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« on: January 10, 2022, 07:44:42 AM »

What changes if Covid is basically almost identical to vanilla SARS, and doesn’t spread well outside of a medical setting with most deaths(except maybe one Western city like Toronto) occurring in Asia???
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« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2022, 04:39:06 AM »

Trump was re-elected in 2020 and Democrats, not Republicans, are salivating over the midterms coming up.
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« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2022, 12:06:34 PM »

The virus would have obviously been easier to contain to China and thus not as big as a deal.  Maybe Trump benefits from taking a strong anti-China angle, but it's still probably too much of a non-issue to move the needle very much. 
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« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2022, 07:41:05 AM »

Trump was re-elected in 2020 and Democrats, not Republicans, are salivating over the midterms coming up.
Dr Oz probably isn’t running.
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« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2022, 12:59:35 PM »
« Edited: May 21, 2022, 01:02:59 PM by Skill and Chance »

If the outbreak simply never makes it out of Wuhan, it's a non-issue in American politics by spring.  If there is some gradual international spread and  a series of foreign outbreaks stay in the news for several months, it could have an impact.  Assuming Trump still institutes the China travel ban early and there is never a serious outbreak on US soil, it would help Trump in a "he kept us out of the war" kind of way.
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« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2022, 05:55:30 AM »

If the outbreak simply never makes it out of Wuhan, it's a non-issue in American politics by spring.  If there is some gradual international spread and  a series of foreign outbreaks stay in the news for several months, it could have an impact.  Assuming Trump still institutes the China travel ban early and there is never a serious outbreak on US soil, it would help Trump in a "he kept us out of the war" kind of way.
Those things sound reasonable in such a universe. It might even be just forgotten for the most part.
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« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2022, 10:45:28 PM »

The US republic would have ended in late 2020
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