob Woodward that it was both deadly and airborne.
“This is deadly stuff,” Trump told Woodward on February 7th, 2020. “You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flu.”
That’s not, of course, what Trump and his lackeys told the American people, as they set up the deaths of over 600,000 Americans with more to come this year. “I wanted to always play it down,” Trump told Woodward a month later. “I still like playing it down…”
https://www.nationalmemo.com/red-state-covid-wave
ferddo almost 3 years ago
They will refuse vaccinations, then if the numbers of the infected and sick and dead increase, they will gleefully blame the current administration…
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Very good.
Daeder almost 3 years ago
Science, truth and facts are all the Democrats have.
P.S. Please don’t feed the trolls.
nyg16 almost 3 years ago
these people make America sick even when they are vaccinated
GiantShetlandPony almost 3 years ago
Sadly, many of the ones that survive and/or have mild symptoms it will only reinforce it’s not a big deal. They will blame the people that died for having some kind of weakness. It’s just the way evil people think.
Teto85 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Let the MAGAts catch it and die off.
tauyen almost 3 years ago
Time to announce an end to the vaccines, effective 7/31, and let the culling begin in earnest
Walter Kocker Premium Member almost 3 years ago
It is taking SO LONG to scrape the Trump Administration off the bottom of our shoes. . .
grumpypophobart almost 3 years ago
Make the USA sick AGAIN? Really? There’s been a sickness about the place since the introduction of extreme neo-liberalism in the eighties. As have a host of other countries which adopted the same ideology. Not least my own poor country, where the current government still pushes the line that “the market will be the economic saviour of us all”. This from a conservative government that put all its eggs in one bloody Astra Zeneca vaccine and now finds out that lots of people need the Pfizer, so the vaccine roll out has become the vaccine stagnation. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-01/one-in-five-australian-covid-19-jabs-not-being-used-data-shows/100256096
Then we have a thing called the Intergenerational Report, which predicts smaller population growth, rapidly ageing citizens and the Treasurer tells us we cannot tax our way to prosperity, proudly touting the fact that total taxation revenue collected in Australia in 2019-20 was $552.0 billion. Total taxation revenue decreased by $8.0 billion (1.4%) on the previous year. Now, what he doesn’t tell us is the corresponding decrease in services like health and education and the tightening of monies to the poorest of the poor. They also babble on about the need to ‘increase productivity’, whilst seemingly failing to realise the roll out by business of robotics from super markets to factories. You can’t get more bloody productive than a machine that doesn’t take holidays, sick days, require compulsory superannuation, or an HR department. To quote an old Aussie saying, ’Things is crook in Tallarook!" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-28/intergenerational-report-ageing-population-growth-covid-debt/100248642
Mi-Tasol almost 3 years ago
The reason the red states are passing anti-voting laws is because they know the vast majority of the dead in those states are red voters so look on the bright side. They are mainly killing their own base.