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Y'all remember the fake Amari Cooper Twitter account that was always saying incendiary shite :lol:

Just saw the highlight of him scoring and this randomly popped in my head.

Didn't even realize Shavers had left :lol:

FFS, do y'all even bother to fact check anything.

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Obama’s acting director of health and human services declared H1N1 a public health emergency on April 26, 2009.

That was when only 20 cases of H1N1 — and no deaths — around the country had been confirmed.

Two days later, the administration made an initial funding request for H1N1 to Congress. Eventually $7.65 billion was allocated for a vaccine and other measures.

H1N1 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on June 11, 2009.

In other words, the Obama administration’s public health emergency declaration came more than six weeks before the pandemic designation.

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There's also the issue of COVID19 being far more lethal than swine flu. Like, shouldn't that justify an appropriate response?

You mean the Republicans that lied about a tax bill benefitting everyone that in fact only provided significant benefits to the rich? The ones who cut snap benefits every chance they get? The ones who attempt to ban abortion in poor states knowing that the rich can afford to just go elsewhere. The ones who have opposed the obvious science of climate change at every step of the way because they're beholden to their donors from the oil and fracking industries.

Those Republicans?

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How do you think the previous administration turned the population against law enforcement so quickly?

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You really think people had any trust in law enforcement to begin with?

Didn't watch either but from what I've gathered:

National emergency declared and $50B in aid directed
Fed student loan interest waived
Purchase oil for strategic reserve
More testing eventually (?????)

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How can you prepare for something like this?

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[quote]In simple terms, containing an outbreak is about identifying and quarantining infected individuals as quickly as possible, preventing them from perpetuating viral transmission. In this process, the first and most important component is having a standard operating procedure (SOP). As the Iranian outbreak has shown, there are many countries without functional SOPs, making an organized response much more difficult. Even the United States and Japan are exhibiting varying levels of confusion, making me worry they too may lack actionable containment plans.

So far, South Korea and Taiwan are among the few countries to have demonstrated robust and consistent SOPs. This is not surprising given that each has invested heavily in infectious disease control following prior experiences with SARS and MERS. South Korea’s SOP essentially calls for five steps: an aggressive and transparent information campaign, high volume testing, quarantine of infected individuals, treatment of those in need, and disinfection of contaminated environments. These may seem like obvious measures, but proper execution is ultimately what decides their effectiveness.

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And while South Korea's methods are fairly intrusive and I wouldn't support matching them exactly, their immediate response should've been mirrored by the US.

That'd be a democratic socialist, but thanks!

Bernie of course.

It's funny, Trump could run to the left of Biden on several major issues without even losing any of his base.

That's just the most recent and obvious example of course. Politifact can be shite sometimes but they're certainly in the ballpark.

And like, if you're okay with that cause you think he's on your side then whatever, but don't try and piss on me and tell me it's rain. I wasn't born yesterday dude