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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDr. Trump killed one of our constituents
I work for an elected official. I've been eyeball deep working with residents impacted by COVID-19, whether for unemployment, health insurance, SBA and PPP loans. By the end of the day, I'm completely wrung out and exhausted but can hardly sleep.
But today took the cake. I got a call from an elderly woman who lost her husband to COVID-19 in late March. He was treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithromyicin without her knowledge, because she had COVID-19 also and was quarantined at home. She was furious because he had a- fib and she is convinced Dr. Trump killed her husband.
I am bereft and heartbroken for her and her husband.
This is just such a tragedy and now they are going to pretend it never even happened.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)She should sue asshat dump! 🤬
Baitball Blogger
(46,764 posts)I think they're going to use people as guinea pigs to determine the effectiveness of certain treatments.
AleksS
(1,665 posts)Business as usual.
Force your workers to work in unsafe conditions, then some get sick and die because of your greed? Why should their deaths be considered your fault, simply because they were your fault?
Evil. They are just evil.
lastlib
(23,312 posts)Put out the message that they are expendable if they don't toe the company line. Companies become slave labor camps.
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I'm getting so fucking tired of this shit.
AleksS
(1,665 posts)Its blatantly:
Im the boss, so I can have you killed and the GOP says there is nothing you can do about it. Want to quit? Good luck feeding your kids because you cant get unemployment. And good luck finding a safer or better job after I fire you.
Disgusting. But its a republicans wet dream.
SouthernAtheist
(45 posts)If the wages of sin is death, then the United States is reaping what we sowed on November 8, 2016.
This is what happens when the unrighteous are exalted and the claim is made that it is by the hand of a righteous God.
75,000+ deaths and set to skyrocket as we reopen without enough testing to allow us to react fast enough to shut it back back down in time to prevent another spin of death's roulette wheel.
We are at the mercy of fools led by an unrighteous lout masquerading as our savior.
.... Place your bets....
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Immoral, illegal, and unethical--that's Trump's three-legged stool of his wealth sources.
There will be 150,000 sad stories by the Fourth of July. Probably sooner, if more jughead governors open too quickly.
How does Biden only have a "slim" lead over the mass murderer?
Johnnie Mae
(35 posts)Congress has already passed protections for the vaccinations from the pharmaceutical industry. This was lobbied 4 bc that powerful group already know there would b harm to some of us recipients. So, they lobbied to be protected from u & I. As a result, we are unable to sue them n the event of injury. I will listen to my on line VaccinationsRevealed again & post the name of that act.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)much evidence that they do any good.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,638 posts)alert because I would be going to the W House this minute and I would be madder than a "Murder Hornet".
DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)then I noticed your avatar.
I believe Texas is using the drug on elderly folk in homes.
ecstatic
(32,737 posts)Coronavirus victims are trump's victims. His incompetence has killed tens of thousands. This letter illustrates it perfectly:
Link to tweet
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SunSeeker
(51,740 posts)None of this had to happen. Trump is the one who downplayed the virus for 2 months, failed to invoke the DPA to mass produce tests and let Covid-19 spread to all 50 states. By March, our only option to flatten the monstrous infection curve the CDC was projecting for us was economy-destroying shutdowns, as advocated by the White House and Dr. Fauci's "Flatten the Curve" program. Otherwise, our hospitals would have been overwhelmed and even more people would have died. Some countries handled it much better. South Korea got their first confirmed Covid-19 case on the same day as us, Jan. 20. But their leader took it seriously even before then, and immediately started mass producing tests as soon as the WHO made the testing formula available to the world on Jan. 17. South Korea immediately did mass testing to find hotspots and do targeted quarantines and contact tracing. Because of their mass testing program, they never had to shut down whole sectors of their economy, like restaurants or factories. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/26/821688981/how-south-korea-reigned-in-the-outbreak-without-shutting-everything-down Not only did their testing program save their economy, it saved lives. They've lost only 250 people, we've lost over 74,000, and we're still losing thousands every few days. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/coronavirus/ Granted we have 6.5 times the population of South Korea, but if we had done what they did, we'd have lost only about 6.5×250 =1,625 people, and our economy would not be in tatters.
Karadeniz
(22,583 posts)What do you have to lose?
dchill
(38,556 posts)Just know it's not in vain. You gave your life so that somebody could be free to get their nails done!
keithbvadu2
(36,949 posts)Trump's baseline is 15 people and going down toward zero.
First it was one person from China and then it was 15 people and going down toward zero.
That's what you said.
Everything above that is Trump's personal death toll.
'Totally under control' (you) and 'contained' (Kudlow)
And then you ignored it with high praise and optimism to make yourself look good.
And then let it grow uninhibited.
Cha
(297,774 posts)mopinko
(70,261 posts)sometimes the way to make your way in a fog is to pick one point that you can see, and start there.
get that fucker up on charges.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)face charges in a Manhattan courtroom as private citizens.
We don't even have to flip the Senate, but we will anyway.
We all must live long enough to have a nationwide Inaugural Ball, from sea to shining sea (especially Puerto Rico).
mopinko
(70,261 posts)this twisted, diseased, colonized by harmful fungi, growing at a crazy angle where it is actively damaging the neighboring trees, needs not only to be cut down but reduced to sawdust. then burned.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)mopinko
(70,261 posts)CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Have a good night.
mopinko
(70,261 posts)CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)He handled all finances and negotiations for the team and recruited replacement talent as others could not perform anymore.
It was probably Moe who had four stooges in "Hold That Lion" as a favor to his baby brother, Curly, who couldn't speak or walk due to a massive stroke in his 40s. Moe also fired Joe Besser when Besser refused to take a pie in the face.
I think it was Moe's idea to split from Ted Healy when Healy made the same $ as the three combined stooges did. Only a guy like Moe Howard could fire his boss.
mopinko
(70,261 posts)i wish i had a nickel for all the people who could/have let loose a similar stream of thought about me. not sure how folks dont fall on the floor following the switchback in that train of thought.