The Covid cruise ship people were brought to Lackland AFB in San Antonio. The city had a 10 page response plan already, more in depth than any place in the US and Gov Abbott ruled that the city did not have the right to implement it while he hid out in his bunker in Austin. Our city saw SO many fatalities, and we lost close friends and family. This regime is NOT the regime to be trusted with these crises.
To add insult to injury, our entire healthcare system was shown to be too fractured to be efficient in such a crisis as was Covid. It was Andrew Cuomo who educated us daily, not only about the virus, but highlighting the dynamics of blue state vs red state economics. We are in deep doodoo if something even 10% as pernicious as Covid happens before 2029. Thanks for your important work Miles!
Thank you & I worry for your country. Fires & pandemics don't stop at artificial boundaries set up by governments. Just think of the beautiful cities in Canada that sit directly across from a city in the US. Prevailing winds & pathogens won't get to security check points & stop & return to the US. I hate to be so negative but we indeed are a global community & unfortunately for both your country & mine we face huge problems that your government will fight while many in our government will jealously & zealously support the idiots in charge! Face it, right now you have a lousy, hate-filled "neighbor" run by a group of self-centered morons that only know how to do one thing, suck up to trump & his cult followers.
I wish us both luck.
We are trying, we are trying, whether we can defend ourselves depends largely on our midterm elections this year & our presidential elections in 2028 through 20 something. It certainly won't be reversed in one 4 year term of a normal US presidency.!
Trump is on the fast track to kill people to be replace with robots, that don’t protest, don’t need federal money, always do what are told, has been programmed to do that!
Yes, I've felt the same way. What better & "easier" way to delete the population than by mass deportations, pandemics, forced poverty & starvation. Then they can have the 'right people only' vote. But wait, the right people are suseptible to all those things. Well, now, what is an autocrat to do????
What the hell! This is total insanity, daily, and then, they’re back again the next day. It’s been said “that everything happens for a reason, even if we don’t know, with faith, “why” the reason eventually will come out” I just think things are fucked beyond repair, and its a spiral to god knows where. It seems, like today is really bad, BUT THEN THE NEXT DAY IS FUCKING WORSE! “Return to Normalcy” hate to be doomsayer, but there’s not even a flicker of normalcy in our future, just a teeny glimpse of the light at the end of the tunnel would work, but keep lookin to avail!
I remember how Trump weaponized the Federal Covid response in his first term. At the very beginning things happened very quickly while states scrambled for PPE for their hospitals, medical teams and general populations. Trump went in buying up scarce supplies and prevented NY and others from being able to obtain them.
I’d expect more of the same but on a grander scale.
More bad news! I recently read that what DJT and his minions have put in place doesn't rest with him; it's a system, a method for moving forward. In order for any of this to change, a new administration must address they system rot that's been put in place. Otherwise, changing out the head won't make a difference.
Living here in California I've seen trump & his sleezy enablers. We've got a goddam Oath Keeper running for governor on the Republican ticket. What could possibly go wrong if he won????
And like I mentioned in my response to our neighbor from Canada, fires & pandemics & floods don't stop at the borders between red & blue states. The addle-brained idiots in this regime don't know any more about US geography than they do about Middle East geography & the Strait of Hormuz! Evidently they don't know that our forests stretch well beyond state boundaries. So not providing fire prevention in blue states directly affect the forests in red states.
Selfishness & self-centeredness prevail in this regime at an astounding scale. And as Miles so adroitly pointed out it's not just the leaders, they've installed similar sycophants & idiots throughout the system. And just think about the hellaballoo that will erupt when Democrats go through & sweep those idiots out. Republicans/Maga wil come unglued at the "injustice" of depleting our bureaucracy!!!!
As many others have stated we have a lot to do now & for years to come. One thing in which we can take selfish solace is that if the pandemic comes it will kill more Maga idiots than normal people. Oh, absolutely we'll lose hundreds of thousands, probably millions but I still think the odds would be in the "normal" people being able to better defend ourselves in blue states where our state governments have already banded together for mutual aid.
I'm 78 so I won't experience all that will happen down the line but my daughter & her family will. My granddaughter is majoring in biological studies in college, who knows, maybe she will get a job where she can help? Though I think I probably should have ended that sentence with 'MAYBE, she will get a job'! Who knows what jobs, if any will remain!
I heard hints of people buying up Ivermectin, which is a drug for parasitic worms in animals. Why in the world would people buy this you ask? It's cheap and you can buy it online or in various places like Rural King. But it won't do anything for Hantavirus because Hantavirus IS a virus and needs a vaccine NOT a wormer for horses, sheep and cows.
I don't think Trump understands or cares that diseases don't stop at borders. Any pandemic will be just as deadly to Red states as Blue ones. Not only that, the regime will be just as vulnerable to it as anyone else. I guess they haven't read Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death."
Vermont has already experienced the ire of the president. Recent flood damage grant applications to repair damage caused by climate change that he is making worse, have been delayed or outright denied. My concern is how can a small state like Vermont dredge up the resources to prepare for the next crisis? Much federal funding has already been cut, causing budget cuts across the board.
I have studied Gloria Naylor’s 1996 for some time, now. Mainly because I have life experience that parallels experience she described in that book. I believe I was able to procure my confirmation code for Havana Syndrome because I had reported symptoms before but never had a condition that fit the symptoms. (That is what she describes in the book). Most of mine deals with acoustics and perception of hearing. For years I struggled with Naylor’s claim that “it has to be the government.” Nowadays, I finally have stopped arguing with her ghost over that one. My home state has proven it to me. I pray we do not remain under 47’s spell for that much longer. I will take anyone’s cra-cra over тяump’s right now. Thank you for this detailed post about Olivia, too. Miles, your dedicated focused work is highly appreciated. I may not always respond in an appropriate fashion. It’s my autism on full display. Professing it.
Remember the kids lost in the Texas hill Country /Guadalupe River flood represented by noisy right Trump congressional sychophant. FEMA not prepared and no relief requested.
Thank you, Miles, for your experienced, super-clear-eyed description of the danger trump is to the entire world. Now we have to figure out how to deal with the danger, despite the seemingly insurmountable obstacles he puts in our path.
The Covid cruise ship people were brought to Lackland AFB in San Antonio. The city had a 10 page response plan already, more in depth than any place in the US and Gov Abbott ruled that the city did not have the right to implement it while he hid out in his bunker in Austin. Our city saw SO many fatalities, and we lost close friends and family. This regime is NOT the regime to be trusted with these crises.
I would simply say, " This administration is not to be trusted!" Full stop!
To add insult to injury, our entire healthcare system was shown to be too fractured to be efficient in such a crisis as was Covid. It was Andrew Cuomo who educated us daily, not only about the virus, but highlighting the dynamics of blue state vs red state economics. We are in deep doodoo if something even 10% as pernicious as Covid happens before 2029. Thanks for your important work Miles!
That's a scary thought Miles, thank God I'm Canadian. My heart breaks for the US people.
Thank you & I worry for your country. Fires & pandemics don't stop at artificial boundaries set up by governments. Just think of the beautiful cities in Canada that sit directly across from a city in the US. Prevailing winds & pathogens won't get to security check points & stop & return to the US. I hate to be so negative but we indeed are a global community & unfortunately for both your country & mine we face huge problems that your government will fight while many in our government will jealously & zealously support the idiots in charge! Face it, right now you have a lousy, hate-filled "neighbor" run by a group of self-centered morons that only know how to do one thing, suck up to trump & his cult followers.
I wish us both luck.
We are trying, we are trying, whether we can defend ourselves depends largely on our midterm elections this year & our presidential elections in 2028 through 20 something. It certainly won't be reversed in one 4 year term of a normal US presidency.!
Trump is on the fast track to kill people to be replace with robots, that don’t protest, don’t need federal money, always do what are told, has been programmed to do that!
Yes, I've felt the same way. What better & "easier" way to delete the population than by mass deportations, pandemics, forced poverty & starvation. Then they can have the 'right people only' vote. But wait, the right people are suseptible to all those things. Well, now, what is an autocrat to do????
What the hell! This is total insanity, daily, and then, they’re back again the next day. It’s been said “that everything happens for a reason, even if we don’t know, with faith, “why” the reason eventually will come out” I just think things are fucked beyond repair, and its a spiral to god knows where. It seems, like today is really bad, BUT THEN THE NEXT DAY IS FUCKING WORSE! “Return to Normalcy” hate to be doomsayer, but there’s not even a flicker of normalcy in our future, just a teeny glimpse of the light at the end of the tunnel would work, but keep lookin to avail!
I hear ya!
I remember how Trump weaponized the Federal Covid response in his first term. At the very beginning things happened very quickly while states scrambled for PPE for their hospitals, medical teams and general populations. Trump went in buying up scarce supplies and prevented NY and others from being able to obtain them.
I’d expect more of the same but on a grander scale.
More bad news! I recently read that what DJT and his minions have put in place doesn't rest with him; it's a system, a method for moving forward. In order for any of this to change, a new administration must address they system rot that's been put in place. Otherwise, changing out the head won't make a difference.
Thank you Miles. This is so damn frightening
Living here in California I've seen trump & his sleezy enablers. We've got a goddam Oath Keeper running for governor on the Republican ticket. What could possibly go wrong if he won????
And like I mentioned in my response to our neighbor from Canada, fires & pandemics & floods don't stop at the borders between red & blue states. The addle-brained idiots in this regime don't know any more about US geography than they do about Middle East geography & the Strait of Hormuz! Evidently they don't know that our forests stretch well beyond state boundaries. So not providing fire prevention in blue states directly affect the forests in red states.
Selfishness & self-centeredness prevail in this regime at an astounding scale. And as Miles so adroitly pointed out it's not just the leaders, they've installed similar sycophants & idiots throughout the system. And just think about the hellaballoo that will erupt when Democrats go through & sweep those idiots out. Republicans/Maga wil come unglued at the "injustice" of depleting our bureaucracy!!!!
As many others have stated we have a lot to do now & for years to come. One thing in which we can take selfish solace is that if the pandemic comes it will kill more Maga idiots than normal people. Oh, absolutely we'll lose hundreds of thousands, probably millions but I still think the odds would be in the "normal" people being able to better defend ourselves in blue states where our state governments have already banded together for mutual aid.
I'm 78 so I won't experience all that will happen down the line but my daughter & her family will. My granddaughter is majoring in biological studies in college, who knows, maybe she will get a job where she can help? Though I think I probably should have ended that sentence with 'MAYBE, she will get a job'! Who knows what jobs, if any will remain!
Ah, yes, America Made Great Again???????
So incredibly chilling to read this, knowing we all have a total psychopath as the most powerful and revenge filled human in control of this country.
Thanks, Miles. This is so scary but definitely needed!
I heard hints of people buying up Ivermectin, which is a drug for parasitic worms in animals. Why in the world would people buy this you ask? It's cheap and you can buy it online or in various places like Rural King. But it won't do anything for Hantavirus because Hantavirus IS a virus and needs a vaccine NOT a wormer for horses, sheep and cows.
I don't think Trump understands or cares that diseases don't stop at borders. Any pandemic will be just as deadly to Red states as Blue ones. Not only that, the regime will be just as vulnerable to it as anyone else. I guess they haven't read Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death."
I'm sure that has something to do with it. Maybe they will all follow his cures and see that they don't work either.
Vermont has already experienced the ire of the president. Recent flood damage grant applications to repair damage caused by climate change that he is making worse, have been delayed or outright denied. My concern is how can a small state like Vermont dredge up the resources to prepare for the next crisis? Much federal funding has already been cut, causing budget cuts across the board.
I have studied Gloria Naylor’s 1996 for some time, now. Mainly because I have life experience that parallels experience she described in that book. I believe I was able to procure my confirmation code for Havana Syndrome because I had reported symptoms before but never had a condition that fit the symptoms. (That is what she describes in the book). Most of mine deals with acoustics and perception of hearing. For years I struggled with Naylor’s claim that “it has to be the government.” Nowadays, I finally have stopped arguing with her ghost over that one. My home state has proven it to me. I pray we do not remain under 47’s spell for that much longer. I will take anyone’s cra-cra over тяump’s right now. Thank you for this detailed post about Olivia, too. Miles, your dedicated focused work is highly appreciated. I may not always respond in an appropriate fashion. It’s my autism on full display. Professing it.
Remember the kids lost in the Texas hill Country /Guadalupe River flood represented by noisy right Trump congressional sychophant. FEMA not prepared and no relief requested.
Thank you, Miles, for your experienced, super-clear-eyed description of the danger trump is to the entire world. Now we have to figure out how to deal with the danger, despite the seemingly insurmountable obstacles he puts in our path.
Every person for themselves on this one. I’ll be to an emergency room in nano seconds if i get flu and or respiratory symptoms