Posted on 10/25/2020 3:16:09 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Progressive darling Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Friday said she believes the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic wouldn't have been as bad as it has been if her vision of a Green New Deal was implemented in the United States. The comment was made during a Zoom call with actress and climate change activist Jane Fonda.
"Do you think that had there been a Green New Deal in place in January 2020, COVID-19 would have been much easier to contain and our health care system would have been much more resilient?" Fonda asked AOC.
"I absolutely think so, for a lot of reasons," the freshman congresswoman replied. "For one, if we had passed a Green New Deal by January of this year, that would mean that we had a political establishment that respects science, that is willing to mobilize and make major investments to protect the American people and, frankly, our global population."
According to Ocasio-Cortez, having "universal health care" embedded into the Green New Deal's "values," Americans would have been better off.
"With those mechanisms in place, then I do believe we would have been better off. We would have respected the science early, we would have listened to scientists, we would have generated policy and enacted policy that is based on science and not politicizing how manly you are if you don't wear a mask.
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Occasionally I suppose, but I've never actually heard of one. That's why they call her "Occasional Cortex".
1. Raise taxes on energy through the roof
2. ??????
3. Everyone is safe from covid!
What kind of gnome is she?
Maybe she’d have a point. The economy would be so bad that maybe everyone would be at home already or they would be working in different countries to find jobs.
What a Balloon Head!!!!
No airplanes, so no flights from Europe and China........
I was thinking subsistence farming but your way works too.
The scientists to the leftist are like the Mullahs to a Islamist.
Of course. More govt control solves all problems
I guess if the only way to travel to China was to sail there with wind power...
it would take a thousand pages to list all the petroleum-derived thingies in use every day in the average hospital - from ppe to bed controls
Because being locked up in a dark unheated home is a cure for a cold vs watching tv eating popcorn?
Does kissing socialist behinds cure cancer too?
As I often exhort her to do, when I tweet-troll her, she needs to sue her college.
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