Can you believe this -For McConnell, virus carries echo of his boyhood polio

[malaise]

This piece of shit has beein trying to kill health care for decades

https://www.local10.com/news/politics/2020/04/10/for-mcconnell-virus-carries-echo-of-his-boyhood-polio/
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– Mitch McConnell’s earliest childhood memory is the day he left the polio treatment center at Warm Springs, Georgia, for the last time.

He was just a toddler in 1944, when his father was deployed to World War II, his mother relocated the family to her sister’s home in rural Alabama and he came down with flu-like symptoms. While he eventually recovered, his left leg did not. It was paralyzed.


Two long years later, after shuttling young McConnell to and from the center where then-President Franklin Roosevelt received polio care, his mother was told that day that her young son would be able walk into his life without a leg brace.

She immediately took the 4-year-old shopping for a new pair of shoes.

More than 70 years later, Senate Majority Leader McConnell walked into the U.S. Senate to pass a sweeping coronavirus rescue package — and shutter the chamber for the forseeable future — as another dangerous flu-like virus fills the nation with anxiety, quarantines and unimaginable disruptions to American life.

“Why does this current pandemic remind me of that? I think No. 1 is the fear,” said McConnell in an interview with The Associated Press.

“And the uncertainty you have when there’s no pathway forward on either treatment or a vaccine and that was the situation largely in polio before 1954.”

[2naSalit]

1. FTFF!

I hope he dies of the new pandemic since the earlier one didn't get him. The world would have been a much better place had he not survived polio.

[lagomorph777]

2. Polio liked to hang out in warm water. So ironic people flocked to warm water to treat it...

And yeah, too bad it didn't nip Moscow Mitch in the bud.

[scarletlib]

3. I am a decade younger than him.

I remember the absolute fear neighborhood parents had whenever a child got sick in the summer. I remember my first polio shot. That’s why I support vaccinations and believe in universal healthcare.

That said, I had no idea McConnell was that old. Any good ideas he had died 50 years ago. We need to win the Senate and retire his sorry soul.

[malaise]

4. That's why I support vaccinations and believe in universal healthcare.

That is precisely the point.

I asked about this last month - how come he is so against universal health care given his polio experience?
He's a fucking hypocrite.

[peggysue2]

5. No pity parties for McConnell

The man has shown his total lack of empathy for his fellow Americans after insisting on politics over what's good for the American public. He's on record saying he was ambivalent on the subject of healthcare, for instance, perfectly happy to kill the ACA, root and branch. With nothing to replace it.

His presumed 'come to Jesus' moment according to this headline?

Think November election. Check out recent polls against Amy McGrath. I think McTurtle might have had a mini-revelation: could be a good idea, politically speaking, to drop the SOB, Grim Reaper persona for the moment. If you don't wish to have your ass handed to you, that is, by your own constituents who might be wondering what you've ever done for them. You know to make their lives easier, healthier, more prosperous rather than kissing up to coal mine owners and oil magnates.

Watch McConnell sweat. Not with genuine concern for his fellow Kentucky citizens but with a lump of concern about his own future prospects.

[RT Atlanta]

6. No sympathy

this buffoon is one of the few people in this country with the ability - if he wanted to - to materially and in a positive way, help the lives of every day Americans that are impacted by this disease and the economic impacts.

Instead, he does nothing but help his Wall St. buddies and continue to subscribe to trickle down crumb theory for the rest of us.

I REALLY am hopeful Amy McGrath beats that SOB this fall.

[malaise]

7. Yep - you nailed it

his experience should have made him a decent human being. Instead he's a greedy racist who displays contempt for the poor. I'll never forget how he wanted Obama to fail.

[RT Atlanta]

8. you're so right

He wanted to and deliberately did everything he could to make President Obama's presidency difficult, including really unethical actions with Merrick Garland as a final stick in the eye.

Meanwhile, many rural parts of KY including the coal mining parts of Appalachia are nearly destitute and Moscow Mitch does nothing to help those folks. This is the point where I will give a nod to republicans and their consistent messaging and convincing (duping) so many people to vote against their own personal interests (like reelecting Mitch).