By SJ Otto
Out side of politics is the possibility that folks as I mite
actually die from the Corona
virus. I am 65 years of age and that puts me in a difficult category of people
who are susceptible to death from this virus. That isn’t easy to accept. In Italy 743
people have died. In
China where this sort of thing began, the Corona virus: 81,218 Cases and 3,281 Deaths.
This pandemic has spread all across this country and in such
major cites as New York and other cities along
the Western Coast
So as someone who is in a high risk category, I have to be
very careful. Being dead would put a very clear cut end to my political writing
and as an activist. Everyone is being asked to stay at home and stop their
activities. For many people this means little. But for people I work with, this
is a major problem.
A pandemic like this brings out the worst of us. There are
those who buy more toilet paper and paper towels than they can ever use and
then try and resell it to those who are in need. The cost is way more than what
they paid at the store for these. It is profiteering. That is normal as part of
our US
capitalist medical system. This is the only place in the industrialized world
where making a profit is way more important than the needs of the people. We
have a major epidemic and there are plenty of people trying to profit off of
other people’s suffering. Such people are the scum of the earth and we need to
stop them when ever we can.
This has also put a
damper on the US
economy. For the Republicans, such as our idiot President Donald Trump, the
economy is all they really care about. Everything else is “less than zero” to
them. If we had the kinds of deaths they have in Spain
and Italy
that would not be as big a problem as the fall of the economy. The economy is
all the Republicans really care about.
Yes, Trump and his ilk do
plan to send money to working people who can’t go to work. They almost have to.
The damage to the economy would be more than they could handle if they didn’t
send the money.
We have comments from other writers such as J. Moufawad-Paul who has written on this subject, “The
Bigger Plague is Capitalism .”
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