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markodochartaigh

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1. The lack of reliability of the data was because

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Sat Sep 6, 2025, 01:17 AM

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the CDC was hamstrung by Trump and by Republican governors like DeSantis, and because some doctors refused to ascribe the cause of death to covid19.
Typical Republican behavior, break something and then complain that the thing doesn't work.

Edit: And yet, due to amazing work by scientists from several fields, the data for the covid pandemic was light years ahead of anything previously possible.

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The lack of reliability of the data was because markodochartaigh Saturday #1

And, if I recall, the Florida surgeon general was a RFK Jr. type nightmare when Covid was raging there Rhiannon12866 Saturday #2

Yes markodochartaigh Saturday #3

Thanks! I remember seeing him on the news at the time and wondered how he ever got that job Rhiannon12866 Saturday #4

I remember when the polio vaccine was being markodochartaigh Saturday #5

I have no idea what inoculations that we got in school, but I do remember that a whole lot of kids got them Rhiannon12866 Saturday #6