They live for it. Our pain is their joy.

it’s a pretty pervasive mindset. like the guy who loves to talk about how he’s “worked hard for everything he has.” Then you find out his parents paid for university, his father got him an “in” at the company he works for, he didn’t move out until 30, etc. etc. etc.

You answered your own question - because they’ve never had real jobs. Since they’ve never really worked or struggled, they have no clue what it’s like. They COULD STFU and listen to people who have worked and struggled, but that would take effort and an open mind. 

Never ever having to face the gut wrenching fear of losing ones home, going hungry or watching ones kids go hungry provides a certain cushion for their emotions. A flattening of effect and affect, if you will, and interrupts the empathetic response.

Maybe if Ms. Trump moved one of her rip-off dress factories back to the US, I could … oops.

Ivanka Trump is the physical manifestation of “the unexamined life is not worth living.”

How dare they?

That’s an interesting point. It reminds me of when W invaded Iraq but forbad the press from publishing pictures of the coffins returning. 

And don’t forget, Florida’s “Official” stats are flat out lies--things are undoubtedly even worse.

“if an aroma could be sensed, certainly a microscopic virus droplet could enter the mask”

I feel torn about this, because these people are so often dying alone, and televising such ill and vulnerable people feels ghoulish... but I have wondered if it would help? There have been no new cases for some time where I am, but a neighbouring state is in the midst of a nasty second wave. And some people are still…

Wishing you a swift recovery. Please continue to let us know how you are.

Im horrified we saw what happened in Italy and still try to deny what has already happened won't happen again.  I'm no religious but I do pray for the places like Florida and Texas.  I fear it's about to get a lot worse there based on what happened in Italy.

I wish all the big strong people who claim to be tougher than a virus, or that it’s a hoax would go work in the COVID wards and morgues. Then we’ll see what they’re really all about. 

DeSantis is a ghoul and has spent the last few weeks doing victory laps by giving HBCUs money and showing up at random hospitals in order to have doctors/CEOs back him up. He doesn’t answer questions from reporters and he’s more Trump than Trump simply because he has the mental faculties to act on his own. He refuses…

California is pretty shit right now, too. I have had covid symptoms since Friday (low fever and aches with flu-y tingly skin and now diarrhea) and a test pending even though I have done fucking everything right. I wear a mask every time I leave the house, even if I’m just going down to my car or to get my mail. I put…

And there are no guarantees. It isn’t just the red states.

Back in mid-April, early on a Sunday morning early in the quarantine and I was waking up, with WNYC on my bedside radio (NYC’s NPR affiliate), and there was an interview with a guy from the Bronx who needed work and thought it wouldn’t be too tough a job to do temporary work collecting bodies in Elmhurst Hospital and…

But back in early spring it was a NY problem, not a FL/TX/AZ problem, so no worries. Dr. Fauci was right, states reopened too soon (if they ever really closed down in the first place), and now the WH is trying to blame him. We knew Dump and his cronies would take this country down, but I don’t think anyone imagined in…

I am tired of this bull. The federal government does not want to admit they screwed up so they are going to double-down on the hoax of “everything will be okay if we ignore it” line.