COVID-19 (coronavirus)

Annoyed wrote:

Biden already lost his credibility. Before he even stole the election.
But it doesn't matter anyway; the China Virus crisis has already served it's purpose, to get Trump out of office. That's all that mattered.

Trump being in office had nothing to do with it. I'm more inclined to believe it was truly an accident. But China will never admit to it. Despite the damage to the worlds economy, including China's.

Bandit wrote:

Annoyed wrote:

Biden already lost his credibility. Before he even stole the election.
But it doesn't matter anyway; the China Virus crisis has already served it's purpose, to get Trump out of office. That's all that mattered.

Trump being in office had nothing to do with it. I'm more inclined to believe it was truly an accident. But China will never admit to it. Despite the damage to the worlds economy, including China's.

I disagree. In late 2018/early 2019, Trump was seen as unbeatable at the polls, due to the strength of the economy as a result Trump's policies. Unemployment was lower than it had been in 50 years, wages were rising. The economy was booming. And study after study shows that people vote their pocketbooks first.

Now, at the same time, China was sore at Trump 'cause Trump was the first US leader in a long time who slapped China down. So China's leader had a powerful motive to want Trump out. I really don't think a communist dictator had any concern over the possible effects on his own people, he probably saw it as a solution to overpopulation.

The domestic left, which had considered the 2016 as stolen, as well as being fearful of Trump (6-3 SCOTUS, anyone?) had equally strong motive to want Trump out and many people on the right, the "Washington insiders" whom Trump would not play ball with didn't like him either. So we have China, and the domestic left with extreme motivation to oust a President who was on track to be unbeatable at the polls.

Isn't it quite the coincidence that China releases a virus which was used to attack Trump on his strongest point, the economy, and within a few weeks, the domestic left began using the pandemic as an excuse to relax voting restrictions, making it far easier to cheat? And then there were the shenanigans with the election itself. The 3 AM cessation of counting votes in several states, where Trump was ahead, and when the counting resumed, suddenly Biden was ahead, as well as the numerous other issues with it.

Whether or not the media, which is strongly biased to the left chose to report it, I'm convinced that 2020 was a case of a hostile foreign power colluding with the political left to oust an otherwise unbeatable president whom both groups had extremely powerful motivation to want gone.

Oh, and in 20/20 hindsight, isn't interesting that Biden is so friendly towards China and other communist nations such as Russia?

Can you say train wreck?

Bandit wrote:

Can you say train wreck?

Yep. I can even tell you who the engineer was.

And it was mostly all predictable. THe only real surprise was his level of stupidity regarding Afghanistan.

The pandemic wasn't predictable. Be that as it may, it's now out of control. Nobody trusts the government, WHO, CDC or anybody else. No good will become of this.

Bandit wrote:

The pandemic wasn't predictable. Be that as it may, it's now out of control. Nobody trusts the government, WHO, CDC or anybody else. No good will become of this.

Not counting hindsight yes, the fact that China released a virus developed in one of their bioweapons labs in peacetime was a surprise.
But the reactions of the WHO and our own CDC were not. The WHO is part of the UN, which is about as anti US as you can get. It's been a US hater's club for decades, unless they want to stick their hands in our wallets. Even their climate change advocates admitted that their solutions were basically wealth redistribution schemes. They want the ability to levy taxes in the US. So I'm not surprised at the WHO's response.

As far as our own CDC goes, it used to be and may in fact still be a useful resource for info on non-political medical issues. But this China virus has been driven by political aspects from day one. The information they put out was politically driven rather than fact-driven from the very start. They couldn't tell people where the damned thing came from for fear of offending China. Then they flip-flopped on masks; should people wear them or not. And they've been flip-flopping on almost every other aspect of it since, none of it based on hard science.Is it any wonder they have zero credibility left?

And as I've pointed out in other posts, politics, specifically driving an extremely successful President who at the start had a lock on re-election due to his success was the primary goal of a great many people in our country. This was also predictable. The left/Democrats never accepted that Trump beat Hillary in 2016, in their minds, nothing was "over the line" when it came to getting him out of office. So their use of the virus to steal an election was also predictable. I saw it coming as early as March of 2020, shortly after it made the mainstream news.

But the left aren't the only ones with blood on their hands.
At the very start of this, if we had taken proper steps, such as slamming the doors on this country closed and keeping them closed, and forcibly closing all non-essential businesses (the lockdowns) and keeping them closed long enough, this could have been stopped cold. Historically, quarantine has been an effective weapon against disease.
But alas, well-heeled business interests, mostly Republicans, weren't making money and they couldn't tolerate that. So they started re-opening as early as Memorial day 2020, again, with predictable results. The disease exploded.

Nah, most of this was all too predictable, if our leaders were honest with themselves. But we haven't had honest politicians for quite some time now.
Nah, aside from China's actions in releasing the virus, the vast majority of all of this has been extremely predictable.

Well 863,000 dead and growing. Biden did much better than Trump. In a year, 300,000 died before Trump got 3 viable vaccines. Biden in a year not only saw 563,000 more dead, he even has a variant and no vaccine or booster will help you. And he's done nothing to get people vaccinated. Now it doesn't matter.

And China isn't messing around. They even think you're spreading the virus, it's instant death. Like gunned down in the street serious. No questions asked. No explanations accepted.

And our own government is doing nothing. We'll top a million dead by July.