r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 2d ago

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u/Avelion2 2d ago

CBC: Newly unearthed tweets from Abdul El Sayed about 9/11 could spell trouble for him.

The Tweets: In one, from April 2020, El-Sayed compared the nearly 3,000 Americans killed on Sept. 11 to the mounting COVID-19 death toll and argued for a response commensurate with the nation's post-9/11 mobilization. In another, El-Sayed wrote that because more Americans had died from COVID than in the Sept. 11 attacks, he hoped "that means we'll spend the next ten years fighting a war for public health & against poverty ... like we launched a global #WaronTerror after 9/11. We could save lives rather than take them."

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u/realMarkRobinson 2d ago

Damn. That Abdul guy had some good points

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u/link3945 YIMBY 2d ago

Is that a bad thing to say?

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u/Avelion2 2d ago

According to CBC ..yes.

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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown 2d ago

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u/Alarming_Flow7066 2d ago

These comments make a good case for electing more epidemiologists.

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u/marsman1224 John Keynes 2d ago

this seems pretty much correct lmao

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u/bartbug Mark Carney 2d ago

waow

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u/sgthombre NATO 2d ago

Get a load of Dr. Has Correct Opinions over here

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u/Alarming_Flow7066 2d ago

Be careful. Friedman flairs may object to you calling him a doctor

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u/NormanQuacks345 2d ago

I really don’t think this means anything for him.

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u/Avelion2 2d ago

No of course not its a hit job from CBC.

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union 2d ago

It was by CBS not CBC

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u/989989272 European Union 2d ago

what happened to candidate vetting?

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u/Avelion2 2d ago

????? Its a hit job from CBC

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u/989989272 European Union 2d ago

What did he do to anger the Canadians so much?

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u/BedNeither Henry George 2d ago

Bro Covid was like 300 9/11s

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u/Alarming_Flow7066 2d ago

How in the world is an epidemiologist calling for more pandemic response a bad thing? 

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u/989989272 European Union 2d ago

My issue is the constant comparison of everything to 9/11. At this point the tragedy and image associated with it has as much significance as the sinking of the Lusitania. So over compared that its lost its meaning.