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This. Remember folks, we’re tying to flatten the slope. We may manage to get a vaccine before the expected 60% of their populace catches this, but we may not. The goal of all these ‘no gatherings’ is to make the spread slow enough that people recover before the next people get sick. But you may very well get it.

If you’re on meds, check for interactions with any Over-The-Counter stuff you’re going to take! (This is the interaction checker I use: https://www.drugs.com/drug_interactions.html )

Robitussin and (some?) kinds of Mucinex are unsafe to take if you’re on SSRIs or some other types of psych meds. You can get Serotonin Syndrome and die! (Serotonin Syndrome just really doesn’t help anything with your recovery at all. And if the hospitals are as over-burdened as estimates say they could be, you might not be able to get the treatment you need to fix it.)

Also dextromethorphan - the active ingredient in several cold medicines - can be unsafe to take if you have some psych issues because in some people (or if you take too much) it can cause vivid hallucinations, and - it’s my understanding - REALLY not in a fun way.

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You know, the thing that really aggravates me about Joe Biden’s shitty stance on universal health care is the fact that when one of his sons, who died from brain cancer, was sick and undergoing treatment, and it was starting to look like he might not be able to work as a result and would therefore have had no income to support himself and his family or proper health insurance to cover the costs of his treatment, Joe Biden planned to sell his second home to help his son’s family pay for the treatment and keep them afloat. It was the Obamas who convinced him not to do it and told him that they’d help him to cover whatever the costs were if it ever came down to it. 

Joe Biden was the goddamned Vice President of the United States of America. He literally owns more than one home. His son was working as the attorney general in Delaware. And even they came to a point where they were struggling to figure out how they would be able to pay for all this without bankrupting themselves in the process. His son couldn’t even quit his job even though he had fucking brain cancer because his family needed the money, even though his illness was starting to affect his ability to work in the first place.

And Joe Biden is the same stupid fucker who thinks universal health care is a pie in the sky fever dream that most Americans don’t deserve because protecting the assets of health insurance companies is far more important for him and the Democratic establishment than anything else.

If the state of the American healthcare system is such that even a person with a reasonably well-paying job, with better health insurance than most other people are privy to, can’t afford to quit their job, even though their illness makes it increasingly difficult for them to work, because they wouldn’t be able to afford their treatment without having to get their parents to take out a second mortgage on their second house, what does this say about the state of things for literally everyone else in the country??? 

I would like to state that his sons treatment was at MD Anderson and was not standard of care. I was there as a student when he was treated. Our healthcare sucks but the cost of his treatment was research in nature which is why the price was exorbitant even for the VP. He still had the option that many don’t get without money but this wasn’t what anyone with a glioblastlma/ any other central nervous cancer experiences as a cost

That actually highlights the awful nature of healthcare even more. The disparity of choices available for the moderately wealthy (if that characterizes Joe Biden) vs normal ppl in the country who couldn’t possibly dream of even accessing that level of care + the fact that this still strained their finances to the limit makes it all so much worse.

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How does the US respond to a crisis? With slavery, of course!

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ABSOLUTELY WHAT IS YOUR POINT????

Voluntary? Fuck that shit. Prisons charge prisoners for everything. Phone calls, internet access, toiletries. Some have gotten rid of physical books so they can charge inmates by the minute to read ebooks. They intentionally serve disgusting food so prisoners will buy snack foods from the prison store. The pads they provide women are too small and too few INTENTIONALLY, so female prisoners will buy their own. They create an atmosphere of deprevation and misery that drives prisoners to “voluntarily” work for pennies just so they can eat food that won’t make them puke and actually communicate with their loved ones.

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Would Biden be worse in terms of foreign policy than Trump? I honestly can’t decide.

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Well in terms of having like “more respect” on the world stage, yeah Biden will probably be liked more by world leaders and more willing to work with them but that’s not necessarily good when your policy means shitty foreign interventions and expanding US power. 

From this article:

  • “Biden was also a key architect of the 1999 bombing of Serbia, which actually dissolved the local pro-democracy movement and rallied popular support around the country’s dictator.”

  • ““I voted to go into Iraq, and I’d vote to do it again,” Biden said in August 2003. He also supported the war on Afghanistan, and his 2009 strategy for the war there appears to have served as the model for Trump’s current actions in the country. He even backed the UK’s invasion of the Falkland Islands.”

  • “Biden wanted to send US troops to Darfur in 2007 and later suggested putting in place a no-fly zone. No one is in favor of permitting genocide, obviously, but as cases like Libya and Syria have shown, such military intervention often has far-reaching ramifications that lead to massive human suffering.”

  • “Biden has also been a consistent supporter of expanding NATO into what Russia considers its sphere of influence, a key driver of today’s planet-threatening tensions with the country. Biden called the 1998 NATO induction of three eastern bloc countries — a major provocation of Russia — “the beginning of another fifty years of peace,” coming only four years after the Clinton administration had explicitly and falsely assured Russian president Boris Yeltsin that the US wasn’t seeking to broaden NATO’s membership.”

  • “Biden’s aversion to military involvement only applies to ground forces en masse. He was a champion of what he called “counterterrorism plus”: a combination of drone strikes and special forces, which essentially became Obama’s approach to fighting terrorism.”

  • “Biden’s has been known as one of Israel’s “close friends” in Congress for practically his entire political career. He disapprovingly lectured Israeli officials from time to time, as when he warned Menachem Begin in 1982 that Israel’s illegal settlements were hurting the country’s US popularity.
    But Biden has never exerted any real pressure on Israeli officials to change their behavior.

    At the same time Biden was supposedly “mad as the devil” about Israeli settlements in the 1980s, he was a reliable advocate for Israeli interests in Congress. When Jimmy Carter decided not to renew an agreement that gave Israel preference in buying industrial diamonds from the US at a negotiated price, Biden and four other Senate Foreign Relations Committee members wrote to him to reconsider.

    Only a month before his exchange with Begin, Biden voted to not only dramatically step up aid to Israel — over the objections of Reagan, no less — but supported a measure that would ensure US aid to Israel would forever be equal to the amount of US debt repaid by the country.

    “It’s one of the most extraordinary proposals I have heard,” said Illinois Republican Charles H. Percy, the then-chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, who opposed the measure. “The first time in the history of the United States. It makes the American taxpayer responsible for all Israeli debts and all future debts.”

    This arrangement would end up being crucial for Israel to keep being furnished with weapons and cash by the United States. Due to a 1975 law, any country that fell behind on its loan payments by more than a year lost access to US aid. This change in policy effectively ensured Israel was always guaranteed to avoid this fate.

    Even as outrage piled on over Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon, Biden held the line and assured Begin he wasn’t critical of the invasion. Less than a week after Israeli forces slaughtered thousands of Palestinian refugees in the country, Biden went to a four-day retreat held by the United Jewish Appeal Young Leadership Cabinet, where he spoke alongside the executive director of AIPAC and Benjamin Netanyahu (one of Biden’s old friends), at that point serving in the Israeli embassy in D.C. While even a pro-Israel lifer like Cranston had urged Israel to withdraw in the wake of the crime, a year later Biden said that “Israel’s presence in Lebanon is vitally important.”

Check out the rest of the article too, if you’re interested to see how Biden aided in and supports the expansion of the surveillance state here in the US.

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