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You don't understand what whataboutism is. If whataboutism includes pointing out alternatives, then it's worthless as a concept. It is not whataboutism to point out that lots of people with access to the same information came to the same conclusion. It is a circumstantial defense against a claim that a person used poor judgment or logic or was a knowing bad actor.
Pointing out at that Obama handled the swine flu poorly is whataboutism (although sort of a weak form of it; if you are judging a president's performance, it is normal to compare to how other presidents handled similar situations). Pointing out that the Obama administration didn't restock the N95 stockpile isn't whataboutism; it's relevant to how prepared we were. Pointing out that Obama lied about getting to keep your plan would be what aboutism. Pointing out that Pelosi is holed up in her mansion with $13 per pint ice cream is whataboutism. Pointing out that Biden is maybe suffering from dementia is not really whataboutism if you are talking about in the context of the 2020 election. IT's relevant whether he could have done better.
Would it have been better if Dems were in control? Check out this tweet (collage of Dem leaders on corona)...
https://twitter.com/steph93065/statu...634804736?s=21
Lifted from sps (drebin)
This. You can always find something to rebutt what was posted in these video clips. Why? Because Democrats have been talking out of both sides of their mouths since this began to cover their asses. They are no better or worse than Republicans or our President. Every...single...person..in politics is leveraging this virus for political and personal gain. Period.
Could you not do this exact thing with republicans? Hell, you could do it with just Trump and I'm sure somebody has. What's the point of posting this aside from more divisiveness?
Didn't take long to find this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NezEbDx4B9A
Trump gets the blame because he has done nothing.
One President, faced with a horrible choice, said " The Buck stops here"....
Making the tough decision is the ****ing job....
Trump said "I take no responsibility"
He should have been removed from office right then.
I think that's the whole point of the post...
You have a large section of the media ONLY showing the clips that you posted and holding up the other side of this as the "good guys" while never showing those other clips. On the other side, your channels like Fox News show the clips of democrat leaders doing the same thing and they are villified as a biased news outlet. This is pure manipulation and there is no way that the media (in general) is not complicit. This happens to be an ethical violation.
I posted the link to the NYDH, with the historical deaths, vs what has been seen since covid.
All NYC is doing is what Italy and Spain did. the overall death rates are dramatically increased since the virus started. Occam's Razor says that's due to the virus.
But, since we still cannot test everyone, they are not going to waste a test on a dead person.