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@rbreich@masto.ai

Trump and the Republicans did more than that...

1. They told seniors they should volunteer to die
   https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/dan-patrick-seniors-are-willing-to-die-to-save-economy.html

2. They blamed black people for dying too much
   https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/08/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-laura-ingraham-fox-news-black-people-covid/

3. They spread disinformation to prolong & worsen the pandemic
   https://azmirror.com/2023/10/20/gop-lawmakers-again-convene-a-covid-hearing-chock-full-of-misinformation/
   https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-10-20/supreme-court-biden-republican-social-media-covid-disinformation
   https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/technology/gop-disinformation-researchers-2024-election.html

4. They engaged on a media blitz with Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil, & Dr. Drew and we still don't know who paid for it
   https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/dr-oz-school-children-non-apology
   https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-doctor-mehmet-oz-fox-news-children-death-rate-increase-a9469446.html

@rbreich@masto.ai That mf'er knew what only the chinese goverment knew at the begginnig of the pandemic. It took the WHO almost a year to acknowledge this. And not only he did nothing, but he hid it.

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Then, if they managed to get their own equipment, Jared stole it. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/how-the-federal-government-took-control-of-the-ppe-pipeline

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We in NY remember well.
Kushner: “Cuomo didn’t pound the phones hard enough to get PPE for his state…. His people are going to suffer and that’s their problem.”
These #DonTheCon Admin bastards must be prosecuted for all the people they killed. They didn't give one shit and were just using this for their election purposes. Blaming the Governors in Blue States. That didn't work out so well in the end did it you soulless Android. Red States fared far worse.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/jared-kushner-let-the-markets-decide-covid-19-fate

@rbreich@masto.ai
During Trump's presidency, the importance of living in state with a Dem governor became apparent.

@rbreich@masto.ai People died because of trump's approach to the distribution of masks and other personal protective equipment.
States were forced to compete against each other and with the federal government for supplies.
Feds were even confiscating shipments from the states. Governor of MD hid his state's PPE from feds and called up National Guard to protect the stockpile.
This is how bad it was during the trump admin. People wanting a 2nd term have somehow forgotten this or don't care.
#neverforget

@rbreich@masto.ai And when they tried that, he hijacked the shipments.

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As shipments were mysteriously lost.

#MassDeathNormalized - #COVIDSurrender.

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@rbreich@masto.ai About a year later, in July 2021 just as the Delta wave was getting underway in the U.S., President Ice Cream told the country, "If you are fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask." Tens of thousands of people, many of them fully vaccinated, needlessly died in that wave. A year after that, the Hair-Sniffer-In-Chief told one of the worst lies ever: "The pandemic is over." The current administration's policy, like the previous admin's, is LET IT RIP. #CovidIsNotOver