The Pandemic Hasn't Peaked. The Economy's Reopening. The Result Will Be Catastrophe.
https://eand.co/this-is-how-coronavirus-goes-nuclear-in-america-2946d972ad49--snip--
Consider this. 90,000 people have already died from Coronavirus. 90% of those deaths are needless. That’s 80,000 needless deaths. Growing at a rate of about 7K per week. What on earth? That is a human tragedy without modern parallel. In the American context, 3000 people died on 9/11. But the scale of Coronavirus — or what it’s been allowed to become — dwarfs that. The death rate has slowed a little bit — not nearly enough — but some ways. Reopening the economy will cause the death rate to spike upwards again, as infections grow.
The White House’s own estimate is a death toll of about 200,000. That’s nightmarish enough to have to write. But it’s based on a predictable slowdown in the pandemic. Reopening the economy now won’t cause a slowdown, but an explosion. That ultimate death toll will climb upwards.
Worse, the pandemic will last longer, too, now that the infection has spread. So now we have a higher death toll, and a longer pandemic. Put those two together, and you’re easily at between 300,000 to half a million dead.
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The only reference we really have for such numbers is if a nuclear bomb was dropped on America. Coronavirus is about to go nuclear. But the ironic twist in this case is that it’s a lunatic American President who’s dropping the equivalent of a nuclear bomb, and the governors, flunkies, minions, and bleach-drinking fools who’ll happily stand at ground zero and grin up at it for him.
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Mass death on a needless scale. It’s something that shocks the rest of the world. Everyone I know who’s not American is horrified by that — but not just by that. Also by what seems to be America’s shrugging indifference to it. I tell them that America’s a country which became desensitized to needless mass death — and now it’s paying the price. What else was endless war? What else was average people having no healthcare? Being made to work to the bone till the day you died, more or less? All these things are forms of violence, too — and American society has been among the most brutal and cruel on earth for many years now. It’s indifference to hundreds of thousands of needlessly dead during a pandemic — hey, at least I got my beer! — is the most American thing of all, perhaps.
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Much, much more: https://eand.co/this-is-how-coronavirus-goes-nuclear-in-america-2946d972ad49
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I'll admit I was in denial until the day the pandemic was declared. The bad thing is we may never get everyone on the same page, no matter how many people die as a result of this.
I said in another post today that if there were Jaws-like shark attacks on the beach that killed 100,000 people, you would have shark-denying truthers who would dare you to take a swim on Amity Beach. Go ahead, jump right in the ocean! 
except for maybe in some isolated areas.
I just don't get it. I know lots of very smart people who believe this crisis is being blown out of proportion, all because they don't know anyone (yet) who has this disease. A good friend invited me to go hiking with her and some others this past weekend. WTF? I see us sheltering-in-place through fall, possibly end of the year, or longer, if stupidity continues to reign.
And considering that's what they think of us, this could spell some serious disaster when / if the dreaded second wave comes.
1 million will just get ignored.
The article is spot on. Americans hate each other and the only thing they worship is money.
Jimmy Carter was right in July, 1979.
