The Coronavirus

[pbrower2a]

(04-30-2020, 01:33 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(04-29-2020, 10:21 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: If she had behaved as Trump did toward the Coronavirus she would deserve the same opprobrium. I doubt that she would have. As it is, America got hit later -- but much harder. Americans have chosen to take an economic blow and forgo many activities that they cherish so that they not get COVID-19. So life goes when most people see themselves in a shared danger. 

Further need I say nothing more.

I think you would be busy working to defend her and making excuses for her and blaming me for her shortcomings myself. So, what do you think of Andrew Cuomo forcing a bunch of densely populated old folks homes to keep their COVID19 folks instead of transferring them to hospitals or a military ship and a make shift hospital?

I am more of a realist than you think. I would expect someone to challenge her failed Presidency with an effective Republican campaign. I would have the concern that the Republicans would be in line to get super-majorities in the House and Senate with which they could reshape America into the Christian and Corporate State. Elections have consequences, and administrative failure also has consequences -- one of which is landslide defeats.

So what is a "Christian and Corporate State" like? It is the sort in which workers toil to exhaustion for bare survival, government represents wealth and administrative power within monopolistic corporations, in which workers have no choice except to put up with brutal management -- better the sweatshop than the concentration camp where one speeds up effort on substandard rations so that one can go back to the sweatshop. If you wonder what the priorities are: one will be spreading the alleged bounties of American fascism into places where such is unwelcome. 

In return for suffering for rapacious plutocrats, despotic managers, landlords and loan-sharks, and the complete absence of any semblance of a welfare state people would get the same promises that plantation owners offered their slaves: pie-in-the-sky-when-you-die, but eternal damnation for any shirking, rebellion, or flight. Even Nazi Germany, Hell-hole that it was, always had the ready threat of something worse than the nastiness that everyone knew well... until it was gone.  

I would make it simple enough for myself. Valium and vodka.  

But that digression was pointless. I want to celebrate the demise of the monstrously-cruel, incompetent, and corrupt Presidency that we now have. For that alone I have cause to follow stay-at-home orders.   

Quote:I'm not that concerned about the COVID19 threat myself. I'm more concerned about the economic fallout and the heavy financial toll that it's already taken on the State of Minnesota myself at this point. I mean, the state is only 4-5 billion in the hole and only about a month behind its neighboring red states in economic recovery at this point. For all I know, I may have already had COVID19 and recovered naturally. As I've mentioned before, the perceived danger isn't as mutually shared as liberals would think or hope at this point.

Just do not get the disease. If you die of it, then economic consequences will not matter. Recoveries are slow, and I see a ratio of about 30 recoveries to deaths. A 3% chance of death as opposed to recovery? Drunk driving looks safer, and I consider that too much a risk and an unconscionable risk to take.  

So far we have about a 3-1 ratio of recoveries to deaths. People are not recovering quickly. Long hospital stays are themselves extremely costly, especially if they involve people on public assistance. I am on public assistance for medical treatments, so I consider it my responsibility to not contract this horrible disease.  Maybe people who have severe complications will be sent off to nursing homes to replace as patients those who died of the epidemic, thus keeping those places alive and profitable. People have been sick from COVID-19 for over a month. 

COVID-19 will have costs analogous to a nasty war, and it will bloat the budget deficit. Maybe some of us get the time in which to do something that makes our lives better after the Plague of 2020 than before. Maybe we will find new interests worth sharing after this monstrous plague is over. This is a good time for expanding cultural experiences or taking on-line courses. But there is a catch: one must survive.  So it is with all Crisis eras. 

COVID-19 is more a natural disaster than anything else, but the response of our President has been execrable.