So much is happening at such speed, it’s difficult to keep up with it all.
The madness of Trump falling sick, and then just demanding to tough it out is an insanity that manages to sum up the flaming dumpster fire 2020 has been so far.
Trump doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke and apparently doesn’t do drugs so I’m guessing a huge injection of steroids is going to have him believing he’s 10 foot tall and bullet proof.
As soon as he felt well, he demanded he leave the Hospital and staged a return to the White House that Mussolini would have approved off.
The problem of course is that with Covid, people’s illness time line has them pull back from the early symptoms but then get suddenly very sick.
If Trump has to be readmitted to Hospital in 3 days time, it will be a terrible blunder, but his desire to stage a come back and beat the virus himself is driven by how desperate he is doing in the polls.
The recklessness of Trump could yet destroy him or America.
Or both.
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The latter Bomber. My lad and I, WATCHING this idiot yesterday on the C.N.N, as he came off the helicopter, looking unstable in phisical stance and balance, then see him walking up the hoos steps tacking in mask off, and those American comentators should have seen and reported on his stonch stance agains not letting the camera!s seeing his struggle breathing, and then walking into the big hoos unmasked. They did report this much latter on. At the time my son who is not a child, said, why are these reporters not reporting this, he is hiding his struggle to breath and taking his mask off as he walks into the white house what about those people is he going to contaminate those people. Had to say, remember that history book you read about Russia, marching German prisoners after the second world through the streets of Moscow, and the trucks following disinfecting the road, that is what they will be doing every where he walks behind him will be a germ extinction squad spraing disinfectant.
Would have prefer my knowing, and my known Austringer, been attached. Serious to down the road to fear ridicule and some state weird he!s not one of us, who, im socialist. Who the fuck you.
Your comment is truly unintelligible. What about a bit of proofreading before you post?
I put that through google translate and even it said WTF???
‘The recklessness of Trump could yet destroy him or America.’
Recklessness is a characteristic of America presidents that goes back to Reagan, who -along with ‘close the gold-convertibility window’ Nixon- set the agenda for America’s ongoing collapse. One of Reagan’s first acts was to organise the removal of the solar panels installed on the White House by Carter, sending a very clear ‘fuck the environment and don’t even consider energy depletion’ message to the American populace. Then there was “Our way of life is not negotiable” Bush I, followed by slippery ‘repeal Glass- Steagall’ Clinton, followed by “Mission Accomplished” steal-the-oil Bush II, followed by “Hope and change” in the wrong direction Obama.
So Trump is just the latest manifestation of bizarreness in a long series, each president presiding over a more and more fucked-up collection of states that took a wrong turn in the mid-nineteenth century.
Even if Trump were to die tomorrow it would make no difference to the final outcome of well over over a century of dysfunctional thinking and dysfunctional policies in America.
The notions that it was advantageous to construct high-rise concrete-and-steel cities and produce monoculture crops via the use of oil-dependent machinery were never going to work long term. Nor was the notion that it would be advantageous to create money out of thin air and use it to enrich sociopaths whilst rewarding destruction of the environment via GDP growth ever going to work for very long.
So, the short period when such strategies generated the facade of success is over.
That saddest aspect of all this is that so many nations, including NZ, have adopted the dysfunctional strategies promoted by America, and they too are on the slippery slope towards catastrophic failure.
Perhaps that is not the saddest aspect. Perhaps the saddest aspect is the utter determination of people in power to persist with policies that generate bad outcomes for the vast majority of people and bad outcomes for the continuation of life on this planet.
I see Jacinda is reported as telling us yet another blatant lie in the pursuit of dysfunctional policies: Adern’s claim that electric buses are part of a strategy for ‘zero emissions’:
‘Labour would spend $50m to help local councils buy only zero-emissions buses by 2025. Her government would “decarbonise the public transport bus fleet” by 2030, she added.’
is absolute bollocks, of course, since NZ burns natural gas (CH4) to make a large portion of its electricity.
Sure, it would be an improvement not to be inhaling [deadly] diesel fumes every time a bus drove past. But to pretend this dysfunctional policy is going to help prevent planetary meltdown is a lie -especially when we consider the embedded emissions relating to the construction of electric buses and the emissions relating to maintenance of roads.
It’s all bullshit. And it’s bad for you.” -George Carlin
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/07/ardern-hails-zero-emissions-buses-in-labour-election-pledge-on-climate
One of the things interesting about the whole scenario is the ‘in theory’ rapid improvement in health over a period of a couple of days. One of the things you hope as a world we will get better at is the treatment of Covid19 and are these developmental drugs that Trump took game changers?
So far nothing in the media about these and their effects however if we look at the facts: old fat man gets covid19 – he’s right in the supposed sweet spot for the virus and then 3 days later back to work. Ignoring the moronic nature of that decision to go back to work and not rest, recuperate and get re-tested; simply being back to a semi normal health condition suggests this treatment works. This of course relies on Trump not getting sick again or relapsing as Bomber rightly points out.
Point is in 6 months time when Europe and North America re-open to each other and the true nature of the apathy around covid19 in the developing world becomes apparent Australasia and North East Asia will have a dilemma in regards to border openings. If we have drugs that take the incidence of death well below the common flu and statistically irrelevant will the border re-open?
We are hung up on a vaccine however if we can successfully treat an infection then is there any point to this approach?
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