Aids, the Spanish Flu, The Black Plague, Cholera, Polio, Diphtheria, Dengue Fever, Chikungunya, Zika, Ebola.
These are just a few of the diseases that mankind has faced recently and survived or developed defenses against. Or people are in the process of eliminating them.
Right now Covid-19 is walking in the footsteps of the aforementioned diseases and Donald Trump is screwing up the institutions built to prevent diseases (remember the “war on cancer”).
Donald Trump is preventing the best response to a disease because he believes he can profit off it.
When the next disease arrives do you want Trump around to address the crisis? It’s not alarmist to say there will be another disease as bad or worse than the list I made in the 1st paragraph.
Polio is pretty much wiped out by the Salk vaccines but there’s still cases in Pakistan where fundamentalists live in remote place and even occupy some of the Pakistani gov’t.
The loss of RGB is a great one but Justice Ginsberg was old and the Democrats have not been as successful as they should be but Democrats like RGB are dying out.
We have to replace people like Justice Ginsberg now. AOC, Bernie, and Elizabeth are good starts but we need thousands more of them. And Sanders and Warren are old too.
I wonder what new disease gets introduced to the US by the warming climate. If the US tested and treated every immigrant that arrived instead of assaulting them, caging them, and making money off them, then the US would not only have a better handle on the challenges we face we would be prepared for it.
Will the next pandemic come from the melting tundra, will it come from the tropics, will it come from China, or will it arrive as a combination of viruses from the insides of somebody infected with Covid-19? Describe this action as pathology as well as biology (I.e. something that happens all the time).
Do we really want Donald Trump running the country when the next Covid-19 arrives? Or a Donald trump clone?
If you’re anti-abortion and pro-Trump because then you’re pro-Covid-19 too. It doesn’t matter to me if you realize it or not. You made this tribal by swallowing the lies of Reagan thru Bush then electing the biggest liar of them all, Donald Trump.
Whatever you’ve done in your life whether’s it’s labor, blue collar, white collar, whatever, Donald Trump has never done it, will never do that, scorns anybody who works for a living, and can’t do it whatever it was anyway. But he still think’s you’re a sucker for doing it.
Trump isn’t Atlas Shrugged, he’s Evil Emperor material. Except the force is that hideous strength, the ability to lie and lie then lie some more.
I’m not saying that health care, civil rights, and reproductive rights aren’t important only that if Trump wins again then he will weaponize every institution against citizens then he’ll foment strife and chaos. We’re still in a pandemic and without enlightened leadership that listens to experts we could be open to sabotage, accident, and yes, another pandemic disease that could be even worse than Covid-19.
The pandemic is Trump’s biggest failure so let’s keep the focus on that. When we have the reins of power again then we lobby the neoliberals to change or get out of the way. Stay united and we will prevail.