Coronavirus - the new pandemic

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Covid-19 increases traced to parties, not protests
https://www.scarymommy.com/covid-clusters-linked-bars-large-gatherings/?utm_source=FB

[clearspira]

Disease expert reckons that the US could hit 100,000 new cases a day.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53237824

I blame Trump's mishandling of the crisis and I blame America's freedom at all costs attitude which has been a bit like putting your nuts in a vice from day 1. ''Well, at least we die free,'' he said as his lungs filled with fluid.

I also think that Fuzzy's meme he posted above about masculinity hits on what i have said previously about the John Wayne fantasy that I believe many Americans have. Your media does not like team players no matter what it may claim. John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Stallone, Arnie, etc. they are all about one man triumphing against the world. Even superheroes who are part of big teams spend most of their lives doing their thing alone. Batman, Superman, Iron Man, Steve Rogers.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

More bad news. Hospital denies disabled man treatment. The eugenic ideal of purging the "unfit" still holds a lot of sway in the USA and UK. =/

https://thetexan.news/austin-hospital-withheld-treatment-from-disabled-man-who-contracted-coronavirus/

[clearspira]

I bet you that there are a lot of people without jobs currently thinking to themselves ''were the old people worth it?''

Fyi, i'm not saying I'm thinking that or that its right or wrong, i'm merely saying what i think a lot of people are thinking but will never admit. I also think it says a lot about human beings. Its the same mentality that produces that audible groan around a subway whenever someone throws themselves onto the tracks.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I bet you that there are a lot of people without jobs currently thinking to themselves ''were the old people worth it?''

What about you? Do you think it was worth it?

[clearspira]

I bet you that there are a lot of people without jobs currently thinking to themselves ''were the old people worth it?''

What about you? Do you think it was worth it?

I think its a complicated subject with no straight answer. I think that if you are currently sitting there with a family to feed, a house behind on its payments, health insurance to pay for, a car that you need to fill up, then yeah, you are going to start thinking that.

And I cannot condemn it. Because your own comes before strangers. That may not be PC to say, but its the truth. What's the alternative? To sit there and say ''well, my children are about to be homeless, but at least someone I don't know and have never met is still alive.''

[Makeshift Python]

If keeping my children under a roof means someone has to die, then I guess it's not worth having a roof.

[ProfessorDetective]

And I cannot condemn it. Because your own comes before strangers. That may not be PC to say, but its the truth.

That's not really under the purview of 'Political Correctness'. You aren't condemning those strangers for their race/religion/sex/gender/orientation/ect.. It's more straight-up, cold, pragmatism, honestly.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

The frustrating thing is that it's a false choice. Pay individual people recurring stimulus checks, pay non-essential businesses to stay closed, and you don't have this dilemma. People hem and haw about the cost, but I bet you could do it for a lot less than the trillion or so Our Glorious Leader dumped into the economy for the sake of stimulating a stock market line to go up, which then went down. We have the resources, we have the ability, what we lack is the morals and the competence at higher levels of government.

At least we can take comfort in knowing that all that time we spent in lockdown has been utterly squandered by authorities who did not use it to mobilize PPE or do mass testing, and that any good we've done by staying at home is rapidly undone by greedy governors and worthless mayors. .-.

There is a very, very easy answer, but it involves helping people with little power instead of people with all of it, so it's considered unrealistic.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

what is this about recurring stimulus checks? I only got one.