One of the many yuge flaws in right-wing thinking...
One of the many yuge flaws in right-wing thinking is that they believe they can control and manipulate countries and peoples through markets and profit-making enterprise, all the while ignoring the need for investments in basic societal infrastructures for the health and safety of their peoples. And then something like Covid-19 comes along and the smoke and mirrors at the heart of their philosophy is shown up for how shoddy and fragile it is. A bunch of market and political leaders losing their minds because their carefully constructed commerce at the heart of everything world is fundamentally threatened, because the markets know that the people who rule us are not capable of managing this outbreak in a way that is not going to lead to a pandemic.
Is it any surprise Trump is denial about all of this? He literally does not have a clue what to do. His entire spoilt, bratty, white male privileged life has been about bullying and threatening and whining until he gets his own way and, now, he is encountering an enemy that cannot be corrupted or compromised, it cannot be smeared or sued or cowed and as someone commented on another thread yesterday, you cannot gaslight a pandemic, the pandemic does not care – and it is very worrying that Trump is trying to do this very thing… Media making shit up to make him look bad - Democrats colluding with the rest of the world in a planned hoax… If he cannot get serious about this then he needs to step aside and put some actual bloody experts in charge, because the catastrophe is not that he will fail, it is that his failure in this is life threatening, and he will potentially take so many down with him.
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... the fact that a pandemic affects everyone, not just the "poors". They're all in favor of the pandemic as long as rich people are safe and protected. It's hogwash of course because all walks of life are affected by an epidemic of anything. The human costs and the $ losses are immeasurable.
