Just a reminder of who he is:
It requires registration, not payment. And it clearly says he is a registered republican.
Has me wondering if this was an attempt to start a race war, like a bunch of past mass shootings, attempts to knock out power by shooting transformers, etc.
It’s Paul Krugman. He’s been talking about how awful Trump is since at least 2016
It’s not even about time; it’s that their policy agenda is really unpopular, so they’re planning to have a pledge of allegiance to Trump instead of talking about how they plan to sell national parks to billionaires, let the poor go hungry, and transfer wealth upwards
Replacing Biden with a white man and making it unlikely that Harris would end up as President is a recipe for breaking the Democratic coalition. Probably not a good move.
The problem is that I don’t think the odds are appreciably better with any other Democrat.
And here I was thinking “crime” in public surveys meant “I see people with darker skin than me sometimes” rather than any kind of actual criminal behavior.
Yes, once the anti-vax anti-mask folks got their footing, it was pretty much guaranteed that we’d see a lot of deaths.
The debate has had a remarkably slight impact on public opinion to date. It’s not clear that it’ll shift things in any kind of meaningful way.
There are things we could have done better; the US isn’t some island of perfection, but it was on the whole, a decent response after Biden took office.
Smallpox is a disease where vaccination once protects you for life.
The current round of vaccines for COVID protect you for several months.
There’s a difference in outcomes because of that. I’ll also note that a big chunk of China didn’t get vaccinated either, and that we have a really active anti-vax contingent in the US with the support of Trump and the other Republicans.
It’s not the end; it’s not something that ever ends, in the same way that influenza still kills people.
But vaccines got us from a disease that was killing an awful lot more people to one where it’s one that kills a few.
Yes actually — he started sabotaging pandemic response as soon as it became known that in the absence of vaccines, the disease would disproportionately harm minority communities which have less access to care.
If you’re in the US, the basic answer looks like this:
It means his team arranged for actual delivery, federal payments, and not just dumping it on the system, which weren’t prepared
What he did do was get vaccine distribution working. That made a world of difference in fatality rates
Yes, they’ve been updating the vaccine every year to match currently-circulating virus strains. This is about an additional update coming out this fall.
Pretty much the same thing is done with flu vaccines, where you need a periodic update for it to be effective.
No, not yet. There will probably be one in September or October.
Vance flipped from being a never-Trumper to being a Trump bootlicker when he figured out that he needed Trump’s support to get into a position to fulfill his side of Theil’s patronage.