https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemic There’s been more than one pandemic, y’all. He was VP during Swine Flu. I know he’s old as fuck but I’d assume that’s what he was talking about.
“And when I was vice president, things were kind of bad during the pandemic,” Biden said. “And what happened was, Barack said to me, ‘Go to Detroit, and help fix it.’ Well the poor mayor, he spent more time with me than he thought he was ever going to have to. God love you.”
Biden was referring to Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who took office while Biden was still VP back in 2014.
It sounds like he could only be referring to 2014 and later then? I.e. not swine flu.
Yeah, then he probably was mixing things up (either who was mayor or when he did what where). I doubt he’d be talking about the Ebola outbreak since we only had 4 cases in the U.S. I think it was the biggest Ebola outbreak ever in West Africa but unless the mayor of Detroit’s duties include being the super secret Global Emergency Epidemiologist, not sure why he’d talk to him about that.
Just an aside: it’s kind of crazy that we had SARS, MERS, the Ebola outbreak, multiple Avian flus, swine flu, and several more since 2000 and COVID-19 is the one that spread around the world and killed the most people. It really illustrates how a relatively low mortality rate — I think SARS and MERS were 30%-40% and COVID-19 was like 2% — can be worse overall if it’s transmissible enough between humans.
The mental gymnastics to turn a blind eye regarding Biden’s public declining mental state.
I’m not turning a blind eye to it. I know he (and Trump) are sundowning. My personal opinion is that Trump is worse off just based on how they both were in the 90’s or 2000’s. Like, look up a video of Trump on Leno or Letterman and he’s not rambling on or angry like he is now. Biden always had “gaffes” or whatever you want to call them.
Everyone their age declines. To me, Trump is showing some of the early Alzheimer’s signs with the anger and the non-stop rambling (which he didn’t do in the past). Biden seems like he’s aging in the way where, if you were his kids, you’d stop letting him drive and be concerned but he’s substantially the same person he was 10 or 20 years ago (even if that included verbal gaffes).
Some of the first swine flu cases in humans in the US were in Michigan, so Biden being “sent to Detroit” makes sense. Way more than it would for Covid.
Please, everyone, shit on this guy as I do! It’s really important to me.
