• archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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    5 days ago

    I can’t wait for everyone to make a big deal about COVID again now that Trump is heading back to the WH.

    Never-mind that it’s been raging basically un-restricted for the last 4 years while the CDC has been relaxing its mitigation guidance - now that Trump and his anti-vax buddies are back in office it’s suddenly going to be a crisis again.

    Say whatever you want about COVID becoming endemic and not important enough to act against, Biden took the very first opportunity to cut back on COVID labor protections as soon as it was clear that increasing vaccination rates wasn’t going to solve the rapid spread. Things like paid sick leave, the eviction moratorium and rent freezes, Federally funded COBRA and free treatment initiatives were all groundbreaking social programs that should have been made into permanent fixtures and would have been a positive legacy for his administration, but they didn’t even try to stretch those programs on the basis that COVID was still a clear and present danger.

    Big “mission accomplished” vibes.