And since Lt. Gov. Patrick has so considerately saved the olds the bother of actually volunteering, the Soylent Corporation will be around shortly to provide transportation.
Although I suspect most of the people he’s volunteering don’t have much in the way of stock portfolios, nor do their descendants. All the more reason for them to sacrifice themselves for the People Who Are More Important.
Pro-life, they say.
Sounds good to me! Only your parents/grandparents have to go first, then mine can go.
No, but there is definitely more that we could do to protect people from the flu. I get the vaccine every year and I take sick days if I do get sick, but not everybody can do both of those. Service workers in particular–those hardest hit by the damn coronavirus–don’t have paid sick days.
Wearing masks when sick or immediately afterwards is also something that is relatively easy to do and not overly intrusive.
Oh, and (for those of us still in the US) a sensible healthcare system would also help (in general).
“I got you babe”
Sonny & Cher
even if you “released from existence” the top 10 billionaires, their fortunes wouldn’t top the money being printed by the fed, in a single day. Their money is all of a sudden worth less. Bitcoin is somehow worth more and more every day… If they print 1 trillion a day, for 10 days, that’s almost 30,000 USD per human that was printed. If BTC was worth 5000 pre-inflated dollars, at equivalent 6 BTC per person being printed, BTC would have concrete value at somewhere near 10x it’s current value in a few days…you know if numbers correlated directly (which of course they do not).
If I were a bank receiving free money, I would put it ALL in USD stable coins which are paying up to 6% interest these days. (100K at 6% = $6000 monthly income) …
Good luck out there yall. Money is changing, whether these right wing eugenicist nut cases like it or not.
It has never been more clear that the only “freedom” that matters to libertarians is the freedom to be selfish.
I’m all for rational analysis and the recognition that there will be deaths no matter what you do, but this is so transparently about wealth over lives. If we want the economy to continue then we should be testing everyone (6 weeks ago) so that we could realistically judge how safe it is for people to go to work, and we should have a solid safety net for those that can’t go to work so that they aren’t bankrupted. The extra wealth of the few with real wealth is the least important factor
You know, there are a few countries where you could run on a platform like this as a conservative.
By holding up “the economy” as somehow being more important than the lives of the people who create it, these shitheads conveniently ignore how little equity the workers actually have in this economy. The extreme differences in income mean the people they want to put at risk don’t stand to gain as much as the parasites at the top.
When its nuclear engineers absorbing lethal doses of radiation to mitigate the risks to tens of thousands of civilians outside the reactor, that’s one thing.
Asking our health care workers to put their lives at risk in order to minimize loss of life, thats bad enough.
Telling minimum wage workers they need to take it in the shorts for the sake of the hedge fund managers… thats asking for a general strike.
Hey, you know what is really bad for ANY economy?
a whole fuck ton of people dying from a preventable communicable disease.
Ironically these QALY or DALY calculations are exactly the sort of thinking that underpins much of the decision-making in socialised medicine (see the fictionalised “death panels” that the US right got so concerned about 10 years ago).
Maybe it is time to re-open the Whitehouse for free tours? Trump should hold some more rallies. Why not give the people what they want?
There is no projection like right-wing projection.
Ask not what your country can do for your health, but what your health can do for your country.
Not just selfish, but exploitative of others. When libertarians complain about the government restricting their rights and freedoms, I always ask them what rights and freedoms they’re talking about. This inevitably includes the “right” to own nuclear and biological weapons and fighter aircraft and killer drones, the “right” to pay less than minimum wage, the right to employ young children, the reduction of the age of consent, the “right” to not be regulated for worker or product safety, the “right” to discriminate against protected classes, et al.
