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this coronavirus pandemic there were political pundits who could see the present President needed a massive disruption and level of chaos in order to not be removed from office via the Nov 2020 election. The American people listened to this President suggest he might be able to stay in office through 3, 4 or 5 consecutive terms. The suggested that he might foment civil unrest to stave off the litany of legal woes he will have to endure when out of office. In 2019 and before all that was theoretical. In 2020 we are actually seeing it come to fruition.</p><p id="2a12">A massive infection rate would serve to curtail voting in precincts where long lines have been common. His fervent opposition to mail in ballots further his concept of containing the votes rather than the virus. The Supreme Court ruling for Wisconsin was a dry run for the national election in a couple of months. As far as this President is concerned, the pandemic being over too soon is a major hit to his election plans.</p><p id="8e2e">Disaster Capitalist don’t need to create disasters. They have a tendency to arise on their own. They only need to seek ways to derive value from it.</p><p id="5448"><b>4.</b></p><p id="ce80">Then we have the Evangelical and Pentecostal reverends who see this pandemic as a <i>come to Jesus</i> moment. The tele-charlatans are hyping their abilities to blow away the virus, stop it with your hand on your TV set and get certain population segments to stop their abominations in the eyes of god. The all seek to hold their 1000 plus meetings every Sunday even though such meeting expose their parishioners and everyone they come in contact with to the virus and its horrible symptoms. Many of the flock think it will be a swift end to their righteous lives. Nothing would be further from the truth.</p><p id="b674"><b>5.</b></p><p id="385a">We have all sorts of ignorant and selfish people in this country. <i>The Open the Economy Now</i> folks seek to get their feelings heard. They make false equivalencies between told to stay home and the German execution of Jews in the 1940s, Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on the bus, the internment of Japanese Americans and other alleged constitutional Rights violations.</p><p id="acc8"><b>6.</b></p><p id="1fc8">Americans are an impatient lot. They have only been under order to self-isolate for 4 to 5 weeks and they are already stir crazy. Yes there are some 20 million people unemployed by the shut downs, but the unemployment is far more palatable than the illness that will surely follow them.</p><p id="3568"><b>7.</b></p><p id="b5b7">All these earnest dissenters are also part of the conspiracy minded lot. Coronavirus is not a virus at all but is 5G telecom radiation which mimics the symptoms. The people who decided without evidence the pandemic is a hoax must come up with an explanation which seems to fit. In their Quantum Universes Bill Gates wants to microchip everyone under the guise of the pandemic. He wants to sell vaccines and force everyone to comply. T

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hat is a tall order. Destroy the global economy just to have surveillance on everyone.</p><p id="f9e1">In China they have toyed with chipping their people since they have 1.6 billion people to keep track of for medical purposes. In the US the 320 million is a tiny population and some 28% don’t have health insurance to track. It appears in most developed countries and few which are not people carry their cellphones with them all the time and leave it on for instant connection. No need for chipping them, they have already complied.</p><p id="fe14"><b>8.</b></p><p id="5a07">The free-spirited Americans all want to have absolute freedom to do everything they can think of. US corporations act the same. They believe no one owns the air and water so they should be free to use it as they see fit. As long as they can store toxic pollutants on their titled land they feel it is completely justifiable to toxify that land for centuries to come since they will be long gone before the barrels rust through.</p><p id="d0e8">Very few corporations plan beyond the 5 year mark and feel that is okay. Most Americans can scarcely afford to plan for the end of the year and act accordingly.</p><p id="92cd"><b>9.</b></p><p id="b92b">It is a terrible time in America to be elderly, have chronic illnesses, have no health insurance, live in densely populated urban areas, be a minority, live paycheck-to-paycheck on a subsistence level of pay. These factors will impact on the future of each and every one of the people who are thusly identified.</p><p id="cbd9">Not only are people in those groups subject to painful illness and death but they also must endure the attitudes of the more fortunate population who will not become ill. They must bear up under the fact they may die but also endure attitudes that they should die. Germany had concentration camps and gas chambers for their <i>chosen ones</i>. Pol Pot had the killing fields for ridding his nation of the undesirables. Stalin had the gulags. The US has the coronavirus to kill the most vulnerable.</p><p id="856e">Every other country on Earth is trying their best to contain and stop this pandemic. The US is doing its darnedest to make use of it. They make use of it through a combination of planned incompetence, misinformation and malicious intent.</p><p id="eb10">This Administration has expended far more time and effort trying to blame everyone else for the poor results in containing the virus. First they praise the other party then condemn them for the opposite. While this does nothing to soften the impacts of the pandemic it does fit the agenda of fomenting chaos which it has been doing for 3 and a half years. There is no surprises there.</p><p id="70ff">At the height of Italy’s fight against the virus they woefully said they would not provide a ventilator to any patient over 60. This was a triage decision. As terrible as that might sound, the US is doing the same by just not having the ventilators at all and letting the decisions be made ad hoc.</p></article></body>

Why the US Have the Highest Infection and Death Toll in this Pandemic

It’s part of the Disaster Plan.

The global figures speak for themselves. In some way the US population is radically different than the rest of the world. Conversely, the US response to the exponential infection rate went unheeded in the early weeks of the crisis and continues through the ensuing weeks.

1.

The mortality rate and in total numbers are a measure of how we structure our social services. Much of our eldercare is provided in a medical business model based on a capitated rate. Capitated rates are such that a provider receives a fixed amount of compensation for the average client. If they spend less that means more profit. Our nursing and retirement homes are notorious for being understaffed and staffed with minimum wage employees. Such conditions herald a massive problem in situations like this COVID-19 pandemic. First, when an illness blows through the facilities, both the residents and the staff become ill. When minimum wage employees become sick they are incentivized by lack of health insurance to report to work for as long as they are able. Once a virus takes hold in the close quarters of a residential facility there is little to stop its spread except for removing and testing every person who is employed there.

The residential facility is not prepared to foot that bill. A $1 trillion portion of the bailout bill could have funded a COVID test for 330 Million people at an average cost of $3,000 each. That is the upside cost whereas most testing wound be far less. The issue is the federal government decided general testing of the public was not necessary. They curtailed testing of everyone not showing symptoms and tested only those who did and those who were deemed important enough to test.

It appears there is little deviance from the mortality numbers. 1, 2 or 3% seem to be very consistent around the globe. Therefore, it is the infection rate that drives the mortality figures.

2.

As noted by several Republican-minded politicians the mortality numbers relate more to the so called comorbidity conditions. Such factors are age, obesity, hypertension, diabetes, cancers, seasonal flu, COPD, and other lung disorders. Their totally un-empathetic pronouncements have been let them go, the economy is more important.

One Republican politician has gone as far as to declare 9.6mn dead is a small price to pay for opening the economy. There you have it. There is one of the reasons the US has such a high infection and mortality rate: There are people and businesses who will benefit from their suffering and deaths.

3.

Even before the outbreak of this coronavirus pandemic there were political pundits who could see the present President needed a massive disruption and level of chaos in order to not be removed from office via the Nov 2020 election. The American people listened to this President suggest he might be able to stay in office through 3, 4 or 5 consecutive terms. The suggested that he might foment civil unrest to stave off the litany of legal woes he will have to endure when out of office. In 2019 and before all that was theoretical. In 2020 we are actually seeing it come to fruition.

A massive infection rate would serve to curtail voting in precincts where long lines have been common. His fervent opposition to mail in ballots further his concept of containing the votes rather than the virus. The Supreme Court ruling for Wisconsin was a dry run for the national election in a couple of months. As far as this President is concerned, the pandemic being over too soon is a major hit to his election plans.

Disaster Capitalist don’t need to create disasters. They have a tendency to arise on their own. They only need to seek ways to derive value from it.

4.

Then we have the Evangelical and Pentecostal reverends who see this pandemic as a come to Jesus moment. The tele-charlatans are hyping their abilities to blow away the virus, stop it with your hand on your TV set and get certain population segments to stop their abominations in the eyes of god. The all seek to hold their 1000 plus meetings every Sunday even though such meeting expose their parishioners and everyone they come in contact with to the virus and its horrible symptoms. Many of the flock think it will be a swift end to their righteous lives. Nothing would be further from the truth.

5.

We have all sorts of ignorant and selfish people in this country. The Open the Economy Now folks seek to get their feelings heard. They make false equivalencies between told to stay home and the German execution of Jews in the 1940s, Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on the bus, the internment of Japanese Americans and other alleged constitutional Rights violations.

6.

Americans are an impatient lot. They have only been under order to self-isolate for 4 to 5 weeks and they are already stir crazy. Yes there are some 20 million people unemployed by the shut downs, but the unemployment is far more palatable than the illness that will surely follow them.

7.

All these earnest dissenters are also part of the conspiracy minded lot. Coronavirus is not a virus at all but is 5G telecom radiation which mimics the symptoms. The people who decided without evidence the pandemic is a hoax must come up with an explanation which seems to fit. In their Quantum Universes Bill Gates wants to microchip everyone under the guise of the pandemic. He wants to sell vaccines and force everyone to comply. That is a tall order. Destroy the global economy just to have surveillance on everyone.

In China they have toyed with chipping their people since they have 1.6 billion people to keep track of for medical purposes. In the US the 320 million is a tiny population and some 28% don’t have health insurance to track. It appears in most developed countries and few which are not people carry their cellphones with them all the time and leave it on for instant connection. No need for chipping them, they have already complied.

8.

The free-spirited Americans all want to have absolute freedom to do everything they can think of. US corporations act the same. They believe no one owns the air and water so they should be free to use it as they see fit. As long as they can store toxic pollutants on their titled land they feel it is completely justifiable to toxify that land for centuries to come since they will be long gone before the barrels rust through.

Very few corporations plan beyond the 5 year mark and feel that is okay. Most Americans can scarcely afford to plan for the end of the year and act accordingly.

9.

It is a terrible time in America to be elderly, have chronic illnesses, have no health insurance, live in densely populated urban areas, be a minority, live paycheck-to-paycheck on a subsistence level of pay. These factors will impact on the future of each and every one of the people who are thusly identified.

Not only are people in those groups subject to painful illness and death but they also must endure the attitudes of the more fortunate population who will not become ill. They must bear up under the fact they may die but also endure attitudes that they should die. Germany had concentration camps and gas chambers for their chosen ones. Pol Pot had the killing fields for ridding his nation of the undesirables. Stalin had the gulags. The US has the coronavirus to kill the most vulnerable.

Every other country on Earth is trying their best to contain and stop this pandemic. The US is doing its darnedest to make use of it. They make use of it through a combination of planned incompetence, misinformation and malicious intent.

This Administration has expended far more time and effort trying to blame everyone else for the poor results in containing the virus. First they praise the other party then condemn them for the opposite. While this does nothing to soften the impacts of the pandemic it does fit the agenda of fomenting chaos which it has been doing for 3 and a half years. There is no surprises there.

At the height of Italy’s fight against the virus they woefully said they would not provide a ventilator to any patient over 60. This was a triage decision. As terrible as that might sound, the US is doing the same by just not having the ventilators at all and letting the decisions be made ad hoc.

Covid-19
Pandemic
Trump Administration
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