Chainfire
Chainfire's JournalWarning: never ride in a car with Trump driving
He will only hit the brakes after the car hits the wall.
The science of disease prevention
comes full circle. We have been told for the last two critical months that we don't need to wear masks in public. Now, to help prevention of the spread of the disease, we are being told to wear masks in public. I just have to assume that either the physics of the spread of disease has changed in the last sixty days or we were being sacrificed on the alter of politics and economics. Think back to all of the "medical experts" who were poo-pooing the idea of protecting yourself and your community by wearing a mask. They, including esteemed Dr. Fauci, are culpable in the rapid spread of the disease. Fauci knew, and he should have been shouting the president down. I am beginning to think the old guy is enjoying his day in the sun too much for our own good.
I certainly know nothing about epidemiology; most high-school educated construction workers don't, but I believed then, and I believe now, that he failure to recommend masks was because there were not enough masks to go around, and to suggest that people wear ersatz masks, and demanding that we stay at home would have been too politically uncomfortable for the people in power who were doing their best to downplay the seriousness of the issue. It was a sacrifice of our national health for the benefit of the official party line. The people in control were basing all of their decisions on the optics, rather than the science, and like the officials of Boeing, they were crossing their fingers that the worst would not happen. They based their decisions on what they hoped the disease would do, not on what it was capable of doing; if was a formula for disaster.
I believe that this government thought that they could sacrifice the health of the nation to save the economy and Republicanism. Now, we are losing the economy, losing the health, and we must work like hell to make sure we lose the Republicans. The simple fact is that we can't live with the Republicans in control.
Crazy NPR story
I am surprised no one has commented on this one yet. The stress of our current situation is bringing the borderline nuts out in the open.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/02/825897966/train-engineer-says-he-crashed-in-attempt-to-attack-navy-hospital-ship-in-l-a
Massive deaths, massive unemployment, massive government debt
Trump has spent the last three years bragging on his his great numbers in the markets and in unemployment. The claims of the great economy was the only positive thing that gave his presidency any legitimacy. He took full credit for a successful and rapidly growing economy handed to him by the Obama administration. Now it is all crashed and burned due to his errors of judgement.
Now thanks to Trump's inaction, slow reaction and wrong actions, we are going to face massive employment, and debt that was unimaginable a few months ago. Big government is printing big money like there is no tomorrow. Those are Trump's numbers today, if he claims responsibility for the good time numbers, he can not dodge the present numbers. The bastard can't have it both ways.
Donald Trump is going into the election with the biggest preventable death toll since WWII, and the largest unemployment since the Great Depression. We must not let the Republicans forget what Making America Great Again really looks like. For the next eight months we have to pound him with his new numbers.
Some will say that it is time to pull together behind Trump; they are wrong, dead wrong. If his goals were to destroy the American economy, increase big government, fill the swamp and kill hundreds of thousands of Americans, then he is the most successful president to ever occupy the White House. We have to be preaching this in the streets and from the rooftops.
We have to make sure that Trump has to run on his record. Four more year of his type of leadership and we will be looking up to Somalia as a role model.
Trump has to go
We are on a trajectory to become #1
This is a perfect example in the difference in judgement and leadership in a crisis.
Link to a BBC graphic:
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-52066105/coronavirus-us-death-rates-v-china-italy-and-south-korea
Gun forum change of mood
I monitor one of the large US gun forums as a method of taking the temperature of the other side. It is a tough job sometimes. I used to post there, trying to insert a reality check on some of the nuttiest rants, but gave that up. These folks, with few exceptions, are the right of the right. They are, again, for the most part, hateful, gun slinging, red hat wearing, Hilary hating, foaming at the mouth Trump worshipers. I have been following this forum for nearly ten years and I know the way a lot of individuals think from their frequent posts.
Up until about ten days ago, the silly comments about the virus, jokes and funny cartoons were the overwhelming response to the virus.
The last few days, they have been getting more and more serious, and seemed to accept that we really do have a serious crisis on our hands. The most offensive naysayers have shut down, and adults are starting to control the conversations. There is still no indication that they blame our president for the way he blundered his way through this; that would be too painful for them. What has disappeared, almost entirely, is the word "hoax." But, who knows, once they start thinking and evaluating, instead of listening, with a religious faith, to the right-wing media, they may come to realize what a line of bullshit they have been getting from Fox and the President.
It will be interesting, going forward, to see the reactions if they come to the conclusion that they have been played for suckers for years. It will never be a majority of them because they have too much emotional energy invested, but I think I see some splitting from the herd. Those that do have a change or heart are probably going to be awfully angry when they realize the truth.
Trip to pharmacy
Worried about the spread of disease? Don't go to the drug store.
My wife and I are old, we both have health issues. For the last 13 days we have been totally isolated on our property. If I get the virus, I will get the morphine instead of a ventilator, so I am taking this damn seriously. Today, I needed to go get my wife's insulin refilled, and at the same time, we needed an OTC med. It required stops at two pharmacies. (Walgreens and CVS)
I go through the drive thru at both places. The pharmacies were very busy with lines inside and at the drive thru. Patiently waiting I finally got to the windows. I had a complete view of the pharmacy area of the stores. The clerks serving the drive thru was back and forth between the inside counter and the window. Nobody in the areas were wearing masks or gloves. There was no hand washing between customers. I had to sign for the meds by reaching into a filthy plastic basket to use a filthy ink pen, that all of the people ahead of me had been handling. I drove up 15 feet and bathed in alcohol and still felt dirty. I came home, took the meds out of their outside packaging, trashed the packages and scrubbed up again.
When the virus raises its head in this community, the pharmacies will be the number one spreaders.
And this is why the USA will not get a handle on this virus, it is just not being taken seriously until scores of people, locally, start dying and it is too damn late.
Sometimes I wonder if the whole damn country isn't on dope.
Here is a question for the Don
Why was it necessary for social distancing for the last two weeks, but now, with cases exploding, it is not necessary?
Were you wrong then, or are you wrong now?
Trumps circling has me dizzy
Fist it was a hoax, then it was a national emergency, not it is not a big enough problem to keep people out of work. So, at the time where infections are rising at an exponential rate, Trump wants you to go back to work with sick people. Just wash your fucking hands already.
Headline: This is a health crisis first, an economic problem second! The economy will only come back when the people are confident that health of the nation is secured. Are these people leadership positions goddamned idiots, or are they so blinded by greed that nothing but making money matters?
As other Republicans have declared, it makes perfect sense to sacrifice the old and sick for the economy. It is brings to mind Hitler's policy emptying mental hospitals and killing the insane and handicapped people as burdens on society. Apparently our elderly Americans are nothing but a burden to be eliminated through neglect. Now that is a nice clean final solution to an age old, or an old age problem.
Folks, this is the wages of installing Fascism masquerading as a Representational Democracy.
MAGA
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