Official LRC President Joseph R Biden Thread

Undecided Pennsylvania Voter wrote:

welp wrote:

This is the way I feel. I'm happy for 4 years of boring.

3,707 people died of covid yesterday and new variants are on the way in. Must be nice to be bored.

Yeah, the Covid must have started spreading after he took office:-(

As many US deaths from Vietnam...every 18 days.

Gina wrote:

Most liberals never really cared about the virus. BLM peaceful protests, huge Biden celebration parties and the reopening of restaurants in Democrat-run cities despite cases being worse than when they were closed show that. Liberals would continue being hysterical about the pandemic if their guy wasn’t in office.

Here in NYC I am surrounded by Dems/libs and I can tell you they very much cared and do care about the virus. Losing people you know will do that--I lost six fellow employees.

Restaurants may be opening in some Dem-run cities, but they aren't here. People are sitting outside, freezing their butts off while they eat...if they go to a restaurant at all, which many don't (except for takeout).

The virus is a horror, and the libs I encounter are as serious as a heart attack about it. They're scared, as am I.

Undecided Pennsylvania Voter wrote:

welp wrote:

This is the way I feel. I'm happy for 4 years of boring.

3,707 people died of covid yesterday and new variants are on the way in. Must be nice to be bored.

My goodness, look at all that virtuousness! Try not to look in the mirror, you might get blinded by the light!

agip wrote:

And...here...we...go

https://twitter.com/cnbcnow/status/1357101177431851012?s=21

MTG already reaping dividends for her constituents!

Gina wrote:

Undecided Pennsylvania Voter wrote:

3,707 people died of covid yesterday and new variants are on the way in. Must be nice to be bored.

Most liberals never really cared about the virus. BLM peaceful protests, huge Biden celebration parties and the reopening of restaurants in Democrat-run cities despite cases being worse than when they were closed show that. Liberals would continue being hysterical about the pandemic if their guy wasn’t in office.

Good to know that you know what most liberals care about. I'll keep you in mind next time I need to get the inside scoop on the liberal mind.

1101 wrote:

Undecided Pennsylvania Voter wrote:

3,707 people died of covid yesterday and new variants are on the way in. Must be nice to be bored.

My goodness, look at all that virtuousness! Try not to look in the mirror, you might get blinded by the light!

I'd rather be mocked for being "virtuous" than be "bored" about new vaccine-resistant Covid strains taking over the country while thousands die.

Undecided Pennsylvania Voter wrote:

I'd rather be mocked for being "virtuous" than be "bored" about new vaccine-resistant Covid strains taking over the country while thousands die.

Typical dopey trumper.

The only people bored with COVID are the Trump supporters who have spent a full year downplaying and denying the seriousness of the illness.

What's actually boring is the fact that Biden doesn't say stupid crap half a dozen times a day. Trump, for as bad a president as he was, was far from boring. He was a train wreck and as such made it impossible to look away.

Spin it however you want. Doesn't change the fact that despite Trump and people like you he'll bent on destroying America, democracy survived and you are exactly where you deserve to be: on the losing end.

Same trends continuing.

For fun, over the last 7 days:

Safest states per capita:

Lowest Deaths:

ND (quite an improvement after a mass casualty event in the Dakotas)

VT

Lowest Cases

OR

ND

MN

MO

Most dangerous states per capita

Most Deaths:

AZ

AL

SC

IA

Most Cases

AZ

TX

SC

“I’ll have to circle back with you on that.” Does she ever actually circle back on anything?

Gina wrote:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2021/02/02/white-house-press-office-screened-questions-to-jen-psaki/amp/

“I’ll have to circle back with you on that.” Does she ever actually circle back on anything?

normal procedure is yes, the WH press office will get back to reporters to answer questions the press sec doesn't know the answer to. Via phone or email.

Is it happening? Obviously I don't know, but that is standard operating procedure.

Undecided Pennsylvania Voter wrote:

1101 wrote:

My goodness, look at all that virtuousness! Try not to look in the mirror, you might get blinded by the light!

I'd rather be mocked for being "virtuous" than be "bored" about new vaccine-resistant Covid strains taking over the country while thousands die.

That's good. Because you certainly deserve to be mocked.

And I was pretty sure that this was about Biden and his boring presidency. Please do your virtue signaling on a thread about COVID.

Here are all of Biden's EOs to date. Seems perfectly reasonable to me. Many are simply cleaning up Trump EO messes. Many of the remainder are non-partisan and/or public safety related (ie covid). A few are "ceremonial" and a few are things Democrats favor.

None seem particularly unusual to me.

Example

Requires executive branch appointees to sign an ethics pledge barring them from acting in personal interest and requiring them to uphold the independence of the Department of Justice

I mean, how dare he?!?! lol

Link to EOs. Sorry.

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/politics/biden-executive-orders/index.html

welp wrote:

Undecided Pennsylvania Voter wrote:

I'd rather be mocked for being "virtuous" than be "bored" about new vaccine-resistant Covid strains taking over the country while thousands die.

Typical dopey trumper.

The only people bored with COVID are the Trump supporters who have spent a full year downplaying and denying the seriousness of the illness.

What's actually boring is the fact that Biden doesn't say stupid crap half a dozen times a day. Trump, for as bad a president as he was, was far from boring. He was a train wreck and as such made it impossible to look away.

Spin it however you want. Doesn't change the fact that despite Trump and people like you he'll bent on destroying America, democracy survived and you are exactly where you deserve to be: on the losing end.

Bingo.

This is a great piece.

It argues that the true magic of the vaccines is that they prevent hospitalization.

All of them are nearly 100% preventative of hospitalization and death.

So the future is not stamping out Covid, it’s reducing Covid to the flu. Some get sick but very few get seriously ill.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/04/covid-vaccine-trial-results-hospitalization/

Has Dementia Joe Made China Great Again yet?

#AOC_Jussie_WeBelieveYou_Hahahaha

reader of EOs wrote:

None seem particularly unusual to me.

how about this one.

Rescinds the “Mexico City Policy,” a ban on US government funding for foreign nonprofits that perform or promote abortions

maybe not 'unusual', but i assume controvertial.

agip wrote:

This is a great piece.

It argues that the true magic of the vaccines is that they prevent hospitalization.

All of them are nearly 100% preventative of hospitalization and death.

So the future is not stamping out Covid, it’s reducing Covid to the flu. Some get sick but very few get seriously ill.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/04/covid-vaccine-trial-results-hospitalization/

Yes. That's why we need to get it into arms at a much higher rate. There was a Times piece showing the same thing (I think I posted it here). It was something along the lines of among the 175K participants who received one of the 5 vaccines that are out, 0 had died, a handful had been hospitalized and 0 had been hospitalized after 28 days from receiving a vaccine.

I have been disappointed with the rollout under Biden. I had hoped it would be better, but it appears marginally better than under the previous admin. There is a short piece in the Times that addresses some of the issues facing progressive governments. Leonhardt blames it on focusing on process rather than getting in arms.

"A common problem seems to be a focus on process rather than on getting shots into arms. Some progressive leaders are effectively sacrificing efficiency for what they consider to be equity."

Personally, I haven't seen enough data or policy decisions to say that the failures of the vaccine rollout is progressive problem or not. However, it is a apparent that there isn't enough effort from the federal government today in prioritizing and streamlining the rollout. We are failing.