spent most of the engaged in two things:

1. reading up on coronaviruses:

i normally read scientific papers as a hobby ā€•cuz am a nerdā€• but been reading anything #COVID19 since i noticed MarketWatch & WSJ sounding the alarm back in January.

let me tell you somethingā€¦
if my job were even tangentially related to the science or medicine of #COVID19, after reading the dayā€™s headlines, iā€™d be in utter despair.

but because Trump is the symptom: as far back as 2003, scientists have been warning about new deadlier COVIDs

USA had 17 yrs to prepare
Trump in the most despotic and fascist of power moves is literally forcing scientists to lie in front of the cameras.

COVID19 is even worse than i thought it could be even a day ago.

Faucci, Redfield, Bright: they need hundreds, thousands, pushing back with them becauseā€¦
Redfield is actually right: it is going to get much, more worse.

not because the virus is invincible, but because USAgov decided we didnā€™t need to invest in the kind of public health policies that prepared MDs & hospitals to expect & treat strokes as a complication of infection
PULMONARY
CARDIAC
RENAL
FAILURE

the data has been accumulating for 13 years as the other 6 novel coronaviruses popped.

but USAGOV spent BILLIONS to ā€œprotectā€ the USMIL from ā€œbioterrorismā€, while leaving it up to ā€œthe marketā€ to identify & produce Rx & vax for civiliansā€¦
did yā€™all know a group out in The Netherlands developed a way to test for coronaviruses without knowing their exact D/RNA sequencing?

but they have a patent on it.

itā€™s been crickets since they announced it back in 2004.

TWO THOUSAND AND FOUR

btw your POTUS was a Bushā€¦
so, for the love of your own life, if you survived COVID19 or think you had it, you are not in the clear. at all. the next months will be crucial to your longevity:

1a. be aware reinfection could be fatal

1b. #covid19 wrecks havoc on the neurological & immune systemsā€¦
1c. some people are developing Guillaume-Barres syndrome, which can lead to paralysis and thus heart, lung and kidney failure

1d. the autoimmune reactions are why some MDs are calling it SARSāŗAIDS.

1e. the virus has now āŗ2k mutations, as it spreads across the worldā€¦
which means,

YAY! itā€™s absolutely amazing scientists can map these mutations so rapidly,

but it also means,

BOO because without comprehensive tracking of symptoms, pre-existing and post-infection conditions, it will take much longer than 2 years for vaccines & Rx that workā€¦
and thatā€™s what scares me.

Free-Marketeering Neoliberalism, or what am rebranding as Financial Eugenics, was the excuse to defund the FDA & CDC since the Reagan ā€œRevolutionā€.

but the last 2 decades were really, truly brutal for USA science. most research is from elsewhereā€¦
thereā€™s no way this pandemic is going to be under control by the end of Summer or the end of the year or even two years from now.

itā€™s not only because the USA public health & welfare systems are so broken, this pandemic proves weā€™re a failed state.

itā€™s the gringo death cultā€¦
it took Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, 4 years to understand the systemic problems they had that were spreading Ebola. it really took them up to last year for WHO to say they have controlled the spread & ended the crisis.

that's 7 years.

2020 might will be USAā€™s pandemic decade
which takes me to the other thing i did today:

2. grocery shopping in Loisaida

and let me tell you another something: i donā€™t see NYC recovering from this.

if Wall Street had already sucked the life out of the city, like parasites to a host, this pandemic was the last blowā€¦
you can see it already. so many more places are boarded up than before.

prices have shot up on everything. but my arroz & habichuelas, but for how much longer?

btw yall still hoarding toilet paper & bleach. while itā€™s mostly black & brown faces behind the daily hustle of masks
Mitch McConnell & Donald Trump want a country full of failed towns, cities, counties and states; to get their hands on public pensions and Social Security.

like parasites, more is never enought for them.

there wonā€™t be a USA by November or January, even less in 10 yearsā€¦
how do we survive a fascist failed state in the middle of a pandemic?

how do you fight back when their weapons are the US Treasury & a deadly virus?

this is keeping me awake.

if i wasnā€™t prepared for 2 yrs of viral lockdown, am even less prepared for 10 of viral warfare. /fin
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