Thread by @FreedomFriesInc

This pic of a health provider treating a patient at this time

WITHOUT PROPER PPE

should be the issue the public focuses on iso pt's choice to use Gorilla Glue. The mask is not N95 rated. No eye protection, gown, or hair covering. An example of why we can't have nice things!

https://twitter.com/camerouninema/status/1358783969194610695

I'm sick of seeing examples of health providers not using proper PPE.

IDC where you live, if Covid is in your community, then anyone going to any healthcare facility should use PPE correctly.

You are at high risk of spreading the virus to vulnerable people if you don't.

I'm also sick of people on all sides politicizing the pandemic.

Fucking grow up already.

I am at risk of Covid complications that could kill me or at least cause huge disruption and distress in my life, which I do not need anytime, including right now.

Despite being at medical risk, the likely earliest time I could get a Covid vaccine is July/August 2021.

Covid is currently not spreading in New Zealand, but that could change tomorrow.

I respect your right to decline a vax, esp. if you're not at risk like I am.

I considered declining a Covid vax, based on the potential medical risk to me of an under-studied vaccine based on CRISPR technology.

I reconsidered this when I calculated the greater risk to me personally if I get Covid. I can't afford to take that risk.

You know what would have reduced the pandemic impact in the US?

Honest, accurate, nonpartisan reporting.

Federal leadership with clear, timely public info exposing those state governments who were and still are failing their citizens.

I'll unpack that point:

Yes, many of the Trump admin's decisions re the pandemic were good ones. Early border closures (despite Biden's race baiting complaints at the time), Operation Warp Speed, & the wartime manufacturing push...

Because I'm a true Indie I will mention the bad things too...

Yes, it's true that Covid case and death rates data is (intentionally) poor and very misleading.

The problem is: that fact has been used to avoid focusing on what we CAN change about the pandemic effects.

The same is true on every pandemic related political issue.

Y'know what I think would've been the most honorable way for Trump to have preserved his otherwise great legacy & the historic gains he achieved?

In Jan 2020 when the public were first told about Covid, he should've made it his top priority iso the election.

Radical, I know.

Until 1/6/2020 I loved the guy. I considered him the greatest POTUS in history, hands down. Better than even Lincoln & Washington bc he was up against 21st century technology & politics & (until now) was succeeding, against the odds.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Still, ...

I wish I had been able to see a year ago what I see now.

If Trump had put aside the election campaign & knuckled down to deal with the pandemic he probably would have won by so great a landslide that that even the Ds' extensive fraud & cover up operation couldn't beat it.

Trump had to have known they would try to steal it and would likely succeed.

There would have been nothing to lose, really. The results of his Jan 2020 decisions are D control of not only the House, but the Senate and White House!!

Totally could have been avoided.

And no, Trump did not make the pandemic his top priority, not by a long shot.

He had a sworn duty to keep being the best POTUS he could be right up until noon on 1/20/21. We all can see he barely talked about anything other than contesting the election for his final 10 weeks.

Trump didn't even send public condolences to the family of US Rep-Elect Luke Letlow, who was a Republican!

Like most of the presidential duties, that task was left to the greatest VP of all time, Mike Pence, and others who actually care about Americans and conservative voters.

I have so many examples I could provide, but I'm still too pissed about the fact that governments around the world, including NZ and the US, are so careless and reckless with people's lives, concerning the pandemic response and everything else we rely on them to get right.

If you think US healthcare should be of no interest to foreigners then you might wanna have another think about it.

People can have experience & knowledge about politics in more than one country at a time. If you play the man not the ball then you might not be good at the game.

This thread is my opinion about what I have seen over the whole of the last year, including since 11/3/2020.

This pandemic is impacting your country and mine to a level not seen since we won WWII together.

Politics can and must be used to find solutions, not more problems.

I find myself occupying a shrinking space near the middle of the political spectrum. I am fine with that, because I have learned it's better to be true to yourself than to keep participating in a belief system that just doesn't add up anymore.

I will ALWAYS be a conservative...

I will always oppose communism, too.

Which is exactly why I no longer spend time making excuses for the things Trump got wrong. I'm not gonna go all Lincoln Project, don't worry. I can't, I'm not into the domestic sport of cuckolding.😉

I absolutely agree with the policies of the MAGA agenda (importantly, NOT with the caricatures portrayed by the left.)

Where I parted company with Trump was on tactics, & only after the 2020 election* (such as it was.)

I don't care if only 5 people now agree with me.

LOL

Give me an in-depth good faith policy debate ahead of sycophantic agreement any day.

I block some who come at me in bad faith. So what. Bigger fish to fry now. Like prepping for Covid in NZ. Putting on my own oxygen mask first.

TY, USA, for Operation Warp Speed. Lifesaver.