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Covid Shutdown

jestrite50

Ohio

This shut down screwed up my affairs, and from multiple angles.

Shattered my living arrangements, shattered my public office

arrangements.  New is set up, but I cannot realize it until after the

shut down.  My affairs were funky, but that was by choice.  What

follows will be less so.  But as of now I cannot even see tuscl.  I

have to be polite and gracious, so I cannot complain.



The problem with Newsom, Pelosi, and Biden is that as they try and

present a different view from Trump and the Republicans, their

positions are not sufficiently different.


These are not Progressive Democrats, they are Neo-Liberal Democrats.


Have to vote for them, as having Republicans would be far worse.


But remember, we don't see the Progressive Democrats going along with

this stuff.  We don't see AOC, Bernie Sanders, or Andy Yang going

along with it.


Though the shut down has caused big problems for me, when it started I

did not complain.  I new that a virus spreading geometrically was

scary.  It could have overloaded our hospitals.


But by mid-April, geometric growth had stopped, being replaced by a

gentle linear addition of cases.  The shut down should have ended at

the end of April.


But with Newsom and Andrew Cuomo, the objective shifted.  It had been

merely "flattening the curve", slowing it down, lowering the peak in

case numbers.  This had all happened.


But the objective shifted to "protecting people from the virus".

Cuomo asked, "How much is a human life worth?"  And Newsom started

talking about his "Army of 10,000 contact tracers."  He is still

talkng about this, and it is just a police state.  Testing and contact

tracing might help at the start of an epidemic, but at the end they

serve no legitimate purpose.


Dr. Anthony S. Fauci says that 70% of the population has been exposed.

Well this means that those who did not die are now immune and

non-contagious.


So if you live with someone, what are the chances that you and they

have not been exposed?  Well that is .3 squared, so the chances are

9%.  And for 3 people, 2.7%, and for 4 people, 0.81%, and for a group

of 5, 0.273%.


Obviously if you live with others, you probably have been exposed.

And then a light exposure works pretty much like a vaccine.


Newsom is trying to set up a police state.  He has said that he wants

to use involuntary medication and institutionalization on the

homeless.



Pelosi wants to spend $3T.


Except for the annual budget itself, there has never been anything on

the table which is that expensive.  That would be the biggest run on

green ink and paper in all history.



But the money is not to be used to solve the problems built into our

economic system, the money is to prop up our economic system.

Paycheck Protection mostly means landlord protection, protection of

the real estate market, and of the stock market.


And then people argue about unemployment, after an employer reopens.


We should not have unemployment anymore, we should replace it, and all

needs tested programs, with Universal Basic Income.  Andy Yang says

$3.2T, but you get back $1.4T from other programs you can eliminate.

This is what we should be doing.


Using public money to prop up our economic system is buying into a

bubble.  It is extremely wasteful.  We should be using public money to

provide for basic needs.


Propping up the work ethic is extremely expensive.  Providing for

basic needs is pretty much a done deal already, if we can just see it!




Gavin Newsom, this guy is totally fucked, just as he was when Mayor of

San Francisco.  Only some of the Democratic Party is like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPXTj0Nr…


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SJG


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