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The US will begin air dropping food aid to the people of Gaza, President Joe Biden announced on Friday, as the humanitarian crisis deepens and Israel continues to resist opening additional land crossings to allow more assistance into the war-torn strip.

Speaking in the Oval Office, Biden said the US would be "pulling out every stop" to get additional aid into Gaza, which has been under heavy bombardment by Israel since the October 7 Hamas terror attacks.

"Aid flowing to Gaza is nowhere nearly enough," the US President said, noting "hundreds of trucks" should be entering the enclave.

Biden said the US is "going to insist that Israel facilitate more trucks and more routes to get more and more people the help they need, no excuses".

He also noted the efforts to broker a deal to free the hostages and secure an "immediate ceasefire" that would allow additional aid in.

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[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

I think part of the issue is semantics: People think that "controlled" is as much as an absolute as "uncontrolled". Control over such things will never be absolute as medicine isn't omnipotent.

And then they're mardy, thinking "if not for those anti-maskers we would have that absolute control" -- nah. They can't take from the rest of us power that we never had. And even over here in my state with like 85% immunisation and noone griping at masks (wat mutt dat mutt) there's still cases. That failing (because people don't become noticeably symptomatic), there's measurable viral load in wastewater: The bug is still around, just not really an issue any more. We've basically forgotten about it at this point, people over 80 or otherwise susceptible get refresher shots, but they're getting shots against a fuckton of things so it's not special, any more.

The pandemic got brought into control even with covidiots around. And if it hadn't been for medicine saving a gazillion lives, our collective immune system would've done it in a decade or two.