Public figures are so vulnerable to Covid, Bert Kreicher said he had it 5 times already. And especially people in national political life, everybody wants to meet you everywhere you go and you can't refuse or wear a mask or anything or you get negative news coverage.
Bert doesn’t strike me as the hand-washing type, if I’m being honest.
I'm surprised it's only been 5 times Bert Kreischer has snorted Covid. That fake laughin comes with a deep inhale
Bart's liver is hanging on by a thread.
Bert Kreischer? I wouldn’t believe anything he says
Maybe now Biden will remember COVID exists... as if.
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What do you mean about that?
He prematurely declared the pandemic over almost a year ago https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/biden-declares-covid-19-pandemic-over because he's a corporate tool and believes in fuck all imho
The pandemic IS over. Covid has become an endemic virus just like we always expected it to.
https://www.webmd.com/covid/news/20230317/time-to-stop-calling-it-a-pandemic
That might be the case globally. Regardless, it was never addressed adequately in the US. Practically everyone I know is dealing with some consequence of long COVID and we're totally behind on vaccination because the issue was so politicized. If you look at this, what's still going on at the border (a fucking racist wall to keep a certain ethnicity out), human rights being challenged EVERYWHERE and his climate policy it's clear Biden doesn't care all that much about things a leftist president should, at the very least.
As an actual leftist, I can say with a great deal of authority that Biden is NOT a leftist President. He's very much capitalist, like Trump
Regardless, it was never addressed adequately in the US.
A problem created by Trump.
(1) we’re totally behind on vaccination because (2) the issue was so politicized
Both problems created by Trump.
what’s still going on at the border
A problem created by Trump and continued by Texas's state government.
human rights being challenged EVERYWHERE
There are more conservatives EVERYWHERE than there are President Bidens ANYWHERE.
and his climate policy
Won't disagree here, he could do a lot more here.
A lot of your complaints are problems created by conservatives and criminals, that Biden hasn't been able to fix. He's not a progressive superhero and he was never going to be. He's a janitor, and I don't see any productivity in getting mad at the guy holding a mop. Yeah, I would have loved Bernie or Warren too, but with the double whammy of first past the post voting and billionaire conservative power-brokers, Biden was always going to be better than the alternative.
He's not trump, yeah yeah. Still doesn't change the fact he has done a shit job as "janitor" and wasn't anybody's first choice except those that convienently ignore his past comments and actions as a individual (smelling little girls, defending segregation, joking about running over reporters, just vile career politician stuff all the way through) But regardless, that shouldn't be his whole sell though, and it is. I wish I was wrong, but you really can't deny it's a super weak one.
smelling little girls
I never got this criticism. It's weird, but it doesn't hurt anyone. It's not sexually or physically abusive, it's just an odd thing to do.
Also fascinating to watch so many self-proclaimed "leftists" parrot Fox News talking points. I swear I think some of these people want the fascists to win so they can get their chance to cosplay revolutionary.
Zero acknowledgement that every revolution in history has violently decimated the working class and only replaced one power hierarchy with another. Oh, but their revolution is gonna be totally different...
You never got the criticism because it was not actual criticism, it was a malicious meme generated and amplified by the alt right to smear Biden.
I'm literally going to start at the Know Your Meme page and look up the people in the Spread section:
On February 17th, 2015, Redditor gaylord__focker uploaded a photograph of Biden whispering into the ear of Stephanie Carter
https://old.reddit.com/user/gaylord__focker/ (troll)
On February 18th, Redditor Bossman1086 posted a gif of the moment to /r/gifs.
https://old.reddit.com/user/Bossman1086/?sort=controversial (libertarian)
On November 22nd, 2017, YouTuber Paul Joseph Watson uploaded a video titled "Creepy Uncle Joe,"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Joseph_Watson (the entire Wikipedia intro)
That's probably because he is anything but leftist.
Yeah dude's a staunch conservative by any reasonable metric, regardless of what the democrats want everyone to think.
Most of his policies were too far right for even Reagan. But we are not supposed to talk about Biden's history prior to 2019.
People fail to acknowledge he was Obama's VP, too. Nobody wants to admit he's at least partly the reason Trump gained enough traction to come into office at all in the first place.
Trump is Obama's legacy, had he not turned it on the typical neolib POS the party wouldn't have lost
did you even read the article you linked? kind garbage is "well ackshyually, it's endemic so the pandemic is over!" that doesn't mean that covid isn't a real threat. That's the stupidest fucking argument you could have possibly made. Know what else is endemic? AIDS. Hepatitis. Malaria. Tuberculosis. Fucking Polio. Changing status from pandemic to epidemic doesn't magically make it affect less people. It's really heartless tbh
When did Biden say that COVID isn't a real threat?
Are you replying to the right commend friend? I didn't say he said that.
And we...have treatments and/or vaccines and public health campaigns for all of those endemic infections just like we will continue to do for Covid?
I'm not sure why you think endemic is a judgement of risk. It's not. It's an epidemiological definition.
I'm not even remotely arguing about the semantics of epidemiology, I'm arguing that it's heartless to argue pedantic shit like that when it's clearly still affecting people and still needs to be taken seriously, which the original poster is pointing out, and correctly so, that it's not. The administration pushed for business as usual, choosing the stock market over peoples' health. And you're over here injecting that "well technically the word pandemic comes from the greek word pan. NO, that's not what's being discussed here at all
Except no one pushed for business as usual? Quarantines and higher level pandemic interventions are not appropriate for an endemic infection. We should be vaccinating and masking when there's an increase in Covid infections. But we should also be doing that for influenza and we don't.
I'm not arguing semantics. Pandemic vs. endemic is a factual epidemiological definition. The problem is that we routinely choose not to deal with dangerous endemic infections like influenza. We should always have been doing more.
"If we stop trying to control covid everyone will keep getting it forever" isn't a prediction, it's reckless behavior.
When did we stop trying to control influenza? We didn't. Endemic is just an epidemiological definition.
Naw fam, they will just get medical treatment for the acute and long term consequences of the infection at a level that you can only dream of, a level that would bankrupt a normal person. But, hey, we're all in this together. It's time to move on. Have you considered getting a HELOC and buying something?
Get well soon, J-girl!
Wasn’t she vaxxed like 30 times by now? How in the world could she have gotten Covid!?
You've had 3 years to understand how the vaccine works. We're you just not paying attention?
The same way you can wear a seat belt but still crash your car.
Never heard this one, but I'm using it from now on....
So what. I've got covid for the fifth time now.
We all have covid on this blessed day
Can you really compare the two? Sometimes you can fly without a plane, you just die a couple of seconds after free fall . Also, why are vaccines seatbelts, isn’t the whole point to immunize? Or is that just for every other vaccine except this one?
Yeah maybe gene therapy, not a vaccine in my mind. I never got Polio and I was vaxxed so what gives? Is this the only vaccine that works like dogshit?
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