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Maybe the Dems can't address Trump's role without acknowledging their own unwillingness to be serious about the pandemic (and about the risk of future pandemics) for four years under Biden.

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Because there's been a rear-guard movement on the right downplay how bad it was. Far too many people believe the response to it was more harmful than letting bodies pile up as Trump allowed.

It may not even be a net positive to raise the issue.

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Sadly, Dems also blew it on post-pandemic oversight. They needed, and should have continued using the Senate after losing the House to thoroughly document how much Trump fucked up the one crisis he faced. Sadly, there was no motivation to use their power that way. Instead we have the House bringing in panel after panel of anti-vaccine cranks to talk about how the covid response was too much.

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Thatā€™s just it, though. We arenā€™t post pandemic; weā€™re post emergency declaration. The reason why people think itā€™s post pandemic is because of the dems and this administration, for sure. Itā€™s people like me, who are immunocompromised, who are still dying from covid along with the elderly. Instead of leading and actually protecting the most vulnerable who still have to live like itā€™s 2020, the Biden administration (who I voted for) instead made it more difficult, and often impossible, for me to access the very things I was able to easily during the emergency that my life depended upon. Some of those things is Covid PrEP, paxlovid, and easily attainable reasonable accommodations. Ever since Biden ended the emergency those toolsā€”the very ones he keeps saying we have!ā€”have effectively disappeared for people like me. Iā€™ll never forgive him for it. No one gives a damn about the high risk except for the high risk.

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Because we forget everything. And nobody cares anymore. Charlie Peters is rolling over. We are now in a consumer based, Internet driven society that cares about consumer prices and inconvenience. The hard stuff of governing is no longer interesting. It's bad. It's what we discuss on my Conflict of Interest podcast. Hope you would come on sometime.

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Covid was the big fail, but so much else was harmful or just an embarrassment.

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