The Corona Crisis gets real | 89 comments (89 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Karma (none / 1)

There is something deeply ironic about the possibility that the Cov-19 outbreak will be the undoing of Trump. Not only is he the science denying congenital liar who fired and disbanded the White House anti-Pandemic public health team, but he is a germaphobe who uses hand sanitisers incessantly.

His cuts to public services have undermined public US medical services and made individual, insurance led, privatised health care the dominant model. He has had no concern for environmental degradation, clean water, sanitation and immunisation services and even decried the Cov-19 crisis as a Democratic hoax - until it became impossible to ignore.

He tried to lay off responsibility for managing the crisis on his hapless VP - Mike Pence - but cannot bear to be left out of the limelight, with the result that he will own the consequences totally. He frames every issue as a conflict between Americans and foreigners and even tried to imply that his Mexican border wall could have stopped the pandemic.

It will be interesting to see the political fall-out as the virus gradually eats into his older demographic support base. Trump will not be defeated by an anaemic opponent such as Joe Biden in the November polls. But he might just be beaten by Cov-19.

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Sun Mar 15th, 2020 at 12:35:33 AM EST

Re: Karma (4.00 / 2)

individual, insurance led, privatised health care the dominant model is the only "model" of USA medical services.

Medicare coverage benefits are extremely limited. Did you know, it doesn't come with long-term nursing care? Indeed, that benefit cost is extra, administer through "supplemental plans" by commercial insurers.

Some indigent (fed poverty level (FPL) asset bracket) elderly apply for and succeed in partial payments through Medicaid insurance provided by the state where resident. Choice of "nursing home" is strictly limited to state roster.

by Cat on Sun Mar 15th, 2020 at 01:51:56 AM EST
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It's difficult for middle-class Americans to see how Team Trump destroyed their vision of a fair and reasonabe priced welfare "system", because middle-class Americans haven't the faintest clue what poor people have been dealing with the last 100 years of bogus prison reform, tenant settlement charities, and public health "initiatives"--right up to LBJ's Dixiecrat "war on poverty" which gave away nothing for "free".

Middle-class America is wholly motivated by profession to avoid discovery. This is Trump's base. They're the sort uncertain why nursing homes in Washington state are COVID19 death traps and indignant that retirees disembarking cruise ships are inconvenienced.

They donate money to either immigrant legal aid or Operation Faithful Patriot, but haven't a tear for inmates and families separated by their own state's prisons.

by Cat on Sun Mar 15th, 2020 at 02:18:11 AM EST
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pity me. no MREs. (none / 1)

Cruise passengers under coronavirus quarantine say they lack food, basic medical attention

"It shouldn't be my job to keep her safe," Saunders said, breaking into tears. "It should be their job, and they are not doing it."
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"We're probably being treated worse than prisoners right now."

by Cat on Sun Mar 15th, 2020 at 04:05:12 AM EST
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Frozen pensions: `unfair' policy costs 94-year-old £62,000

Haley has effectively been "punished" for moving to Australia, a Commonwealth nation, rather than one of the countries where ~~your~~ state pension increases in line with inflation.

by Cat on Sun Mar 15th, 2020 at 04:11:57 AM EST
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Have we considered that the fuckin Tories knew exactly what they were doing by letting the virus spread https://t.co/BVkHhjWmus
— Yung Boomer 🌹 (@czernobro) March 14, 2020

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by Cat on Sun Mar 15th, 2020 at 05:19:46 AM EST
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Re: Karma, btw (none / 0)

trial delays trending
election delays trending
6-in-one vaccine trending, US-UK
universal influenza vaccine (Fauci and Warren endorsed)
Scientists used the stem of an H1N1 [US Bird Flu] influenza virus to create the candidate vaccine. H1 refers to the HA subtype of the virus and N1 refers to the neuraminidase (or NA, another influenza surface protein) subtype. Although there are 18 known HA subtypes and 11 known NA subtypes, only H1N1 and H3N2 circulate among people seasonally. However, H5N1 and H7N9 and other strains have caused a handful of deadly outbreaks and have the potential to cause a pandemic if they become more easily transmissible.
eyes wide shut. unprecedented. inconceivable. egregious. brill.

by Cat on Sun Mar 15th, 2020 at 06:36:32 AM EST
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Re: Karma (4.00 / 2)

I think this is one of the rare cases of incumbent disadvantage. Trump won by the skin of his teeth in '16. In the 2018 mid-terms white suburban women, the demographic that propelled him to a win, decisively turn ed against him and the GOP. Also Pew Research estimates white voters will comprise ~66% of all voters in 2020 and the GOP needs them to be 70%+

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Sun Mar 15th, 2020 at 02:12:19 AM EST
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Of course there's no guarantee Biden if elected will still be (a) compos mentis

or even

(b) alive

on Jan 20, 2021 ...

... but what the hell

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Sun Mar 15th, 2020 at 02:14:43 AM EST
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Given the probable spread of the bug in America, and its tendency to kill senior boomers, the question may hang on which septuagenarian is still alive.

by Andhakari on Sun Mar 15th, 2020 at 05:07:35 PM EST
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That's another reason why a Biden-Warren ticket would be good

by asdf on Tue Mar 17th, 2020 at 12:36:39 AM EST
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COLD. COLD KARMA.

by Cat on Tue Mar 17th, 2020 at 01:44:33 AM EST
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