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I’m tired of the wining

You are KIDDING yourself if you think the United States didn't know about this in November - and if not before. I mean - we have 3.5 years of nothing but BULLSHCITT coming out of the White House - and you freaks turning yourself into pretzels defending this schmuck. Doesn't it get tired? Wait and see... the truth WILL come out. And no matter when Trump acknowledged the severity of the virus - Americans are smarter than you freaks here: Americans not buying White House spin on coronavirus

From Dr. Fauci: “Chickenpox is a virus. Lots of people have had it, and probably don't think about it much once the initial illness has passed. But it stays in your body and lives there forever, and maybe when you're older, you have debilitatingly painful outbreaks of shingles. You don't just get over this virus in a few weeks, never to have another health effect. We know this because it's been around for years, and has been studied medically for years. Herpes is also a virus. And once someone has it, it stays in your body and lives there forever, and anytime they get a little run down or stressed-out they're going to have an outbreak. Maybe every time you have a big event coming up (school pictures, job interview, big date) you're going to get a cold sore. For the rest of your life. You don't just get over it in a few weeks. We know this because it's been around for years, and been studied medically for years. HIV is a virus. It attacks the immune system and makes the carrier far more vulnerable to other illnesses. It has a list of symptoms and negative health impacts that goes on and on. It was decades before viable treatments were developed that allowed people to live with a reasonable quality of life. Once you have it, it lives in your body forever and there is no cure. Over time, that takes a toll on the body, putting people living with HIV at greater risk for health conditions such as cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, diabetes, bone disease, liver disease, cognitive disorders, and some types of cancer. We know this because it has been around for years, and had been studied medically for years. Now with COVID-19, we have a novel virus that spreads rapidly and easily. The full spectrum of symptoms and health effects is only just beginning to be cataloged, much less understood. So far the symptoms may include: Fever Fatigue Coughing Pneumonia Chills/Trembling Acute respiratory distress Lung damage (potentially permanent) Loss of taste (a neurological symptom) Sore throat Headaches Difficulty breathing Mental confusion Diarrhea Nausea or vomiting Loss of appetite Strokes have also been reported in some people who have COVID-19 (even in the relatively young) Swollen eyes Blood clots Seizures Liver damage Kidney damage Rash COVID toes (weird, right?) People testing positive for COVID-19 have been documented to be sick even after 60 days. Many people are sick for weeks, get better, and then experience a rapid and sudden flare up and get sick all over again. A man in Seattle was hospitalized for 62 days, and while well enough to be released, still has a long road of recovery ahead of him. Not to mention a $1.1 million medical bill. Then there is MIS-C. Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children is a condition where different body parts can become inflamed, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes, or gastrointestinal organs. Children with MIS-C may have a fever and various symptoms, including abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, neck pain, rash, bloodshot eyes, or feeling extra tired. While rare, it has caused deaths. This disease has not been around for years. It has basically been 6 months. No one knows yet the long-term health effects, or how it may present itself years down the road for people who have been exposed. We literally *do not know* what we do not know. For those in our society who suggest that people being cautious are cowards, for people who refuse to take even the simplest of precautions to protect themselves and those around them, I want to ask, without hyperbole and in all sincerity: How dare you? How dare you risk the lives of others so cavalierly. How dare you decide for others that they should welcome exposure as "getting it over with", when literally no one knows who will be the lucky "mild symptoms" case, and who may fall ill and die. Because while we know that some people are more susceptible to suffering a more serious case, we also know that 20 and 30-year-olds have died, marathon runners and fitness nuts have died, children and infants have died. How dare you behave as though you know more than medical experts, when those same experts acknowledge that there is so much we don't yet know, but with what we DO know, are smart enough to be scared of how easily this is spread, and recommend baseline precautions such as: Frequent hand-washing Physical distancing Reduced social/public contact or interaction Mask wearing Covering your cough or sneeze Avoiding touching your face Sanitizing frequently touched surfaces The more things we can all do to mitigate our risk of exposure, the better off we all are, in my opinion. Not only does it flatten the curve and allow health care providers to maintain levels of service that aren't immediately and catastrophically overwhelmed; it also reduces unnecessary suffering and deaths, and buys time for the scientific community to study the virus in order to come to a more full understanding of the breadth of its impacts in both the short and long term. I reject the notion that it's "just a virus" and we'll all get it eventually. What a careless, lazy, heartless stance.”

Consider this - Trump accumulated 30,573 false statements over the course of his 4-year administration, and that's not even accounting for any since his departure from the White House. If Bolton is indeed fabricating tales, wouldn't Trump have logically pursued a libel suit against him? Do you ever get tired of cleaning up EVERY mess Trump makes?

Do you get tired of whitewashing the past, Doc?

Oh, SO YOU DID READ MY COMMENTS - jfc - lmao Yeah, those blue cities have to play the rules set out by those red state legislatures. And btw - go look up the crime in rural areas in red states - absolute poverty leads to crime. Bottom line: RED STATES SUCK and I'm tired of my TAX dollars going to those states to bail them out.

Um, keep up - that response was to Reddog; not you. Fair enough. Like you said, I'm entitled to my opinion, and you're entitled to yours. Unfortunately, MAGA and the GOP have a long track record of trying to erase LGTBQ and I can't help but see these trans bills as nothing more of the same. If the GOP wanted to be taken seriously on this issue - why wouldn't they take the opportunity to try and have a bi-partisan discussion about how best to handle fairness for all in sports? Unfortunately, it would go against their brand, but it is what the American people WANT. People are tired of the games. Tired of the partisanship. Instead, we see bills across red states - coming together - with little to no input - and if there is counter input; the representatives are expelled or banned from the floor. At the end of the day, I refuse to sit idly by, and watch people try to normalize hate.