Mastodawn

May 7, 2024

Again, "Trump is worse!" Then blocked🤷🏿‍♂️

https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/@steter/112402055418029413

Gotta respect the doubling down! Replying to me posting some dude saying "Trump is worse!" then blocking me, with saying "Trump is worse!" then blocking me too! The commitment to the bit is impressive!

Listen, you can get as mad as you want. You can call Black folk criticizing Biden "Bitching" if you want. We're still going to do it.

The CDC under Biden dropped the Covid isolation period from "5 days" to "vibes days." Not Trump.

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Ginny Bee (she/her)May 8, 2024

@mekkaokereke Hang on there friend, comparing the Biden CDC to the Trump CDC misses an important point, which is that it was in 2018 under Trump that the US office responsible for pandemic preparedness was disbanded, leaving us at much higher risk levels for exactly the COVID-19 scenario, _and_ Trump recently said he'd repeat the same mistake if he's re-elected.

Whatever you think of Biden, Trump is actually worse, in all the ways. A selfish billionaire would disagree, I guess.

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mekka okereke

@fixiemama

"Trump is worse!" But without the block this time! I appreciate the change up!🙂

Things the Trump CDC did in 2018, don't excuse things the Biden CDC did in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.

You can't excuse whatever depraved thing Biden might do, by citing some slightly more depraved thing that Trump did.

👩🏽Officer! Help me! That serial killer just attacked me with an axe!

👮🏿‍♂️Meh. Dahmer's worse.

👩🏽Um... What?!

👮🏿‍♂️Dahmer's worse. Jeffrey Dahmer. He would've tried to eat you.

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Ginny Bee (she/her)May 8, 2024

@mekkaokereke Who said anything about excusing Biden.

I'm talking about using comparisons that are fair.

But considering nothing Trump does is in good faith, and he's in obvious cognitive decline, I'm not sure why the one you outline is the conversation anyone would bother with.

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Ginny Bee (she/her)May 8, 2024

@mekkaokereke LOL I didn't even go into the link you posted b4 but now I have and you know what? Anyone who would compare the presidential terms by number of people who died from COVID is not a serious actor. You can't be serious. I'm no data scientist but why would we compare a data set from 10-11mos. data collection with another that was years of data? Esp. when we're looking at the spread of a disease which increases exponentially with time? Relevant metric: what was done to halt the spread.

Again, the CDC under Trump in Jan 2021, did more to stop the spread than the CDC under Biden.

Biden literally rolled back preventative measures, sometimes in the middle of a Covid spike.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112402806394110535

If Trump had won in 2020, and then his CDC had rolled these Covid restrictions back, ended isolation periods, and watched the cumulative death toll cross a million, and he had said, "See! I fixed the economy!" I think that people's reaction would be different.

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])

@[email protected] Again, here are some comparisons that I think are fair: * More people died of Covid under the Biden CDC than the Trump CDC * Covid isolation mandates were more effective under Trump (5 days), and almost negligently ineffective under Biden (based on vibes and feels). * After Covid, the economy took a nose dive under Trump, in large part due to Covid restrictions. Biden chose to fix the economy, in large part by rolling back many of those Covid restrictions.

Hachyderm.io

Again, here are some comparisons that I think are fair:

* More people died of Covid under the Biden CDC than the Trump CDC
* Covid isolation mandates were more effective under Trump (5 days), and almost negligently ineffective under Biden (based on vibes and feels).
* After Covid, the economy took a nose dive under Trump, in large part due to Covid restrictions. Biden chose to fix the economy, in large part by rolling back many of those Covid restrictions.