America Officially Surrenders to COVID

Republicans take a victory lap as Democrats lift mask mandates, embrace mass death.

Feb 9

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In May 2020, the New York Times ran a front page story on the “incalculable loss” of 100,000 Americans dying from COVID-19.

16 months later, more than 600,000 white flags were planted on the National Mall to memorialize the victims of the pandemic. Each flag held a written message honoring someone who had died of coronavirus.

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Fast forward to the present, and nearly a million victims are buried below the fold.

With the daily death toll near the highest point of the pandemic, the Biden administration has decided to abandon the farce that it is any better than Trump and Republicans.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath

3,570 Americans died from COVID yesterday. That’s equivalent to 20-30 passenger planes crashing in a single day: 🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩 🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩 🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

As the White House signals total surrender to the virus, Democratic officials across the country are ditching even the most basic mitigation measures.

Winter is Berning 🔥🌹 @DalyPolitics

@peterdaou The two largest blue states, California and New York, followed by New Jersey and Oregon are dropping mask mandates. More blue states to follow soon. Unfortunately, new new variants are in the US. Note the correlation of removing the mask mandate. Dem primaries begin next month

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran

The premature dropping of mask mandates by many states this week is a coordinated effort that prioritizes politics over public health. Political focus groups played a major role, instead of key public health data such as a sustained period of low spread. nytimes.com/2022/02/08/us/…

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/us/us-mask-mandates.html

The Democratic Party has dropped all pretense to being the party of science, openly joining the GOP in treating mass death as an acceptable price for capitalism and electoral politics.

LOLGOP @LOLGOP

Covid deaths were higher today than they've been in a year but some pollster has convinced governors that now's the time to declare victory and move on.

The New York Times @nytimes

Breaking News: Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to drop New York’s indoor mask mandate on Wednesday, marking a turning point in the state’s Covid response. The decision comes as states from New Jersey to California have announced similar moves this week. https://t.co/ExcUn8mCtg

Myra Batchelder #FBLC @myrabatchelder

It's horrifying but also ridiculous to watch all these Democratic led states end the mask mandate. They're prolonging the pandemic which will make people angrier. And most Democratic voters actually support mask mandates so they're hurting themselves politically.

As usual, the victims of this cruel and cowardly political calculus are the most vulnerable:

Angela M. Vázquez, MSW @AngelaMSWinCA

Every time disabled people come close to “normal” during this pandemic, we eliminate the very precautions that facilitate that access. How come disabled people don’t get to be free in the pandemic? How restrictive are masks, and for whom?

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California will end mask mandate on Feb. 15, lifts negative test requirement to visit hospitals, nursing homes.

Lindsay Fogarty @rarediseasemom

I will never vote Democrat again. I am immune compromised. My child is immune compromised. Democrats siding with Republicans to take away the last protection immune compromised kids had in schools is the last straw. I know most of you follow me for politics but I’m done.

Zachary Rubin, MD @rubin_allergy

Why are states rushing to remove #school #mask mandates when in the week ending in 2/3/22, there were over 600,000 pediatric #covid19 cases?! This is like watching a slow moving car crash 😓

Not surprisingly, Republicans are taking a victory lap:

Conservative activists and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin are claiming vindication after several states controlled by Democrats lifted their school mask mandates, even as his executive order allowing parents to opt-out of such mandates faces continued opposition.

Leftists have repeatedly argued that Biden is no better than Trump on the pandemic. Both presidents and their parties have prioritized money over lives, guaranteeing that billionaire bank accounts grow astronomically as the working class suffers and dies.

The difference is that Democrats have pretended to be the responsible party, using the deceptive term “pandemic of the unvaccinated” to blame anti-vaxxers for the hundreds of thousands of deaths under Biden’s watch. But the Democratic mask is off (literally), and the disabled, immunocompromised, unvaccinated children, older adults, and other vulnerable populations will pay the ultimate price.

Dr. Openly Excessively Black & Disabled (She/Her) @4WheelWorkOut

Your "Back to Normal" is my accessibility nightmare. Not tryna go back to that. I want all the access you "gifted" in 2020 and then some.

ru ✨ @chr0nicallycute

reminder that schools/unis not offering remote or flexible learning is ableist. so many disabled students benefitted from remote learning during lockdown. we proved it worked so there is no excuse not to offer a hybrid course.

Julia Métraux @metraux_julia

As an immunocompromised person who has an in-person appointment for a high-risk condition on Feb. 17, I hate it here.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California will end mask mandate on Feb. 15, lifts negative test requirement to visit hospitals, nursing homes.

Erin C. Sanders, MSN, WHNP-BC (She/Her) @ErinSandersNP

The disability community has been warning that the pandemic caused by #SARSCoV2 is a mass disabling event for 2 years now. It is so depressing to watch leaders of the world encourage mass infection with a novel virus. #LongCovid #COVID19 #Omicron https://t.co/2JqN9Vwt7Z

Eric Topol @EricTopol

If you thought #LongCovid wasn't a big issue, think again https://t.co/YKCVKaznVb https://t.co/DGP8BOW1uW https://t.co/SljzLSAP0v

David Christopher MLS @MLS_Dave

Seeing more gaslighting about #LongCovid in an effort to convince us the pandemic is ending. Yes, other viruses can cause long term health issues but name another in the last 100 yrs that has done this to tens of millions or more, infected 400 million & killed 6 million in 2 yrs.

In October 2020, Joe Biden accused Donald Trump of giving up on the pandemic: “As president, I will never wave the white flag of surrender. We can and will control this virus.” Now, both ruling parties have surrendered to Covid. The numbers don’t lie: The virus is “killing Americans at far higher rates than people in other wealthy nations.” The NY Times reports that “since Dec. 1, the share of Americans who have been killed by the coronavirus is at least 63 percent higher than in any of these other large, wealthy nations.”

The U.S. government’s handling of the pandemic is absolutely shameful. And it is criminal.

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America Officially Surrenders to COVID

Republicans take a victory lap as Democrats lift mask mandates, embrace mass death.

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