Drilling holes in a sinking boat.

[BertramN]

‘The governor's decision to return the federal money drew fire from Iowa Sen. Zach Wahls of Coralville, who is the top Democrat in the state Senate.

"Returning federal COVID relief money during a public health disaster is like drilling holes in a sinking boat," Wahls wrote on Twitter Friday. "Iowans are hurting and the Governor and Republican-controlled Legislature are making it worse by putting politics before public health."’ ibid

Exactly.

The reckless, irresponsible right – Republicans are incapable of sound governance and public policy.

This denial of the crisis has been the tone set by the GOP ever since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

And while it is, indeed, beneficial to the well-being of the nation in the long run to permit the GOP to kill-off their base, many innocent bystanders are suffering disastrous consequences as well.


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[Crepitus]

What's your real beef? Gov Reynolds refusing to allow CRT indoctrination?

What's your real IQ? 85?

 

[AZrailwhale]

It is the right-wing who are doing it not the schools that have to deal with chronic underfunding due to right-wing tax-cut economics.

Funding schools is a local responsibility and most of the local governments have been run by democrats for decades.

 

[Rigby5]

If history repeats itself, we have to watch out for a variant that also affects the youth and the healthy.

The lesson of history, is that natural selection moves epidemics to be less lethal, not more.

 

[Rigby5]

Derp…
What it means is they can be a danger to others if infected without knowing. Obviously testing gives the ability to separate those infected from those not. The goal is to reduce the spread. Not facilitate the spread. Mitigation is the very point of public health. Why is this very simple concept so difficult for you?

Wrong.
The goal is to reduce death, and that is best accomplished by increasing the spread among those unlikely to die from it.
With deliberate infection of those volunteers under 40, we could have wiped out the epidemic last March, and prevented over 500,000 deaths.

Mitigation of death is the goal, not mitigation of infection.
The whole history of vaccination came from deliberate infection, called "Variolation".

 

[WTH_Progs?]

 

[whitehall]

Do lefties think Iowa is sinking? What does the lame cliche mean? The truth is that federal funding to check kids for covid is a freaking sham and lefties should be praising the governor. If the crazy left assumes the option to hunt down U.S. Governors for bad decisions regarding Covid they need to look no further than NY Gov. Cuomo who issued the only executive order in history that directly resulted in the deaths of an estimated 10,000 people. They hanged Nazis for lesser crimes than that.

 

[danielpalos]

Do lefties think Iowa is sinking? What does the lame cliche mean? The truth is that federal funding to check kids for covid is a freaking sham and lefties should be praising the governor. If the crazy left assumes the option to hunt down U.S. Governors for bad decisions regarding Covid they need to look no further than NY Gov. Cuomo who issued the only executive order in history that directly resulted in the deaths of an estimated 10,000 people. They hanged Nazis for lesser crimes than that.

Not anymore. We have a real politician in the White House not a reality tv guy.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

Wrong.
The goal is to reduce death, and that is best accomplished by increasing the spread among those unlikely to die from it.
With deliberate infection of those volunteers under 40, we could have wiped out the epidemic last March, and prevented over 500,000 deaths.

Mitigation of death is the goal, not mitigation of infection.
The whole history of vaccination came from deliberate infection, called "Variolation".

Mitigation of death is the goal, not mitigation of infection.

Death is only possible with infection, dope. No need to cause anyone to suffer with a readily available vaccine.