How COVID-19 is affecting society

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Pence & Trump seem to have a death wish. Let us hope that the coronavirus will oblige them.

Pence had CEOs remove masks before meeting with him — hours after his press secretary tested positive for COVID-19
Little snippet of maybe TMI - My mother was a housekeeper/maid and at one place we were living, the man reached down while she was hunched over dusting the tv and “handled’’ her breasts. That night she turned off all the lights, lit a bunch of candles, and voodoo’ed him. He died within a week. He was old, but still...

Maybe if we all send bad thoughts toward the Whitehouse over candles tonight... are you with me?

YES WE CAN!
 

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Next week could become an exciting week then ......
 
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Little snippet of maybe TMI - My mother was a housekeeper/maid and at one place we were living, the man reached down while she was hunched over dusting the tv and “handled’’ her breasts. That night she turned off all the lights, lit a bunch of candles, and voodoo’ed him. He died within a week. He was old, but still...

Maybe if we all send bad thoughts toward the Whitehouse over candles tonight... are you with me?

YES WE CAN!
Early on a bunch of people decided to cast hexes at him monthly. I decided to cast protection spells towards the groups he was about to hurt.
 

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Pence & Trump seem to have a death wish. Let us hope that the coronavirus will oblige them.

Pence had CEOs remove masks before meeting with him — hours after his press secretary tested positive for COVID-19
Given how he responds to others, he's displaying pretty convincing signs of profound hearing loss. He's probably leaning on lip-reading to cover it up. And he's too ego driven to actually get hearing aids.

"Why should I bother listening, my words are better and more important than everyone else! All I need to hear is how much they're kissing my ass!"
 

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The comments section for that article..oy vey. Many of them saying that dems want deaths so that Trump doesn't get elected, that only Trump can bring us economic recovery, yada yada.

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Ummm...they do know where that went, right?
I never read comments on Yahoo or YouTube. Either it's OAN bullshit or fawning comments that contribute nothing.
 
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The comments section for that article..oy vey. Many of them saying that dems want deaths so that Trump doesn't get elected, that only Trump can bring us economic recovery, yada yada.

Sample:


Ummm...they do know where that went, right?
There is a complement to that sort of conspiracy-theorizing: that Trump is indifferent to coronavirus deaths because African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans are dying at a greater rate than white Americans. Trump is quite capable of such thinking, but if he ever spoke it aloud, he would do so often because he can't shut-up and we would have heard it from one White House source or another.
 

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There is a complement to that sort of conspiracy-theorizing: that Trump is indifferent to coronavirus deaths because African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans are dying at a greater rate than white Americans. Trump is quite capable of such thinking, but if he ever spoke it aloud, he would do so often because he can't shut-up and we would have heard it from one White House source or another.
I don't think it's conspiracy-theorising, necessarily.

What do you think of the arguments advanced in this article, originally posted by (I think) Beebo?


It seems to me very persuasive, but I don't live there.
 
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I don't think it's conspiracy-theorising, necessarily.

What do you think of the arguments advanced in this article, originally posted by (I think) Beebo?


It seems to me very persuasive, but I don't live there.
How can one differentiate between utter incompetence centered around and embodied in Donald Trump and deliberate "benign neglect" (to borrow a phrase from the Nixon administration)? I can't do it, not even with the aid of the Atlantic article (whence I got my conspiracy theory description).

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The “Roaring 20s” was a combination of pent-up post-war consumer spending, loose credit, and bubbles in housing and stocks that were only maintained by deceitful banking practices. For farm and labor, the 1920s were a period of declining economy tipping into depression in rural communities before the market crash. So yes, I can see that happening again.
I think it's already happening.
 

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How can one differentiate between utter incompetence centered around and embodied in Donald Trump and deliberate "benign neglect" (to borrow a phrase from the Nixon administration)? I can't do it, not even with the aid of the Atlantic article (whence I got my conspiracy theory description).

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
I don't think it's an either/or, though; no one, I am sure, has actually decided that black Americans should be incarcerated at a rate of 2,306 per 100,000, while the equivalent figure for white Americans is 450 per 100,000, or on the very different treatment of the epidemics of opioid vs crack dependency, but I'm sure if white Americans were being imprisoned in such numbers, or the "war on drugs" prosecuted with equal vigour in poor rural white communities as it is in poor black urban ones, then the Republicans would take a rather different approach.

Trump seems primarily, if not exclusively, concerned about how the pandemic affects his chance of re-election, and appears indifferent to most other considerations -- that doesn't suggest a conspiracy of any sort, so much as a simple failure to take into account the effects of particular policies on particular groups, because those groups just don't matter to him.
 
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Andrew Bridgen is one of those Conservative MPs who achieved prominence only because he's very pro-Brexit, so his views were, because Theresa May was trying to run a minority administration, of some importance for once.

Unfortunately, despite the government's huge majority, no one has thought to put him back in his box.

Here, Susanna Reid and Piers Morgan take time out from sniping at each other to savage him over the British government's handling of the crisis

 
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The conflict theories are in high gear:


Contact tracing, trying to find out who might have been infected and possibly save their lives, is really post of the Sinister Plot.
These jokers really think Bill Gates is going to make a vaccine so that he can microchiip everyone. They think the "micro" in microchiip stands for microscopic, I guess.
And Boomers are supposed to be the ones who don't understand computers? 🤷🏻‍♀️