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to a Trump/GOP or hell even a progressive (say Sanders) admin responding to COVID at this point with "here are some free tests in mid December...do you"
Deaths still piling up. Long COVID proving to be a thing not to be fucked with. Cases on the rise.
Meanwhile...
The "tools" are falling apart. Anti-virals no longer as effective. Evusheld etc no longer as effective.
Vaccines obviously not as sold. Don't stop spread and immunity wanes after a couple months. Bivalent booster was no more effective than the original recipe.
No mask mandates/encouragement/guidance. Hell the Biden admin and their CDC are too chicken shit to even wear masks in public as an example.
All downplayed for the economy and politics. Not the same extent that the previous admin did...but not much better.
The really shitty part?
Because they completely downplay the reality we are currently facing, there is also no investment in ventilation ( would have been nice to get this when the "good guys" had both chambers).
No warp speed type initiative for better vaccines or new treatments.
Etc.
And of course, no one will hold them to account. Certainly not the GOP. Not the media. And not the loyal blue MAGA cheerleaders who are so committed to the team/tribal aspect of politics that they'd rather be huge fucking hypocrites than just be be real about shit.
Yeah its funny that red MAGA will buy cop NFTs or whatever bullshit...but our side has our own dysfunctional relationship with their overlords.