1 Million People Are Dead Who Didn’t Need To Be

Reason I voted for Kamala Harris (2 of 3)

There’s a lot of reasons, but I’ll stick to the top three.

I voted for competent government.

President Biden and Vice President Harris, just like President Obama before them, have spent the last four years cleaning up the mess the previous Republican administration left behind it.

They got shots in arms.

They got the country re-opened, back to school and back to business.

They got the economy on its feet in a way that no other country in the world managed to do.

The disgraced, twice impeached, 34 times convicted felon and former social media influencer who used to occupy the White House botched the response to the pandemic.  Because he didn’t care if anyone else other than him lived or died.

Yes, the pandemic would have been terrible regardless.

Yes, people would have died.

But here’s the thing - the medical experts and epidemiologists said that, even if we did everything perfectly, made all the right decisions, 200,000 people were going to die.

Those first 200,000 were baked in.  There was nothing we were going to be able to do to save them.

And at the time, people couldn’t wrap their heads around it.  That level of death was unthinkable.

200,000 dead bodies was the starting point.   That was the best case scenario.

Every death after that was a choice.

Rough estimate: 1,219,487 people died in the United States of America from the Covid-19 virus

That’s a rough estimate, and who knows how many decades it’s going to take investigators to get a real number, we may never know because - again - the former president didn’t care if anyone other than him lived or died, and he didn’t want people even being tested, much less have an accurate counting of the dead because he felt like it made him look bad.

And he’s right, it does make him look bad.

But more people are dead because of him, and the collection of self-centered morons who ran his government and, again, were thinking only of themselves.

Independent journalistic outfits had to track the dead for the first year of the pandemic because the government refused to.  The journalists only stopped their trackers when the Centers for Disease Control finally started doing its job, under the Biden/Harris administration.

On the flip side, more people are alive today in Minnesota because our governor (and now candidate for Vice President) Tim Walz was sensible and listened to the experts, and wasn’t intimidated by people squawking and doing dumb sh*t during a pandemic that put themselves and others at risk because they didn’t want to be inconvenienced.

And the former president was indulging them because it was an alternate reality he preferred to live in.

1,219,487

200,000

Over a million people are dead who didn’t need to be.

The economy tanked.

The theater industry was shuttered and is still barely hobbling along again now.

As someone who lived through the AIDS epidemic, with another president who didn’t care if I lived or died, I thank God every day that Dr. Fauci gutted it out and stayed in service during that first terrible year that got us to the vaccines.  He’s gotten me through lethal viruses now, bless him.

I know everyone is understandably traumatized by that year of isolation and death.

I had been traumatized just the year before by my mother’s death from a brain tumor - I was primed to understand grief as I was still (and am still) going through it.

Every one of those 1,219,487 people has someone in their life who cared about or even loved them, who misses them, who grieves them.  If they’re lucky, more than one someone.

The exponential blast radius of all that grief - I’m surprised the world is still spinning.

There is a special place in hell for everyone in the previous administration who thought of themselves rather than the common good during that crisis.

So, no.

You don’t get to be president again after you f**k up that royally.

You just don’t.