American politics are so fucked for these to be the two faces of public health policy.
Republicans really looked at a Reagan appointee who, having first overseen Reagan’s famously awful response (or non-response) to AIDS, then lied to the public by validating their own anti-mask bullshit in order to cover for Trump selling off emergency supplies, while advocating against lockdowns, doing basically fuck-all except asking people nicely to wear masks, and they went, “Nah, this guy’s a left-wing radical, we hate his guts, we want the guy who eats roadkill,” and meanwhile Democrats looked at the same and went, “Hell yeah, that’s our guy!”
Democrats really are just Republicans from a couple decades ago, while Republicans are just fully insane.
Neither one of them is remotely trustworthy, there’s only one reliable place to turn to for health advice and it’s international organizations. The idea that any US institutions will be shielded or isolated from political influence is delusional.
To the downvoters: Here’s a clip of him spewing all kinds of misinformation, which the anti-maskers would run with. The only reason he said any of that nonsense was to cover for the administration’s decision to sell off emergency stockpiles. The correct response would have been to completely ignore what he said, and to instead follow the example of other countries where masking was widespread.
American politics are so fucked for these to be the two faces of public health policy.
Republicans really looked at a Reagan appointee who, having first overseen Reagan’s famously awful response (or non-response) to AIDS, then lied to the public by validating their own anti-mask bullshit in order to cover for Trump selling off emergency supplies, while advocating against lockdowns, doing basically fuck-all except asking people nicely to wear masks, and they went, “Nah, this guy’s a left-wing radical, we hate his guts, we want the guy who eats roadkill,” and meanwhile Democrats looked at the same and went, “Hell yeah, that’s our guy!”
Democrats really are just Republicans from a couple decades ago, while Republicans are just fully insane.
Neither one of them is remotely trustworthy, there’s only one reliable place to turn to for health advice and it’s international organizations. The idea that any US institutions will be shielded or isolated from political influence is delusional.
To the downvoters: Here’s a clip of him spewing all kinds of misinformation, which the anti-maskers would run with. The only reason he said any of that nonsense was to cover for the administration’s decision to sell off emergency stockpiles. The correct response would have been to completely ignore what he said, and to instead follow the example of other countries where masking was widespread.
Because masks fucking work.