Abusers gotta abuse :(

[canetoad]

Couple of weeks ago our government shut down pubs, clubs, bars and restaurants. They put a limit on the amount of take-away alcohol you can buy in one visit. My bestie commented that a lot of women and kids were going to be beaten up.

Then this article appeared yesterday. I asked myself what kind of sick fucker would use the virus to exert control? Yep; domestic abusers and Trump.

Family violence perpetrators using COVID-19 as 'a form of abuse we have not experienced before'

As a rise in family violence due to the coronavirus crisis is set to strain an already critically overstretched social support system, some abusers are reportedly using COVID-19 as a psychological weapon.

Liz Thomas, the chief executive of social services organisation Wayss that helps family violence victims in Melbourne's south-east, told the ABC she had received six reports in the past week of men using the coronavirus to threaten and coerce women.

"It's horrific. It's horrendous," Ms Thomas said.

"Perpetrators have actually used COVID-19 as a form of abuse, telling their partner that they have the virus therefore they can't leave the house.

"Inviting people into the house where the woman is self-isolating, saying that the visitor has COVID-19 and he's going to infect them.

With victims being cooped up with their abusers and homes being turned into pressure cookers due to coronavirus restrictions, frontline domestic violence workers have already seen a jump in domestic and family violence cases.

More: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-29/coronavirus-family-violence-surge-in-victoria/12098546

[niyad]

1. An article that I read several weeks ago on this horror reported that there were cases where

the abuser forced his victim to wash her hands until they were raw and bleeding. Pity that my wish for what should happen to abusers will not occur.

[canetoad]

2. I loathe people like this with a vengeance

I'd happily be dragging their useless carcases down to the rocks on Wreck Beach, carving them into tiny pieces and feeding them to the rays and gummy sharks. Plenty of folk go missing off the coast here and few are ever found.

[EllieBC]

7. First you gotta drag them down the 5000000 stairs.

Ok I know it’s not that many but it feels like it!

[Beringia]

3. Did you notice in the presser today

a reporter asked that question and Trump said he could answer that, instead of letting Fauci answer it, the increase in suicides and domestic abuse. I would rather Fauci have answered.

[canetoad]

4. I didn't see it

What was Trump's answer? Did he sweep it under the table?

This is a very real emergency that will further stretch social workers, hospitals and first responders.

[Beringia]

5. Here is what he said

Amazing what you can find on the internet, but I have been referring to transcripts lately, so I thought there might be one and there is.


https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-coronavirus-task-force-briefing-transcript-march-29-trump-extends-task-force-guidelines-to-april-30

Speaker 21: (01:07:19)
Thank you, Mr. President. You’ve also said that at one point that you thought more people might die from the economic tragedies, and the economic problems in America due to the coronavirus outbreak, what health officials are telling you that, and Dr. Fauci could you speak to that idea that there might be mental health and suicide related to this, would that outpace at some point the virus’s impact on the society? Thank you.

Donald Trump: (01:07:43)
Well, I could ask Dr. Fauci to come up, but it’s common sense. You’re going to have massive depression, meaning mental depression, you’re going to have depression in the economy also, but you’re going to have mental depression for people, you’re going to have large numbers of suicides, take a look at what happens in a really horrible recession or worse, so you’re going to have tremendous suicides, but you know what you’re going to have more than anything else? Drug addiction.

Donald Trump: (01:08:08)
You will see drugs being used like nobody’s ever used them before, and people are going to be dying all over the place from drug addiction, because you would have people that had a wonderful job at a restaurant, or even owned a restaurant, I spoke to great people today that have done a great job, and one day they’re at the top of their business, they’re celebrity chefs, they’ve got the most successful restaurants, and in one day they have nothing, they’ve gotten wiped out, one day, from our enemy, this invisible, horrible scourge.

Donald Trump: (01:08:38)
So, when you ask me that, it’s so easy to figure that, I mean, massive drug use, massive depression, mental depression, massive numbers of suicide, anxiety causes disease, they say, a lot of people … you’re going to have tremendous, and hopefully we’re not going to have that, because hopefully, by what we’re doing, we get the best of both worlds. We don’t have to …

President Donald Trump: (01:09:03)
… by what we’re doing, we get the best of both worlds. We don’t have 2.2 million deaths. We have a number that’s much less, much, much less, and at the same time, we get our country running again. Please, thank you [crosstalk 01:09:14]-

Speaker 22: (01:09:13)
Thank you.

President Donald Trump: (01:09:13)
Thank you very much.

Speaker 22: (01:09:14)
Thank you, Mr. President.

President Donald Trump: (01:09:14)
You were next. He was very nice in doing it, though, nevertheless. Go head-

Speaker 22: (01:09:18)
Thank you, sir.

President Donald Trump: (01:09:19)
Which is very unusual for CNN.

[EllieBC]

6. Global ran an article up here about the potential uptick in child abuse

cases as children in already abusive homes will have no real respite from their abusers.

I’m going to say something unpopular. I don’t care what’s going around. You beef up resources and protect kids FIRST.