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Some NyQuil, Aspirin, And A Little Chicken Soup
There are several reasons conservatives will never learn the truth concerning the impeached president trumpâs totally botched response to the COVID-19 pandemic. One, their favorite ânewsâ sources report only what the impeached president trump has authorized. Two, the vast majority of conservatives were convinced from childhood that education was unnecessary beyond the âthree Rsâ (readinâ, ritenâ, anâ ârithmetic). Three, due to shunning education, the vast majority of conservatives cannot understand complex issues, so, they attribute most crises to âGodâs willâ. Four, the conservativesâ posts on these message boards explain this reason, they believe they know more than scientific and medical experts in communicable diseases, pandemics, the logistics involved in fighting a pandemic, etc., etc., etc.
All the factual COVID-19 information known to date is available on the Internet for everyone to see. But only for those willing to look beyond FOX Noise and others that deal only in âalternative factsâ and propaganda.
For the extremely few devoted fanatics of the impeached president trump who might be interested in reading some harsh truth about their fearless leaderâs epic failure on the COVID-19 pandemic, please, read on.
-No other nation has endured as much death from Covid-19 nor nearly as a high a death rate as has the United States.
-With 4.25% of the world population, America has the tragic distinction of accounting for about 30% of pandemic deaths so far. And it is the only advanced nation where the death rate is still climbing. Three thousand deaths per day are anticipated by June 1st.
-No other nation has loosened lock-downs and other social-distancing measures while deaths are increasing, as the United States is now doing.
-No other advanced nation was as unprepared for the pandemic as was the United States.
-We now know the impeached president trump and his administration were told by public health experts in mid-January that immediate action was required to stop the spread of Covid-19. But according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, âthere was a lot of push-back.â Trump didnât act until March 16th.
-Epidemiologists estimate 90% of the deaths in the US from the first wave of Covid-19 might have been prevented had social distancing policies been put into effect two weeks earlier, on March 2nd.
-No nation other than the United States has left it to subordinate units of government â states and cities â to buy ventilators and personal protective equipment. In no other nation have such sub-governments been forced to bid against each other.
-In no other nation have experts in public health and emergency preparedness been pushed aside and replaced by political cronies like the impeached president trumpâs son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who in turn has been advised by the impeached president trumpâs donors and Fox News celebrities.
-In no other advanced nation has Covid-19 forced so many average citizens into poverty so quickly. The Urban Institute reports that more than 30% of American adults have had to reduce their spending on food.
-Elsewhere around the world, governments are providing generous income support. Not in the United States. Congressâs âpayroll protection programâ has been a mess. Because funds have been distributed through financial institutions, banks have raked off money for themselves and rewarded their favored customers. Of the $350 billion originally intended for small businesses, $243 million has gone to large, publicly held companies.(As usual, only the billionaire class and Big Business are receiving generous sums of federal money. The treasury and the Fed are bailing out big corporations from the debts they accumulated in recent years to buy back their shares of stock.)
-At best, Americans have received one-time checks for $1,200, about a weekâs worth of rent, groceries and utilities. Few are collecting unemployment benefits because unemployment offices are overwhelmed with claims.
-Why is America so different from other advanced nations facing the same coronavirus threat? Why has everything gone so tragically wrong?
-Some of it is due to the impeached president trump and his incompetent and corrupt collection of grifters, buffoons, sycophants, lobbyists and relatives. But there are also deeper roots.
-The coronavirus has been especially potent in the United States because America is the only industrialized nation lacking universal healthcare. Many families have been reluctant to see doctors or check into emergency rooms for fear of racking up large bills.
-America is also the only one of 22 advanced nations failing to give all workers some form of paid sick leave. As a result, many American workers have remained on the job when they should have been home.
-Adding to this is the grossly inadequate unemployment benefits in America, which provide less support in the first year of unemployment than those in any other advanced country.
-American workplaces are also more dangerous. Even before Covid-19 ripped through meat-packers and warehouses, fatality rates were higher among American workers than European.
-Even before the pandemic robbed Americans of their jobs and incomes, average wage growth in the United States had lagged behind average wage growth in most other advanced countries. Ever since Reagan sold the American workers his âtrickle downâ snake oil in the 1980s, American workersâ share of total national income has declined more than in any other rich nation.
-In other nations, unions have long pushed for safer working conditions and higher wages. But American workers are far less unionized than workers in other advanced economies. Only 6.4% of private-sector workers in America belong to a union, compared with more than 26% in Canada, 37% in Italy, 67% in Sweden, and 25% in Britain.
So who and whatâs to blame for the worst avoidable loss of life in American history?
The current calamity has been long in the making, due to Americaâs longer-term failure to provide its people the basic support they need through a living wage, affordable healthcare, paid sick leave, etc. But the final blow that has caused, and will continue to push the COVID-19 death toll higher and higher, has been the impeached president trumpâs personal greed and ongoing malfeasance.
The impeached president trumpâs devoted fanatics consistently deny facts and the accuracy of empirical data. Also, they are incapable of letting go of the lies told them by their fearless leader, one being the COVID-19 virus is no worse than a common cold. Even as his devoted fanatics lay dying, gasping for their last breath, most will remain convinced NyQuil, aspirin, and a little chicken soup can cure them. And, putting a dash of Lysol in the chicken soup, will cure them even faster.
In closing, itâs always gratifying to see how much conservatives hate the truth. Their hate for facts is seen on these message boards regularly, and reasonable people have come to expect it. Just as reasonable people expect the constant conservative denial of reality seen here day in and day out. (The COVID-19 pandemic has really proven this.)
So, please, keep your mindless, right wing criticisms coming. By doing so, you consistently reaffirm these facts about yourselves. You can do nothing else, which makes it useless to respond to your debunked talking points and other conservative nonsense.
If America is at war with covid-19, itâs doing a bad job of fighting
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