Really sobering article in the NYTimes

[central scrutinizer]

This won’t be over for anyone until it’s over for everyone

Close to 370,000 infections and nearly 11,000 deaths in the United States. Nearly 10 million Americans filing unemployment claims. Unimaginable heartbreak and hardship, with worse to come. Given this still-developing emergency, and the fatal inadequacy of the U.S. government’s domestic preparedness and response so far, it is very hard to focus on the devastation that is about to strike the world’s poorest and most vulnerable.

But if President Trump doesn’t overcome his go-it-alone mind-set and take immediate steps to mobilize a global coalition to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, its spread will cause a catastrophic loss of life and make it impossible to restore normalcy in the United States in the foreseeable future.

Covid-19 is poised to tear through poor, displaced and conflict-affected communities around the world. Three billion people are unable to wash their hands at home, making it impossible to follow sanitation protocols. Because clinics in these communities have few or no gloves, masks, coronavirus tests, ventilators (the entire country of South Sudan has four) or ability to isolate infected patients, the contagion will be exponentially more lethal than in the developed countries it is currently ravaging.

End excerpt. Really chilling. The toll among the world’s poor will be catastrophic. So much suffering is coming soon. Scary.

[asiliveandbreathe]

1. Unimaginable heartbreak and hardship, with worse to come...

Sometimes an article such as this makes it hard to breathe..

[enough]

2. The toll among the world's poor and displaced is of no interest to Trump his Republican cadre. NT

[central scrutinizer]

11. Or the Xtian fundies

WWJI. Who would Jesus ignore?

[SheltieLover]

3. And Chase ordered traders back on the floor today! 🤬

This is so sad. 😭

[crickets]

4. This man is responsible for what will be the most intentional misery on earth. Ever. nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. " When they get desperate enough, they'll buy the drug I have invested in"

That is the sum total of any interest in the calamity, for him. The worse it gets, the more $$$ he sees.

Rudy has a stake in the drug treatment as well, which is why he suddenly started hyping it.

[pbmus]

5. Link please...

[Alex4Martinez]

6. LINK:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/opinion/coronavirus-united-states-leadership.html

[spanone]

7. make it impossible to restore normalcy in the United States in the foreseeable future...his goal

[2naSalit]

10. That sword cuts both ways...

What if we decide to refuse to "reopen the country" until he fucking leaves? We're already shut down, WE could extend it on our own. This is the general strike mode nobody expected but we have needed. I hate that it is a pandemic but we should make use of the terror to remove those who would perpetrate genocide in our nation. All we would have to do is continue to stay home longer than the regime can handle.

A Dem dominated government, Congress and WH would see to it that we recover after doing so.

This is doable if enough of us refuse to participate in their version of the nation.

[ananda]

9. That's the whole idea for Trump and the Reeps ..

.. Loot and destroy.