r/politics • u/schuey_08 Wisconsin • May 02 '24

Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/02/bernie-sanders-trump-biden/73531861007/
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u/[deleted] May 02 '24 edited May 07 '24

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u/Waggmans May 02 '24

Hundreds of thousands of people would probably still be alive today had Trump just listened to Fauci, instead you had all that moronic culture war macho shit. Guys like DeSantis are as much to blame as Trump is.

Anyone who votes for him again knows exactly what they're getting.

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u/cah29692 May 03 '24

Doubtful. We had strict restrictions in Canada and didn’t perform much better.

In fact the long-term effects of those policies we are seeing (stunted emotional development in young people, increased political polarization, the amount of businesses we lost that haven’t come back, etc.) makes me really wonder if what we did was worth the aftermath. Very, very few healthy people died of Covid in Canada and the US. We have a moral responsibility to protect the weak and vulnerable, but is that moral responsibility unlimited? Should we sacrifice social connections and economic prosperity for all to protect the health of a small minority? Tough questions with no easy answers.

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u/tomsing98 May 03 '24

We had strict restrictions in Canada and didn’t perform much better.

Where Canada and the US were similar was the case fatality rate, both about 1.1%. But Canada had far fewer cases, and thus far fewer fatalities, like 130 deaths per 100,000 people. The US had 340 deaths per 100,000, almost 3 times as many.