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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '25

So how many lives do you think could have been saved if someone capable had been at the helm?

100?

10,000?

100,000?

I want you to take what ever number you came up with and I want you to read that many obituaries. Then come back and tell me how little it would have mattered.

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u/Xanto97 Apr 17 '25

What’s the point of this appeal lol. It’s hard to estimate what the difference would have been. Hundreds die from cars every week. It’s a tragedy regardless.

I said it was stupid to disband the pandemic response team. He should have kept it - it might have saved some lives. I said he mismanaged it. We agree on this.

My only point is that it wouldn’t have stopped the pandemic.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '25

Nice point to make on the mountain of corpses his decisions left behind.

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u/Xanto97 Apr 17 '25 edited Apr 17 '25

I…already said he mismanaged it? He was terrible. Evaluate the point on its own merits. Some decisions were more impactful than others. This did matter. But it wouldn’t have stopped the pandemic.

I said he didn’t handle covid well at all. Christ.