Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "Andrew Cuomo: NY schools can reopen for in-person classes" video.
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"COVID-19 is certainly revealing some uncomfortable truths about America. For example, everyday brings a new reminder that we are a country of extreme-haves, and extreme have-nots. And I'm not talking about money - we all knew that. I'm talking about people having accurate information. In this pandemic, "accurate" information has made toilet paper seem plentiful.
America, the country that has the most Nobel Prizes in science, also has the most willfully ignorant people per capita when it comes to understanding science.
How else can we explain electing a low-information bu.ffoon, who wheezes medical tips on our TVs about poisoning ourselves with disinfectants.
And maybe the most clueless aspect of that supposedly "sarcastic" advice is that Trump thinks we can still find disinfectants at stores. I guess we're finding that a pandemic isn't the ideal thing to happen to a country that believes science is just an opinion. Just something you roll the dice and decide whether you believe, instead of something you actually try to understand. And whether it's evolution, vaccines, or viruses, Americans are far busier dismissing inconvenient science as politically motivated, than they are learning about how it will effect their lives. Because NOT believing in Darwinism, IS Darwinism.
Because America is a country that cares more about the financial health of its corporations, than the actual health of its citizens. After all, who got most of the bailout cash? Corporations!!
And who is behind the "grassroots" push to prematurely reopen America? Corporations, and the (republican) politicians corporations pay. But science doesn't watch foxnews, so it doesn't know that it's just a DNC "hoax" or some other childish QAnon conspiracy.
Republican Governors believe that sacrifices have to be made for corporate profits. And that your grandmother, may just be one of them. And because Donald " I don't take responsibility at all" Trump, is passing the buck to Governors to make decisions, so Donald won't be blamed.
America's approach to this pandemic is ad-hoc, conflicting, and piecemeal. Exactly the type of uncoordinated response that helps spread a pandemic. South Korea's response was like a well conducted symphony. America's is like an open mic night at improv.
We have states with policies founded on epidemiological research, surrounded by states with policies founded on Twitter hashtags. Oddly enough, viruses don't respect state lines. Or your beliefs in how deadly they are. The worst states spread the virus, and prolong the pandemic for the rest of us.
This pandemic has proven two things: You're only as healthy as the most stupid person in America; and his name, is Donald J Trump.
Trump: "And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body."
--Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian
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