Speaking of distracting from the COVID-19 deaths, the CDC puts out a report yesterday that in 94% of US COVID deaths the person had some other underlying condition. This is disturbing in so many ways. First, it implies that the reported deaths have been overblown because the 60 year old with diabetes who passed away from COVID would have…
Speaking of distracting from the COVID-19 deaths, the CDC puts out a report yesterday that in 94% of US COVID deaths the person had some other underlying condition. This is disturbing in so many ways. First, it implies that the reported deaths have been overblown because the 60 year old with diabetes who passed away from COVID would have died eventually anyway. Yet, that 60 year old was managing their diabetes with medication and diet and could have easily lived another 20 to 30 years. Second, and maybe more disturbing, is that our once well-respected CDC would put out a statement like that, which is obviously political red meat for Trump’s base. Trumpers are jumping all over that to say “see, COVID’s not that bad.”
While it’s not unimportant that Covid-19 builds on pre-existing conditions, dismissing it with “those people were going to die anyway” has two huge problems. First of all, life itself is a pre-existing condition. We all die. Yet we care about when and how. Which brings us to second issue: the very idea of “those people” - them not us, so it doesn’t matter. I remember the chill in the collective air when it came out originally that this disease was primarily hitting and killing people in communities of color. The national urgency temperature dropped overnight.
I remember being here before when it was GRID (Gay Related Immunodeficiency) and the Repugnant president did not even mention it. Who cared if gay men died? It took an "innocent" child getting it thru a blood transfusion to garner some sympathy for ppl with AIDS.
Point out to Trump's base that life is a pre-existing condition, and we're all going to die. Even them. By their logic, if you have a kitchen grease fire, should you then let the entire house burn down rather than try to put it out?
As a person with underlying conditions, the news of excluding the US from a Covax Facility dashes my last hope. I hung everything on other countries, and anticipated avoiding US developed vaccines.
I’m not sure I agree with the assessment of Fauci and Birx, though I do agree with everything else. It seemed to me that Dr. Birx had been willing to put a rosy perspective on the situation, for whatever reason, and therefore was pushed into the spotlight. Dr. Fauci was hidden, as opposed to hiding himself, specifically because he was being more upfront about it. Something about the things Dr. Birx was saying rubbed me the wrong way almost from the beginning.
You can't be wrong about Fauci's motives, Birx's complicity, and "CDC and this administration blatantly lying". This was my guiding principle while working on Wall Street, and I was never found wrong.
Speaking of distracting from the COVID-19 deaths, the CDC puts out a report yesterday that in 94% of US COVID deaths the person had some other underlying condition. This is disturbing in so many ways. First, it implies that the reported deaths have been overblown because the 60 year old with diabetes who passed away from COVID would have died eventually anyway. Yet, that 60 year old was managing their diabetes with medication and diet and could have easily lived another 20 to 30 years. Second, and maybe more disturbing, is that our once well-respected CDC would put out a statement like that, which is obviously political red meat for Trump’s base. Trumpers are jumping all over that to say “see, COVID’s not that bad.”
While it’s not unimportant that Covid-19 builds on pre-existing conditions, dismissing it with “those people were going to die anyway” has two huge problems. First of all, life itself is a pre-existing condition. We all die. Yet we care about when and how. Which brings us to second issue: the very idea of “those people” - them not us, so it doesn’t matter. I remember the chill in the collective air when it came out originally that this disease was primarily hitting and killing people in communities of color. The national urgency temperature dropped overnight.
I remember being here before when it was GRID (Gay Related Immunodeficiency) and the Repugnant president did not even mention it. Who cared if gay men died? It took an "innocent" child getting it thru a blood transfusion to garner some sympathy for ppl with AIDS.
Then as now, even friends of the president dying did not make a dent in his ignoring mass death.
Of course the Trumpers are forgetting that in fact a large percentage of them have the same co-existing diseases, making them vulnerable too.
Point out to Trump's base that life is a pre-existing condition, and we're all going to die. Even them. By their logic, if you have a kitchen grease fire, should you then let the entire house burn down rather than try to put it out?
Give me a freakin' break!
They would let the house burn down if you were in it with them. Does this surprise?
No, Daniel. It doesn't surprise me in the least.
As a person with underlying conditions, the news of excluding the US from a Covax Facility dashes my last hope. I hung everything on other countries, and anticipated avoiding US developed vaccines.
Yes and I have already seen this incorrect post on FB several times.
I’m not sure I agree with the assessment of Fauci and Birx, though I do agree with everything else. It seemed to me that Dr. Birx had been willing to put a rosy perspective on the situation, for whatever reason, and therefore was pushed into the spotlight. Dr. Fauci was hidden, as opposed to hiding himself, specifically because he was being more upfront about it. Something about the things Dr. Birx was saying rubbed me the wrong way almost from the beginning.
You can't be wrong about Fauci's motives, Birx's complicity, and "CDC and this administration blatantly lying". This was my guiding principle while working on Wall Street, and I was never found wrong.
You got it right.
Fauci took 3 weeks off to have and recover from a nodule on his vocal cord.
have surgery and recover from the removal of a nodule on his vocal cord. Had you noticed he was steadily losing his voice?
He has gotten so many threats from the bully base that he and his family had to have security. What does that portend if trump wins in November?