I don’t think other countries are going to suffer quite like Americans are for their stances and views on COVID. There’s a few reasons for that–one is every other country we consider a peer offers Health care for all so don’t have to worry about a society losing all its assets by the tens of millions. The other is many other countries seem to be full of better people. Yes, I’m shit-talking Americans for their lack of cooperation and the fact that personal will can always ruin community and cooperation in the American psyche–we revel in our ability to tell people off, to do what we want, and we can always find a reason why we did the things we did. People who get in our way or die because of actions we consider acceptable losses–they were the ones getting in our way–we were just doing what we wanted and they interrupted us.
It’s time to face reality, though. Because we have likely at least 100 million people who have been infected by COVID, these people are going to be draining hospital resources and therapies, closing hospitals because they aren’t going to be able to pay their bills–they are going to be people wandering around with oxygen tanks, crippled by their bodies. People will be experiencing early onset dementia by the literal millions, not to mention the other illnesses it’s causing: the diabetes, the RA, Guillen Barre, the cardiac damage, the blood clots. Of course this is for adults. For kids, we might see that and worse–again, I keep referring back to this article about Measles and what it does to pediatric brains later-how do we know?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/for-some-kids-measles-becomes-a-time-bomb-with-no-cure
The point is at this point, many can consider ourselves positives, or negatives. People who are producers who are not sick–they are positives. I am not one of these people. The people who got sick or have been sick with illnesses already–they are negatives. They will be needing to take more resources than they can possibly add in in the future–because our society is not set up in any way to equalize our experiences financially–it just happens to be true. It doesn’t mean you have no value–that’s not it, it just means you will be a financial burden on your community, your family, your finances. I know this seems to hurt a lot of feelings–trust me I have lived this life–I have learned to have nothing so nobody can hurt me any further than I have been hurt by my own body–money would just be another loss to endure like I have lost every other solid idea of my life–so I try to limit points of pain by removing them entirely.
So what the fuck do we do with that knowledge? Well, you let the right own their stance, number one–they know a thousand percent the bankruptcy and misery coming to tens of millions. They aren’t dumb–they just hope you are, and have spent a great deal of time blaming China instead of coming up with solutions for us all. Their lack of health plan is a perfect illustration of this–certainly there are greater savings with neglect vs spending and the cost to help everyone. For the party of money, the money carrot is the point-if you can’t make it, there’s no point in enacting it as policy. If you look at their record of legislation introduction it rarely has anything to do with anything truly good for the community for the sake of being good for the community–it’s about money, and it has nothing to do with what’s good for you.
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