Comments by "coreycox2345" (@coreycox2345) on "COVID-19 Mutation and Evolution" video.

@tonyrmathis Your views are not in response to anything that I think. I wasn't talking about taxation or expanding inefficient government, but of control of the US government by powerful corporate criminal interests at the expense of people at home and abroad. The deregulation that allowed the 2008 mortgage crisis or our endless wars of intervention are two examples.
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"How do we know that this is different from the seasonal cases of flu that sweep the globe?" was a valid question for the layperson once Mike Pompeo was making proclamations. A few days later, I know more.
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@tonyrmathis People on YouTube have been putting words in my mouth that I would never think. Ben Carson? I am a dual citizen, but I live in Canada, and although our system is flawed, I am convinced that it makes Canada a better country for its citizens. We have longer specialist wait times, but everyone can visit a doctor. Anyone who wants a flu shot gets one. It costs about half per capita, as the US system is based on powerful lobbying HMOs.
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@tonyrmathis I am fine with not being trusted by you. I won't lie that I know of but am sometimes wrong. I have lived half my life in each country and base my thinking on what I have observed. Fewer working people have benefits of any kind in both countries, but I will stand by finding our socialized medicine better. Most Canadians consider it one of our top achievements. I wonder if you have visited a big-city county hospital emergency waiting room in the States lately? It might modify your thinking.
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@tonyrmathis I was more thinking of people working more than one job to support their families and living below the poverty level. We are imagining different people as patients. It seems likely that there is some truth in both of our thinking.
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@tonyrmathis You are wrong about that. COMMA.
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@tonyrmathis Substandard health care is not caring.
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@tonyrmathis I am not a liar. You are an oddly confrontational person. I am tempted to say, "You prove it," but we could both do research, write essays and still disagree. I don't think of myself as a "liberal," though. In my career as an urban planner in Phoenix, I saw a lot of needless poverty and the effects it had on people. It's not quantitative, but those impressions will be with me forever. If you saw what I may have been inarticulate in describing, you might understand my position of preferring a social safety net.
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@tonyrmathis I get the impression that you are responding more to your ideas on these things than to me, as this is not how I think. I care about government accountability and am not wishing for more mediocrity in the world. Maybe the difference in our thinking is that I believe that the very wealthy should not control and pillage our economy as they do. Changing that would not likely impact your quality of life.
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@tonyrmathis I do my best to never turn a blind eye; I am not a leftist or a partisan. I blame public apathy and the loss of real journalism to ignite people more than the wealthy. I don't think it would have been either a leftist or rightist policy to allow banks to lend money to people for mortgages they could not realistically afford. I did not say that all deregulation is bad, but I am glad that we have the Environmental Protection Agency (such as it is). What do you think about global warming?
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@tonyrmathis The only difference between us might be semantic. You think of them as "the left." I think of them as "corporatist oligarchs." These terms are about as useful as "idiots run amok." We both see it as a globalist agenda. Of all these things, overpopulation may be the real Moriarity. We should be collectively smart enough to solve these problems, yet somehow we are not. When I say "we," I lack the imagination to see how I can make the world a more peaceful place and put us back in accord with nature. I wish to be different and suspect that the way I feel must represent the common man.
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@tonyrmathis I meant politicians controlled by oligarchs. Governments can be different but tend not to be. My problem with the term "leftist" is that the way we think of it has changed. I used to think of myself as one and thought of it as interchangeable with "humanist." Excellent comment. At first, I thought you were a crackpot. Do you have ideas on how to change things for the better?
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@tonyrmathis I thought "crackpot" because people on welfare who don't want to work may offend your ethic, but are such a small part of the overall problem as to be insignificant.
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john doe I hope you are correct. This was my first thought, but it does seem different in some ways and has not been around long as far as we know. It looks as if we are grappling with projections that will become more accurate as there is more data. Time will tell.
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