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    Default Covid-19 Will Mark the End of Affluence Politics

    On Tuesday, President Donald Trump dismissed concerns about Covid-19. As he put it, the virus is "under control" in the US and the “whole situation will start working out.” But according to Politico, Trump is privately voicing worries that the impact of the virus will undermine his chances of reelection. His panicked actions of late—including preventing an American from being treated in Alabama, at the request of a fearful Senator Richard Shelby—confirm that this virus is a political event of the first magnitude. While few in Washington have internalized it, the coronavirus is the biggest story in the world and is soon going to smash into our electoral politics in unpredictable ways.

    the coronavirus is going to introduce economic conditions with which few people in modern America are familiar: the prospect of shortages. After 25 years of offshoring and consolidation, we now rely on overseas production for just about everything. Now in the wake of the coronavirus, China has shut down much of its production; South Korea and Italy will shut down as well. Once the final imports from these countries have worked their way through the supply chains and hit our shores, it could be a while before we get more. This coronavirus will reveal, in other words, a crisis of production—and one that’s coming just in time for a presidential election.

    Regardless, the end of affluence politics means focusing on whether medicine is on shelves, not bitter disputes over bloated and wasteful hospital and insurance billing departments. It means caring about bureaucratic competence in government, and accuracy in media, not because these are nice things to have but because they are necessary to avoid immense widespread suffering. It means understanding that pharmaceutical mergers that benefit shareholders while laying off scientists are destructive, not just because they are unfair, but because they make us less resilient to disease. (Shareholders, as it turns out, also have lungs.) Finally, it means recognizing that wealth, real wealth, is not defined by accounting games on Wall Street, but the ability to meet the needs of our own people.

    https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19...ence-politics/
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    CDC warns Americans of 'significant disruption' from coronavirus
    Top health officials are asking Americans to prepare for COVID-19.

    This comes in contrast to statements from the Trump administration. Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said Tuesday the threat to the U.S. from coronavirus "remains low," despite the White House seeking $1.25 billion in emergency funding to combat the virus. Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, told CNBC’s Kelly Evans on “The Exchange” Tuesday evening, "We have contained the virus very well here in the U.S."

    https://abcnews.go.com/International...ry?id=69190968
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    The coronavirus epidemic is serious, yes. The DOW did not tank just because of Sanders.
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    Quote Originally Posted by iewitness View Post
    Dungboy is the epitome of effluence posting. Fake jews produce fake news.
    Fake Jews and Lord Jesus on the same post. Yepper, it's the JPP board.
    WK1 3/28-/4 _Cases 301k--Dead 18.1k Lethality 2.72%
    WK2 4/5-/13 _Cases 555k--Dead 22.1K Lethality 3.9%
    WK3 4/20-/21 Cases 774k -Dead 37.2K Lethality 4.8%
    WK4 4/22-/29 Cases 1M --Dead 58.8K Lethality 5.9%
    WK5 5/1-/8__ Cases 1.3M -Dead 75.7K Lethality 6.1%
    WK6 5/9-16__Cases 1.4M --Dead 85.8K Lethality 6.1%
    WK7 5/17-24_Cases 1.7M - Dead 97.6K Lethality 5.9%
    WK8 5/28 Cases 1.7M - DEAD 101.2K - Same

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    Affluence won't stop. Worse case, the affluent can flee from country to country as it comes to a continent too near them. Even sail out to sea and wait it out for longer periods of time.
    WK1 3/28-/4 _Cases 301k--Dead 18.1k Lethality 2.72%
    WK2 4/5-/13 _Cases 555k--Dead 22.1K Lethality 3.9%
    WK3 4/20-/21 Cases 774k -Dead 37.2K Lethality 4.8%
    WK4 4/22-/29 Cases 1M --Dead 58.8K Lethality 5.9%
    WK5 5/1-/8__ Cases 1.3M -Dead 75.7K Lethality 6.1%
    WK6 5/9-16__Cases 1.4M --Dead 85.8K Lethality 6.1%
    WK7 5/17-24_Cases 1.7M - Dead 97.6K Lethality 5.9%
    WK8 5/28 Cases 1.7M - DEAD 101.2K - Same

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    How fascinating that our glorious glowing gourd of a "leader" is more worried about COVID-19 messing up his re-election chances than he is the deaths of American citizens if it spreads in the U.S.
    "Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain

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    U.S. Health Official Warns: COVID-19 Will Hit the United States
    Americans should prepare for the possibility that their lives will be disrupted due to the pandemic, says the CDC's Nancy Messonnier.

    https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/...reach-the.aspx
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    Quote Originally Posted by Centerleftfl View Post
    Affluence won't stop. Worse case, the affluent can flee from country to country as it comes to a continent too near them. Even sail out to sea and wait it out for longer periods of time.
    and trumps rubes will be the ones who take the hit
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    How fascinating that our glorious glowing gourd of a "leader" is more worried about COVID-19 messing up his re-election chances than he is the deaths of American citizens if it spreads in the U.S.
    Do you know how many died in 2017-18 in the US from the H3N2 virus? Did you blame Obama for it?

    An estimated 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications last winter, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This means it was the deadliest season in more than four decades -- since 1976, the date of the first published paper reporting total seasonal flu deaths, said CDC Spokeswoman Kristen Nordlund.
    https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/26/h...-bn/index.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    How fascinating that our glorious glowing gourd of a "leader" is more worried about COVID-19 messing up his re-election chances than he is the deaths of American citizens if it spreads in the U.S.
    What does your mate Walt have to say about it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    What does your mate Walt have to say about it?
    I hope you are posting wearing a mask.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimmymccready View Post
    The coronavirus epidemic is serious, yes. The DOW did not tank just because of Sanders.
    Coronavirus has a 98% survival rate, and White libs are throwing in the towel, predicting it's the end of the world.
    "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
    — Joe Biden on Obama.

    Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.

    D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.

    Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".

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    Only Bigdog is saying it's the end of the world, no one else.

    But a 2% mortality rate would be 6.6. million Americans if everyone got ill.
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