Today the governor of Tennessee said that the “One thing this vaccine will not solve or cure is selfishness.” I agree. You are being selfish. The utter selfishness and complete childishness of the people who act like wearing masks, or working in service level jobs, or making the zero effort of getting sick should be immortalized is so duplicitous. These are the same Karens who complain when someone uses the wrong color trash bag. So when Governor “I’m placating to the liberal vote” makes ridiculous statements, I get a little testy.
Rant about to begin:
The current litany of stupidity to this crisis is astounding. In fact it’s not Covid that’s the crisis here, it’s the reaction. It’s like a kid who can’t go out in sunlight so every other child on the planet has to stay inside because Billy can’t just wear sunscreen. It’s ridiculous. “Mommy…I can’t go outside.” “I know Billy…mommy will call the school and make sure no one else can have fun either.” I’m being selfish? Really? Is it me, who thinks that the thousands of service workers, who need to feed their families should have the opportunity rather than sitting at home wondering where their next meal will come from, or is it you who thinks we should lock everyone up for a virus that has a 98% survival rate? Am I being selfish or is it the rest of you whiny little bitches? I guess next time you get the shits from eating deep fat fried whatever, we’ll make everyone take laxatives.
I’ve had it up to my receding hairline with the propensity of the left wing inflicting their misguided sympathies to whatever group makes it into the news. CNN today reported 17,000,000 Covid cases in the U.S. OK…let’s forget the fact that it’s meant to be misleading. The actual active cases are…wait for it…less than 7,000,000. The rest have either recovered, and yes, a very small minority have died. So of the 7,000,000, how many of those are serious? Wait for it again…28,305. That’s right. 28k are seriously ill. We have shut down an entire country of 340,000,000 for 28,000 people. That’s like shutting every road in the U.S. down because of car accidents.
What’s most annoying about this is not that people are sick, but the fake martyrdom from people who think they need to control the lives of every…single…person…on…earth. Never mind that millions upon millions upon millions more are hungry, abused, homeless, or ill from thousands of other far more dangerous diseases…nope…all that’s wrong with the world is Covid. You all remind me of the upper middle-class white girl in college who all of a sudden adopts the real struggles of African Americans as her own. It’s nauseating.
It is true that our health system is struggling. Covid didn’t cause this, it just brought it to the forefront. Now everyone can see how easily a minor crisis can completely crush it. People who complain about the long ER lines, or not getting quick care, don’t seem to be paying attention as to why, however. It’s not lack of available clinicians, it’s not lack of available beds, its because profit is the primary motivator of our worthless healthcare system. Beds are assigned based, not on need, but on income potential. Why do you think Texas puts minority Covid patients in the parking garage but the white ones get inside? In addition, the first point of contact for ANY patient is the business office. No one gets to see a clinician until the facility gets to see their wallet. Covid isn’t killing healthcare greed is.
The creation of the vaccine will eventually help. At least Pfizer is getting rich. OK, that’s not true. Amazon, Costco, Walmart, CVS, and Walgreens are making a fuck ton as well. The only ones not making a killing are medical facilities. Why you ask? I’ll tell ya. Because they make their money off of surgeries, and clinical procedures, not actually providing care to sick people. Also, most of these patients are extremely old, or extremely poor and Medicare and Medicaid don’t pay as well as private insurance. That’s why clinicians are whining so loudly. If this disease impacted the rich and powerful more than the poor and weak hospitals would be adding new wings to their buildings rather than pushing people to parking level B. Make no mistake, they’re not overloaded with patients. They’re overloaded with patients who don’t pay.
So…Pot Meet Kettle. We’re all a bunch of selfish fuckers. But at least I’m willing to admit it.
Rex