... we-don't get-this-right ... we-live-in-a-time

 ... of virus-wars that-can-KILL-MILLIONS... having a POTUS-cares-little, if-at-all

... of-extreme-climate-disruption ... he-claims doesn't-exist..  a-Chinese-hoax

 

... he-gives-trillions to-wealthy-individuals-corporations not-needing-a dime-of-it

... same-time insisting-social-security must-be-cut because-it's too-expensive 

 

... same-way we-can't-afford healthcare-for-all ... or higher-education for-all

... yet-there's plenty-$$$$$ to-be spent on-endless-useless-wars... mof-TRILLIONS

 

... all-the-while his-golfing-tab to-U.S.-taxpayers recently-surpassed-$150,000,000

 

... meanwhile-his-nepotism-cabal goes-continually completely-outta-control

... appointments-to critical-government-positions awarded-to totally-wrong-unqualified-persons as-patronage-rewards  ... to-individuals beholding-to-him 'he-can-control'

 

... his-lying-outright grows more-flagrant-dangerous each-passing-day 

... along-w his-hatred-racism towards-all-minorities... racist his entire-life.. continuing-doing-great-harm resulting-from his-discriminatory-hateful-beliefs

 

... despite-continuing-series of-racially-motivated-attacks POTUS-saying he does-not-consider "white-nationalism" to-be a-growing-problem-threat for-America

... a-leader w-absolutely NO-standards ... turning-the-country-against-itself ISN'T-leadership ANYONE-should-want... (video)

 

... as-dozens-of-women line-up-accusing-him of-all-manner of-sexual-assaults-crimes

... jockeying in-the-courts with attorneys-general seeking-to-prosecute-him for-growing-numbers of-varying-offenses-crimes

... his-entire-administration one-huge-criminal-corruption-scandal... we'll-be surrounded-by dealing-with-for-years more-likely decades to-come

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

"The minority having voted to-elect-this madman-con-man ...
didn't have a god-damn-clue what-they-were getting-the-world-into...
granting-him-a-stage he'd-never-willingly-peaceably choose-to-exit."

 

Trump Plots 'Flat-Out Coup,' Voters Urged to Deliver Biden Landslide to Avoid Chaos

..."... openly and explicitly considering a coup to-hold-onto-power. Make-no-mistake: Autocracy-is at-our-doorstep."

... anyone-not-seeing what's-happening right-in-front of-their-eyes are-damn-fools ... and-or cult-members

 

  

 

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TODAY'S BIG QUESTION: WHO CAN REPLACE RBG?

 

 

By Debra Adams Simmons, HISTORY Executive Editor, National Geographic

Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Say her name.

Few legacies in the history of American jurisprudence are deserving of more reverence or of a nation’s tribute than that of Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg, who died Friday at age 87. The second woman ever appointed to a seat on the nation’s high court, Ginsburg didn’t just break glass ceilings; she was the Hope Diamond that shattered them.

A pioneering feminist, towering intellect, and unlikely cultural rock star, Ginsburg will long be remembered as a relentless champion of the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause. She made it her mission to navigate the court—and America—into a clearer understanding of legal equal protection and how the concept applied not only to racial and ethnic minorities but also to women.

Seeking common ground was crucial to Ginsburg, even as a 13-year-old in a world emerging from the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. In an essay in her temple bulletin entitled “One People,” she wrote that America must never fall into the division that destroyed Germany. “For righteous people hate and prejudice are neither good occupations nor fit companions,” she wrote.

Seventy-four years later, upon her death, a divided nation faces twin challenges to its future in replacing the justice and in electing a president in November.

But how or should the nation replace a justice in the weeks before an election? And, if a Supreme Court choice is rammed through despite the will of most of the people, should the court be enlarged to respect the people’s wishes?

In two stories, Nat Geo’s Amy McKeever examines precedent for election-year judicial appointments and the supposed “sanctity” of the size of the high court, which has stood at nine members for a century and a half.

In both cases, there are challenges to conventional wisdom. Presidents have appointed justices without Senate approval in the past. The size of the court ping-ponged in its first decades, from six to as little as five to as many as 10, before settling at nine. One president wanted to make it 15.

As with so much about American democracy or democracies worldwide, we are discovering there are fewer or weaker guardrails to the pure exercise of power. To some, Ginsburg’s words as a teen, and her dissents in later life, had a through-line to a more idealized nation; to others, she represented an unwelcome path to inclusion, or an obstacle to attempts to outlaw abortion.

Both conservatives and liberals, however, agreed on her focus and impact upon the nation.

From three quarters of a century ago, Ginsburg urged Americans to use their brains and not their emotions in choosing the way of what she called our beloved land. “Prejudice,” the 13-year-old Ginsburg wrote, “saves us a painful trouble, the trouble of thinking.”  

(Pictured above, Ginsburg sits at right in artist Nelson Shanks’ painting “The Four Justices.” It also portrays, from left, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Sandra Day O’Connor. It hangs at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington.)

 

 

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... friendships-in-lockdown ... and ... the-disease-of-lethargy

 ... we have numerous-crises going-on-together same-time right-now

... most would first think Covid-pandemic.. or the disease of our-political-morass. ... yet

... by-far-though greater-magnitude is-that-of-climate-disruption

 

... every-passing-day we-don't-have clear-solid positive-action-occurring

... is-another-lost ... leading-us-closer to-ultimate-doom

... not to-be-happening all-at-once but what's going-to-be-happening more-n-more

... is clearly-evident-today.. & has-been for-long-while

... we-can-do-nothing as-much-as we-choose ... earth-doesn't-care ... majority living-things-do

... even as-most-disappear.. enough-will-may-remain until-a-time there's-opportunity-to-return

... does-our-species-survive.. honestly-no-one truly-knows

... but that 20th century world my generation spent most-time-in is essentially-not-returning

... my-mom-Josie wanted-to-realize there-actually-are other-intelligent-life out-in-the-universe

... I'll go-to-grave-wondering does-our-intelligent-life survive-this our-culminating insane-era

 

... and-would-have several-lost-friendships returned-recovered over-time

 

... to any-all family-friends not on facebook-social-media

 

... have been posting in the 'Public' setting on Facebook for long time now
... this means whatever's posted, anyone signed-on-Facebook can see

... so anyone w-just an email address can sign-up & view-all-of-them
... easy-simple-registration all-it-takes
... u-need-not-have much-more-involvement w-FB than-that

... would-hope anyone-still-considering voting-against all-truth-logic
... please-make-a-point to-see-read-them

... every-vote to-count
... would-employ-u-consider exceedingly-carefully-ur-choice

... there's LOTS-LOTS ridding on-this-one-election
... more-than-ever-before ... our-entire long-term-future

 

... #DoNotVoteTrump ... #ProtectDemocracy

 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

www.facebook.com/bj.arias.usa

 

 

... need-to-stop-end ... one-dangerous-autocracy ... at-a-time

 

 
... just found out Saudi-Arabia’s-monarchy has blocked-Freedom-Forward-on-Twitter.
... why ... bc YOU-WE r-having-impact

... Saudi-Arabia's-hosting G20-summit this-year -- global-gathering of-world’s-wealthiest-nations ... using their-G20-spotlight to pretend-to-be positive-force in-the-world

... meanwhile, they're imprisoning women’s-rights-advocates, jailing-reformers ... bombing-Yemen -- using U.S.-weapons to-do-it


... here’s example of Saudi-monarchy-propaganda -- and how we're-disrupting-it 

... ridiculous as-it-sounds, Saudi rulers r-hosting global-conversation on-women’s-issues -- the “W20” -- even-while they-imprison & torture women’s-rights-activists

... but things haven’t-gone according-to-plan
... thousands-r-seeing their-hypocrisy for-what-it-is

... one-leading women’s-rights-advocate -- Lyric Thompson -- even decided to-drop-out of the Saudi-G20

... that’s-why Freedom-Forward just-got-blocked by Saudi Arabia’s bogus “W20”
... they-don’t-want interference-w-their-propaganda

... make-no-mistake ... we're creating global-environment which-Saudi-torturers prison-guards can-no-longer get-away w-imprisoning-women daring-to-demand freedom-to-live-lives as they-see-fit

... there is much more work to be done
... call on Congress to stand in solidarity with Saudi & American women who-are-trapped under-Saudi-monarchy’s terrible-horrid-rules -- or whose-children-are

 ... we-need-will force-Saudi-monarchy to-open torture-chambers ... free-every-single prisoner-of-conscience -- including-major-political-reformers who-want-their-country to-be place-of-freedom

... we-push for-full-cutoff of all-U.S.-weapons to-Saudi-Arabia
... NO MORE U.S.-arms-sales for-this-dictatorship

... doing-this-together -- we've-lots-of-allies on-our-side
... coordinating-global-coalition of-organizations determined-to-stop Saudi-dictatorship from-using-propaganda hiding-human-rights-crimes

... please-join-us in-this-campaign 

... Freedom Forward

... a fight-for-our-lives ... w-our-own-government

Trump & his-administration cares absolutely-nothing what happens to people due to his callous-damaging-actions ... he's totally-clueless to all harm-he's-causing.

"Yesterday, America recorded the most new cases of COVID ever in a single day. 
And the Trump administration’s response was to file a brief with the Supreme Court, asking them to kick 23 million people off of their health insurance.

We have the worst-response in-the-WORLD to this pandemic, and instead of trying to fix that, the Trump administration is obsessed with destroying the Affordable-Care-Act, which is currently all that’s standing between 23 million people & going uninsured with a-deadly-disease on-the-loose.

Taking away health care of millions of people in the midst of a highly-contagious-pandemic puts every single one-of-us in danger―especially seniors, who are most-at-risk if they contract COVID.

Trump spent his first year in office trying to kick millions of people off of their health care, claiming he would replace it with something better (though that-something was never-quite-specified). Americans came together to overwhelmingly reject Trumpcare.
Now, the Trump administration isn’t even pretending there’s an alternative to ACA―he’s simply trying to destroy it, without any regard for the tens-of-millions of newly-uninsured-people that would create.

This is part of a pattern with the GOP. They don’t see the pandemic as something to fight; they only want to use-chaos to ram through their massively-unpopular-agenda.

That’s why Trump’s idea of stimulus is defunding Social Security.

That’s why Mitt Romney is trying to set up a fast-tracked, closed door process to cut Social Security & Medicare benefits.

That’s why instead of promoting policies that would stop the spread of COVID and save the lives of seniors across the country, Trump is promoting conspiracy theories and cutting federal funding for testing!"

~ socialsecurityworks.org

... we're in-a-fight for-our-lives ... w-our-own-government ...

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... how are we to call-ourselves a great-nation ... when

~ Racism-Rules-Society ~

Top-10 most-racist-country in-the-world ... reason Trump still-in-running 4-POTUS
A country not willing to tackle-racism isn't-going-anywhere 
... for slavery to-be-such an critical-part of-our-past-present
... until we-get-real w-hipocracy-of American-exceptionalism-progress
... we'll-keep-suffering its-divisiveness
...“Ignoring-history [we]-don’t-like isn’t a-victimless-act” 

~ White-Supremacy-Is-Exploding ~
Racially & ethnically-motivated-terrorism ... especially from white-supremacists 
... is on-the-rise & spreading-geographically

~ Poverty-Homelessness Is-Rampant ~

 U.S. poverty-level is highest in developed-world ... gap in social-classes is sick
gap between richest & poorest U.S. households now largest it's been in past-50-years

  
~ Adequate-Healthcare Is-Denied Tens-of-Millions ~
U.S. does not enjoy the right to healthcare ... we have a system designed to deny, not support, the right-to-health ... U.S. does not really have a health care system, only a health-insurance-system

~ Government Is Fully-Controlled by Plutocrats ~

forces of massive-accumulated or inherited-wealth have succeeded in taking-full-control of our-nation, replacing-a-democracy, where the will of the people is accomplished through their elected-representatives, with a form-of-government where most-government-functions reinforce the power, wealth & control of the morbidly-rich

~ Education-System Is Badly-Broken ~
U.S. scored 16th in literacy-proficiency, 21st in numeracy-proficiency, 14th in problem-solving in technology-rich environments in a survey that tested 23-developed-countries
... that's-dangerously-low in education.
America is not-properly-educating their-children.
Students in Germany, Finland, France, Sweden, Norway, Slovenia, Brazil, Luxembourg, & Iceland, receive quality education that's free. Exemplifies why Americans don't meet average-intelligence ... because they can't-afford-education.

 .
~ We Are A Majority-War-Economy ~

making-larger-investments fighting-distant useless-wars than updating-national-infrastructure

U.S. military budget is largest in-the-world ... roughly size of next 7-largest (10-actually) military-budgets around-the-world combined... 
any-all-recovery starts by-ending-war

~ Immigration-Is-Criminalized ~

More than a century, innumerable studies have confirmed two simple yet powerful-truths about relationship between immigration & crime: immigrants are less-likely to commit-serious-crimes or be behind-bars than-native-born ... & high rates-of-immigration are associated w-lower-rates of violent-crime & property-crime.
Overwhelming majority of immigrants are not 'criminals' by any commonly accepted definition of the term ... for this reason, harsh-immigration-policies are not effective in fighting crime ... unfortunately, immigration policy is frequently-shaped more by fear & stereotype than by empirical evidence.
As a result, immigrants have stigma of 'criminality' ascribed to them by an ever-evolving assortment of laws & immigration-enforcement mechanisms.
Put differently, immigrants are being defined more & more as threats.
Whole new classes of 'felonies' have been created which apply only-to-immigrants, deportation has become punishment for even-minor-offenses, & policies aimed at trying to end unauthorized-immigration have been made-more-punitive rather than more rational & practical.
In short, immigrants themselves are-being-criminalized.
.

~ We Are World's-Jailers Having Incarceration Rates Punitive-Obscene ~
U.S. has highest rate of incarceration of any nation on Earth: We represent only 4% of planet’s population yet nearly-quarter of its imprisoned.
Angola, a penitentiary considered one of America’s most-violent-abusive is immense, larger than Manhattan, covering land once-occupied by slave-plantations.
Prisoners work in fields under supervision of horse-riding, shotgun-toting guards forcing them to pick crops, including cotton ... unbearable degradation being forced to pick cotton on a plantation in 21st century.

~ Environmental-Degradation Is Rampant ~
Americans constitute 5%-world's-population ... consume 24%-world's-energy ... twice as much energy as Japan, six times more than Mexico, 13 times more than China ... we don't need that-much-energy ... a rate-of-consumption wasteful-hurtful to-the-environment

~ Leadership-Praises-Rewards Dictators-Tyrants ... Punishes-Democracies ~
funny if weren’t all-so-tragic ... despite having some of world’s greatest intelligence agencies at his disposal, Trump instead prefers to believe whatever a strongman-dictator tells him
wondering where foreign policy has gone wrong under Trump, look no further than his fawning-over-autocrats
all seems to result from Trump’s somewhat bizarre-but-persistent belief you can only-trust word of other-strongmen

~ We Are Violent Beyond All-Sane-Measure  ~

Americans 10x's more-likely to-be-killed by guns than in-other-countries ... yet gun-control still-not-being sufficiently-regulated despite US gun-related murders rating 25x's higher-than all-of high-income-countries

~ We-Don't-Have Participatory-Government ~
voting is cornerstone of our democracy, but for far too many disenfranchised-Americans, their vote -- and their voice -- has-been-silenced
Kentucky reduced number of polling places from 3,700 to just 170 — a 95% reduction 

 .
~ Majority of Power-Wealth Possessed-by Minuscule-Few ~
one of the most frequent shortcomings of capitalism is inequality ... people at the top of the economic ladder have-soooo-much-more than those-at-the-bottom
inequality is capitalism’s biggest challenge because there is so much popular support for public policies that would cripple capitalism’s economic engine 
even policies that would completely-replace-capitalism
 .
~ Trump-Dismantling Destroying-Government  ~
exactly what he's-done is-doing to-our-world's virus-defense-system ... he's systematically-doing to ALL parts-of-our-government

~ ~ ~  

10 Reasons America Isn't Greatest Country Anymore ... Don't Kid Yourselves
by Maya Manzanero-Lopez  Jun 21, 2016  Odyssey

Here’s a Preview of America’s 2020 Nightmare if Trump Loses
by Michael Tomasky Special Correspondent  Updated May. 11, 2019  DailyBeast

Health Care As a Human Right
by Mary Gerisch, American Bar Association

Will America’s billionaires start a second Civil War to protect their wealth and power? The stakes couldn’t be higher.
by Thom Hartmann Nov 24, 2019 Salon

Inequality: Capitalism’s Biggest Challenge
by Randall G. Holcombe  July 25, 2019 Independent Institute

Criminalization of Immigration in the United States
by Walter Ewing, Ph.D, Daniel E. Martínez, Ph.D & Rubén G. Rumbaut, Ph.D  July 13, 2015

Slavery gave America a fear of black people & a taste for violent punishment. Both still define our criminal-justice system.
by Bryan Stevenson  Aug 14, 2019  New York Times

White-Supremacist-Terrorism ‘On-Rise-Spreading’
by Carlie Porterfield  Jun 25, 2020  Forbes 

John Oliver Examines Why U.S. “History” Varies So Wildly From State to State
by Rachelle Hampton  Aug 03, 2020  Slate

U.S. Income Inequality Worsens, Widening To A New Gap
by Bill Chappell  Sept 26, 2019  NPR 

Trump-Loves-Dictators
by Alex Ward  Oct 18, 2019  Vox

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... anyone-wants to-comment-debate-issues ... gladly
... ONLY-request ... do-it-in PUBLIC-Social-Media
... let-others hear-see...able-to-reply-respond

note: have just-begun this-post ... items to-will-be filled-in ... or-not 

  

... voicemail-msg

... folks-mention ... u-know ur-voicemail's not-working
... yep ... deliberately

... w-all phone-social-media msging-services got-now
... don't-need 'voice-msgs' ... mostly-useless don't-want-to get-return

... 'recent-calls' indicate-who's-called
... can-take-it from-there

  

Basic Needs of All-Society

***

Healthcare

 ... to be free-from continuing stress of-not having adequate healthcare is basic to all stable-healthy-societies ... there should-must be no-profit as major-consideration ... keeping healthcare-affordable accessible-to-all is paramount

Housing

 ... w/o safe-affordable housing for all its populace no society can-will function-properly ... leaving citizens to 'fend-for-themselves' exposes them to bc-destitute when circumstances go-against-them

Jobs

 ... markets alone will-not cannot-provide direction-necessary ... not-all-jobs being-deemed-profitable ... yet-essential-necessary in-to a well-functioning-society

Education 

... well-educated-populations are crucial ... w/o them true-democracy doesn't-survive ... u-want to-control-masses ... keep-them near-totally uninformed-misinformed

Safety-Security 

... other-viruses are-among-us ... constantly-keeping all-of-us looking over-our-shoulder ... peace in all circumstances can-only be achieved by-renouncing all-war-violence in any-part-form 
... leaders must-never be-haters

INDEPENDENT-NEWS-SOURCES (INS)

... these just a few (have-many-more) independent-new-sources have-found proven-over-time to be highly-reliable  ... publishing accurate-fair-reporting on major-issues of-our-time

... where-are-you getting your-information-from

Democracy Now

Common Dreams

The Atlantic

truthout

The Intercept

Daily Kos 

VICE

Common Cause 

Politico

The Real News 

Bill Moyers

The Guardian

Yes! Magazine

The Nation

SLATE 

Jacobin Magazine 

TomDispatch

POGO

 CounterPunch

The Week 

Salon 

AVAAZ

... and numerous-others

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 

... we're still NOT-getting-it

... we don't appear-today to truly understand meaning of the term 'pandemic'
.. if we did we'd be going nowhere near-anyone-else ... much less out to the beaches as-if little to nothing's happening


... hundred-years-ago there was a-fifth of today's population (1.5 billion-people)
... and Spanish-Flu virus is still-estimated to have killed 20 to 50 million-people (possibly up to 100 million)

... for lower death-estimate that's 13,000 deaths-per-million... wow

... to get the scope just how bad that Spanish Flu was century-ago
... look at NYC's extreme-case today ... now with more than 1600 deaths-per-million ... Spanish Flu was eight-times worse across entire world's-population ... at-minimum

... in the U.S. at the time near 700,000 died ... that's 6800 per-million... unimaginable

... as of today with 176,000 deaths worldwide that's 22 deaths-per-million
... U.S. now having 134 dpm ... climbing-fast ... month-ago there-were practically-none

... right now we are defenseless from this virulent-disease except for social-distancing
... with-leadership in many-countries dangerously-wanting to 'open-up-economies' ... in support of-business-interests ... NOT-people's health-safety

... should that happen ... we can be assured we'll reach death-totals much higher than what we're experiencing  so early in this contagion
... ultimately how-bad this disease ravages-the-nation is anyone's-guess ... except-to-say


... at this moment we're on the wrong-course ... having leadership criminally-negligent with little-concept-care just how-much they're exposing the-entire-society to potentially-devastating-consequences

Hart Island, New York ... Potters-Field Covid-19 mass-burials

... right-now ... this-disease is out-of-the-box ... on-the-verge of out-of-control

one gravely-dangerous-gamble catching

next 2-3 weeks determine-fate for well-into-the-future

... we need EVERYBODY get-this ... can be no-easing-up

we now have more-than half-million confirmed-Covid19-cases in the U.S.
 

last year regular-flu infected nearly 50 million-people in the U.S. ... 61,000 died

'18-19 flu mortality-rate was only-slightly-more than tenth of one-percent (0.00123)

yet still killing 61,000 people

***

 

Covid19  w-a much-higher mortality-rate going-that-deep getting-that-bad

we must try and prevent at any-all-cost

right now as of today 04.11.20 ... Covid19 has a 3.86% fatality-rate in the U.S. 

that rate is still-increasing nearly-every-day ... (world-rate currently 6.12%)

that means for every 10-million-Americans-infected ... 386,000 will die

do-the-math ... for-50-million (projected-infected-exposure) ...

est. 1,930,000 American-deaths

there can be no-letting easing-up 

this opportunistic disease thrives on such-arrogance 

giving it a chance at 2nd-3rd wave-of-opportunity

ABSOLUTE-MADNESS

history 100 years ago telling-forewarning-us ... BEWARE

 

... #15 ... &-last

• ... this next will-be my 15th election voting-4-POTUS ... &-my-last ... not that I plan-on-going anywhere-soon ... just they're-all not-to-matter-much past-this-one

• ... in-addition it's another-milestone ... 1st time I'll be voting for someone .. I really-genuinely believe-wholehearted would be The-Best-President of my[our]-entire-lifetime[s] ... one world-needs most-badly realizing-it or-not

• ... apparently-2b another-1st ... my-1st write-in-vote ... EVER ... could-never-ever let my-final presidential-vote be-for-anyone I'd not-want-winning.. just to-vote-against another-one I'd not-want-winning ... already been-there too-many-times care-to-remember ... & w-this-one all-of-us just having too-much-at-stake to-relinquish

•  ... do I believe my-our-guy could-will-win ... truly-doesn't-matter ... he does, we-move-on boldly ... he-doesn't, we still-do.. just not-as-long-far ... & WAAAAY-more-stupid-crazy

• ... we've a fast-closing window to-tackle a growing-number of major-crisis-issues ... #1-forever-remains-CLIMATE ... once we've past Earth's major run-a-way climate-disruption tipping-points ... what we'll have set-in-motion we just don't presently have-the-capability to-bring-back into-control ... it'll be just far-too out-of-hand to-any-longer-matter

• ... maybe-small-portion of the then-current-population finds a few-isolated-locations life-could-survive past-the-holocaust we're now setting-in-motion ... maybe-it-doesn't

• ... & the existence those societies would-will be-encountering is-anyone's-guess ... yet needless-to-say will-be-challenging beyond-any wildest-scenarios ... & how-much-time will society be-set-back ... this-time-around

... so-yes ... there's only-one-vote has-offers a-potential-future ... future-potential

... remote-as-it-may-be at-this-moment ... imho

... not-seeing-anything would now-make-happen a-better-one

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

04.08.20
... have-voted in too-many-elections for individuals really did not want-to-win
... could never cast a ballot for either of these-two will be running in November

... seeing as of right-now ... 9 states do not allow write-ins at-all
... Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, & Hawaii

.. so this my 1st POTUS-election ... will not-be-voting ... living-in-Nevada

 

..."..afraid a tipping point could happen with little warning"

from:		The Week <newsletter@theweek.com>
to:		bjarias@gmail.com
date:		Apr 4, 2020, 12:05 PM
subject:		Preview of this week's issue: Life on the pandemic's front lines

Dear newsletter reader,

We thought you'd appreciate this special preview from the latest issue of The Week magazine, where you’ll find everything you need to know about the unprecedented coronavirus crisis. Today's preview comes from the Controversy of the Week section:

Health-care workers: Life on the pandemic's front lines

The situation in New York City hospitals is "‘post-apocalyptic — like in one of those movies I used to watch,’" emergency nurse Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez told Ariana Eunjung Cha in The Washington Post. As the city’s Covid-19 death toll passed 1,000 this week, and with the "apex" of infections and deaths still weeks away, New York health-care workers are already close to their physical and emotional breaking point.

With personal protective equipment (PPE) in short supply, doctors and nurses are reusing disposable masks and wearing goggles and helmets and even plastic bags brought from home as they navigate hallways and waiting rooms filled with coughing, gasping, dying patients. These heroes are working 12-hour shifts to save lives even as they know that they could be next, said Bari Weiss in The New York Times. 

The now-common task of intubating Covid-19 patients with pneumonia requires medical workers to insert a plastic tube down a patient’s throat, often resulting in coughing that sprays the worker with droplets teeming with the virus. Hundreds of U.S. doctors and nurses have already become sick. Hospital staffers in their 20s and 30s are "drawing up their wills," choosing surrogate parents for their orphaned children, and scrubbing themselves raw in the shower, conscious that even "a trace of the coronavirus under a fingernail or on a strand of hair" could cost them — and family members — their lives.

And the real horror still lies ahead, said Jennifer Senior, also in the Times. Without enough ventilators and intensive-care beds, doctors may have to make unilateral decisions about who gets treatment and who is left to die. For people who’ve dedicated their lives to saving others, making these decisions may inflict "moral injury" like that suffered by soldiers in war zones. The result: nightmares, guilt, and lasting trauma.

Yet doctors and nurses keep showing up to work, said Leslie Marshall in FoxNews.com. In New York, in fact, some 76,000 retired health-care workers have volunteered to work on the front lines, as has my own husband, an orthopedic surgeon.
Why? They "took an oath" to care for the sick, and deeply feel "a responsibility to help stop the spread of this virus." This is doctors’ "version of running into a burning building," said Ruth Marcus in The Washington Post. Our country isn’t even providing them with sufficient protective equipment, yet still they care for the sick, simply because it is "what they do." When this is over "we must be forever grateful, and we should not fail them again."

Don’t assume doctors and nurses will keep showing up, said Dr. Thomas Kirsch in TheAtlantic.com. As the number of cases soars, and more and more of us get sick, "I am afraid a tipping point could happen with little warning."

Facing an impossible caseload and insufficient beds, a dire shortage of PPE, and the high likelihood of infection, some doctors and nurses and poorly paid support staff may stop coming to work. We have families. We are scared. "Our duty is not boundless."

To avoid a worst-case scenario, the government must do "dramatically more" to support those of us on the front lines — with more PPE, yes, but also with free places to stay so we don’t infect our families, and a guarantee of "preferential access to care and medications" if we ourselves get sick.

If society does not take care of the caretakers, at some point soon 
... "the system could break, and we will all be gone."

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COVID-19 Cases Update - 04.10.20 -12:40 PM (PST)

04.10.20 - until reaching higher-numbers ... tested ... confirmed ... deaths 
we'll not really understand the true-scope of this pandemic 
now w-only 1.6M confirmed-infected that's merely 0.000217% of world-population

our regular flu last year infected near 50M ... killing 61,000
w-deaths from Covid-19 now-nearing 18,000 ... w-less than 1% of 50M infected 

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World Health Organization - COVID-19

 

data.rgi.com - Latest World Mortality-Rate

04.10.20 - World Mortality-Rate - 6.06% ... 606,000 per 10M Infections
04.10.20 - U.S. Mortality-Rate - 3.70% ... 370,000 per 10M Infections

(world-mortality-rate held-close .. U.S. still rising)

04.09.20 - World Mortality-Rate - 6.07% ... 607,000 per 10M Infections
04.09.20 - U.S. Mortality-Rate - *3.53% ... 353,000 per 10M Infections

04.02.20 - World Mortality-Rate - 5.22% ... 522,000 per 10M Infections
04.02.20 - U.S. Mortality-Rate - *2.42% ... 242,000 per 10M Infections

(*In just this past-week there's been a 45.8% increase in U.S. Mortality-Rate)

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COVIDView: Surveillance Summary of U.S. COVID-19 Activity

CDC estimates:  during 2018-2019 flu-season ... 42.9 million-people became-sick  ... 647,000 were-hospitalized ... with 61,200 deaths (an-average-year)

Should 15% of the U.S. population (50M) become infected from Covid-19

Upwards-of 1.5 million-Americans could-die from this-pandemic-outbreak

Easing-up in-the-least-bit can-NEVER-be-justified

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Daily Update - COVID-19 Cases - Clark County, NV

Clark County, Nevada - 07.30.2019 - Population Estimates;  2,325,798
Henderson: 321,781  - Las Vegas:  661,824  -  No Las Vegas:  258,638
 

 03.29.2020 - Total Cases:   753 - Deaths: 15 - 1.99%

 04.01.2020 - Total Cases: 1125 - Deaths: 34 - 3.02%   

04.08.2020 - Total Cases: 2009 - Deaths: 71 - 3.53%

  

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click link below - go to pg 2 for interactive chart

NVHealthResponse.NV.GOV

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Bloomberg - Tracking the Spread of the Coronavirus Outbreak

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TIME -  How Quickly Coronavirus Is Spreading in Your State

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CDC Coronavirus Disease COVID-19 - Cases in U.S

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 in a world having any logic-reason-justice
we would immediately-remove this individual-from-power
replacing-him with someone-having ANY considerable
clear-sense of the seriousness-of our-situation
potentially-saving hundreds-of-thousands ... if not millions-of-lives