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BigmanPigman

(55,765 posts)
9. People are not far sighted when it comes to money.
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 11:30 PM
Mar 2020

They think about "next week" as the future. Today at the press briefing they wouldn't even answer a reporter's question about health insur paying for the test. Stephen Miller's wife even scolded him for having the nerve to ask such a question. No wonder no one trusts them. All they do is walk around with "$" signs in their eyes, brains and hearts.

The test should be free and in abundance all across the country. The fucking moron did this and it is on him now. There should be mandatory testing, but I doubt that the constitution would allow that, just like testing before being allowed to board a plane. In WW2 people that were rescued from the camps were fumigated since TB was killing so many in the camps across Europe (I think it carried is from lice and fleas) and they were each given a card that said they had been sprayed and could go out in the public.

It is a public safety thing, screw the costs! As you said, it will cost more NOT to test in the long run. People are so short-sighted.

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But I thought the economy was great... BigmanPigman Mar 2020 #1
Something has to happen to make getting tested for COVID-19 free. applegrove Mar 2020 #4
People are not far sighted when it comes to money. BigmanPigman Mar 2020 #9
Good points. Yup they have $$ for eyes. They don't want government to step in applegrove Mar 2020 #11
TB is not carried by lice and fleas Chuuku Davis Mar 2020 #19
Oops, it is Typhus. BigmanPigman Mar 2020 #20
Yeah. I work with people like these. roamer65 Mar 2020 #2
Vibes to all those people who must negotiate so much worry right now. applegrove Mar 2020 #5
'sorry ass' leftstreet Mar 2020 #7
Not the ones I work with. roamer65 Mar 2020 #8
These are the same rocket scientists that send their kids BigmanPigman Mar 2020 #10
I hear ya. roamer65 Mar 2020 #13
That is why I had to stop teaching BigmanPigman Mar 2020 #16
Safe safe and well through this, BP. roamer65 Mar 2020 #17
Since I rarely go out due to my health I have BigmanPigman Mar 2020 #18
If only Americans weren't so lazy and worked harder... tenderfoot Mar 2020 #3
The GOP get the right to hate the poor. Just like in Mexico or India. applegrove Mar 2020 #6
If only we'd vote in greater numbers eleny Mar 2020 #12
And wait in line for four hours to do so... with a compliant media that bashes progressives at every tenderfoot Mar 2020 #14
If only Reagan hadn't been elected the country would be in such a better place right now eleny Mar 2020 #15
And a fair share of 100 million Rethugs and their fams will literally KILL on Trump's command Celerity Mar 2020 #21
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