President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Yes, misread the post, and deleted it.

 

I have a close relative who works at a huge hospital. She said in March and April of 2020, doctors didn't know if this was going to be a lot of flu-like illnesses or a sequel to Stephen King's "The Stand." They were scared shitless because the virus was replicating and doing things other viruses had never done and the only thing they knew to stem the tide was to implore the government to shut everything down. "Knowing what we know now?" Fuck yeah but it still sickened and killed a lot of people and Trump and Magas in general fought any mitigation. I wonder if it's ever occurred to Trump that "knowing what we know now," would he have listened to Fauci and shown a example by not being a pussy about wearing a mask and encouraging that and other measures? If he had, he would have won in 2020.

 

Infant death rate spiked in Texas after restrictive abortion law, study finds
The study led by Johns Hopkins University researchers after the restrictive Texas abortion law also found an increase in the rate of deaths from birth defects.



Gift article.

https://wapo.st/4cBwY2A

 

"Knowing what we know now," Custer never would have charged a huge village with only 270 soldiers. But he didn't know, and stupidly rushed headlong into disaster.

Caution was merited. Generally, no one dies by playing it safe until you know exactly what you're up against.

 

How dare Democrats bring a gun to a gun fight?

 

YouTube's algorithm pushes right-wing, explicit videos regardless of user interest or age, study finds

 

She's well-versed in happy endings, it would seem.

 

The Republican who will serve from CD-4 until January, Greg Lopez, was charged with domestic violence on his then-pregnant wife after knocking her to the ground and kicking her (she was also charged for hitting him in the had) and later entered a guilty plea to a watered-down harassment charge in relation to that incident. He also was behind a bonkers proposal to change Colorado's elections to an electoral-college format in which the number of electors per county was determined not by population but by voter-turnout percentage, claiming, "It’s not about one-person, one-vote. It’s about true representation.”

Colorado Republicans are a special species of nutjob, even by GQP standards.

 

I still remember, and will probably never forget, two stories from that time that we ran. One was about a carpenter who developed a design for a modular hospital bed that could be deployed in places like parking garages, and the other was about a local yokel who had 3-D printed a device that was basically a cable splitter but for a respirator so four people could be hooked up to it at the same time. Thankfully, both of them seem like trivialities now, but in the continuum of possible events, what actually happened between April 2020-April 2021 was much closer to the median than a worst case scenario in terms of outcomes.

 

Did anyone use their plans?