Ross Douthat: "If you don't count the deaths, our COVID response has been.....adequate"

[brooklynite]

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[lagomorph777]

1. So, aside from being an utter failure, our COVID response is great!

WTF is Douchehat trying to say?

[Yavin4]

2. If you don't count all those touchdowns that KC scored in the superbowl

The 49ers are champions.

[rurallib]

3. "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?"

It's a little hard to ignore 200,000 dead fellow citizens.

[BKDem]

4. The operation was a success, but the patient died.

Great argument, Ross.

[Mordred]

5. I will not defend Douhat...

but a rationale can be made that if you are unfortunate enough to contract the virus, you have a better chance here of surviving it BUT you are far more likely to contract it here than the majority of the world.

That is the essence of the US case outcomes vs. the US per capita rates.

[Tanuki]

6. I suppose he feels comfortable in "stepping back from the deaths"

because of the demographics (disproportionately African American, Hispanic, elderly, health challenged, etc.) that he seems quite cavalier about culling from the herd.

[dalton99a]

7. +1. "If we don't count all those old and colored people..."