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Someone must have told them that the greatest risk is to old people aka GOP voters
Alexander let himself be the test balloon for McConnell? Even with retirement looming.
I see they realized that if they take a week off without action that they are gonna be really fucked.
It is so distressing to see how little people like McConnell care about what's happening right now. A lot of people I know are starting to freak out and Republicans like Trump and McConnell just want to pretend that this will pass in two weeks. We're going to be feeling the aftereffects of their failure to act for a while, aren't we?
Not catching the virus. Anyone can catch it. He's part of an at-risk group for it being a serious medical issue for him.
Probably saw the news that Ohio has a possible 100000 cases of it.
I'm guessing we will see the same thing that's happening in Italy. Officials will drag their feet trying to wish this thing away and after another week or two of doing nothing substantial hospitals will become overloaded and tons of people will start dying from this. Only at that point do I expect them to take drastic measures like a nationwide lockdown, no intercontinental travel, and closing non-essential businesses.
My biggest concern is how long we're going to have to be on lockdown for. We can't just go back to business as usual once it slows down because of a lockdown. It will just spread again. Society more or less has to be put on hold until we can develop a vaccine or a very effective anti-viral.
I literally just visited the Capital and got to sit in the Senate gallery two days ago. One of the most surprising things (besides seeing many Senators disregard guidelines on shaking hands, wiping noses, etc.) was seeing him come out and give a five minute speech on how everyone was overreacting to cover-19. To see him so effortlessly delegitimize the entire discourse on the virus and suggest that we are the best equipped to deal with outbreaks was insane!
Society can't be put on hold for 18-24 months. Even doing it for two weeks is gonna put everyone through hell.
that is probably way over stated. We know about 5-10% require hospitalization. The hospitals would be over loaded with elderly and vulnerable patients right now.
We could potentially have a vaccine within a year. We could have anti-virals in a matter of months. We're already using remdesivir via compassionate use here in Washington State. We should have data next month regarding the efficacy of remdesivir, keeping my fingers crossed.
But until we have an effective treatment or vaccine, society absolutely cannot return back to normal lest we overwhelm the healthcare system. I imagine if we don't have a treatment soon we are going to have to take drastic measures like halting mortgage payments, providing unemployment to people who will be out of work because of this outbreak.
The best we can hope for is to take very drastic measures to slow this thing down, and maybe once it slows down society can go back to operating in a restricted fashion until we have some kind of treatment/vaccine.
And that's why the Senate must flip: they literally can't govern, only obstruct.
ME, CO, AZ, MT, NC, IA, GA (KS, AK, SC, KY) citizens, you know what to do.
ME, CO, AZ, MT, NC, IA, GA (KS, AK, SC, KY) citizens, you know what to do.
That's the conservative line right now. It's all a liberal/media overreaction and America is the best, those other countries got hit so hard because of their socialist healthcare policies and/or because China
GOP would give pounds of flesh before agreeing to those measures
Unfortunately for common sense and discourse - the stock market will be the final straw for Trump's dangerous incompetence. While the market felt it was just flat (and destructive) interest rates from the Fed - and unfunded tax cuts for those who least needed it, absorbed directly without being invested - it was all fun and games. Now Wall Street, like the President, has been reminded that the Economy is a complex interconnected ecosystems. They're lucky in a way that they didn't get all the way to Guillotines and Bastilles - but now the people most at risk from the physical danger - and least at risk from the financial fallout, will die, retire, vote for more of this shit and shrug as this disaster is used to defund social security and medicare after people stop paying attention to the facts, and only listen to the billing statement.
The President's incompetence has already caused the actual Pandemic to get geometrically out of control - he's exposed people to danger by laughing it off as Democrat hoax - and he's bankrupt more than a few people by telling them treatment will be paid for by insurance - not just because he's a regular kind of idiot, but because his ego is literally so out of control, that he refused to correct his mispronounced words and misread facts from the teleprompter.
He's definitely the stupidest person ever to hold the office - and by a country mile - but he's amplified his stupidity with some of the most venal, selfish, narcissistiuc behavior of anyone who's ever been in the public eye - and I don't say any of that hyperbolically - I mean it literally and factually. I don't know anyone as dumb and evil as him. His colleagues don't have the excuse of mental illness or lack of intellectual capacity. They're all in that sense guiltier than he is - nobody should have let him drive the bus. Of course he was going to crash it.
The people who voted for him and wear Maga hats are beyond hope or redemption - but we can at least pray they're disillisioned or embarassed enough to stay home in November.
Everyone else, vote like your life and welfare depend on it. Because... y'know. And don't forget that local elections are one of corrosives that rotted the hull.
The President's incompetence has already caused the actual Pandemic to get geometrically out of control - he's exposed people to danger by laughing it off as Democrat hoax - and he's bankrupt more than a few people by telling them treatment will be paid for by insurance - not just because he's a regular kind of idiot, but because his ego is literally so out of control, that he refused to correct his mispronounced words and misread facts from the teleprompter.
He's definitely the stupidest person ever to hold the office - and by a country mile - but he's amplified his stupidity with some of the most venal, selfish, narcissistiuc behavior of anyone who's ever been in the public eye - and I don't say any of that hyperbolically - I mean it literally and factually. I don't know anyone as dumb and evil as him. His colleagues don't have the excuse of mental illness or lack of intellectual capacity. They're all in that sense guiltier than he is - nobody should have let him drive the bus. Of course he was going to crash it.
The people who voted for him and wear Maga hats are beyond hope or redemption - but we can at least pray they're disillisioned or embarassed enough to stay home in November.
Everyone else, vote like your life and welfare depend on it. Because... y'know. And don't forget that local elections are one of corrosives that rotted the hull.
Mitch McConnell is a fundamentally evil person. He is basically a comic book level villain willing to let millions suffer and for for his own power and greed. The world will be a better place when he finally dies.
Hopefully that opportunity hasn't passed. The man deserves a sad, pitiful expiration more than many of the victims claimed so far.
Agreed. A lot of people like to moralize about this being a despicable way to think but those people fail to see political moves like this for what they are which is acts meant to harm and kill. These are deliberate decisions made to cause suffering for people most especially the marginalized groups the GOP has a vendetta against. There's nothing wrong with being vitriolic to people that are trying to kill you.
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