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First Lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday night, according to a statement. Jill Biden is experiencing mild symptoms and will stay at their home in Rehoboth Beach, Del., her commu…
Maybe now Biden will remember COVID exists… as if.
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What do you mean about that?
He prematurely declared the pandemic over almost a year ago https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/biden-declares-covid-19-pandemic-over because he’s a corporate tool and believes in fuck all imho
The pandemic IS over. Covid has become an endemic virus just like we always expected it to.
https://www.webmd.com/covid/news/20230317/time-to-stop-calling-it-a-pandemic
https://www.lung.org/blog/epidemic-pandemic-endemic-covid
That might be the case globally. Regardless, it was never addressed adequately in the US. Practically everyone I know is dealing with some consequence of long COVID and we’re totally behind on vaccination because the issue was so politicized. If you look at this, what’s still going on at the border (a fucking racist wall to keep a certain ethnicity out), human rights being challenged EVERYWHERE and his climate policy it’s clear Biden doesn’t care all that much about things a leftist president should, at the very least.
As an actual leftist, I can say with a great deal of authority that Biden is NOT a leftist President. He’s very much capitalist, like Trump
A problem created by Trump.
Both problems created by Trump.
A problem created by Trump and continued by Texas’s state government.
There are more conservatives EVERYWHERE than there are President Bidens ANYWHERE.
Won’t disagree here, he could do a lot more here.
A lot of your complaints are problems created by conservatives and criminals, that Biden hasn’t been able to fix. He’s not a progressive superhero and he was never going to be. He’s a janitor, and I don’t see any productivity in getting mad at the guy holding a mop. Yeah, I would have loved Bernie or Warren too, but with the double whammy of first past the post voting and billionaire conservative power-brokers, Biden was always going to be better than the alternative.
He’s not trump, yeah yeah. Still doesn’t change the fact he has done a shit job as “janitor” and wasn’t anybody’s first choice except those that convienently ignore his past comments and actions as a individual (smelling little girls, defending segregation, joking about running over reporters, just vile career politician stuff all the way through) But regardless, that shouldn’t be his whole sell though, and it is. I wish I was wrong, but you really can’t deny it’s a super weak one.
I never got this criticism. It’s weird, but it doesn’t hurt anyone. It’s not sexually or physically abusive, it’s just an odd thing to do.
Also fascinating to watch so many self-proclaimed “leftists” parrot Fox News talking points. I swear I think some of these people want the fascists to win so they can get their chance to cosplay revolutionary.
Zero acknowledgement that every revolution in history has violently decimated the working class and only replaced one power hierarchy with another. Oh, but their revolution is gonna be totally different…
You never got the criticism because it was not actual criticism, it was a malicious meme generated and amplified by the alt right to smear Biden.
I’m literally going to start at the Know Your Meme page and look up the people in the Spread section:
https://old.reddit.com/user/gaylord__focker/ (troll)
https://old.reddit.com/user/Bossman1086/?sort=controversial (libertarian)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Joseph_Watson (the entire Wikipedia intro)
That’s probably because he is anything but leftist.
Yeah dude’s a staunch conservative by any reasonable metric, regardless of what the democrats want everyone to think.
Most of his policies were too far right for even Reagan. But we are not supposed to talk about Biden’s history prior to 2019.
People fail to acknowledge he was Obama’s VP, too. Nobody wants to admit he’s at least partly the reason Trump gained enough traction to come into office at all in the first place.
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Lol sorry no. It’s a result of the Overton window shifting so far right in the US that now some people think anti-labor (e.g., response to train worker strike) is somehow leftist. If you have a more complete understanding of the political spectrum you know better.
did you even read the article you linked? kind garbage is “well ackshyually, it’s endemic so the pandemic is over!” that doesn’t mean that covid isn’t a real threat. That’s the stupidest fucking argument you could have possibly made. Know what else is endemic? AIDS. Hepatitis. Malaria. Tuberculosis. Fucking Polio. Changing status from pandemic to epidemic doesn’t magically make it affect less people. It’s really heartless tbh
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the original poster is arguing about the administrations response to the pandemic being at best, poorly managed, choosing the stock market over human lives. The dipshit who said “well technically a pandemix isn’t an epidemic” charged in and tried to chagne the conversation to one of fucking etymology. That’s not the point at all. They’re not pissed because of etymology, they’re pissed because the administration could have done A LOT more but CHOSE not to, because stock market
And we…have treatments and/or vaccines and public health campaigns for all of those endemic infections just like we will continue to do for Covid?
I’m not sure why you think endemic is a judgement of risk. It’s not. It’s an epidemiological definition.
I’m not even remotely arguing about the semantics of epidemiology, I’m arguing that it’s heartless to argue pedantic shit like that when it’s clearly still affecting people and still needs to be taken seriously, which the original poster is pointing out, and correctly so, that it’s not. The administration pushed for business as usual, choosing the stock market over peoples’ health. And you’re over here injecting that "well technically the word pandemic comes from the greek word pan. NO, that’s not what’s being discussed here at all
Except no one pushed for business as usual? Quarantines and higher level pandemic interventions are not appropriate for an endemic infection. We should be vaccinating and masking when there’s an increase in Covid infections. But we should also be doing that for influenza and we don’t.
I’m not arguing semantics. Pandemic vs. endemic is a factual epidemiological definition. The problem is that we routinely choose not to deal with dangerous endemic infections like influenza. We should always have been doing more.
When did Biden say that COVID isn’t a real threat?
Are you replying to the right commend friend? I didn’t say he said that.
“If we stop trying to control covid everyone will keep getting it forever” isn’t a prediction, it’s reckless behavior.
When did we stop trying to control influenza? We didn’t. Endemic is just an epidemiological definition.
We didn’t?
See my other comment:
https://kbin.social/m/news@lemmy.world/t/425137/-/comment/2146352
It wasn’t endemic when we could have stopped it, jackass.
Again, “If we give up everyone will keep getting it” is not smart prediction, it is reckless indifference.
We could have shut down and vaxxed up (at gun point) early in the plague and stopped it.
Biden said the pandemic is over last year.
Biden’s claim that ‘pandemic is over’ complicates efforts to secure funding - WaPo
The lung.org article I linked is dated January 21, 2022
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did you know they’re not starting a discussion of etymology, but about the actual administration’s response to the disease? Here’s Biden’s quote from that articles btw "but the pandemic is over. If you notice, no one’s wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape. And so, I think it’s changing.”
Naw fam, they will just get medical treatment for the acute and long term consequences of the infection at a level that you can only dream of, a level that would bankrupt a normal person. But, hey, we’re all in this together. It’s time to move on. Have you considered getting a HELOC and buying something?