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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's February 1 -Here's what happens when you're busy planning how to stay in power
rather than deal with a global pandemic.
Covid 19 Deaths:452,279
Covid 19 Cases: 26,767,229
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Thanks Don the Seditionist - the Insurrectionist in Chief!
Kid Berwyn
(14,992 posts)In a taped Feb. 7 call with Woodward, Trump said of the virus, You just breathe the air and thats how its passed. And so thats a very tricky one. Thats a very delicate one. Its also more deadly than even your strenuous flus, Trump said.
This is deadly stuff, the president repeated for emphasis.
Just three days later, Trump struck a far rosier tone in public, in an interview with Fox Business: I think the virus is going to be its going to be fine.
Source: https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-virus-outbreak-bob-woodward-archive-pandemics-cb579c89907b73e546459848e2b3bb67
lookyhereyou
(140 posts)"donald you will sound authoritative,not weak .works for me" V.P.
Kid Berwyn
(14,992 posts)malaise
(269,219 posts)would be a great success because without him over two million would die.
This is genocide by Trump.
Kid Berwyn
(14,992 posts)Otherwise is too horrible to contemplate, for were he a competent tyrant only the billionaires and their servants would survive.
Which brings up a question...
How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?
Survival of the Richest
The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind
by Douglas Rushkoff
One Zero, July 5, 2018
Excerpt...
The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr. Robot hack that takes everything down.
This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers if that technology could be developed in time.
Thats when it hit me: At least as far as these gentlemen were concerned, this was a talk about the future of technology. Taking their cue from Elon Musk colonizing Mars, Peter Thiel reversing the aging process, or Sam Altman and Ray Kurzweil uploading their minds into supercomputers, they were preparing for a digital future that had a whole lot less to do with making the world a better place than it did with transcending the human condition altogether and insulating themselves from a very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migrations, global pandemics, nativist panic, and resource depletion. For them, the future of technology is really about just one thing: escape.
Continues...
https://onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1
Thank Goodness for Democracy, too. Every day.
Johnny2X2X
(19,193 posts)452,000 should have been less than 100,000. Trump botched it from the start and continued to undermine the efforts to fight this until he left office. Just disgusting.
malaise
(269,219 posts)And the killer thinks he should still be president. Lock him up!