Still more: More evidence of the Antichrist's denial of reality and sociopathic impulses.There were classified intelligence reports in January and February warning of a possible pandemic. The intelligence reports tracked the spread of the disease in China and that governments attempts to minimize the problem. The regime took no action to prepare for an eventual outbreak in the US.
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credit: Christopher Weyant, Boston Globe
Wackydoodle sez: Spreads fast too! |
More: Rationing of ventilators has already begun in Michigan. In 2003 the GAO warned, “few
hospitals have adequate medical equipment, such as ventilators, that
are often needed for respiratory infections.” In 2017 the CDC repeated a
similar warning: “Substantial concern exists that intensive care units
(ICUs) might have
insufficient resources to treat all persons requiring ventilator
support." A 2015 study by the CDC found a severe flu epidemic would require
60,000 additional ventilators. When approached by the regime to produce more ventilators,
the profiteers at GM demanded hundreds of millions up front and a price tag of about $18,000 per ventilator. The 'great deal maker' balked at the
price; the total bill of $1.5 billion is comparable to 18 F-35s, the Pentagon's infamously over-budget, advanced fighter. Eventually GM came round when the regime threatened to use the
Defense Production Act to force the company to comply with the demand.
None of the expected ventilators will be available for use until early summer, too late for the expected surge in demand in the next two months. Currently GM factories are idle in response to the pandemic. Last year GM posted $6.5 billion in profits. Medicare for All too expensive? You decide.
{27.03.20} Don Douche has been absolving himself of responsibility his entire life. You cannot expect him to change just because he sits in the room without corners; after all, privilege bestowed by inherited wealth has worked for him in the past.
The ugly,
whispered truth of the current regime has now been confirmed in writing:
lives are less important than profits in an end-stage capitalist economy.
Last Sunday, Donald Trump declared on Twitter: “WE CANNOT LET THE CURE
BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF. AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE
WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!” It was another well known authoritarian, Joseph Stalin, who allegedly said, “One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.” In the view of the neo-fascistic Trumpists who embrace a cult of death (remember the
Tottenkopf insignia?), if you are over seventy, you are expendable.
Keeping the goon in office is necessary for continuing the legalized looting by corporations and their fat cat enablers. Thus, this piece of screed from the midnight tweeter: "The LameStream Media is the dominant force in trying to get me to keep
our Country closed as long as possible in the hope that it will be
detrimental to my election success. The real people want to get back to
work ASAP. We will be stronger than ever before!" Notice that if you want to protect your health and your family's health and spare the country a worsening epidemic, you are not "real people" but a good for nothing, lazy, socialist freeloader.
And you Mr. & Mrs. 'Merica made a big mistake when you voted against Bernie Sanders, who has spent his life attempting to save you from yourself. Remember this fact, folks: the death corps will receive $500 billion in another massive bailout to further enrich their stock-owning executives--you get $1200 to pay your mounting bills, while you beg for lesser work. Does that sound like a democratic society to you? No, it is predatory, gangster capitalism and it is coming after you and your family*.
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*Question: Do you know why the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, which killed nearly 700,000 in the United States, was called the "Spanish Flu"? Answer: No, it was not a racist slur, but reflected the fact that Spain was neutral in World War I, and its press was therefore largely uncensored. The combatant countries in Europe and the US censored stories about the Pandemic for fear of undermining their war effort. Spanish newspapers were full of stories about the rapid, global spread of the swine flu and its potency--some patients would turn blue from lack of oxygen before dying--hence, the misnomer, "Spanish" flu. One resident doctor described the current situation at New York's public Elmhurst Hospital in Queens as "apocalyptic". Meanwhiile, social distancing at the VWH by a group of GOP:
