"COVID In America" Video Seen Around The World; People Cannot Believe Their Eyes!

[appalachiablue]

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- What Does America’s Coronavirus Response Look Like Abroad? | NYT Opinion, July 29, 2020.

The U.S. leads the world in Covid-19 deaths, nearing 150,000 lost lives. The unemployment figures brought on by the pandemic are mind-boggling. The Trump administration’s slow & haphazard response has been widely criticized. But what does it look like to young people around the world, whose governments moved quickly & aggressively to contain the coronavirus? We reached out to quite a few & showed them charts, facts, photos & videos illustrating the U.S. response. They were not impressed.

Many advanced economies, from Germany to Singapore, directly supplemented salaries to save jobs. Other nations with fewer resources started mass testing at the first sign of an outbreak. Many countries mandated universal lockdowns- and successfully flattened the curve. In some parts of Europe, you could be fined for straying too far from your home. And Vietnam, a nation of 95 mill people, has not seen a single Covid-19 death. *More, https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/2/1966003/-People-from-around-the-world-watched-a-video-on-COVID-in-America-They-could-not-believe-their-eyes?utm_campaign=trending

[johnthewoodworker]

1. Allow me to use some generalizations. Republicans can't govern. Trumptards, at 35% to 40% of the

population, are dragging the rest of the country down with their hatred, stupidity, and hatred. The entire country is fucked.

[rwsanders]

13. For years I've been saying that the 3 legs of the stool that support the republican party

are Ignorance, Racism and Greed. Stupidity might be better than ignorance, because now it is intentional.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

2. Big huge Kick...

This needs to be seen far and wide. Thanks for posting.

[PatSeg]

16. I agree

I posted it several places already.

[UpInArms]

3. Thank you for posting

This should be required viewing

[Delphinus]

4. Oh my ...

[Botany]

15. The world is:

Laughing @ us

Shocked by us

And Crying for us.

The South Korean woman breaking down was very touching and sad.

[genxlib]

5. K&R

Must see

[Tanuki]

6. Thanks for posting this.

[lark]

7. Targeted malice at blue states plus putting profits for himself over the country are why this is.

He hates us and always puts profits for himself above our lives. That much is blatantly and obviously true. It also seems very highly likely he's killing us on purpose. I believe those reasons are"
- Hatred for Dems and glee for us dying so we can't vote against him
- Profiteering mightily in every way for himself. This is the vastly under reported calamity of this year and includes -
Making the country wait 90 days for a test being developed by a small co. he was a major investor in.
Making states pay for PPE which were already paid for by taxpayers and making them bid so prices went up 15x
more than the regular price
Refusing to send sufficient PPE to blue states that were in crisis and instead sending it to red states which had no need for it
Declaring war then saying the states were on their own
Refusing to use Defense Act to produce tests, testing supplies and PPE
Pushing hydrochloroquine which is produced by a company he's invested in (more profits for him)
Wanted to open the economy back up in April but was over-ridden
Wanted us to use bleach (which would kill us) and UV light to beat CV
Pushing school re-openings without providing anything extra for states to do this safely and threatening to withhold $ from (blue)
districts that don't open for 5 day a week inschool classes.
Pushing every unsafe behavior there is so businesses can make $ and give it to him & so there is maximum chaos, confusion and
risk at voting time.

I'm sure there is more, but just this is so sad and stupid and fascistic it just makes me want to scream.

[Ferrets are Cool]

8. We are a nation of have and have nots...I'm not sure how you define a 3rd world country

but to me, we are on the very brink of becoming one.

[appalachiablue]

10. The Lincoln Project video (Below) captures where we've been for decades.

The US was downgraded from a Full Democracy to a Flawed Democracy by the Economic Index a couple years ago. Mainly for our representatives lack of action on the needs of the people, the unlimited money in politics and corrupted US elections.

Several years ago the UN Special Reporter on Poverty, Philip Alston toured the US and warned of Third World status in areas of the deep south where people live with no real sanitation, raw sewage and even hook worms that were eradicated decades ago but have recently reappeared. He also focused on extreme poverty and large, growing homeless encampments all over esp. in western, warmer and wealthier states and places like LA, San Fran, CA, OR, WA and ID.

"Mourning in America" The Lincoln Project, 2020.

[Ferrets are Cool]

23. Thank you

[LittleGirl]

9. It's awful.

Thanks for sharing. Tears.

[yuiyoshida]

11. They say "The World is watching" well.. it is...

and we are looking pretty pathetic right now... But I guess we have no choice until November... and I pray for a Blue Tsunami.

[llashram]

12. republicans are death dealers

with no compassion or recognizable conscience. The world knows this now. Trump is crud. Ivanka is crud. Jared is CRUD!!!! McConnell is crud. Brix is crud. Fuci stays on staff to try and save as many of us critical thinking people as he can.

[dalton99a]

14. The death cult must be destroyed.

[underpants]

17. 👀

Checking out in a bit

[JudyM]

18. It is stunning how powerless we apparently are to stop the ravaging of trump and McConnell.

[proud patriot]

19. wow Tears

[magicguido]

20. We've all grown accustomed to the DUMBING DOWN of America and his daily BULLSHIT

[appalachiablue]

21. Ignorant, uniformed people are easy to control, fool and

oppress, it's always been that way. Elites were typically only allowed access to real education, the vote, truthful news, travel and exposure to the world and other ideas and cultures.

The video by The Lincoln Project, "Mourning in America" posted below, could have been filmed 15-30 years ago in many places in America that are run down, de-industrialized wastelands. "Sacrifice Zones" as Chris Hedges calls them.

- "Mourning In America," May 4, 2020. The Lincoln Project.

[underpants]

22. I actually got teared up watching that. It surrounds us and we have become numb to it

in a way.

The food lines - MSNBC is the only network (of the big 3) that have given that any real coverage.
I didn’t realize the the pink line was a part of the chart either. When the guy in Singapore said it I saw what the scrolling down was.
“This metrics”

[appalachiablue]

24. All of it, monstrous. The visual of cars in line for food was shocking...

[cp]

25. Well worth watching

Such lovely bright faces and so articulate! I cried during it, too. We've been living in Hell, day by day, for so long. They aren't numb to it. Breaking out of denial is painful but urgently necessary.
Thank you for posting this.