Not surprising to me. Politicians everywhere want COVID to be over, but it isn’t.
I’m not even American and I’m keen to see what the debate will be like. I seriously doubt Trump has enough self-control to stop himself lashing out at Harris, let alone the presence of mind to listen to his advisers!
It’s way better than nothing and (last I saw) was still quite effective at preventing hospitalisation and severe disease, but definitely suffers a significant drop in preventing infection and symptomatic illness.
Perhaps she could start with her own.
Was about to say exactly that.
Out of curiosity, given that the author of the posted article formerly agreed with you, what do you make of his views now?
It is refreshing to see someone who has left MAGA and realises the full potential danger that Trump and the GOP pose.
Another cult that clearly doesn’t follow the Bible they claim to believe in.
I wonder how the men in this group would feel about Proverbs 31 and the successful business woman it describes.
Yeah, that’s what concerns me. It definitely sounds plausible and I’m not an expert in the legalities of this, so from my outside (Australian) perspective this very much looks like a viable path for the GOP to take power. I haven’t followed much of Johnson’s activities either, but from what I’ve seen of him he strikes me as very dodgy… much like our ex PM Scott Morrison.
Somebody please tell me that this guy is wrong.
The thing is, though, I think most (or at least enough) voters actually do want this. Trump is clearly the preferred Republican candidate and that’s been obvious for some time. On the Democrats side, Biden is the lead candidate and likewise, it has been obvious that he was likely to be it for months. Ergo, it’s a Biden-Trump rematch.
Obviously nobody is happy about this, but it’s hardly surprising.
Well, I guess they had to come up with something to explain the fallout from COVID since they simultaneously claim that either (a) it’s not real or (b) it’s just a mild flu.
I really hope you’re right about him losing the general election.
I doubt that they ever will.
I wonder how long before someone works out how to manipulate the AI and get it to say things the campaign didn’t intend.
Well, if political emails didn’t read like spam so often, they probably wouldn’t be as much of a problem… Despite not even being a US citizen or living in the US, I still sometimes get US political emails or end up signed up to email lists, so they get marked as spam!
A subset of humans. Not everyone fails to learn from history.
Only a subset. Unfortunately they are doing their utmost to ensure they’re the ones making the decisions.
Unfortunately most of the world isn’t even taking it seriously anymore. People treat it like it’s a mild flu or common cold.
The virus is still producing waves of infection consistent with the pandemic phase of spread rather than the endemic phase and has not moved into a seasonal pattern like the flu or colds. It’s just not publicised in the media. Scientific studies show that Omicron was just as lethal as the original Wuhan strain and the current Omicron subvariants are similar - the virus has not actually gotten less severe as hoped (and in the case of Delta, it actually got more severe; thankfully that lineage did not give rise to the variants we now face).
The only difference between 2020 and now is that we have vaccines, but people need to keep up to date with the boosters. The efficacy of vaccines to prevent severe illness and hospitalisation wanes quickly, with a recent study showing it can be as low as 50% after four months.
We also know that the risk of long COVID is cumulative - i.e. it goes up with each infection and the increase in likelihood depends on whether you’re up-to-date with the vaccine (having the most recent booster roughly halves the increase in risk from an infection). A recent study estimated that 400 million people now suffer from long COVID at an annual cost of $1 trillion to the global economy. This will only continue to get worse if people continue to catch COVID every year or two.