Saturday, March 28, 2020

President Trump told Americans to commit suicide on Easter, is he today's Jim Jones?

I dreamed last night of a labor lawyer I knew pretty well when I practiced law in Birmingham, Alabama. I thought about him for a while, and of tens of millions of hard-working Americans not getting to stay home. I checked my Facebook account and saw this new arrival:


Nelle Cohen
March 28, 2020
Projected hospital resource use based on COVID-19 deaths (pull down menu allows you to see projected peak hospital resource use for your state).***The projections assume the continuation of strong social distancing measures and other protective measures***
Healthcare workers who are putting their lives on the line for us & our loved ones need the rest of us who can stay home to STAY HOME.

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  • Sloan Bashinsky Amen, and I think of all the other hard-working people we shut-ins and America depend on, who can't stay home, or America will grind to a halt, who don't want to catch the virus from us, nor do we want to give it to them. Yet, President Trump wants them to fill the churches on Easter, and return to work, even though I wonder when was the last time he was in a church, if it wasn't somebody else's funeral or he thought it would help him politically? I wonder if he ever did manual labor? Ran a bread route? Stocked shelves in a grocery store? Dug a ditch? Repaired a busted sewer line? Served in a soup kitchen? Drove a farm tractor? Repaired an automobile? Worked on a garbage truck? How'd Trump leap to defend America from the coronavirus? A PAC backing Joe Bidden decided to let Trump tell it himself.
    https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1241471645233053699


    Joe Biden on Twitter

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    Joe Biden on Twitter
    Joe Biden on Twitter
Yesterday, a retired nurse, who lived in pricey Key West, then moved to the lower Florida east coast where she barely could afford to live, posted on Facebook:


"On Tuesday you told Fox News you would “ love to have the country opened up and raring to go by Easter.” You said you chose Easter because, “you will have packed churches all over our country, I think it would be a beautiful time and it is just about the timeline that I think is right.” The thought of this makes me nauseous. If we do that, exponentially more people will get this disease, our hospital system will not have the capacity to handle it, and health care professionals like me will have to let countless people die while continuing to put our own lives ― and possibly the lives of the people we love ― at risk."

So many doctors are writing articles like this, but it apparently does not phase Donald Trump at all, as he continues to make his plans to fill the churches on Easter! And of course, Mar-a-Lago, and all his other clubs, golf courses and hotels, which is what this is all about, anyway. Trump supporters, don't you understand that now? Don't you see how selfish and dangerous he is?
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  • Sloan Bashinsky Peggy, you know I ain't a Trump fan, and I wasn't a Hillary or Obama fan. I seldom agree with Trump, but he has defined the Rubicon, I think. What's worse, people getting sick and even dying from the virus, or America's economy and social fabric being destroyed? I'm 77, have history of respiratory tract infections, including pneumonia. Am prime candidate for death by coronavirus. As is anyone near my age or older. If all us old people perish, will America and other countries be leaner and stronger? Will national economies be more robust, because the most expen$ive people to take care of are gone?

    I'm trying not to contract the virus. Stay home, alone, most of each day. Take brief walks on the sidewalks and stop and chat with people from a distance. I go to the grocery store and pharmacy. Wonder how long that routine will go on? Weeks, months, a year, before the virus plays out? How do people who still work to keep a roof over their heads and food on their table not work, before they run out of money, can't look after themselves? How many businesses fold, for good, before the virus plays out?

    Do I contract the virus anyway? Will a hospital be able to receive me? Will I be given minimal care because I'm liable to die anyway and infect doctors and nurses who are trying to save people less at risk than me? You are a nurse. You know what hell on earth already exists in the hospitals, which crowded Easter services across America will inflate with unimaginable more coronavirus cases. Maybe Trump picked Easter because he's hoping for a miracle on that day? The resurrection of America from the dead?

    Can imagine things are going to get much tougher. Worry for my children and their children. Can imagine people going berserk. Rioting, looting, shooting, setting afire. Were I president, I would have the National Guards and American troops in America on ready to swoop in pronto. Already would have brought American troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq, and elsewhere. To protect America from anarchy. Wonder if the national elections this year will be postponed, like many other events already were postponed? Wonder if we will be in martial law by the end of the year? Wonder if American industry will be nationalized? Today, Trump ordered GM to make ventilators, after GM would not come to an agreement.

    Instead of making American great again, maybe if falls on Trump to try to save America from itself? Even as he held out until the bitter end for Congress to bail out the cruise ship companies, which are not American companies, don't pay American taxes, pollute American waters. Can you believe he wanted Congress to bail them out? Maybe God will take Trump over and steer him well? In which event, he might be thought to be mad or a traitor, and locked up or shot.

    Hope you are spared contracting the virus.

    • Peggy Butler I'm in the same boat you're in, Sloan, only much older, as you know. My asthma gets worse by the day and although my last bout of atypical pneumonia (the one no vaccine can prevent) was in 2006, I think, when I was in LKMC for a nightmarish 7 days. If exposed, I would easily get the horrifying pneumonia of the covid-19 and that would be it for me. My youngest daughter is the only hospice nurse in one of the local hospitals here. She's responsible for admitting patients to hospice service in the hospital and is having to admit covid patients who were just extubated. She does wear PPE when her patient is covid-19 and practices excellent handwashing, etc. She rarely gets a break during her ten plus hour shifts because of the volume of patients who must be admitted to hospice service. Sometimes she gets to take a few minutes to go down into the deserted lobby (no visitors allowed in the hospital so none there) to eat her lunch. She said, as does every doctor and nurse in the country, you could cut the stress and tension in the hospital with a knife. The hardest part for her, and most others, besides the exhaustion and stress is that relatives cannot come into the hospital to say goodbye to their loved one who is dying, even if that loved one is a hospice patient. As I'm sure you know, that was why hospice was formed, so that the patient could die peacefully without pain, with his or her loved ones present. I haven't seen her since this all began and I don't expect to see her because she's too afraid she'll pass it to me if she happens to be incubating it. I wanted to take two of my great-grandchildren to my house when I saw school closing coming down the pike, knowing their mom would still be working, and my daughters were adamant that I not do this, because if one had a runny nose and I caught her cold, was weakened, was exposed to the virus and got Covid-19, they said Mom, that would be a death sentence for you. I know they're right, but these things hurt just the same. I wasn't thinking of myself, but my great-grandchildren who wouldn't be able to be at home all day like a lot of other children whose parents were also home all day because of the virus or not. But we have to do what we have to do to keep ourselves well and isolated from others because that's the only way we're going to escape getting it. Occasionally after hours I will make a post office run and use the lobby kiosk. I rarely see anyone in there. Or go pick up my meds at the pharmacy using the drive thru window. That's the extent that I've had contact with anyone else since it began. I don't and never have minded being alone and will be for as long as the MEDICAL EXPERTS tell me I need to be, but Sloan, they are the only ones we should be listening to. If Trump succeeds in opening up the economy again (and please don't think I don't empathize with those who are unable to work right now because things are closed down) while this thing is in full swing - and all the medical experts believe it's going to go into May or later before it starts tapering off - it could mean mass death, call it mass suicide if they listen to him and not the medical experts who are telling us all it would be too dangerous to get out by Easter, or call it mass murder by someone who could care less about people filling the churches on Easter as long as he gets to open his hotels, clubs and golf courses and you know that's true. But in the process, many more will die who would not have died had they not listened to him and stayed home as the medical experts are practically begging us all to do, if we don't have to be out working. Our country's economy will come back, it has been broken before and came back and it always will, but I value lives too much to want them sacrificed for the money and it's all about the money. And it won't be just "old" people like you and me who die, it will be younger people and healthcare workers who will die, as well. It's way past my bedtime so need to feed this ulcer a light breakfast, read a little to take my mind off what's happening and then get to bed. Stay safe, Sloan!🙏

    • Sloan Bashinsky Amen, Peggy. Is Trump today's Jim Jones? I think of all the doctors and medical workers, and also all the other hard-working people we shut-ins and America depend on, who can't stay home, or America will grind to a halt, who don't want to catch the virus from us, nor do we want to give it to them. Yet, President Trump wants them to fill the churches on Easter, and return to work, even though I wonder when was the last time he was in a church, if it wasn't somebody else's funeral or he thought it would help him politically? I wonder if he ever did manual labor? Ran a bread route? Stocked shelves in a grocery store? Dug a ditch? Repaired a busted sewer line? Served in a soup kitchen? Drove a farm tractor? Repaired an automobile? Worked on a garbage truck? How'd Trump leap to defend America from the coronavirus? A PAC backing Joe Biden decided to let Trump tell it himself.
      https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1241471645233053699

    • Joe Biden on Twitter
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      Joe Biden on Twitter
      Joe Biden on Twitter

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