Coronavirus Thread: Worldwide Pandemic

[Hood Critic]

Opinion | Capitalism is failing the white working class. And the results are deadly.
Economic anxiety

Free-market capitalism has brought progress throughout history. It has lifted millions of people out of poverty around the world. But it is not working for less educated Americans today. While those with four-year college degrees have prospered over the last half-century, those without have seen their wages fall, their communities and marriages weakened and their labor markets turn against them, and worst of all, they have experienced an epidemic of what we christened deaths of despair, from suicide, drug overdose and alcoholic liver disease and cirrhosis. In 2018, more than 158,000 Americans died from these causes, up from 65,000 in 1995, with increases that are similar for men and women.

Dat free-market though...

 

[Hood Critic]

Dat free-market though...

This sounds familiar

In our book, we document many worrying trends for less educated whites. They have been reporting marked increases in pain, both physical and mental, as well as increased difficulties socializing and in carrying out the normal activities of life. Their marriage rates have fallen, while out-of-wedlock childbearing has increased dramatically. Couples serially cohabit, in fragile and often temporary relationships, so that many of their children are living with adults who are not their birth parents, and many middle-age men find themselves estranged from their children, who are living with other men. Church attendance is falling along with union membership; both are (or were) pillars of community. Behind this social decay lies a slow and prolonged decline in earnings and job opportunities for less educated men.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

So my sister is a head nurse here in Denver. She saying hospitals are empty. They have cleared out their Covid patients. Friends she has at other hospitals are cancelling staff and saying same thing. Some going out east to help.

 

[Hood Critic]

The astronomical costs of health care are draining jobs, hope and opportunity from working-class Americans. We are in favor of free-market capitalism, but economists have known for half a century that free markets cannot deliver health care, and American health care is more like a predatory conspiracy aided and abetted by government. It is no accident that the industry has five lobbyists in Washington for every member of Congress. How health care performs in dealing with the coronavirus will certainly affect whether this situation is allowed to continue.

 

[newarkhiphop]

 

[THE MACHINE]

Put your name on checks from taxpayers to taxpayers while not paying taxes brehs

 

[The ADD]

Probably late on this but FFS


As U.S. discouraged mask use for public, White House team raced to secure face coverings from Taiwan for senior staff

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...d815d2-7ac5-11ea-a130-df573469f094_story.html

 

[Julius Leisure]

America is such a fukkin house of cards

 

[mastermind]

At this rate, we are 5 weeks away from them suggesting eating ass as a cure.

 

[mastermind]

True, but those are trials and honestly that means nothing honestly trial #1 of thousands of trials.

We are talking about something that has been cultivated by nature for decades maybe even centuries and this year it had the right conditions for it to jump to different species.

The chance of science figure it out that fast or even figuring it out at all. Using previous track records provided by history means it ain't happening breh and if some miracle breakthroughs happen that surely ain't happening in 2 years.

Anyone thinking we will find a vaccine or cure in the next 18-24 months is deluding themselves.

More money needs to be put toward testing.

 

[DJ Paul's Arm]

So if your ordered to stay at home and your brother, sister, family member got it, what you gonna do?

 

[mastermind]

The counter to that is that technology and information is far more advanced than previous history. You got kids printing masks at home with 3D printers. I'm not saying it happens any sooner but more people have the ability to work on the problem and throw more at it than ever before.

Scientists still don’t really understand the human body.

 

[mastermind]

So if your ordered to stay at home and your brother, sister, family member got it, what you gonna do?

I guess we all dying from that ‘Rona.

 

[Json]

So my sister is a head nurse here in Denver. She saying hospitals are empty. They have cleared out their Covid patients. Friends she has at other hospitals are cancelling staff and saying same thing. Some going out east to help.

People thinking the push to reopen in May aren’t paying attention.

If that idiot in the White House would get the test and mask, he’d get his partial reopening.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Weak ass 1200.00. Makes me sick to my stomach they got away with giving us so little.

At least you got a check