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it is absolutely infuriating to see "well SMART and WELL-INFORMED people like ME knew in JANUARY how bad this was going to be so the Woodward tapes are IRRELEVANT" takes, like congrats on your hindsight, enjoy feeling smarter than everyone who died, you absolute ghoul
it's not like the only people who got sick or made mistakes here were stupid right-wing assholes
VERY FEW OF US KNEW WHAT THE FUCK WAS GOING ON IN FEBRUARY OR MARCH
remember when it was just "wash your hands and don't be racist"? we thought this was a 6-week crisis, max
VERY FEW OF US KNEW WHAT THE FUCK WAS GOING ON IN FEBRUARY OR MARCH
remember when it was just "wash your hands and don't be racist"? we thought this was a 6-week crisis, max
and we thought that because we were TOLD that, and because it took a really long time for things like mask mandates and shelter-at-home restrictions to be normalized and enforced
there was so much conflicting information from the government
there was so much conflicting information from the government
I vividly remember discussing with people, "well schools won't stay closed long because kids are immune" and "it's never going to come to a mask mandate" and "i'm not super worried about getting sick because my lungs are fine and then I'd at least be immune afterwards"
and I'm a really smart woman who reads a lot of different news sources and understands how science works when someone explains it to me
like yes, obviously NOW anyone who goes out in public without a mask on is being a deliberate asshole
but if you did it on like March 8th, before your state locked down, and then you got sick and died, do you deserve to be mocked?
but if you did it on like March 8th, before your state locked down, and then you got sick and died, do you deserve to be mocked?
The reality is that anyone, anywhere, who had ANY information that could have helped people make better-informed decisions - EVEN IF THERE'S NO WAY TO GUARANTEE THAT ANYONE WOULD HAVE CHANGED A SINGLE BEHAVIOR - had a moral obligation to disclose it, and that includes Woodward
and the argument that "well it wouldn't have changed Trump supporters' minds" implies that it was ALWAYS only Trump supporters making reckless health decisions, but that's really only recently true
it's not like every Democrat put a mask on March 1 and never left the house again
it's not like every Democrat put a mask on March 1 and never left the house again
the pandemic became a sharply partisan issue once there was enough data to reveal that it was predominantly impacting Black and brown communities and disabled/immunocompromised/elderly people, at which point a lot of able-bodied white folks were like "oh never mind then"
but everyone's revisionist history about January through March is really ignoring the fact that at the beginning MOST PEOPLE were scared and MOST PEOPLE were confused and MOST PEOPLE were still expecting at least SOME sectors of the government, even if not Trump, to guide us
anyway if one more dude in my mentions tries to tell me he's too smart to get coronavirused i am lighting this hellsite on fire
guys please stop replying to this thread to make sure I know that you, personally, knew before everyone else exactly what was going to happen
the point is that mass chaos ensued because of how many people didn't know and those people weren't all idiots. they had bad information
the point is that mass chaos ensued because of how many people didn't know and those people weren't all idiots. they had bad information
the fact that some areas got clear early warnings and were able to contain the virus before it spread, while others heard nothing from local leaders until it was already out of control, is because we did not have a centralized, proactive federal response. WHICH WOODWARD KNEW.
i am logging off now but like just FYI this is a really bad moment for leftist intellectual superiority
i know hindsight is 20/20 but it feels singularly cruel, after 200,000 deaths, to blame individuals confused by misleading info instead of the people who kept facts from them
i know hindsight is 20/20 but it feels singularly cruel, after 200,000 deaths, to blame individuals confused by misleading info instead of the people who kept facts from them
and if a woman who once loved Bob Woodward so much she literally has the book "All the President's Men" tattooed on her arm can come to this conclusion, you can too.
