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"I'm not downplaying a bad flu season, but ... "-- over a million Americans died, but Ron Johnson is still out here arguing that covid wasn't that bad and we didn't need mitigation measures

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You Johnson are one very sick man. Too bad you hadn’t lost your family - kids, grandkids, your whole family. You might have a total different attitude. You are just like all repukecans (spelling not a mistake) totally lacking empathy and compassion.

If it weren't for the mishandling of the pandemic by the administration, his diary might have been more correct. A prediction based on reasonable human behavior, however, was not in the cards. MAGA refused to take responsibility for what THEY did, so Fauci lives as scapegoat for morons.

Too many Americans lived this. The sad part is, we couldn't see the sick and dying behind closed doors. My daughter was a hospital nurse during Covid. I heard her first hand horror stories. She went up to 13 days in a row without seeing her own children because she was having to cover extra shifts.

Fucking distraction American are being pulled off the street Prosecuted Epstein War Reflection pool White house destruction Basic needs aren't even close to being meet. Worries about migrants and ppl of color. Healthcare Jobs gone Gas prices As a vet they all make me sick

1 in 255 Americans died. That’s nuts and they can see how the mRNA vaccine stop what could have been a much worse tragedy. They just have to look and the difference between red (anti vaxers) and blue(high uptake) states. The facts are there clear as day. Ffs 😡

I’m not sure what they think Fauci was trying to do. Do they think he was actively trying to destroy the country? After spending his whole life saving lives?? Are they truly this stupid??

Malicious and immoral is what they are. They know this is all bullshit. It they were unhappy with the COVID response for whatever reason they should castigate the state and federal government, not its "evil advisors".

No. They're just ginning up conflict to fundraise from a position of getting revenge on the donor's behalf. To really sell it you have to make your base believe they've been actively wronged. It can't be just an incompetence thing. It doesn't need to be realistic. It just needs to generate money.

Now they’ve obtained a copy of Dr. Fauci's iPhone that was used during his time at HHS. It’s an official witch hunt and I’m so glad Biden gave him a pardon because Republican’s will stop at nothing to vilify this doctor. Utterly shameful.

It's not even about Fauci. It's about retroactively legitimizing their disinformation. If they can imprison Fauci on some skeevy technicality, they can then say "See? We were actually right about Ivermectin, raw milk, Tylenol causing autism, global warming denial, conversion therapy, eugenics, etc".

My understanding is that some state AGs (yes, Republicans) intend to charge him. Of course, that undermines Rand Paul's childish witch hunt, but the Republican Party, as a whole, does not seem to be populated with people of the highest intellect.

It’s disgusting the way they’re going after him years later. They need to be grateful that somebody was looking out for their health and move on with their lives.

Plus the strain on our already-burdened medical system led to at least another million excess deaths from other causes that wouldn’t have happened if people could have gotten medical care while all the hospitals were already full

Isn't the proper response to the septuagenarian acknowledgement? "You're right Senator. When people in their 70s and 80s are the ones who are disproportionately dying, that can hardly be considered a tragedy. I mean, they're already so close to death and of little value anyway."

There’s an extremely ugly truth that we don’t talk about. Millions of people in this country, like Ron Johnson, don’t care. They believe that losing the elderly and people with health issues, is worth it if it means not interrupting business.

honestly the death toll is understated as a lot of red states suddenly had a huge increase in heart attack & pneumonia deaths as they didn’t want them classified as covid deaths, it became died with covid-non contributing factor

I strive to grasp the argument here by the rebumlicans, Fauci made recommendations based on what we knew at the time ( which wasn’t much ) but Fauci was not commander in chief DJT was he made the decision to shutter the country not Fauci!

Fool. To know stuff and pretend you don’t know stuff might be the worst of all the tRump sycophants’ behaviors. Plus, election interference that has never been addressed on a scale that it needs to be.

Did he not hear himself say ‘early on’ that’s what was thought. But as knowledge and experience grew, they understood more & more how dangerous the virus was. These guys have such short memories of how bad it was. It would have been so much worse if those efforts to slow the spread were not taken.

Amazing how they degrade themselves to please the most vindictive spoiled child on the planet! Welp, their choice to ruin their legacy! Not that they had one!🤷‍♀️

Republicans are just entirely way too stupid for me. I don’t want to talk to another republican if the republican that’s gonna be my first question are you republican because if you are, I don’t wanna be near you

Trump the orangutan was the problem in Obama already had in place plans for an epidemic, but the orangutan decided to get rid of it. Trump’s the problem and now he’s making all his cronies go after the brilliant Smart people who tried to stop it.

US had more per capita deaths than any 1st world country. 1. Trump took too long to act of all rich G7 countries 2. US is only rich G7 country without universal health care Fauci implemeted the exact measures that other G7 countries had implemented and were allready proved to be effective.

Also it’s not just a bad flu. It causes many long term issues far beyond infection including lung damage and brain damage. The flu does not. We are revisiting this whole thing while measles is back! Lettuce poops killed 2 that we know of… polio was documented again recently. Jfc

They just can’t stand to be proven wrong! They won’t even admit how many of their own supporters Died because they wouldn’t take the necessary precautions! What a bunch of hypocrites. Hey MAGA they don’t care if you die because of their stupidity!

This is a man arguing white is black. MAGA does that because they are the most ignorant group of people on Earth whose reality is whatever the lying rapist, racist, thief, probable pedophile, cheat, and demented sexual predator says it is.

Ignorant Republicans will get us ALL killed! What sort of morons in #Wisconsin looked at crackpot Ron Johnson & said, "Yeah, I want that nut to represent me?"🤪 It's long past time to throw Republicans out of Congress & NEVER let them have control again! #MedSky #COVID19 #Fauci #2026Midterms

My god, republicans look so stupid peddling this bullshit. I mean we lived this pandemic in real time, and they think we don’t remember what happened? Johnson is a LIAR!

This shit proves one thing I knew to be true. Republicans can never be trusted. Millions were dying, people are still suffering the effects of long Covid, people like myself had mental health problems from it all…and you want to go after the man who helped create the vaccine.

Ron Johnson's chief of staff tried to hand Pence fake elector slates for MI & WI minutes before the Jan 6 certification. Pence's office had to refuse him: "Do not give that to him." Johnson has spent years dodging and downplaying his role. Enough spin — it's time for a real investigation.

Ah yes, Ron Johnson, America's Conscience®, who promised WI he'd serve only for 2 terms, now deep into his 3rd term, pooh-poohing covid while failing to mention the pandemic killed more than 930,000 Americans in its first year. Woulda been higher if not for containment, rapid tests & the vaccine.

The Pew graph on covid deaths in the USA March 2020 thru February 2021. What matters such a death toll of fellow Americans when RoJo's beloved economy was so battered? Mammon must have his sacrifices.

The Book of Durrow is an illuminated manuscript of the Gospels created at an Irish monastery ca, 700 AD. A 17th-century custodian immersed it in water and gave the water to a sick cow, thinking it would cure the cow. For some reason, Johnson reminds me of that guy, I'm not sure why. He just does.

It is working with the base. Those people don’t give shit about the cost of food or the billions Walmart and amazon got back in tariffs , but they still hold a grudge against wearing a mask in public

If this Fauci shit doesn’t prove that the US has more than just a Trump problem……. I dunno 🤷‍♀️ and then I see clips with voters sulking about the Dems not doing enough while taking about the midterms is just another election What a fuckin mess

There the Trump RUBBER STAMPERS are trying desperately to DISTRACT their declining MAGA Base by changing the narrative to… wait for it 2020 COVID19! When their inept MOB BOSS allowed over a MILLION people in America to DIE bc HE THREW OUT OUR EMERGENCY PANDEMIC PLANS Pres Obama prepared for US!

Meanwhile, in the real world...

Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social

From populists on the right, but also from establishment figures desperate to bury their responsibility, there's an ongoing push to bury the harms of COVID. Long COVID alone costs 7M life-years (QALYs) and on the order of a trillion dollars a year in the OECD. www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issue...

This Russian asset should be in the psych ward of a federal prison, not in Congress. Why do voters keep voting for individuals that are clearly mentally ill and dangerous? Why?? What do they get out of it?

Yes, when the same states keep putting the same criminally insane and incompetent lunatics into public offices it's natural to suspect that there is some shenanigans involved. There's absolutely no doubt that the outcomes of the elections in Texas and Florida are completely controlled by MAGA.