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“Children and women love beer”
– Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Judge, U. S. Supreme Court
Every morning at five in the morning, 3-4 white minivans pull out of a Cowden Street parking lot in Central Falls, Rhode Island, for factories in southern New England. Each minivan is densely packed with 10 to 15 undocumented immigrants living for two or 3 or five more people in a room on the 3 dilapidated timber-framed floors that huddle one and both for a square foot in this old mill town. Array The other people in the trucks come from all over the world: from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, Cape Verde, Dominican Republic, Colombia; and Puerto Rico: refugees from Hurricane María and Dorian who cannot locate other tasks here. The vans are run by contractors who locate and provide unskilled hard work to low-wage employers who want bodies for the hot, dirty, smelly, and harmful tasks that no one else wants – in factories, matrix sites, plant sites. meat and fish packaging. – houses in southern New England. The vans value a painter from five to ten dollars depending on the day. Homework will pay a minimum wage: $ 10 an hour five in Rhode Island, $ 12 an hour in Massachusetts, $ 11 an hour in Connecticut. There is a lot of wage theft in those tasks: staff are only paid for 8 hours when they paint 12 or 14, or they are told that contractors have not yet been paid and are never paid, or they are paid through the piece using a balance. that means they are making $ 5 or $ 6 an hour, while they were promised $ 20 an hour; however, you would have to produce at a highly unlikely rate to generate that much income.
“Yes, we drank beer. Me and my friends. Boys and girls. Yes, we drank beer. I liked beer. I always like beer. We drank beer,” Judge Brett Kavanaugh said in his testimony at the confirmation hearing of the U. S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
This testimony provided an exclusive attitude about American culture and customs. An enthusiastic conservative president, leaning toward his base, elected an un distinguished jury to the United States Supreme Court. the habit of the high school candidate as a bulwark in the face of his objections to his nomination.
By the time Judge Kavanaugh testified, the Supreme Court’s appointment and confirmation procedure had already been desecrated. Judge Merrick Garland’s appointment to the Supreme Court two years earlier had been blocked through the Senate majority leader just because he had the strength to do so. This happened shortly six years after a president imposed a Medicare reform because he had the strength to do so, Medicare reform was unanimously opposed through a minority party, although the reform itself was based on the concepts of this minority party, which opposed only its perceived political interest resisting reform, to the devil with what the country sought and needed.
Any claim of government of others, through and for others, and of governing for the country’s intelligents had collapsed years ago. The U. S. government has long been controlled through special interests as a result of excessive centralization of capital, in itself as a result of adjustments to banking and securities regulations that had been sought through the banking and securities sectors themselves. narcissism, client capitalism and greed. Brett Kavanaugh is a superficial and satisfied type of himself, the natural product of a culture without compass or meaning. Now you sit in our highest courtroom, appointed for life. “I’ve worked hard, ” he said. I played basketball, went to Yale and Yale law school, and they hit me in front. And yes, I like beer.
These are the values we have with us in a pandemic.
The appointment and confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh raised an undeniable question: in the words of era, do we have no sense of decency or duty to ourselves as a people?
The history of SARS-CoV-2 and Covid-19 clarifies the answer: we are dropping a pandemic in the United States that will claim at least 250,000 lives because we have lost our sense of dignity, discipline, courage, and pride.
Almost all covid-19 deaths were avoidable. All hands to aim at will have to be directed directly towards us, ourselves, our culture and our politics. Nobody did that to us. We did that to each other.
Sometime in September or October 2019, a bat, pangolin, or other wild animal in China coughed, sned, or screamed, perhaps in pain after being caught or shot, or simply breathing near a human being. viruses, or more likely a thousand or more viral remains of the circle of relatives of viruses called Coronavirus, who remained in the air for a while. Then a close human inhaled. The virus has entered the nostrils and in all likelihood into the person’s lungs, an occasion that probably occurs millions or even billions of times a day.
The movement of viral waste from animals and other humans is a common, if not significant, occasion in human experience. These wastes are in the air we breathe and those are the tactics that our nasal passages, lungs, respiratory secretions and immune formulas use for most of the billions of viral wastes that we inhale or insert into the frame when touching our eyes, nose or mouth do not have a significant effect on the fitness of individuals. Many viral wastes that infect other species: virus plants, insect viruses, frog and toad viruses and bird viruses: they have a slightly different cellular architecture from the cellular architecture of human cells, so most of these viruses cannot adhere to human cells or cause infection. temporarily destroyed through the immune formula. Most of them are just dust.
But the virus that entered the human body in the fall of 2019 was different, this virus, which probably evolved in some other mammal, had a mechanism that allowed it to adhere to express proteins in certain human cells, cells that line the nose, etc. Are provided in the lungs and center and in small amounts in the gastrointestinal system, proteins called ACE2 receptors ACE2 receptors are proteins that allow the fixation of a hormone called angiotensin conversion enzyme, a hormone that helps blood pressure, among other functions.
The virus has adhered to human mobiles. He went into those cell phones and embedded himself in the genetic tissue of those cell phones, what viruses do. The virus caused those phones to play. These copies destroyed the mobile and were released into the bloodstream, where they discovered and attached to ace2 receptors from other mobile phones and entered those mobile phones and their genetic clothing. These mobiles have begun to make even more copies of the virus – billions and billions of copies.
This human being had become inflamed. And then this human began coughing, sneezing, breathing or talking, so the virus went into the air and inflamed other people close to him; and these other people have coughed, sneezed, and inflamed others; other newly inflamed people inflamed each other over and over again, up to at least 16 million other people who were evaluated and counted, at the time I wrote this, but the maximum probably much more than that – probably from one hundred to two hundred or two hundred million other people – other people who already had the virus were not examined or counted , they were inflamed. Which is not much, actually, if you know that none of us have noticed this virus before, then we have no immunity opposed to it. Most likely, the other seven billion people will be vulnerable to this new virus and soon inflame with it, as none of us were immune to it in the fall of 2019.
Seven billion humans. Two hundred million others is about 3% of the seven billion, so many more people will feel inflamed before this pandemic ends.
I think I’d stay away from the coronavirus outbreak in America as an observer. I’m a fiction turned medical fiction turned into fiction. I painted as a circle of medical relatives and then started working out public in my last fifty years. I was director of the Rhode Island Department of Health 2011-2015, a time that included the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak. Along the way, I have had the privilege of meeting 3 CDC administrators, 3 general surgeons (whom I helped practice a public fitness officer, in 2015) and about one hundred city and state fitness managers, some of whom are nearby. and expensive non-public friends that I talk to frequently. I know the CDC and its culture. A lot of friends and colleagues paint there. And I’m also familiar with the government and how it works at the federal, state, and municipal levels. Or not.
When reports began arriving from China of overcrowded hospitals, of a doctor who had been silenced and then died from the disease, of fitness personnel who became ill and died in large numbers, of others who died on the streets of Wuhan, was writing in the morning and running in the afternoon, serving patients two half days a week and seeking to expand new systems to reduce prices and access to the fitness facilities in Central Falls Array Rhode Island, the smallest, poorest and most densely populated city in the state I consulted the mayors of Central Falls and Pawtucket, Rhode Island, a nearby city, yet had focused my attention on writing fiction, an old first love. I was a little involved with this new virus, but I assumed that the Chinese CDC and WHO would see it and avoid it before it spreads too much.
I didn’t expect to be in the middle of one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the country.
Nor did I expect the world’s and nation’s public fitness device to fail so miserably, or that failure would reveal what my 2018 Health Care Revolt eBook was originally written to reveal: that we have a medical facility market, a pharmaceutical market, and a fitness insurance market, yet we don’t have a fitness care formula in the United States , a formula that provides the same set of essential facilities for all Americans. Our health care, pharmaceutical and fitness market sites are benefit-oriented, as market locations deserve to be, not public fitness. These market locations, and the concentration on profit in American society, have produced a culture in which the rich and the deficient are placed on the side of the road.
Still, the deficient are being returned to the roadside We have decades of knowledge showing how concentration in the US fitness care market is not the only one in the world. But it’s not the first time It has made our population sicker and more deficient, exacerbating the source of income inequality in the United States and depriving deficient people and others of You’d have any idea that we had learned something from all our studies and used what we learned to do a bigger task with Covid-19. Instead, we fail again, and we fail so deeply that we lock up our society for at least a while. year, and as long as it’s part of a generation.
However, due to my role in a network fitness center and with the two cities, I paid close attention to the stories and knowledge of China in late 2019 and in January 2020, I was able to let the mayors and my colleagues knew what we wanted. we were learning: This new Coronavirus is a component of the circle of relatives of viruses that cause colds. This likely evolved in bats and passed to humans in the fall of 2019 in Wuhan, China. It was connected to the culprit coronaviruses of SARS and MERS, but this virus seemed more complicated to contain. In most people, this new coronavirus causes a mild illness: runny nose, fever, cough, loss of taste and smell, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. But the new coronavirus spreads temporarily and can cause a very serious lung infection in some other people, called adult respiratory distress syndrome, which is much worse than undeniable pneumonia and can be fatal in about one. Third from other seriously ill people. The fatality rate (the ratio of the number of other people with the disease to the number of other people who die from it) was 3%, so of a hundred people who would contract the disease, probably 3 would die of this, making this coronavirus 30 times more fatal than the flu but 20 times less fatal than Ebola, a virus that kills 50 to 75% of other people who have it.
Finally, we will be informed that the jurisprudence rate is more likely to be 0. 4% or less, about 4 times that of seasonal influenza, even if it is an alarming number, because both one and a human being, in theory, are vulnerable to coronavirus, meaning that we can all be in poor health at about the same time. In theory, a city of 100,000 more people can accommodate 10,000 people in the hospital in a few weeks, about ten times more old number and 3000, even we right then would probably die. By comparison, about five percent of us are sensitive to seasonal flu a year. Still, he kills 30,000 to 60,000 Americans a year. This means that in this city of 100,000 other people, probably another 5,000 people get the flu, 500 others are hospitalized for it and five die.
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