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Ready. FIRE! Aim.
This news hasn’t reached right wing world where the only measure of health is more spending
I hear that sitting in an oven set to 160 degrees F for an hour kills the virus as well.
Their aim is to fill their pockets … so it’s all good.
We’ve had entirely too much red tape ever since that Upton Sinclair fellow wrote his book.
Plus he was a socialist, a fact we’d all like to ignore.
Given the Senate’s bail-out package, the definition of socialist seems to be a bit malleable these days.
Yes, one could ask the Republicans about that.
Or the Democratic Party.
Or Team Biden, for that matter.
Whatever your preferred flavor of Rank Hypocrisy, it’s available.
First, do no science
Gotta get the huddled masses back to the fields to save the investments. You can’t pay for those houses and yachts if the yokels aren’t slaving away. So you lose a few…there’s more where they came from!
Perfect.
Does each country have to find their own cure? Is it impossible to use treatment already proven effective in other countries?
The Kleptocratic oath
Or in the original Latin:
Primum grab all the money.
The fine print in the Covid Stimulus Bill potentially can benefit Trump, Kushner et al or put in another way, they can continue to fleece American tax payers BIGLY in time of a pandemic.
Dems provision to block govt officials and their families from getting bailout funds… applies to individuals who “directly or indirectly” control 20% or more of a company…Note that the Trumps and Kushner’s collectively own their business as a group…So are their shares less than 20%?
Also, are the a Trump Hotels considered Small business since Trump owns hundreds of small corps?
primum non misericordia
They can push it but it doesn’t mean health professionals are going to use it on their patients if it doesn’t work and endangers them with all the side-effects. So this is slightly perplexing.
On the other hand, this is what happens when you ignore science:
“if they can secure the active ingredient.”
baby’s blood
Especially when you make birth control harder to get for the poors.