07-11-2020, 10:28 AM
(07-11-2020, 07:03 AM)David Horn Wrote:(07-10-2020, 01:17 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(07-09-2020, 09:41 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: It is almost too late for clinical trials to be published for any vaccine before the election.
Yes, but it is always possible to distract from your mistakes handling COVID 19. Just make every one of your borders hot. The best way to cover weakness is to pretend to be strong.
Clinical trials are not that important to the general public. The Trumpists know that, so they merely picked a few potential winners and pre-purchased millions of doses hoping for the best. Of course, they ignored the 'hoping' part when they announced it.
The cynic in me would shout: Solyndra. That was a similar but much less excessive attempt at a solution (solar energy in that case). The GOPpers screamed bloody murder. They should be reminded of that.
The authoritarian Right excuses its own errors and shortcomings due to the inadequacy of people that shows the supposedly-manifest need for economic and bureaucratic hierarchy in which people at the economic apex treat the proles and peons badly. The Authoritarian Right condemns the efforts of others to find innovative solutions -- many of which fail -- on the ground that such shows the supposedly-manifest need for economic and bureaucratic hierarchy in which people at the economic apex treat the proles and peons badly.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
