Day 1137 The Immorality of Health Care
Friday February 28, 2020
247 Days until the election on November 3rd
327 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
The other day I was reminded of Mike Pence’s having to be convinced to give clean needles to drug addicts by the CDC. Mike didn’t want to do it because he was “morally opposed” to it. What exactly he was morally opposed to I have no idea. Drug addiction? Clean needles? I don’t know.
This led me to ask myself if the Corona Virus cares what your morality is. I’m betting no. I’m guessing it has no sense of morality. That it just does what it does. If what it does is in conflict with your moral code – so what? It doesn’t know.
If you think our president is going to tweet away this crisis I think you are sadly mistaken. If you think Mike Pence is going to pray it away. You are sadly mistaken. If you think PR releases saying the number of virus cases is going down. You are sadly mistaken. If you think the media: liberal, conservative, Christian, far-right, or Russian reporting on its effect you are sadly mistaken.
The only thing that helps is knowledge and therefore the truth.
If you think Mike Pence or Donald Trump are going to help in the knowledge and truth business then I think you haven’t looked at their records very closely.
What will happen I wonder when dyed in the wool Trump supporter comes up against the reality of death. Say of a loved one. What will Trump do if someone close to him dies? Like a member of his family? Who is he going to blame?
Another interesting point was raised yesterday. What if you are out in public and you see someone coughing and sneezing? Do you have any assurance that person has seen a doctor? In a society where health care was more readily available you would. Here – no.
So by the time the election rolls around we will know the effect of this virus on the population. We will know how effective Mike Pence and Trump and the rest of his team have been in combatting this virus.
Trump and Rand Paul and Steven Bannon have all been for “shrinking the administrative state.” Trump has cut funding to the CDC and eliminated the pandemic response team. Over 1600 scientists have left the government since Trump came into office. I think he believes he can hire people at the last minute if he needs them. This is not the case. It takes years to develop a research team and response teams. Then you need good leadership. Just ask George W. Bush about his response to Hurricane Katrina.
Compare what Trump has done to date on the Corona Virus to what Obama did with Ebola. Barrack sent teams to Africa, to the source. Joe Biden on the debate stage said that if he was in charge he’d have people over in China, working with the Chinese and monitoring the situation. What are we doing? Appointing a person with a record of hostility to health workers and people in need and who has a fawning allegiance to the president. The president is way over his head and has no idea what to do.
247 Days until the election on November 3rd
327 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
PS The twelve astrological sundials at the observatory in Jantar Mantar, Rahasthan, India. In Indian/Hindu astrology knowing your sun sign is very important. that is knowing the sign of the zodiac which is directly behind the sun when you are born. Each of these sundials point at one of the astrological signs when those signs are at their zenith and have a thirty degree radius to mark the particular exact position of the zodiacal sign at that moment. Very weird.
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