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In reply to the discussion: Blumenthal after classified coronavirus briefing: "appalled and astonished by the inadequacy..." [View all]DemoTex
(25,391 posts)If the coronavirus hits hard, we could have a demand for 3-10 million hospital beds at a time. If anything like that happens, health care will be rationed. Hospitals will suspend all other services, just to care for victims of CV. That is not my opinion, it is the gist of what physicians that I know, who are on hospital staffs, are being briefed.
Imagine a pandemic that peaks next Fall. Imagine Trump's totally altruistic ( ) concern that Americans not jeopardize their health by standing in a line to vote in November .
Trump and his minions thrive on entropy. The danger to them and their families notwithstanding, this plays right into their implementation of what Naomi Klein called the "Shock Doctrine." The coronavirus is that tipping point, beyond which we cannot take back our country for a long, long time.
I talked with a radiologist from a major city in the southeastern US last night. He said, "You had better update your Last Will & Testament, because Trump has this one."
At age 23, I was philosophical about dying on a combat mission in Vietnam or over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos. C'est la guerre. At least the VC and NVA were honorable women and men, fighting for a cause in which they had their hearts.
But at 72, it totally pisses me off that I might die because of the gross, intentional incompetence and malfeasance of a vainglorious, draft-dodging, pussy-grabber like that icon of Failure (with a capital F), Donald J. Trump.