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Re:A Misleading CDC Number by pjc50 on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @04:50PM (#27123338)
Has everyone forgotten that Trump was president for the first year of the pandemic, during which many of the CDC actions we're criticising happened?
Re:A Misleading CDC Number by JPKab on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @10:42AM (#27130887)
My comment had absolutely nothing to do with Trump or previous CDC policy. I thought he was a terrible president and a horrifically inept manager.

But his presidency broke so many people's brains that folks like yourself immediately read into any criticism of Biden as being motivated due to somebody being 'on the other side'.

I really don't care for the childish game of red blue sectarianism.

Complex topics require nuanced discussion. But instead it turns into the most base instinct form of information filtering, where folks look at who you are friends with or who you follow on Twitter and immediately dismiss any opinion you have based on that. It's incredibly low brow and anti-intellectual and I can't believe it's become such a popular form of debate on the left, like it already was on the right.

Re:A Misleading CDC Number by patrick451 on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @11:23PM (#27126260)
No, we haven't. Failing to shut down the CDC power grab was Trump's biggest failure. Not firing Fauci changed me from an enthusiastic Trump supporter into a reluctant one.
Re:A Misleading CDC Number by nate_meurer on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @01:41AM (#27127011)
Trump did far worse than simply not fire Fauci. Trump made Fauci a living martyr (yes, sorry, I can't think of a better phrase).

The things Trump did and said regarding the pandemic were so consistently and profoundly idiotic, they made the bumbling bureaucrats around him look like sages. And his empty threats and blustering emboldened them, and amplified the worst of the covid scolds in opposition.

Everything we can fault Fauci for is equally on Trump's head.

Re:A Misleading CDC Number by patrick451 on Thursday May 13, 2021 @12:00AM (#27138243)
I would have preferred that Trump (or any president) ignore Covid altogether. I'm of the view that viruses are none of the federal government's concern.