Is the GOP acting like authoritarians already and landing this covid 19

[applegrove]

pandemic in such a way as it is sure to become endemic? No one elected them to decide how to handle a pandemic across the world. Bet they are using MBA software and modeling just how long to keep it going so Covid - 19 sticks around forever. Why else would they refuse masks for unvaccinated kids in Florida given Delta this week or refuse to make Covid - 19 positive people stay home in Alberta yesterday. There is no other reason to do what they keep doing which is to not fight this pandemic with everything 'you got'. We are all pollyannas to them. Remember that when you say "no! They wouldn't"

[brewens]

1. It's the ol' reverse hail mary. Normally the desperation move is not doing nothing, but is

in this case. After sabotaging the response at every turn, they now can't cooperate and have everyone see that masks and the vaccines stopped COVID. They have to keep the denial and resistance going and just hope they get away with it. Otherwise it will be obvious they killed a lot of people by refusing to help the rest of us.

The republican vaccinated leaders are rolling the dice with a lot of lives.

[applegrove]

2. Or the reverse Trojan Horse where they entice former union white

males to vote republican then kill them all off with Covid cause they suspected they would go back to Democrats once TFG is no more.

[Lettuce Be]

5. Hard to see how they can keep that up for the next 16 months

It's going to be grim soon, real soon -- continuing to ignore it will (should) be their downfall, but hey, I've predicted their downfall before and here we are. sigh

[brush]

3. Certain governors and republican pols think being anti-maskers...

and anti-vaxxers is the key to getting re-elected...being on trump's good side and all. But it's starting to backfire on them as the delta variant is highly contagious and is setting us back to where we were a year ago.

They'll be sorry they did this as the death toll and infection rate sky rockets.

I myself have been vaccinated since Feb. but never stopped wearing a mask when out in public places. Now it's even more imperative with the new variant out.