With this crew? Staffers in chaos as the GOP politician screams, “Did the check clear? DID THE CHECK CLEAR!?!”
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Another Twitter thread to explain what’s really going on with these “Let them die for the economy” dudes:
Shorter: Explicitly Nazi shit. Let the weak die because they’re holding the strong back. Caring about the sick makes society weak. The strong are not afraid of death, but welcome the struggle and become heroes by fighting it.
Give 'em another week, and you’ll see Republican politicians start growing toothbrush mustaches.
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If it didn’t make you sound suspiciously like you are speaking mexican they could just dust off the classics and go with a rousing “Viva Muerte!”
The last time a bunch of nominal values voters glommed onto that one definitely nothing bad happened, even slightly.
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Yeah, I don’t think they really mean it. They just know they’re not going to win any argument. They are not the party of taking care of people, and right now people want the party of taking care of people. All this is is laying the groundwork later to blame the COVID depression of the left, rather on their own bullshit economic structures and political failures. They’re screaming “it would’ve gone different if we’d been in charge!” while they’re still in charge, so that later they at least can say I told ya so.
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I was really disappointed when Stellan Skarsgård beat Chris for the role of Baron Harkonnen in the upcoming Dune film .
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Panem, here we come! (I can’t even tag the comment as sarcasm; how sad is that?)
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Well if disgraced Governor Chris Christie is saying it there’s obviously some money in it for him somewhere.
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In case anybody was wondering, the average daily death rate from all causes is (was) less than 8,000
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Yeah. It would be one thing if these people were making an utterly heartless but rational calculation, but as you ably point out, it’s just sociopathic bluster and wishful thinking.
Ultimately, it’s not an economic argument. The smarter Republicans, realize that the economy was the only thing Trump (and they) had to run on that could appeal to people outside the Redcap cult of personality. They’re willing to sacrifice as many Americans as it takes, in the hopes that they can “normalize” things and delay the inevitable economic backlash long enough to avoid a massive defeat in November. The dimmer ones, well, the cruelty is once again the point. Who cares how many people die if they can live their normal entitled lives?
It’s the intertwined cults of Mammon and Moloch, money and pointless cruelty, that make up the worldview of modern Republican party, made starkly visible by the crisis.
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I’m thinking of the normal drug development cycle, where you have a drug in patent for some 20 years to recoup your investment. Anyone developing a drug targeted at Covid specifically is unlikely to make Viagra-level profits, and an effective vaccine would cut demand down more, as would various mutations.
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I urge caution in your assessment. The PR alone if you have would have developed a treatment and could pin your name on it would be worth a lot (and especially so if you would put it in the public domain).
If indeed a patent would be pursued, an efficient drug would still be needed if we cannot reach global vaccination to an extinction level for the virus. Current scientific assumption is that eradication would be difficult to achieve. A treatment will help people survive, so people will pay for it and (hopefully) donor states would subsidise the treatment for populations which cannot afford it.
I assume this will pay off one way or another for those who develop a treatment.
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So as a cause of death, this exceeds any other single type.
Stellan Skarsgård will play Baron Harkonnen, Christie lived it.
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