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In reply to the discussion: Makes you ask why the hell we even bother.' Infectious disease experts face disillusionment as COVID [View all]DallasNE
(7,403 posts)29. "as a country, we have truly no moral capacity to do it"
While this statement is absolutely true it didn't start that way. Trump had to make Covid a partisan issue because he knew that this could go bad and hurt his reelection chances so Trump kicked that off by calling this the "China virus", which is unfortunate - and possibly false anyway. We can establish pretty convincingly that the "no moral capacity" got its start from a single source -- Donald John Trump. Yes, there is no shortage of weak people out there to carry the torch but for some reason people are not willing to place blame so Mina blames the country as a whole when it is one man.
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Makes you ask why the hell we even bother.' Infectious disease experts face disillusionment as COVID [View all]
sinkingfeeling
Dec 2020
OP
As soon as Trump decided this was a political issue instead of a public health issue
gratuitous
Dec 2020
#1
When this virus was first being mentioned openly in late January I all but panicked.
herding cats
Dec 2020
#17
And it has caused nothing but trouble, the only reason we're in bad shape now
Rhiannon12866
Dec 2020
#6
He is neglecting 1 thing. A certain percentage of the population who found out that they were
LiberalArkie
Dec 2020
#44
This is true in the town where I currently live, trying to ride out the pandemic.
peacebuzzard
Dec 2020
#46
We should start openly challenging the GOP as the party of personal responsibility.
Volaris
Dec 2020
#19
Disagree, Trump never federated a response to a national disaster and openly left it "up to the ...
uponit7771
Dec 2020
#42
Money and power are the only organizing principles in the conservative world.
jayschool2013
Dec 2020
#33