re: #82 lawhawk

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Trump is purposefully trying to hide the crushing death toll and cases that are due to his incompetence and failures.He’s gone full banana republic with a side order of kleptocracy and kakistocracy.

— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 16, 2020

Isn’t it likely that Trump’s handling of the pandemic is guided by advice from his BFF Putin? Putin has probably explained to him that he has kept the case rate low by not doing widespread testing — and that the mortality rate is also much lower than it would be because magically — no test, no death from Covid-19!

Of course, we also have the mysterious billionaire (not Trump since it is a real billionaire) mentioned in a tweet posted here the other day which basically said that to keep the rapacious capitalism in control, we can’t afford to worry about peasant lives. The Deval Dan Patrick philosophy that he would happily sacrifice his life (well, not really his, but that of minorities and the poor) in order that the current economic order remain intact, instead of being slightly redesigned to benefit all.