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Budzbuddha

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In coronavirus pandemic, Trump allies say they're ready to die for the economy.... hopefully they do kill themselves


On the Tuesday airing of his program on BlazeTV, right-wing commentator Glenn Beck said that at 56 he is in the “danger zone” for the virus and would also make the sacrifice.

“I would rather have my children stay home and all of us who are over 50 go in and keep this economy going and working,” Beck said. “Even if we all get sick, I would rather die than kill the country. Because it’s not the economy that’s dying, it’s the country.”

A corollary argument is that the loss of jobs and incomes from prolonged social isolation would eventually lead to more deaths — from poverty and psychological distress — than might result from COVID-19.

In the video, Beck is alone in a room, socially distant from anyone who could give him the virus and not apparently facing the same risks as people without TV shows, such as health care workers, police and grocery store workers.

Sacrificing the elderly for the good of the economy runs counter to Beck’s position a decade ago, when he rose to prominence during President Barack Obama’s tenure by railing against so-called death panels that he said would be created under the Affordable Care Act to ration health care. “We care about the elderly,” said Beck in 2009, adding, “We value life in this country, and when you start devaluing life, then you’re in trouble.”

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo took issue with the ethical choices implied by Trump’s priorities, saying, “My mother is not expendable and your mother is not expendable and our brothers and sisters are not expendable, and we’re not going to accept a premise that human life is disposable, and we’re not going to put a dollar figure on human life.”

The policy dilemma replicates on a national scale a well-known exercise in ethics known as the “trolley problem,” which asks whether it is justified to kill another person to avoid a larger number of deaths. It posits a situation in which a runaway vehicle is heading toward a large number of people — unless someone throws a switch that will divert it onto a different track, where only one person would be endangered.

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Wattzzup

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Budzbuddha said:
In coronavirus pandemic, Trump allies say they're ready to die for the economy.... hopefully they do kill themselves


On the Tuesday airing of his program on BlazeTV, right-wing commentator Glenn Beck said that at 56 he is in the “danger zone” for the virus and would also make the sacrifice.

“I would rather have my children stay home and all of us who are over 50 go in and keep this economy going and working,” Beck said. “Even if we all get sick, I would rather die than kill the country. Because it’s not the economy that’s dying, it’s the country.”

A corollary argument is that the loss of jobs and incomes from prolonged social isolation would eventually lead to more deaths — from poverty and psychological distress — than might result from COVID-19.

In the video, Beck is alone in a room, socially distant from anyone who could give him the virus and not apparently facing the same risks as people without TV shows, such as health care workers, police and grocery store workers.

Sacrificing the elderly for the good of the economy runs counter to Beck’s position a decade ago, when he rose to prominence during President Barack Obama’s tenure by railing against so-called death panels that he said would be created under the Affordable Care Act to ration health care. “We care about the elderly,” said Beck in 2009, adding, “We value life in this country, and when you start devaluing life, then you’re in trouble.”

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo took issue with the ethical choices implied by Trump’s priorities, saying, “My mother is not expendable and your mother is not expendable and our brothers and sisters are not expendable, and we’re not going to accept a premise that human life is disposable, and we’re not going to put a dollar figure on human life.”

The policy dilemma replicates on a national scale a well-known exercise in ethics known as the “trolley problem,” which asks whether it is justified to kill another person to avoid a larger number of deaths. It posits a situation in which a runaway vehicle is heading toward a large number of people — unless someone throws a switch that will divert it onto a different track, where only one person would be endangered.

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What’s the argument tell them to step on up. I’m calling his bluff
 
captainmorgan

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The cowards are running for safety, MAGA, WINNING.


BREAKING: Moscow Mitch plans on sending Senators home for the next 26 days. Over 100 Americans are dying every day. No Senators should be leaving DC. They should be working around the clock. This is one of the largest crises in American history. They all need to act like it.
 
Budzbuddha

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Same horseshit that fucking talking head “ surgeon general “ saying “ we have turned the corner on COVID testing “ ...

"There is in fact good news," Adams said. "We turned the corner on testing, we have now done more testing in the last eight days than [South] Korea has done in eight weeks. That will give us ... better information."

Adams said the decreasing number of cases in China ( a country that routinely stifles information leaving from it ) and Italy prove the effectiveness of social distancing and echoed President Trump in expressing the hope that coronavirus restrictions could be scaled back "sooner than we thought."

They want you to drink the Koolaid.
 
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captainmorgan said:
The cowards are running for safety, MAGA, WINNING.


BREAKING: Moscow Mitch plans on sending Senators home for the next 26 days. Over 100 Americans are dying every day. No Senators should be leaving DC. They should be working around the clock. This is one of the largest crises in American history. They all need to act like it.
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Elected officials, especially republicans.... acting responsibly? LOOOOOOOL
 
Fogdog

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Budzbuddha said:
In coronavirus pandemic, Trump allies say they're ready to die for the economy.... hopefully they do kill themselves


On the Tuesday airing of his program on BlazeTV, right-wing commentator Glenn Beck said that at 56 he is in the “danger zone” for the virus and would also make the sacrifice.

“I would rather have my children stay home and all of us who are over 50 go in and keep this economy going and working,” Beck said. “Even if we all get sick, I would rather die than kill the country. Because it’s not the economy that’s dying, it’s the country.”

A corollary argument is that the loss of jobs and incomes from prolonged social isolation would eventually lead to more deaths — from poverty and psychological distress — than might result from COVID-19.

In the video, Beck is alone in a room, socially distant from anyone who could give him the virus and not apparently facing the same risks as people without TV shows, such as health care workers, police and grocery store workers.

Sacrificing the elderly for the good of the economy runs counter to Beck’s position a decade ago, when he rose to prominence during President Barack Obama’s tenure by railing against so-called death panels that he said would be created under the Affordable Care Act to ration health care. “We care about the elderly,” said Beck in 2009, adding, “We value life in this country, and when you start devaluing life, then you’re in trouble.”

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo took issue with the ethical choices implied by Trump’s priorities, saying, “My mother is not expendable and your mother is not expendable and our brothers and sisters are not expendable, and we’re not going to accept a premise that human life is disposable, and we’re not going to put a dollar figure on human life.”

The policy dilemma replicates on a national scale a well-known exercise in ethics known as the “trolley problem,” which asks whether it is justified to kill another person to avoid a larger number of deaths. It posits a situation in which a runaway vehicle is heading toward a large number of people — unless someone throws a switch that will divert it onto a different track, where only one person would be endangered.

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Not only is his argument morally wrong, it's impractical. Beck can't do drywall.
 
captainmorgan

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He's the first democrat to hold the office and he only got the chance because the last republican that held it died. This is the first good sign coming from that office ever, the GOP stooges always did what was best for the business community only and fucked the people.
 
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From a stats page on Financial Times. It says it's free to read, I don't post links that are behind a pay wall, I'll check and see if it is and edit if necessary. edit: logged off from FT and yep, it's be available to everybody, not just subscribers. Lots of good information summarized at that site and kept up to date.
link:
www.ft.com

Coronavirus tracker: the latest figures as countries fight the Covid-19 resurgence | Free to read

The FT analyses the scale of outbreaks and tracks the vaccine rollouts around the world
www.ft.com www.ft.com

#FTfreetoread



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Budzbuddha

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Just viewed news story ( last couple minutes ) Amazon Fulfillment center employee just tested positive in Moreno Valley ( California ) , day a few other employees have quarantined..... so much for those “ interim job opportunity “ put out by amazon to help those needing to work now. Huge warehouse , multiple enclosed workers , no PPE , much less bathroom breaks , high number of contact points , 24 hour COVID life span on cardboard ........ ummm fuck no.
 
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