Coronavirus - Take two - Action!

[Ninurta]

Besides the question of putting a value on one's life, it also comes down to ignorance of possible risk (because they certainly are not informing people of it) and each person's risk threshold. My risk tolerance is practically nonexistent at this point thanks to everything I've personally experienced at their hands (los medicos)

Well, you have a point there, that there are way too many people in this world who have to be told not to stick their hand on a burner rather than being able to figure it out for themselves by looking around them to gather the evidence of their own eyes. ALL medical procedures, down to and including taking an aspirin, have some amount of built-in risk. When people in high places push a risky behavior like allowing your skin to be broken for the introduction of a foreign substance into your body as hard as they are pushing it, and with absolutely NO demonstration of a necessity to do so, up to the point of offering bribes in the absence of a demonstrable need, that right there sets off flashing lights and warning klaxons for me. But I do understand that some folks are not able to think that far through it.

So, really, my problem with the whole thing is not so much ignorance of the risk as it is they way they are actively promoting risky behaviors and trying to hide the risks from us in order to promote the behaviors. Ignorance of risk is one thing, but actively promoting disinformation to purposely hide that risk is something else altogether, in my mind. They might as well be telling us to drink lye because it will make our teeth sparkly white!

The bribe wouldn't be paid to their next-of-kin as part of their estate?   That really, really sucks if true.

Doubtful. I've never known any government to pay off an obligation that it was not forced to pay off. 

Grace just got a letter from Jao Bai Den today that he had to sneak into the house by disguising it as a US Treasury communication. Otherwise, it would have gone straight into the junk mail bin, File 13, but folks pay closer attention when they get mail from the IRS. So it arrived in disguise, with a Treasury Department return address on the envelope, but "The White House" on the header of the letterhead. He was using the opportunity to brag brag brag about all the money he is throwing at people. I got no such letter, however. Can you guess why? That's right, it's because I have gotten not so much as one red cent of ANY of their stimulus payments. None. Not Trump's, neither of Bai Den's, not even Bush's from back in 2008 - I'm even still waiting on that one. So it would do Jao Bai Den no good at all to brag to me about it, because I am aware already of what a huge lie it is.

Jao even took the opportunity to brag to Grace about extending the unemployment benefit payments. That's cute. I did get a letter about the previous claimed extension, last year, informing me that I was eligible and approved for maximum payments in that extension... but I'm still waiting on the money, a year later. Out of all that money promised to me, they never, ever, made any way for me to file claims for it... just an empty promise of "some day, maybe". So what good to me would yet another hollow promise of an unemployment extension be when I'm still waiting to see something tangible from the LAST one they promised?

So, no, I'm thinking if a covid lotto winner dies, some Ohio politician will "divert" the payments to build or improve his own Black Sea dacha, although since it is Ohio, the Party members are probably building their dachas on the shores of Lake Erie rather than the Black Sea like the Russian commie leadership did. NEVER trust a government when it is promising you money. It's either a flat-out lie, or they are trying to buy your loyalty or vote.

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