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(4,167 posts)When hearing Trumps speech earlier today
Edit: or what about the 4 Americans who died in Benghazi that Republicans use to love to bring up?
tblue37
(65,490 posts)Moostache
(9,897 posts)COVID-19 is exponentially worse but also much longer in timeline, though it is crushing when you try to read stories of the lost in either case. Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, husbands, wives, and so so many more...
The impact is also lessened by the lack of TV coverage...notice how the stories from inside the hospitals and from caregivers all just sort of disappeared back in July? THAT was no accident...it was a programming decision. The crisis in geriatric care facilities is no less of a struggle today, but the attention given to it and the level of detail covered in the media is so much less.
9/11 happened in an instant and the images were seared into our minds in that same instant.
COVID-19 has been happening in somewhat closer to slow motion replays, and like the injuries to Joe Theismann in the 1980's or to Alex Smith in 2017, those replays are being sanitized and scrubbed from the air, lest people being asking that most important question - WHY? or worst yet for the powers-that-be, its follow-up WHO DOES THIS BENEFIT?
The medical industry is not really interested in attacking COVID-19 as a disease to be 'cured' or 'eradicated'; the talk is of potential vaccines and therapeutics - which is really code for "how can we make this a chronic condition and profit on the sale of treatments?"
In a sane country, our best and brightest would be employed in prestigious jobs working for the NIH, CDC and FDA - rewarded for being the most skilled, the best educated and the most dedicated to healthcare and THEY would be calling ALL the shots, running ALL the tests and relaying ALL the information to the public as it became available. In THIS shit hole country, the ones with the expertise and the brains and the ability to work a problem of this scale are either A) NOT working in the field, even though their skills and abilities would be GREAT in the field (not enough cold hard cash to retain the best) or B) laboring away in politicized branches of a broken government, subject to the whims and pouting of an infant in charge.
When you mix this all together, what we are left with is a damaging mirror to have to peer into - and what it shows us back is that we have become a profoundly sick nation in the interim from 9/11/2001 to 9/11/2020. We are broken - mentally, physically, emotionally and ethically.
While 9/11 was a shock to a somnolent nation - a clarion alarm clock sounding off in our ear; COVID-19 has become a politicized third-rail at the behest of a lying, murdering scumbag who should be removed from office months ago.
crickets
(25,983 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)malaise
(269,186 posts)The truth
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Maybe the Deplorables, or president whiny diaper, but I wouldnt say theyre the nation.
BamaRefugee
(3,487 posts)WITHIN.
Evolve Dammit
(16,778 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)marble falls
(57,260 posts)Link to tweet
Walter Shaub
@waltshaub
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How can a nation be so good at caring about 3,000 lives that ended 19 years ago and so bad at caring about 200,000 lives that ended this year? One was caused by the attack of an enemy who swore hed kill us; the other was caused by the lie of a leader who swore hed protect us.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)On some devices, and some OPs, they show up right here, but not always. I can't always link to Twitter.
marble falls
(57,260 posts)One day there will be a DU full of posts consisting only of links. I will hate that day.
iluvtennis
(19,876 posts)liberalla
(9,264 posts)I like Walter Shaub! I wonder if he would consider returning to government work? With a different president, of course!
niyad
(113,581 posts)Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Spot on.
BootinUp
(47,196 posts)NBachers
(17,146 posts)Where are the pukes posing with their emergency fucking bullhorns and their endless bullshit hearings?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,045 posts)The chart of course needs updating.
pandr32
(11,617 posts)Perhaps it should be expanded to allow the largest number of all in a long red tower going downwards.
Illumination
(2,458 posts)Cha
(297,719 posts)people on 9/11 and trump killed the 200,000 by the trump Virus.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)But I get his point.
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)bringthePaine
(1,733 posts)ladym55
(2,577 posts)As I saw all the gushing Facebook posts from my conservative acquaintances about patriotism and "never forget" and on and on. They don't give a rat's a$$ about the 190,000+ deaths from Covid.
I just took a vacation from Facebook. I learned long ago to avoid arguing with stumps and things dumber than they are.
kairos12
(12,875 posts)Chump would have cheered.