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silence7, to politics in Biden Ended the Trump Crime Wave

And here I was thinking “crime” in public surveys meant “I see people with darker skin than me sometimes” rather than any kind of actual criminal behavior.

silence7, to politics in Biden Ended the Trump Crime Wave

Yes, once the anti-vax anti-mask folks got their footing, it was pretty much guaranteed that we’d see a lot of deaths.

silence7, to politics in Biden Administration Denies Mining and Drilling Access to Alaskan Wilderness

The debate has had a remarkably slight impact on public opinion to date. It’s not clear that it’ll shift things in any kind of meaningful way.

silence7, to politics in Biden Ended the Trump Crime Wave

There are things we could have done better; the US isn’t some island of perfection, but it was on the whole, a decent response after Biden took office.

silence7, to politics in Biden Ended the Trump Crime Wave

Smallpox is a disease where vaccination once protects you for life.

The current round of vaccines for COVID protect you for several months.

There’s a difference in outcomes because of that. I’ll also note that a big chunk of China didn’t get vaccinated either, and that we have a really active anti-vax contingent in the US with the support of Trump and the other Republicans.

silence7, to politics in Biden Ended the Trump Crime Wave

It’s not the end; it’s not something that ever ends, in the same way that influenza still kills people.

But vaccines got us from a disease that was killing an awful lot more people to one where it’s one that kills a few.

silence7, to politics in Biden Ended the Trump Crime Wave

Yes actually — he started sabotaging pandemic response as soon as it became known that in the absence of vaccines, the disease would disproportionately harm minority communities which have less access to care.

silence7, to politics in Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Doctrine, Imperiling an Array of Federal Rules

If you’re in the US, the basic answer looks like this:

silence7, to politics in Biden Ended the Trump Crime Wave

It means his team arranged for actual delivery, federal payments, and not just dumping it on the system, which weren’t prepared

silence7, to politics in Biden Ended the Trump Crime Wave

What he did do was get vaccine distribution working. That made a world of difference in fatality rates

silence7, to politics in Supreme Court halts enforcement of the EPA's plan to limit downwind pollution from power plants

Not sure anything like that is put together, but a good start is to call your rep and senators and ask them to close the various loopholes that the courts have put in US bribery law, both the after-the-fact-gratuity one and the explicit (instead of implicit) quid-pro-quo one.

silence7, to world in Game-Changing HIV Shot Can’t Get to High-Risk Groups Fast Enough | Lenacapavir proved it's possible to prevent 100% of infections in women. Access and affordability are the next big hurdles.

Historically, the answer on this has involved charging very different amounts in different countries. This both enables some level of access by the poor and maximizes profits.

silence7, to politics in Supreme Court halts enforcement of the EPA's plan to limit downwind pollution from power plants

I wonder how much of a gratuity the Republican justices are going to get for this ruling.

silence7, to politics in Supreme Court overturns ex-mayor’s bribery conviction, narrowing the scope of public corruption law
silence7, to politics in Trump trusted more than Biden on democracy among key swing-state voters

For a lot of people “Democracy” means “rule by rich white men” and not “a system where elections determine who will hold power”

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