America is Fucked
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- ernexbcn1
- Of course we did, the USA is tremendous and we're always #1.utopian
- Tremendously Tippy TopRamanisky2
- Beeswax4
America is fucked when democrats chose Hillary and Biden over him.
- Sanders is a clownernexbcn
- We're damned if we do, damned if we don'tutopian
- a clown that defends castro and chavez? I wouldn't be surprised if he has nice things to say about Erdoğanhotroddy
- Everything Bernie has been campaigning for has come to pass during this crisis. Yet NONE of the media has said a thing about it. Imagine that.brandonp
- and I'm outjaylarson
- MarleyMarl-1
Six figures. Wow. Now it's getting scary. This is out of control.
https://www.worldometers.info/co…
We're fucked.
- Meh, we got some train wrecks on the horizon, UK, France, Spain and Italy is not done. But China is doing peachy...robotron3k
- Lots of patients have a serious co-morbid illness but then get the virus. If they die the doctor subjectively choose the reason. They got Covid on their mind.robotron3k
- yuekit7
Church at the center of outbreak gathers thousands together in a building to solve the pandemic "through the healing hand of Jesus"
- just fence them in.Fax_Benson
- gosh...this is like Iran were they refused to close healing shrinesuan
- “It will make it disappear like magic”nbq
- USA is such a weird placeBennn
- It really is Benn, it really is.PhanLo
- "thoughts and prayers"Nutter
- This is NOT the USA the world visits. This is the USA that many people avoid.monospaced
- wow this is sad. They should be prosecuted on Terrorism charges. I always assumed religious leaders were conmen trying to make a buck, now i know they're insane_niko
- also please spread the word amongst Trumtards - Jesus saves! lol_niko
- @Bennn this is not USA. This is just one church in one community out of millions of places not like this. Bennnsplain, but don't generalize.Krassy
- True Krassy, we have a place like that in Canada, we call it Quebec.
I keed, I keed - heart you Bennnnn_niko - i know, i will try to be more specific next time. USA is such a weird place in some places.Bennn
- there you go! better :)Krassy
- Canada is a weird place in some places.monospaced
- i_was1
- Your president's so funny, though, it was worth it.D4W33D
- looks like a hoax to el trumpo loco.neverscared
- utopian-3
A woman purposely coughed on $35,000 worth of food at a Pennsylvania grocery store, sparking coronavirus fears, police said.
- kingsteven2
If a patient arrived at an incredibly over capacity ER in the US with a lower respiratory condition, only 1 in 10 patients can receive treatment. Would the triage be on the basis of their ability to pay the $250k medical bills for a month long stay in ICU hooked up to a respirator? or their potential receptiveness to treatment?
I wonder because the US can do specialist treatments pretty much better than anywhere else on earth, but the idea of hospitals in the US working at 10x capacity just doesn't strike me as a realistic proposition unless it was 10 doctors working round the clock on one incredibly wealthy patient...
The one story that got me spooked about how things might turn out was early on in the outbreak when 25 out of the first 55 deaths in the US were from that one day care facility in Seattle. The families were reporting that the hospitals wouldn't even take in patients from the facility, some took their parents out and quarantined them at home while the ones that got severely ill were just drugged up and sent on their way.
I hope I'm wrong but it's so fucking retarded whats going on that I got thinking: maybe it's not entirely a financial decision to send people back to work? but a decision based on potentially coming last in the game of deaths?
Maybe Trump's advisers realised the US healthcare system can't mobilise its workers like China and Italy (and pretty much every other country in the world). Like someone has told him the difference between the steepness of the curve you could expect with stricter distancing measures at this point will make for a fairly negligible difference in deaths over the next 3 months when you can only actually treat 1 in 10... and Donnie's pulled the old "this game is stoopid! you guys are stoopid! i'm going home!"
- Rumors that ill people are turned away in the USA is incorrect. Hospitals here never turn them away, and we do have free Medicaid, housing, etc for the poor.robotron3k
- I didn't suggest they would be turned away robo. doctors have an oath to protect after all. but as in italy there are limited resources. who gets them?kingsteven
- oh in the life care centre cases? i definitely read that many died awaiting transfer to hospital. i cant believe numbers are still going up.kingsteven
- https://www.telegrap…robotron3k
- Article states, "Prof Ricciardi added that Italy’s death rate may also appear high because of how doctors record fatalities."robotron3k
- In China many were turned away and as much preferred to die at home than makeshift hospital... Not really sure u have a pointdeathboy
- US got a capitalistic healthcare system where most other countries got a universal/free healthcare. So yeah its not in any way ideal in this situationNutter
- robo, i'm saying even with italy recording fatalities the US may be far higher + db that's going to happen everywhere with the elderly in the US is it the poor?kingsteven
- utopian2
Initial claims for unemployment insurance reach 3.28 million–the highest on record.
Layoffs are skyrocketing to unprecedented levels as the coronavirus upends the U.S. economy.
The number of Americans filing initial applications for unemployment benefits jumped nearly twelvefold to a record 3.28 million last week, the Labor Department said Thursday, offering the most vivid evidence yet of the pandemic's widespread damage to the economy.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/m…
https://www.usatoday.com/story/m…- don't worry, as soon as the big companies receive their bailouts and are able to buy back their stocks to pay their CEOs all will be back to normal!_niko
- yes. pay those who doesn't lack money to survive first.pango
- More than likely it will hit 30%. 5% more than great depression. 5% is difference between acceptable employment and great recessiondeathboy
- sted1
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is ratcheting up its coronavirus response with a new 60-day stop movement order for all overseas troops and civilians. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper enacted the order on 25 March in a bid to protect personnel from the virus and maintain “operational
60 days.
- utopian2
A Gen Zer who contracted the coronavirus during his spring break says the White House's response to the pandemic is one of the main reasons why people aren't taking it seriously.
- Gee, color me surprised. We're fucked.MarleyMarl
- MAGAFuckedRamanisky2
- Refer to be as Nostradamusutopian
- hmm. suprised a youngster lookign to scape any sense of personal responsibility and jump on the gravy train of blaming everyuone but yourselfdeathboy
- shapesalad-4
Seeing as 90%+ of coronavirus(Wuhan Virus) deaths are people with pre existing conditions, why doesn't the USA follow UK, confine those with pre exiting conditions to home quartine - pay them/financially protect them. Let the rest of the workforce go back to work if they can't work from home. Then clamp down on any outbreaks aggressively, by creating a localised lockdown.
- Because we may have more infected people than we thought and we reacted a little bit too late about all this.Maaku
- But the UK isn't doing what you say?fadein11
- Uk is fully shut down, apart from London which is being weird.PhanLo
- yeah, we're all on lockdown shape. keep up.kingsteven
- I think shape is living in a parallel UKfadein11
- Alternative facts.BusterBoy
- Lol! Where do you get your news?!scruffics
- QBN and Facebookjaylarson
- Ramanisky21
- Thankfully deaths are still relatively low in comparison. My gut says that won't last.MarleyMarl
- Remember, magic cure and drunk Brett high fiving a horse. It'll all be fine.PhanLo
- MarleyMarl4
And with that, sadly, we are now officially the biggest shitstorm in the world.
https://www.worldometers.info/co…
We're fucked.
- MarleyMarl4
In second place in the world, weighing in at 12,646 new cases, the US with 80,857 total cases. Tomorrow (or by the end of the day) we will be #1.
I can't wait to hear what Donnie Dumbtwat has to say about all of this at 5 pm. I do recall him muttering something yesterday about the fact that if not for him and his team the country would be worse off.
We're fucked.
- allthethings2
As a white progressive American who is 58, I felt like America was fucked starting in about 1980. Of course, any black person could tell you that it was fucked from about 1600 on.
I'd estimate that two-thirds of the country wants to do the right thing and help fight the pandemic, but that only half the country is smart enough to hold the current administration responsible for the things they've done and not done to make this worse. We're dumb fucks and we deserve what's happening to us.
- i feel that the gradual dumbing down of america began after wwii. in the 60s there was the last revolt sort of and in the 80s it finally broke...renderedred
- Eisenhower was trying to warn, nobody listened.renderedred
- After the checks go out that "smart half" will drop by half.robotron3k
- you're right bobo, you guys will love socialismrenderedred
- It's called Americanism, not socialism.robotron3k
- that's a fair assessment haethered
- it's all good bobo, make up a term so you feel better ;)renderedred
- Americanism: n. Defined as Socialism performed by an American.zarkonite
- Beeswax2
Well at least "USA did this to destroy China" conspiracy theorists will stop saying this and switch to some other bs.
- renderedred3
you can say whatever you want about china and communism (at least what they seem to be running now), but they do have less cases, they have "flattened" the curve, they cordoned of entire cities if needed, tested huge amounts of people and most importantly their economy did not collapse. america? capitalism? c'mon, two weeks of a virus and your people are freaking out. your president is ready to sacrifice people for economy. more importantly YOUR PEOPLE are ready to sacrifice their health for a few dollars. you call that the most developed country in the world? i don't think so.
you guys are fucked, i hope you realize this now and change something when you get the chance.- If you believe their lies, of course they have "flattened" the curveMaaku
- the propaganda is working. LOLKrassy
- c'mon guys, a little hope?renderedred
- MarleyMarl1
New cases: 10,486 (most in the world)
Total cases: 65,342 (third in the world)https://www.worldometers.info/co…
Tomorrow the US will pass Italy for second-most cases in the world.
We're fucked.