I don’t need a novel posted....something short and simple works just fine....So you want your neighbor to pay for your child’s education, subsidize your income, and your rent etc and you want your neighbor to help cover your healthcare....Why/how does that seem like a reasonable request while you’re telling your neighbor you want more desperate people here from Mexico as well? Please explain this to us self sufficient folks that can’t wrap our heads around it.
If you can make sense of this I and others may be inclined to vote Democrat.
Thanks in advance.
If you are in the US, you are seeing what happens when America turns it's back on medical science and takes the attitude of why should I care about your heath, 210,000 dead and the number going up everyday, schools closed, 15 million unemployed, businesses big and small going bankrupt and all because not enough people care about others to wear a mask, keep social distance, and practice simple common sense healthcare precautions.
Let me say from my German point of view something to this problems. We have a health insurance for [nearly] everyone since December 1st 1884. It survived two world wars and was an important basic factor for our "Wirtschaftswunder" (economic miracle), for the reunion (20 years difference in average life span) and migration waves.
In 2013 our virologists and epidemiologists remembered us to the Spanish influenca (which was made a hundred years ago in the USA and had caused more death victims than world war 1). In this context they made a simulation about our preparedness for a new pandemic, because everyone knows since a very long time that a pandemic is in theory always possible to happen within a very short time.
They found out in 2013 that we had not enough emergency beds, not enough protecting cloth, not enough masks, not enough desinfectants and so on and so on. And what did we do? Nothing! To do something had costed peanuts. So who wastes peanuts for really important things (for example a pandemic which can be much more worse than a world war) when he is also able to waste money for expensive senseless nonsense?
So when Corona came we were as surprised as everyone else in the western world and we were not able to control this problems - we had to run behind and this problems controlled us. I'm a little angry about, because we were totally stupid idiots - to know a danger and to run into this danger with seeing eyes is a criminal idiocy, isn't it?
But what we were able to avoid: our health system did not run out of control. We were able to make the modifications which it needed faster than the virus killed us. The situation was bad and costed now really a lot of money and much to many victims - we lost up to now 9,677 people because of covid-19 and it is not over yet - but the situation was up to now not so bad as in many other nations of the western world - as for example in Italy, France, Spain, Great Britain or the USA. Toitoitoi - to everyone. I wish you two pounds more luck than you and everyone else needs.
Today we know better what covid-19 is - we are able to help patients which need help in our hospitals better than it was some month ago - we have much more possiblities for tests and we think in early 2021 a vaccination on a high level of quality will hopefully come.
And we have a big problem: More people want to close their eyes and dream the dreams of the charlatan Donald Trump. Imagine: There are really some people who don't like to know any longer why it is important to keep distance, to take care on hygiene (specially it's important to wash hands more often), to wear masks and to let fresh air into closed rooms.