Former Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday sided with COVID-19 experts in cautioning against relaxing social distancing measures too quickly.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1299664
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1299664
The Easter deadline is nothing but Trump pulling his toadstool aside to flash his two shriveled Corinthians at his deranged white Christian nationalist evangelic base.
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It really took them 4 days to set up a video conferencing location in his rec room? We’re doomed.
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I should think they were setting up things that are a bit more sophisticated than your Best Buy camera and Skype. Unclench.
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Biden has been great these past few days. He’s taken the heat off Cuomo and other officials and effectively pushed the counter point to the eugenics views of Trump and the far right nutters.
Why is it that white males always think that they’ll never eat it when we talk about societal trade-offs? The virus is not racist.
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You would think his campaign would have media professionals on staff. Are the same people who flubbed Hillary’s campaign running his?
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One would also think mature adults wouldn’t invent shit in their heads and make silly assumptions just give themselves a reason to be butthurt about too, but alas…
We have no idea and no reason to believe anything stupid happened. You just want to believe that.
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“It would be a catastrophic thing to do for our people and for our economy if we sent people back to work just as we were beginning to see the impact of social distancing take hold, only to unleash a second spike in infections,” Biden added.
The former vice president said at one point during the press briefing that he was “chomping at the bit” and that he wished he was back in the Senate in order to have an impact on COVID-19 response.
Thank you, Mr. President.
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Do you suppose that Biden’s media professionals could just waive a wand and have the electronic components they wanted just delivered out of the sky to Biden’s home? Or might they have to wait almost a week for non-essential deliveries like the rest of us Amazon prime and Best Buy folks given the number of deliveries being made at the moment?
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Most white males are too full of themselves to eat consequences for desert.
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Maybe they are fine with the funky, low-rent production values.
We are seeing a lot of amateuristic video these days. Call it COVIDeo.
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Biden’s still in the race?
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says the atheist, commie bastard!
Why don’t you want the Trump to usurp the Son of God’s day of resurrection like every other gawd fearin’ 'murican?
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I appreciate having a sane, sober, adult voice in the room. Quite ready to have him making these same talks from the White House (or, you know, hopefully we’re on to a new crisis by then!).
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You say that, but I hear Trump has sent multiple investigators to Wuhan, and you wouldn’t believe the stuff they’re finding. Any day now, they’re going to have it’s long form birth certificate.
And Sheriff Arpaio has just stated he won’t follow any orders from this virus because it’s not American.
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Very very soon, perhaps in two weeks.
(it’s not lost on me that Trump’s open-up-in-two-weeks message fits this format)
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One person who should be free to mingle with his peers. Maybe a junket conference to Italy.
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They’re trying to wrestle the virus into an internment camp, but damnit, it’s RNA is built like watermelons.
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[“President Donald Trump and several Democrats, including New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Biden’s opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), have made themselves regularly available on live-streams and to the press. But as Biden acknowledged Wednesday, it took his campaign four days to set up his rec room for internet briefings.”]
When we are overrun by a doubling every three days next week of ten times as many Covid-19 infected, maybe we can point to THAT as a pivotal moment, Mook.
Biden has also been in regular consultation with House and Senate members, among other things.
The zeal to mook-up perfectly ordinary stories amazes me.
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Just an observation watching him speak from his basement twice now. Two words Joe… Geritol and Red Bull. Fuck it, cocaine and Geritol! Let’s see some spark there Joe.
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