How are you supposed to "compromise" with this?

[ck4829]

57 percent of Republican respondents said the U.S. death toll for COVID-19 has been “acceptable,”
-https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213957484

I seriously doubt I am the only one here who thinks that every disease is worthy of one thing... eradication.

There is no "acceptable" death toll for disease; I didn't say it under Obama, I'm not saying it under Trump, I'm not going to say it under Biden, I'm not going to say it for any leader anywhere.

I don't care if it's COVID.
I don't care if it's influenza.
I don't care if it's HIV.
I don't care if it's malaria.
I don't care if it's polio.
I don't care if it's measles.
I don't care if it's sleeping sickness.

Any death from any disease in any country should be considered a policy failure.

If an "acceptable death toll" from any disease is considered the "reasonable" position while striving to drive diseases to extinction and considering deaths from disease to be policy failures is "radical", then go ahead and call me radical.

[kentuck]

1. Some positions cannot be compromised.

That is one.

[pwb]

2. I like the 43% of republicans who say it is not acceptable .

That is a good size number of his own Trump has probably hurt somehow.

[Squinch]

4. And the 57% is 57% of a rapidly shrinking party. Gallup says 26% of people identify as

republican as of May. So 57% of 26% is 15% of Americans.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx

[Squinch]

3. You're not. You're very much not supposed to compromise with imbeciles. If trump told

them to eat dirt and feed it to their children, they would come up with a dirt and cool whip parfait to feed to their inbred families.

[dchill]

5. Politically acceptable. Morals and ethics are out of play.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Put a name, a face and a relationship on each of those deaths.

Was the death of this child, this grandfather, this doctor, this mother, this nurse, this waiter, this store clerk, this friend, this sister, acceptable? The death of your mother, father, child, sibling, friend? Each of those 176,000 deaths was a person, not a number, and each death ruined the universe of one of those 176,000 families. If you GOPers say yes, those 176,000 deaths were acceptable and the deaths of any of those individuals and the agony for each of their families were acceptable, you're a bunch of fucking sociopaths.

[keithbvadu2]

7. As long as it was someone else's family member.

As long as it was someone else's family member.