As a general rule (not exclusively), who is being killed by Covid? Older people, and people with “co-morbidities.” That is, people who are a drain on the healthcare system. Sure, they cause a temporary spike in costs, but think of all the savings down the road?
As a general rule (not exclusively), who is being killed by Fentanyl? People who aren’t very productive members of society.
If some uber-practical, cynical guy were running the world, why would he particularly care about these deaths?
Ah, but our government is made of nice people. They would never do something like poison alcohol to keep people from drinking it, or any sort of under-handed shenanigans like that.
By mentioning it you are thinking about it.
Trump recently asserted that black people are put ahead of white people in in receiving the covid vaccine. If the virus were meant to kill off old people, that would especially mean old white people.
Sounds like more fear mongering for the likes of Tucker Carlson.
Trump was probably, in his bumbling half-informed way, talking about this:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-race-based-covid-treatment-white-hispanic-inequity-monoclonal-antibodies-antiviral-pfizer-omicron-11641573991
Anyone who doesn’t react to Trump in a knee-jerk way (positive or negative) is (ISTM) forced to reflect on the role of the rational and the instinctive. Someone can be rational and thoughtful, but have terrible instincts. Another person can be irrational and un-thoughtful and have good instincts.
This ties back somewhat to the discussion a while ago about “reading the room.”
No. As a general rule, people being killed by COVID are morons who aren’t vaccinated. It’s also the reason the hospitals are overflowing.
There’s another reason hospitals are overflowing. Doctors won’t see patients who have respiratory issues.
I recently had a bad cough. I was hoping it was bacterial so I could get some anti-biotics and kick it to the curb. My doctor’s office told me to go to the emergency room!
I asked a doctor friend about this, and he said it’s a common practice. It sounds stupid to me. At a time when hospitals are already stressed, we’re sending people to emergency rooms that don’t need to go there.
Scripture says, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9. The US government or any government is simply people with power. Given they have deceitful hearts, left unchecked, I suspect anything is possible. After all, look at what happened with the Tuskegee Experiment. That’s just one of numerous examples of what we know. What don’t know…yet?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
Yes, the Tuskegee experiment was in the back of my mind when I thought about this.
That’s why I believe that when we see potential threats they need to be fully investigated and either dismantled or debunked. Currently, we have too many knee-jerk hyper-partisan reactions to give attention to such…especially if it looks like “my” side might be implicated.