Life & Death in the Age of Trump & COVID-19

Jimdamick

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My 20 year son today was sitting beside me when he me asked me about his Future in this New Age of the Virus.
I had to say him, that I have no idea what to expect.
I was 4 years old in 1960 & by the time I was 16 in 1972 had witnessed the assassinations of JFK, RFK & MLK, not to mention Detroit & Newark burning down & the Vietnam war
I was instructed in 1963 by my Nuns how to shelter in place & where the Nuclear shelters were when the Bomb dropped, which seemed inevitable according to them.
So, after leaving behind that Decade of Pure Shite, I figured things couldn't get much worse, and then, low & behold, Trump & COVID-19 entered the picture.
It's going to be at a minimum 12 months before a vaccine is developed & until then life is stopped & there's no way out of that.
Point being is that I pity my son existing in this Modern World of Climate Change & the Corona Virus.
I thought I had it bad in 1965 with the Racial strife, wars, assassinations but that really seems quite quant now in comparison to today where the entire Planet is facing cataclysmic events.
I can't give him any more advice besides saying just carry on, things will get better.
Why do I feel like I'm lying too him?
That emotion really, really sucks.
 
My 20 year son today was sitting beside me when he me asked me about his Future in this New Age of the Virus.
I had to say him, that I have no idea what to expect.
I was 4 years old in 1960 & by the time I was 16 in 1972 had witnessed the assassinations of JFK, RFK & MLK, not to mention Detroit & Newark burning down & the Vietnam war
I was instructed in 1963 by my Nuns how to shelter in place & where the Nuclear shelters were when the Bomb dropped, which seemed inevitable according to them.
So, after leaving behind that Decade of Pure Shite, I figured things couldn't get much worse, and then, low & behold, Trump & COVID-19 entered the picture.
It's going to be at a minimum 12 months before a vaccine is developed & until then life is stopped & there's no way out of that.
Point being is that I pity my son existing in this Modern World of Climate Change & the Corona Virus.
I thought I had it bad in 1965 with the Racial strife, wars, assassinations but that really seems quite quant now in comparison to today where the entire Planet is facing cataclysmic events.
I can't give him any more advice besides saying just carry on, things will get better.
Why do I feel like I'm lying too him?
That emotion really, really sucks.
There appears to be a treatment that could change the covid-19 game, we will know more in a week or so, but preliminary results were spectacular, see more on my public health thread James. Tell your kid that it's always darkest before the dawn and this is the last bitter stand of racists in America, they cast their lot in with Trump and he will lead them into the abyss.

Avoid getting this bug for the next few months and you should be ok and if you do get it after the treatments are deployed, you might never see a ventilator, there is hope James, both for you and your son. Hunker down and wait for dawn, sunup is coming soon.
 
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My 20 year son today was sitting beside me when he me asked me about his Future in this New Age of the Virus.
I had to say him, that I have no idea what to expect.
I was 4 years old in 1960 & by the time I was 16 in 1972 had witnessed the assassinations of JFK, RFK & MLK, not to mention Detroit & Newark burning down & the Vietnam war
I was instructed in 1963 by my Nuns how to shelter in place & where the Nuclear shelters were when the Bomb dropped, which seemed inevitable according to them.
So, after leaving behind that Decade of Pure Shite, I figured things couldn't get much worse, and then, low & behold, Trump & COVID-19 entered the picture.
It's going to be at a minimum 12 months before a vaccine is developed & until then life is stopped & there's no way out of that.
Point being is that I pity my son existing in this Modern World of Climate Change & the Corona Virus.
I thought I had it bad in 1965 with the Racial strife, wars, assassinations but that really seems quite quant now in comparison to today where the entire Planet is facing cataclysmic events.
I can't give him any more advice besides saying just carry on, things will get better.
Why do I feel like I'm lying too him?
That emotion really, really sucks.
I just try to remember we are all riding on the icy crust of a giant molten hot bullet flying through space around a giant continuously exploding star that is circling a even larger black hole. The fact that we made it this far is pretty awesome.
 
It's a good thing that this Nation has the Best Healthcare in the World, right?
I mean after all, the good old USA is the Worlds leader in everything positive, right?
The World looks up to us for guidance & to show them the right way to do things, right?
Then why are we failing so miserably to take care of our own citizens?
We don't need any of that Socialized medicine shit, where everyone is guaranteed healthcare, that's just for the lazy Leftist/Communistic losers, not true patriotic Americans, right?
No job's or health insurance for ten's of millions of people now & for the foreseeable future, but Trump & the GOP have it all under control, right?
This country has doomed itself with it's own arrogance & greed, and that's a fucking shame.
 
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