Democrats freak out over Mike Pence’s role coordinating coronavirus efforts; They accuse him of killing people with HIV in Indiana

For people who are neither leftists nor caught in the grip of Trump Derangement Syndrome, Vice President Mike Pence is an intelligent, principled, competent man. When President Trump announced on Wednesday that he was putting Pence in charge of coordinating the federal government’s response to the coronavirus, it seemed like an eminently sensible decision. For Democrats, though, Pence is the man who caused an HIV outbreak in Indiana. This, of course, is a lie.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a woman so desperate to drive Trump from the White House that she seemed unconcerned that Mike Pence would become president, summed up the Democrats' concerns by tweeting that Pence does not “believe” in science.

Mike Pence literally does not believe in science.

It is utterly irresponsible to put him in charge of US coronavirus response as the world sits on the cusp of a pandemic.

This decision could cost people their lives. Pence’s past decisions already have. https://t.co/NhMPOusOWm— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 27, 2020

Pence probably doesn’t believe in fairies either but his history proves that he is receptive to the scientific process and to scientific data. So why does Ocasio-Cortez make this silly statement? The giveaway is her claim that Pence’s “past decisions” have already “cost people their lives.” She’s referring to events in Indiana in 2015.

Here’s the story the New York Times told more than a year and a half after the events occurred: Beginning in November 2014, five HIV drug users in Scott County, Indiana, tested positive for HIV. By the middle of January, eight more tested positive. The problem was shared needle use, so there was a movement to override Indiana’s law forbidding distributing clean needles to junkies.

People concerned about the junkies’ dangerous habits put pressure on Pence to declare an emergency and distribute the needles. Keep in mind that, at this point, only 0.0002% of Indiana’s population was affected.

Pence was resistant as a matter of principle because he was concerned that handing out needles encouraged drug abuse and other dangerous behaviors. This was not unreasonable. In San Francisco, for example, free needles incentivize street drug use and place city residents at high risk of infectious needle sticks.

Within a matter of weeks, however, after having spoken with medical experts and law enforcement, Pence declared a public health emergency and authorized needle exchanges. The Times reported that the entire cycle saw a total of 181 people get HIV – 90 before the needle exchanges and 91 after.

To the left, THEIR version of “Science” is a religion filled with dogma and “settled” fact.

Real science, as properly understood, is NEVER settled. Raw data is assembled, a working hypothesis is proposed, the hypothesis is tested repeatedly, and only then, is a cautious and always incomplete explanation put forth as to the mechanism of how the hypothesis applies. From time to time, anomalies will appear that are not satisfactorily explained by the hypothesis, and a new hypothesis is proposed, which is tested again and again, before accepting the new and only somewhat more complete explanation. The more we learn, the more we find out what we really don’t know.

So, experienced executive Pence does not believe in Global Warming, so he’s a science denier, incompetent to manage this response.

At the same time, ex-bartender AOC believes implicity in science because she’s a passionate advocate for the Green New Deal. Same for Greta Thunberg.

Does that make AOC or Greta a better choice for managing this effort?

The Democrats have manufactured a cultish younger generation of indoctrinated and radicalized activists who are incapable of rational and logical thought and are who driven by hate and other negative emotions projected at their perceived enemies.

Bill and Hill expected to be leaders of this emerging cult of personality, but the cultist rebelled and shifted their support to an even more toxic figure head in Sanders who has no real base of support in the Democrat’s elite power structure

The Democrats put him in as a stalking horse to make the eventual establishment candidate look moderate and centrist but there are few moderates or centrists in the base of the modern Democrat party.

This backfired and the stalking horse is now the hunter and he is stalking the Democrat power structure which does not control or own him. Sanders can say and do anything he wants because has absolutely nothing to lose and his lunatic base of young radicals will follow him blindly

Sanders actually is the the kind of dangerous, dictatorial demagogue Democrats have tried to make President Trump out to be and nobody can outbid Bernie on the amount of freebies he is willing to promise to the gullible voters

Bill Ivey to Podesta: “And as I've mentioned, we've all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. The unawareness remains strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly. This problem demands some serious, serious thinking - and not just poll driven, demographically-inspired messaging.”

As Bill Ivey wrote to Podesta in a email leaked by wikileaks - “And as I've mentioned, we've all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. The unawareness remains strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly. This problem demands some serious, serious thinking - and not just poll driven, demographically-inspired messaging.”

Looks like their thinking was not serious enough and they are being eaten alive by the zombie army they created

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