This, as usual, relies on ignorance from his audience. If less people are symptomatic, less people will go and get tests. Starting on Jan 7th, Israel has required referrals to get tested so tests went down. Same percentage of smaller number = less cases.
Israel has absolutely seen a rapid decrease in new cases.
As for deaths, it's a lagging indicator. Further, deaths reported on a particular day often include those that occurred weeks earlier. I know Alex knows that bc he kept citing it to diminish Covid-19 impact.
I'm just getting tired of watching ridiculous conspiracy theorists get elevated on the right and never being held accountable for being consistently wrong/misleading their audience. It's exhausting.
Yes, it's almost as if the people who actually got the vaccines were much less likely to get the virus....
We are dealing with one of the worst global pandemics in history. A lot of people worked very hard to get us a cure. A way to reach "herd immunity" w/o mass deaths. Now the same people who advocated herd immunity via virus & dismissed the impact are attacking that cure? Garbage
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So I was mostly going to ignore this because it seemed rather obvious this was a partisan hit from Salon and some Democrats, but now more mainstream outlets are picking it up. (1/)
1) Tom Cotton had deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. 2) Cotton was honorably discharged with multiple accommodations, including a Bronze Star. 3) Cotton finished Ranger school and earned a Ranger tab.
Salon, and some Democrats, have accused him of misleading regarding his military service by having literature that has said he "volunteered to be an Army Ranger" even though he never served in the 75th Ranger Regiment.
It was obvious when the Los Angeles Teachers Union submitted a list of demands including defunding the police, Medicare for all, and a ban on charter schools to restart in-person instruction: dailycaller.com/2020/07/13/la-…
We've clearly made some mistakes and more urgency is needed to improve, but we are currently administering 1.1 million vaccines per day. We are doing significantly better than 99% of the countries in the world, including all of the EU.
Many of the same people complaining now were telling us 4 months ago that there was no way we would even see a vaccine before 2021.
And the countries ahead of us don't have to deal with the same logistics challenges as distributing to a country with 300 million people.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't be making adjustments. We clearly aren't using enough of the vaccines that have been distributed. We know production can keep up with demand so we need to lower the restrictions of who is getting vaccinated. But that doesn't = failure.
"FL is lying re Covid data" and "election was stolen" claims are direct mirrors. You have people that have predetermined conclusions (Fl couldn't be doing that well! & Trump couldn't have lost!) & then are just looking for explanations for why facts don't match those conclusions
And in each case you've had irresponsible and dishonest people be elevated and given large platforms to take advantage of people looking for answers with ridiculous conspiracies. Rebekah Jones is just Sidney Powell without a law degree.
Bigger problem is the institutions relied on to tell ppl the truth are failing them. R's and right-leaning media should have told ppl truth re mass voter fraud. Mainstream/left-leaning press, & Dems should have rejected the FL conspiracies. Instead, they all did the opposite.
It has been 7 months since @paulkrugman declared that DeSantis was representative of a “disastrous” response to Covid-19 while Cuomo, Murphy, and Whitmer were fighting it the right way.
These people weren't murdered. They were legally executed after convictions for horrendous crimes, being sentenced to the death penalty, and going through countless appeals.
You can oppose the death penalty as a punishment without pretending that the people executed were victims or that carrying out those executions is comparable to murder.
As an example: Daniel Lee was a white supremacist who murdered a family (including an 8-year-old girl) by suffocating them with bags and then dumping their bodies in a swamp.
That's whose name @CoriBush wants you to remember.