Saturday, March 14, 2020

Truth Beginning To Come Out About Your Shithole Nation

All a fucking lie, you hypocritical morons. Everything, a sham of a mockery of a travesty.

Coronavirus is an indictment of our way of life

Intent on extracting wealth for an ever-smaller elite, we failed to invest. Corporations put money into stock buybacks, not into their employees or research. School funding fell, and our infrastructure — well, it’s a solid D+, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers. Roads are filled with potholes, and bridges literally fall down.

Nowhere was this pullback more deadly than in health care — as we are no doubt about to learn. The number of hospital beds fell dramatically as pressure mounted to cut “slack” in the system to meet profit goals. Pharmaceutical companies pulled back on researching antibiotics, while pursuing more lucrative cures (for, say, male pattern baldness). At the same time, they offshored to China production of drugs vital to our national health, heedless of what would happen in an emergency.

We deemed health care itself a profit center and refused to make it low cost and universal. One in 4 Americans say they’ve forgone necessary doctor visits or prescriptions because they can’t afford treatment. Gallup reported that 13 percent say they know someone who died because of the same. Even this week, hospitals were quoting prices of more than $1,000 for coronavirus tests.
This is more about the petty idiocies that result from giant hypocrises.

America Is a Sham

Policy changes in reaction to the coronavirus reveal how absurd so many of our rules are to begin with.

All over America, the coronavirus is revealing, or at least reminding us, just how much of contemporary American life is bullshit, with power structures built on punishment and fear as opposed to our best interest. Whenever the government or a corporation benevolently withdraws some punitive threat because of the coronavirus, it’s a signal that there was never any good reason for that threat to exist in the first place.
All a pathetic fucking joke. And y'all are the punchline.
Wake up before it's too late,
you fucking sheep!!!
[Rich Boy Bezos's WaPo & Slate]

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