The Partisan Divide on Issues

[pbrower2a]

(11-14-2020, 02:11 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(11-14-2020, 01:14 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(11-14-2020, 12:35 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(11-13-2020, 03:20 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Liberalism is the diametric opposite of fascism.

I am careful to avoid calling any elected official a word referring to feces. I will save that for...

What's your point? You're not careful to avoid calling elected officials that you don't like something bad and neither am I. Dude, I'd call her a piece of shit to her face and if she wants to call me a racist for doing it that's fine because there's plenty of proof that I'm not one. Dude, this country is becoming American minority enough to strip a piece of shit black woman of every special protection that she thinks/feels she has today. Times are changing and the American people are waking up. The Democratic people are still centered on themselves and their issues. The only shared issue is COVID right now.

That's another problem; COVID is not a shared issue because your side has politicized it and encouraged people not to wear masks or socially distance or get tested. Is your side going to get vaccinated?

Biden ran on COVID, the blue media conducted a COVID fear campaign for months that traumatized a significant portion of the country and Biden probably won the election because of it and now you're accusing me/ our side of politicizing it. Give me a break. Do we really need to get vaccinated when those who are at high risk are vaccinated? Dude, I've been out and about in public working and shopping and socializing during the pandemic for months. I know that I've either been directly exposed or actually had it in January after Christmas or probably had it without knowing it. I assume the older/high risk people will get vaccinated despite Biden being in office. They're not a bunch of traumatized Biden supporters, so I doubt Biden being in office will matter to them like it would have with the Democratic supporters with Trump in office.

Nearly a quarter-million people have died in America of COVID-19 in roughly nine months. That is seven times as many deaths as is normal from vehicle-related deaths in one year. America has done much to reduce the deaths from vehicle-related incidents. You ought to contrast the death rate per vehicle mile of the mid-1930's (when vehicle speeds were first as fast as they are today) to now. Many realities go into the reduction of the traffic death rate, from mandatory licensing, speed radar, driver's training for teen drivers, better highways, increasingly-rigid DUI laws, and safer cars. People drive more miles, but in better cars and on better roads, and more likely in highly-regimented commuter traffic. 

I can contrast COVID-19 to AIDS, which spread through (at first) skin grafts, blood transfusions, and needle-pricks as well as IV drug use and sexual contact. Medical practice was able to make the first three a non-factor by testing blood and tissue for HIV. The latter two were more difficult to reduce because IV drug users and sexual addicts are incredibly reckless. Medical science has found ways to make HIV/AIDS something that people can live with if they have it -- at high cost. COVID-19 spreads more easily but is less likely to kill. Still, death by COVID-19 ends all too often on a respirator, a desperate effort to keep someone breathing. 

Infections are up, and COVID-19 has ugly sequelae. Secondary damage to organs is possible. That is an analog in some ways to the influenza outbreak of a century ago, which may explain (along with having been the heaviest smokers in American history by generation) the comparatively-low life expectancy of the Lost. 

So much for my comments about COVID-19. Read instead what the experts have to say, if in language suitable for the lay public..

The vaccine will not be available fast enough to stop the current outbreak and deaths and incapacitation (and shortened lives) therefrom. So keep the bars closed and keep get-togethers and parties small (ideally just put them off until a large part of the American population is vaccinated against it with something safe, effective, and cheaply available. Do get a flu shot, which is available cheaply because you do not want to be referred to a hospital for the flu only to contract COVID-19 in the bargain.  

Nearly 250,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. Although some state officials (in both Parties!) the medical profession, medical science, and Big Business did their roles in constraining COVID-19, Trump got in the way. It is amazing that he came so close to being re-elected. Blue states, and especially Red states with governors (Kansas, Kentucky, and Louisiana) or Red States (Indiana, Ohio even if it is a swing state) did far better at suppressing COVID-19 than did swing states  and Red States with governors who chose to let the economy move along without constraint. 

Donald Trump failed at his role in defending Americans from an insidious, lethal invader.