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Originally Posted by Miss Shelby
Seebs I cannot with you. You want me to prove in words Biden forgot about the pandemic when you can CLEARLY see he is unmasked and sucking on a baby?
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Okay, first off,
I haven't seen that. Like, you apparently saw it, so it's in your mind, but I never saw it and don't know anything about it. Second, when exactly was this? Because once vaccines came out, a lot of people thought masks were much less necessary, and that doesn't mean they forgot, just that they were under the impression that the risk was mostly resolved.
Like, from a public health standpoint, the correct amount of kissing of babies to do is basically zero except for babies you personally live with, because it turns out infectious diseases have been all over the planet forever, and that's been true all along, but politicians have never cared.
But... Like, I genuinely don't think that anyone has "forgotten about" the pandemic, I do think that some people are taking it less seriously than I personally would. But "forgotten about" is a very different claim from "doesn't think the risk is particularly high at this time and in this context".
If you say "here's Joe Biden kissing a baby, on <date>, so even if he's vaccinated, he should know the baby isn't old enough to be safely vaccinated, and anyway the Omicron variant was known to be spreading at that point, he should not have done this", then... yeah I mean I'd probably agree? But if you want to claim he
forgot about the pandemic, you have to show that it's "no longer knows about the pandemic" and not "doesn't think this is very risky at this point".