Ah wuz havin a talk wit someone ah know, who’s an anti-vax, COVID-19 hoax, blah, blah, blah Republican, an he wuz yammerin away sayin that, “Them COVID-19 deaths dun be fake news. Folks ain’t dyin frum COVID-19, they’s dyin frum they’s comorbidities!”
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Ah know it still be part of the Holiday Season an all an fur many it’s a durned hard time specially in 2020. The holidays, fur all that theys sposed to be bout bein thankful fur whut we got an happyness wit our families an the birthday of Jesus an lookin furward to the New Year, fur many, they’s really strugglin, specially this year.
We dun already established whut’s goin on wit the seasonal flu (ah’ll jus call it the flu like ah dun in the other talks) an COVID-19 by themselfs, in Part A and Part B. But whut we’all ain’t talked bout is whut’ll happen if’n y’all git both at the same time.
In mah previous talk, Part A: The Flu, ah showed how the flu git folk sick an the differnce tween folks who dun got the flu vaccine and them folk who didn’t. In this Part B: COVID-19, ah’m gonna talk bout whut makes COVID-19 differnt frum, an kind of like, the flu.
Ah bin readin an watchin on the InterTubes an such fur the last couple weeks an they’s a buncha folk that dun be sayin a lot of stuff bout COVID-19 that jus ain’t based on whut them scientists an medical experts dun be sayin. Heck, a lot of whut them folk be sayin jus don’t make no sense, neither.
Now, of course, since all them COVID-19 death counts aren’t goin directly to the CDC anymore, but are bein filtered through Pres Trump’s Health and Human Services (HHS) director, ah’m kinda figurin that them numbers is bein, uh, “adjusted” before the CDC sees em. So, ah figure them numbers are on the low side since, as Pres Trump has admitted in public, he likes to “downplay” the numbers. In other wurds, he makes em lower than they really are.
Now y’all might be wonder, “what’s the point, Captn Obvious?” Well, COVID-19 (the Coronavirus), spreads REALLY FAST IN HUMANS. Humans have an average body temperature of 98.6 degrees F!!!
So, the Trump administration wanted the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) the best disease control an prevention organization in these har United States (if not the entire world) to downplay the risk of COVID-19 on our kids (an the related risk to their family, friends, an, frankly, everone)? Ah guess that the Trump administration dun thunk that appearance beats reality.
Being poor in Merica sucks. Y’all’re looked down on and, if y’all don’t pretend to be better off than y’all are (like dress in nice (Goodwill) clothes), y’all have almost no chance to get ahead because y’all be stigmatized an the hirin folk’ll place y’all in a “low wage” box an it’s almost impossible to git outta. And that’s if’n y’all are white. If you are of color it is even worse.
Just in case y’all don’t understand whut they dun mean by “herd immunity”, they’re talkin bout just lettin folk get COVID-19 until a whole bunch of folk git sick wit it and (hopefully) “live to tell the tale”.
