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Chainfire

(17,536 posts)
5. I don't think that the Federal government
Wed May 6, 2020, 07:25 PM
May 2020

will support another shutdown if 5,000 people a day are dying. In a contest between short term profits and human life, the profits will win every time, because the people making the big money also make the rules and therefore control the game.

The Republicans have openly admitted that they know that their actions are going to cost many lives; it just doesn't matter to them. The next move will be to bury the numbers of the people that we are burying. We are already hearing from the top the whispers that the number of deaths is over counted.

The dying is just getting warmed up.

I'm pretty sure that here mindem May 2020 #1
Absolutely! SheltieLover May 2020 #2
Yeah, at this point... Alacritous Crier May 2020 #3
When JCMach1 May 2020 #4
Yes. Tipperary May 2020 #9
I don't think that the Federal government Chainfire May 2020 #5
I have what may be a dumb question, but is there ANY action being taken at the Federal level smirkymonkey May 2020 #6
No. CanonRay May 2020 #7
That is just really fucked up. smirkymonkey May 2020 #11
The .. ***FIRST*** ... wave never left, there has been no reduction of relative Ro Sans New York uponit7771 May 2020 #8
Wondering about Ohio, too. Alliepoo May 2020 #10
Second wave? Calculating May 2020 #12
It's not even a boomerang. It hasn't stopped climbing. cwydro May 2020 #13
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