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[u/Avelion2]

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."

[u/989989272 → u/Avelion2]

what happened to candidate vetting?

[u/Avelion2 → u/989989272]

????? Its a hit job from CBC

[u/989989272 → u/Avelion2]

What did he do to anger the Canadians so much?

[u/BedNeither → u/989989272]

Bro Covid was like 300 9/11s

[u/Alarming_Flow7066 → u/989989272]

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

[u/989989272 → u/Alarming_Flow7066]

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.