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Biden Adviser Shames Americans For Not Sacrificing Enough During The Pandemic

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Former White House COVID-19 response adviser under President Biden, Andy Slavitt said that American citizens could have done a better job handling the pandemic and if people had “sacrificed a little bit more” we would have gotten through it sooner.

Slavitt also suggested that there were “simple” solutions to preventing the spread of the disease such as “not breathing near one another in large spaces. Of course it wouldn’t have been easy and according to Slavitt it “requires a certain amount of sacrifice and change.”

“We denied the virus for too long under the Trump White House,” Slavitt said on “CBS This Morning” while promoting his new book, “Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response.” “There was too much squashing of dissent and playing on divisions. I also think we need to look at one another and ask ourselves what do we need to do better next time … In many respects, being able to sacrifice a little bit for one another to get through this and to save more lives is going to be essential. That’s something that I think we could all have done better on.”

FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver suggested a different solution.

“The pandemic wouldn’t have been as bad if public health officials had realized most people regard in-person social interaction as ‘essential’, are not bad people for it, and that a strategy centered around expecting them to sacrifice it for months at a time was never gonna work,” he said.

People were confused by Slavitt’s take, arguing it wasn’t long ago that a majority of the U.S. was under strict lockdown orders that kept Americans from their family and friends for months on end.

Many families lost loved ones during that time, whether from COVID-19 or other causes, and were denied those final precious moments with them because of the mandates. The lockdowns also proved to have devastating effects on mental health, especially among young adults. The CDC revealed that the average suicide rate for teen girls ages 12 through 17 shot up to nearly 51% during the pandemic.

Here are just a few of the savage comments that Twitter users posted in response to Slavitt’s words.

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