No you’re pointing out something that’s not part of any serious discussion of the issue anywhere.
So far from what “will” happen that none of the states or regions currently disadvantaged exactly this way are even suggesting succession as a solution.
And took a side line in implying that my statement of historical fact was intended to insult farmers or something.
As well as individual state governments, and as @VeronicaConnor pointed out the court system.
Ensuring representation for smaller states is the glossing we use on this issue to avoid discussing that the concerns in question were slavery and the smaller population we were ensuring a voice for were southern planters and the merchant class that was reliant on them.
No where in the history of the issue was it ever about keeping smaller states from leaving. It was a series of fundemental compromises intended to get the Southern colonies to sign on at all. Those colonies (and subsequently states) were larger, with a larger total population. But a population of free residents, and a population of land owners smaller than those of the Northern states. They were also the richest states, and the economic drivers for the American colonies. Such that neither the revolution, nor the new nation could operate without them.
"“It’s a very common medical practice that you want to convey confidence,” Farah claimed. “And you want to raise the spirits of the person you are treating. I know this president. I don’t know that he needs his spirits raised but I think it’s actually a very common medical practice to do that.”
“But is it also a common medical practice to put the proper information out there, put all the information out there, and to let people make up their own minds?” Gallagher shot back.
After brushing that question aside, Farah pivoted to boast about how hard the president is supposedly working through his illness from Walter Reed hospital."
That last bit is funny to me. Why are they suddenly so obsessed over proving the president is “working” now of all times? I wonder if they are afraid that if everyone knows that he’s been incapacitated largely and is holed up doing nothing (perfectly acceptable for a hospitalized patient) with no perceptive change in leadership style then that will make it obvious that the fucker has done next to nothing most of the time and the leadership in this country is a rudderless mess?
"Despite the White House team’s positive prognosis, Dr Eric Feigl Ding, an epidemiologist and senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists told Al Jazeera Trump being given dexamethasone is an “extremely worrying sign”.
“The WHO [World Health Organization] says it is only used for critical and severe patients. It actually recommends against [usage in] people who are not serious,” he said."
Isn’t dexamethasone suppose to be used for really severe cases since you don’t want to suppress the immune system unless you’re in a cytokine storm?
It’s like they are throwing everything they can at him - experimental treatments, off-label drugs, and now really powerful steroids. If things are as rosy as they are letting on, I can’t help but wonder why. Is there a medical reason or is he just going all hypercondriac and demanding everything they have and they have no choice but to comply.
Meanwhile I think of the people I know that were severely ill with what they thought might be COVID and turned away for testing and/or hospitalization because they weren’t ill enough. Or all the times I was in severe pain and couldn’t get anything stronger than an ibuprofen.
Trump is heavily invested in the whole right narrative that it’s no big deal. (It’s actually a pandemic of underlying conditions, see?) He can’t admit that he was wrong.
The White House has to be second only to Walter Reed for medical care, so they wouldn’t have transferred him in the first place unless it was serious or heading that way.
Regeneron, remdesivir, dexamethasone, probably hydroxychloroquine, melatonin, a partridge in a pear tree…
I’m pretty sure turmp is the first person in the world to receive this particular cocktail of experimental and unauthorized drugs, and I’m also pretty sure no one has tested for possible adverse drug interactions.
