The number of excess deaths during the pandemic in the United States is estimated to be more than 900,000.
mainstream media will keep saying this instead of ever using the word million
COVID originated from China (:us-foreign-policy: ) and China = communist
therefore
plus one million to the Victims Of Communism
Don’t worry, vaccines are about to expire for basically everyone over 60 in the next 3 weeks and fall/winter respiratory season is coming. We will be so far over a million by Thanksgiving they will have to switch over.
vaccines are about to expire for basically everyone over 60 in the next 3 weeks
What do you mean?
Conspiracy theory:
The US powers that be know that US infrastructure is held together with scotch tape and chewing gum, and that building additional hospitals would be nearly impossible and this is why they opposed free at the point of delivery healthcare, because they knew it would collapse the system. Private healthcare is kept in place as a rationing mechanism. So when they said M4A would result in a reduced standard of care, it was in good faith. The system cannot be reformed.
sorry Im a bit confused. What ur saying is, the powers that be are denying free healthcare because they know that the american populace doesnt really take good care of itself and would use up the system so much it would collapse.
building additional hospitals would be nearly impossible
Could you expand on this?
I’m saying that the US can’t build public goods because neoliberalism destroyed the developmental state, and so they cannot build more hospitals, the state just isn’t capable.
So if the poor people who are denied healthcare now started seeking it, it would put too much strain on the system.
I’ve been thinking similiar things, I just didn’t make the connection to healthcare. I’ve been thinking sometimes that a lot of the disasters we’ve seen recently aren’t just calculated cruelty coming from top down, it could just be that these guys have been huffing so many of their own farts over the last decade we’ve ended up with a clique of entirely stupid and out of touch ideologues. It very well could be that isn’t that we won’t do good things, but the entire state has been hollowed out and can no longer do anything but dispense violence. Look at how awesome our cops are at putting down dissent.
Not self preservation in the form of maintaining the system ie in Europe but self preservation in the form of not being able to muster the material to provide Europe-style healthcare and hiding it with Yankee Freedom™️. I don’t know if that makes a difference for us on an organising standpoint but I could believe it. America is really bad at building stuff, barring maybe bombs and prisons.
That is indeed true for the democrat left, there’s a certain inertia to public policy and M4A would’ve made things worse by quickly increasing demand before eventually making them better, and since democrats are pusilanimous cowards, they’d much rather not do anything at all before doing anything that could mean an improvement down the road and receive heavy pushback.
Okay that was a really bad idea, maybe I’m losing my hard hearted-ness with age but there is some :agony-deep: shit on there holy fuck
Walking into work today I saw “the cold truck”. The entire walkway smelled like dead bodies.
:agony-limitless:
Please let there be a merciful God who will punish the assholes who let it get this bad in the RICHEST COUNTRY ON EARTH
https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/pk3v5e/written_after_a_particularly_hard_day/
:shrek-pixel-despair:
I was watching this live stream of storm chasers during Ida, they were pretty rad dudes and saved quite a few people during some of the flash flooding. Towards the end they were parked near a hospital catching their breath and this nurse came out, didn’t realize anyone was there, and just started wailing. Just absolutely raw at her absolute limit wailing, before going back inside to presumably continue working.
Was absolutely surreal and I’m sure so many of them are going through that and worse right now. It cannot keep up.
Spoilers: It’s more profitable to run a healthcare system on the brink of collapse than it is to run it with excess capacity.
America has collapsed, but everyone is just slow to realize it
I’ve said for years that our state of being in today’s society is analogous to the ghosts in the Sixth Sense. America/Capitalism collapsed in 2008. Boom. Gunshot. Dead. But the trauma of that event was too much to process all at once…and so we’ve done the only thing we can: just kept going about our routines and pretending like nothing happened. That’s why existence feels hallow and like nothing changes while also getting slightly worse all the time…and why it will just continue to keep going until we finally admit to ourselves that our old existence is done and that we need to move on.
