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The list of reasons for kicking Trump out of office would fill six pages, but there's only one reason you need.
The response to the pandemic has been defined by chaos as a result of the White House's incompetence, malevolence and negligence. Slashing the funding of nearly every medical institution and hamstringing their management hasn't helped.
Because of this, the plan for controlling the outbreak and re-opening the economy has been incoherent and unorganized, and as a result nobody has any idea for when such a thing could feasibly happen.
But there's something we're all assuming will happen anyway, which is that roughly a year from now, the cavalry will come riding in, we'll all get vaccinated and life will return to normal. This will not happen. We're assuming that regardless of the incompetence we see now, national vaccination as coordinated by the Federal government will be competent and organized. Believing this requires ignoring everything you see happening right now.
If the preparation for the outbreak and the response to it once it reached our shores were marked by chaos, then so too will the rollout of the vaccine. After the rest of the planet has been fully vaccinated, our vaccines, wherever they come from, will be lost after the CDC, slashed of any remaining competent staff, sends the shipment to a closed-down 7/11 in Donnelly, Idaho.
The White House may (or may not) order more vaccines, and maybe they won't even lose them this time. But clueless about how to distribute them, they won't reach the states for weeks or even months. Half a year after that, perhaps 1/8th of the country will be vaccinated.
Biden will restaff the CDC and appoint a competent and organized pandemic response team, precisely as Obama did during H1N1 and Ebola. Trump will not.
If you want to be vaccinated next June, vote for Biden. If you don't want to be vaccinated, vote for Trump.
The response to the pandemic has been defined by chaos as a result of the White House's incompetence, malevolence and negligence. Slashing the funding of nearly every medical institution and hamstringing their management hasn't helped.
Because of this, the plan for controlling the outbreak and re-opening the economy has been incoherent and unorganized, and as a result nobody has any idea for when such a thing could feasibly happen.
But there's something we're all assuming will happen anyway, which is that roughly a year from now, the cavalry will come riding in, we'll all get vaccinated and life will return to normal. This will not happen. We're assuming that regardless of the incompetence we see now, national vaccination as coordinated by the Federal government will be competent and organized. Believing this requires ignoring everything you see happening right now.
If the preparation for the outbreak and the response to it once it reached our shores were marked by chaos, then so too will the rollout of the vaccine. After the rest of the planet has been fully vaccinated, our vaccines, wherever they come from, will be lost after the CDC, slashed of any remaining competent staff, sends the shipment to a closed-down 7/11 in Donnelly, Idaho.
The White House may (or may not) order more vaccines, and maybe they won't even lose them this time. But clueless about how to distribute them, they won't reach the states for weeks or even months. Half a year after that, perhaps 1/8th of the country will be vaccinated.
Biden will restaff the CDC and appoint a competent and organized pandemic response team, precisely as Obama did during H1N1 and Ebola. Trump will not.
If you want to be vaccinated next June, vote for Biden. If you don't want to be vaccinated, vote for Trump.
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