NightlyPoe said:
TallSilhouette said:
...Did you even watch the video you're replying to? Trump tweeted, "All the governors are already backing off of the Ebola quarantines. Bad decision that will lead to more mayhem." about a virus that killed all of two people in the states. Fast forward to the present and he's calling for states to lift quarantine measures for a virus we're not even close to containing yet that has killed thousands. Are you seriously unable to see the hypocrisy there?...
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The thrust of Trump's complaint was about the quarantining of healthcare workers returning from overseas who had treated Ebola patients. Quarantining efforts for people who may have been exposed to the current virus were happening in January and February.
Trump was advising proactive policies to keep Ebola from gaining a foothold in the United States very similar to the policies that he enacted as president.
You and this video are trying to conflate that with the actions of different stages of controlling a disease. One of surveillance and containment and other other mitigation after a virus that has already gained a foothold in the country. These are totally separate issues.
In the case of the Ebola scare, perhaps Trump was wrong about that specific sickness. But it's not out of line with the actions he took as president.
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NightlyPoe said:
In this case, we have people running around using a national health scare as a means for scoring political points.
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Indeed. Like a man delaying the release of urgently needed stimulus checks so he can put his name on them.
NightlyPoe said:
Personally, I'm frustrated with the other posters for continually bringing up these cheap shots that have to be dispelled
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Pointing out the contradictions and hypocrisy of a man's own words is a cheap shot?
NightlyPoe said:
Excuse me if I have the temerity to be a minority voice doing little more than pointing out the ridiculousness of other people's exercising two minutes of hate.
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Are you also missing the irony here?
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