I've been watching Trump and the Whitehouse ' briefing '. Geez, they're all headless !
Better go bomb somebody- ' cause they're no fucking use for anything else.
While I would love to blame it all on trump, this problem has been baked in for a long time, fortunately shit didn't go south long before now, but now is the time to act, putting it off is what got us here..
While we’re at it, let’s admit something more basic. The system would be failing even under a halfway competent president. The dirty little secret, which will soon become apparent to all, is that there is no real public health system in the United States.
The ad hoc response fashioned late Friday by House Democrats and the White House may help a bit, although it’s skimpy, as I’ll explain.
As the coronavirus outbreak in the US follows the same grim exponential growth path first displayed in Wuhan, China, before herculean measures were put in place to slow its spread there, America is waking up to the fact that it has almost no public capacity to deal with it.
Instead of a public health system, we have a private for-profit system for individuals lucky enough to afford it and a rickety social insurance system for people fortunate enough to have a full-time job.
At their best, both systems respond to the needs of individuals rather than the needs of the public as a whole. In America, the word “public” – as in public health, public education or public welfare – means a sum total of individual needs, not the common good.
Contrast this with America’s financial system. The Federal Reserve concerns itself with the health of financial markets as a whole. Late last week the Fed made $1.5tn available to banks, at the slightest hint of difficulties making trades. No one batted an eye.
When it comes to the health of the nation as a whole, money like this isn’t available. And there are no institutions analogous to the Fed with responsibility for overseeing and managing the public’s health – able to whip out a giant checkbook at a moment’s notice to prevent human, rather than financial, devastation.
Even if a test for the Covid-19 virus had been developed and approved in time, no institutions are in place to administer it to tens of millions of Americans free of charge. Local and state health departments are already bare bones, having lost nearly a quarter of their workforce since 2008, according to the National Association of County and City Health Officials.
Healthcare in America is delivered mainly by private for-profit corporations which, unlike financial institutions, are not required to maintain reserve capacity. As a result, the nation’s supply of ventilators isn’t nearly large enough to care for projected numbers of critically ill coronavirus victims unable to breathe for themselves. Its 45,000 intensive care unit beds fall woefully short of the 2.9 million likely to be needed.
The Fed can close banks to quarantine financial crises but the US can’t close workplaces because the nation’s social insurance system depends on people going to work.
Almost 30% of American workers have no paid sick leave from their employers, including 70% of low-income workers earning less than $10.49 an hour. Vast numbers of self-employed workers cannot afford sick leave. Friday’s deal between House Democrats and the White House won’t have much effect because it exempts large employers and offers waivers to smaller ones.
Most jobless Americans don’t qualify for unemployment insurance because they haven’t worked long enough in a steady job and the ad-hoc deal doesn’t alter this. Meanwhile, more than 30 million Americans have no health insurance. Eligibility for Medicaid, food stamps and other public assistance is now linked to having or actively looking for work.
It’s hard to close public schools because most working parents cannot afford childcare. Many poor children rely on school lunches for their only square meal a day. In Los Angeles, about 80% of students qualify for free or reduced lunches and just under 20,000 are homeless at some point during the school year.
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There is no public health system in the US, in short, because the richest nation in the world has no capacity to protect the public as a whole, apart from national defense. Ad-hoc remedies such as House Democrats and the White House fashioned on Friday are better than nothing, but they don’t come close to filling this void.
"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."
I've been watching Trump and the Whitehouse ' briefing '. Geez, they're all headless !
Better go bomb somebody- ' cause they're no fucking use for anything else.
" First they came for the journalists...
We don't know what happened after that . "
Maria Ressa.
Guno צְבִי (03-15-2020)
And to think, Trump proposed cutting the CDC budget.
Earl (03-16-2020)
PoliTalker (03-16-2020)
^^^ We have to consider the possibility he is a preeminent member of Deep State, bent on making Trumpf look bad.Dr Anthony S Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and just about the only official in the Trump administration trusted to tell the truth about the coronavirus
Earl (03-16-2020)
Jack (03-16-2020), ThatOwlWoman (03-16-2020)
As wacky as that sounds~ the thought crossed my mind several times while reading this article & then while posting it....
Hopefully trumps gut tells him not to risk it & hurt his chances for reelection & he does what the ppl that know what they are doing tell him for a change..
"There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."
Quite a lot of public health workers will be surprised to learn they dont exist.
"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Joseph Stalin
The USA has lost WWIV to China with no other weapons but China Virus and some cash to buy democrats.
countryboy (03-16-2020), Earl (03-16-2020)
A virus always has to run its course allowing the body to heal itself, rich or poor. A fever is the first sign that a body is
functioning properly as it attacks a virus. It has to happen. Viruses abhor heat. Attempts to reduce a fever in adults
should be made at 102 or 103. Otherwise monitor it continually, but let it do its job.
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
Earl (03-16-2020)
Cypress (03-16-2020), Frank Apisa (03-16-2020)
Hello Bill,
We are wishing we had universal healthcare now.
Last night, a quick-fix bandaid was quickly conjured up, so that testing will be paid for. Up until then, if you couldn't pay for it, you couldn't even get tested. How dumb was that?
Well, that's the problem with having a for-profit health care system.
The goal was never to keep the nation healthy.
It always was to just make money.
Which sadly does not meet the needs of the nation.
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Earl (03-16-2020)
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Cypress (03-16-2020)
PoliTalker, who cheered the economic loss to millions of Americans and their families due to the Chinese virus.
ATTN all liberal nut**bags,
go hide under your beds until we give you the all clear.
Dear God we have a nation of liberal half men, In times our women and children expect you to man up, liberals are manning down, panic is all over your faces, you can't hide
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