confusedguytoo:

livebloggingmydescentintomadness:

saywhat-politics:

What Does America’s Coronavirus Response Look Like Abroad? | NYT Opinion

i know it’s very easy to make fun of americans and call us stupid for how we’re handling the pandemic, but please understand, as the people in this video now do, that tens of millions of us are terrified, desperate, suffering, and dying. and please understand that this is not something we are doing to ourselves, but that it is being done to us by the cruel fascists in power.

it has recently come out that trump’s son-in-law, entrusted with the pandemic response, decided that it would not be “politically advantageous” to offer aid to “blue” cities and states - that is, areas that vote for trump’s political opponents. they chose, on purpose, to let tens of thousands of their citizens die without lifting a finger to help them, because it would benefit them politically for democratic voters to die. 

now, they’re trying to send the nation’s children back to school while the pandemic rages worse than ever, producing falsified data about how it’s “safe”, all so parents can go back to work and they can stop giving them financial aid, and so that things seem more “normal” before the presidential election in november. thousands of children will die, teachers will die, families will die, and all they are doing is threatening to withhold money from the schools if they don’t reopen.

our government is using this pandemic to commit genocide against us by allowing it to sweep through the most vulnerable. our government is allowing the hold on evictions to expire while also letting unemployment money run out, and we’re on the verge of 40+ million people being evicted from their homes and put on the street with nothing.

what is happening in america right now is horrific, and there’s absolutely nothing we can do except try our hardest to vote him out in three months. who knows how many more of us will die by then, how many of them will be children. who knows if he will allow himself to be voted out or if he will upend the whole system and use the military to protect his power. a few days ago trump suggested “delaying” the election because he knows that he’s losing, so we have no idea what he’s going to do if and when he actually does lose. i for one have no doubt that he will try and take us all down with him.

so please put a hold on “stupid american” jokes for a little while, despite all the terrible things our country has done in the past. the people who are suffering right now are not the ones who deserve it.

i have to say, it’s nice to see the sympathy