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Apr 5, 2020 - 9:35am
Lazy8 wrote:
I have a friend from way back, a biker buddy. He's also a Trumpalist. Since January he's gone from "Look how many the flu killed under Obama!" to "This overreaction will be too destructive" to Quarantine Warrior to...grieving family member.
His father just died, complications from Corona. He's also newly unemployed..
I'm not going to ask how he feels about it now. I can't kick him while he's down. But goddamn, some people learn hard.
Sorry to see this, M...My condolences to your friend. Unfortunately, I fear, his story will be repeated time and time again in the coming months.
I have a friend from way back, a biker buddy. He's also a Trumpalist. Since January he's gone from "Look how many the flu killed under Obama!" to "This overreaction will be too destructive" to Quarantine Warrior to...grieving family member.
His father just died, complications from Corona. He's also newly unemployed..
I'm not going to ask how he feels about it now. I can't kick him while he's down. But goddamn, some people learn hard.
Damn. That's hard to hear.
And, I agree completely with the "don't kick someone while they're down" feeling, and wonder how it is that there's a subgroup of our society that doesn't have that ethos. Sandy Hook deniers come to mind.
I have a friend from way back, a biker buddy. He's also a Trumpalist. Since January he's gone from "Look how many the flu killed under Obama!" to "This overreaction will be too destructive" to Quarantine Warrior to...grieving family member.
His father just died, complications from Corona. He's also newly unemployed..
I'm not going to ask how he feels about it now. I can't kick him while he's down. But goddamn, some people learn hard.
That's the most painful thing I've read all week. If you're healthy and safe, this pandemic is like being in a drawn-out David Lynch or Coen brothers movie. But then you read about things like what happened to your friend and his family and you realize how crushing this is.
Most of the people here, including myself, were caught flat-footed when it came to stocking up and staying home. Last weekend I was walking around in the DC neighborhood where the Obamas live (as do Jared and Ivanka). You normally never see people there but the sidewalks were filled with couples, parents and babies, knots of friends all strolling around. It gradually dawned on over this week them that they have to stay at home. One day the supermarkets are a bit under-stocked; two days later and they look like the Dothraki had swept through.
Repeated crises have shown that government is rarely, if ever, fully prepared. Nor is government as flexible as it needs to be to respond as quickly or creatively as conditions often demand. Many factors contribute to what appear to be chronic weaknesses that can compound problems and reduce public confidence. Lessons learned after the fact solve past problems without necessarily anticipating future ones.
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The country and its leaders were caught off guard when terrorists on hijacked airplanes attacked the homeland on Sept. 11, 2001. The financial crisis of 2008, which turned into a deep recession, forced drastic, unprecedented action by a government struggling to keep pace with the economic wreckage. The devastation from Hurricane Andrew in Florida in 1992 and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005 exposed serious gaps in the governmentâs disaster response and emergency management systems.
But Trump failed to prepare the country for this crisis and seems to be repeatedly behind the curve in realizing what he should do. Pelosi and Mnuchin were far more involved than Trump in hammering out a stimulus package, and Trump is fount of bad information. He's making a bad situation worse, but his government is beginning to pull in the right direction.
But that doesn't make the death of your friend's father any less tragic.
I have a friend from way back, a biker buddy. He's also a Trumpalist. Since January he's gone from "Look how many the flu killed under Obama!" to "This overreaction will be too destructive" to Quarantine Warrior to...grieving family member.
His father just died, complications from Corona. He's also newly unemployed..
I'm not going to ask how he feels about it now. I can't kick him while he's down. But goddamn, some people learn hard.
AMERICA: Oh my god! Coronavirus! What should we do? CALIFORNIA: Shut down your state. AMERICA: Wait... what? Why? CALIFORNIA: Because 40 million people live here and we did it early, and itâs working.
OHIO: Whoa... whoa... letâs not be hasty now. The president said that this whole coronavirus thing is a democratic hoax. CALIFORNIA: He also said that windmills cause cancer. Shut down your state.
TEXAS: But the president said that we only have 15 cases and soon it'll be zero. CALIFORNIA: The president canât count to fifteen. Nor even spell it. Shut down your state.
NEW JERSEY: Us too? CALIFORNIA: Yes, you guys too. Just like when Christie shut down the bridge, but itâs your whole state.
FLORIDA: But what about all these kids here on spring break? They spend a lot of money here! CALIFORNIA: Those kids invented the tide pod challenge. Shut down your state.
LOUISIANA: But wait letâs have Mardi Gras first. It entertains people. CALIFORNIA: It also kills them. Shut it down.
GEORGIA: Ok well how about we keep the state open for all of our mega churches? Maybe we can all pray really hard until the coronavirus just goes away! CALIFORNIA: Which is working like a charm for mass shootings. Jesus told us to tell you to shut down your state.
OKLAHOMA: What about the tigers? CALIFORNIA: What about a dentist. Shut it down.
WYOMING: Hold up, maybe we should go county by county like the president said. CALIFORNIA: Stop acting like there are counties in Wyoming. There are no counties in Wyoming. Wyoming is a county. Shut it down.
PENNSYLVANIA: But big coal. CALIFORNIA: But big death. Shut it.
WEST VIRGINIA: But we were the last state to get coronavirus! CALIFORNIA: And donât make us explain to you why that was. Shut it down.
NORTH CAROLINA: But the republican national convention is coming here! CALIFORNIA: SHUT... ok fine do what you want.
Liberia currently has the capacity to treat about 30 COVID-19 patients at a designated facility, according to Nagbe, while other sites have been identified for reconditioning should the need arise.
Nagbe said there is just one ventilator in the country, located at a hospital outside of the capital operated by rubber company Firestone.
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