Trump says if the country had listened to Biden, the country "would have been left wide open."
False. Biden didn't speak against the China ban, and when Trump banned EU travel, Biden rightly pointed out that the ban was not a substitute for a plan:
As for the vaccine timeline, Fauci knows better than Trump.
(Hard to keep up)
Pelosi is not the obstacle to the next round of COVID aid. The House has moved; the Senate hasn't. bizjournals.com/washington/new…
Trump claims that the states that shut down have done poorly.
False. The states that reopened prematurely across the Sun Belt experienced huge surges over the summer. States like NY, NJ, CT that clamped down after early surges have been the best performers.
Trump rallies are *not* all outside.
Trump claims Biden will close down the whole country.
False. Economic disruption is driven by the virus. What keeps communities closed is the failure to beat the virus. Curtailing the virus - what Trump has utterly failed to do for 9 months - is what will get the country open.
I'm tallying 8 big lies so far on this topic; sure I've missed some.
OK, they're off COVID. Whew.
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There are no words to adequately convey the rage heartbreak of the Israeli govt murdering 7 aid workers.
First and foremost, my deepest condolences and full solidarity with @WCKitchen, @chefjoseandres, and the families of the 7 heroes who gave their lives feeding Gazans.
This is not just a grave IHL violation, it is a clear war crime. Part of a clear pattern of IDF striking humanitarians routinely since early in the war, while refusing refused repeated calls to set up a functional deconfliction system that would actually protect humanitarians.
Starvation is astonishingly pervasive - touching the entire population. Typically (e.g. Somalia 2011) famine affects a subset, not the whole.
Rate of deterioration - never seen a population go from stable to famine so quickly.
Also unique - complete absence of natural factors. Typically famine emerges from mix of natural and man-made factors. Somalia 2011 was mix of war + sanctions + worst drought in 50+yrs.
This famine is purely man-made. Which means the only solutions will be man-made as well.
Did "public health" shut down rural Minnesota to save urban NYC? No.
Early on when virtually nothing was known about a disease that was massively flooding ERs (& morgues) around the world, US states implemented stay-at-home guidance for a few months to protect their hospitals.
Governors made those decisions, and they did weigh econ & other factors alongside.
Turns out it's not good economics for a hospital system to collapse!
And there was no reason to assume that what was hitting big cities wouldn't ultimately hit rural areas too.