Quote (Testiclese @ 23 May 2020 15:06)
It's almost like blacks live in disproportionately poorer areas and thus have less access to medical help. Or that they distrust institutions based on an extensive history of systemic racism, and as such avoid hospitals.
Poverty surely plays a role, but another reasons blacks are so disproportionately affected is that a much higher share of blacks lives in dense urban areas. And obesity and poor health is more common among blacks (which is of course indirectly influenced by poverty). And they more often work in lowly service jobs where teleworkign isnt possible and they have to keep exposing themselves to do their job.
Quote (Skinned @ 23 May 2020 15:27)
McConnell came out of this pretty bad. The part where he told his state to go bankrupt didn't go over well. We will see if people in KY vote this bum out. They love their governor and McConnell keeps undermining him. It was great when he stood up to the senior senator and challenged his bad behavior. McConnell might not win reelection.
Lol, if you seriously think a nationally known figure who has the support of the Kochs and all other Republican megadonors will lose reelection in his R+15 state, you're delusional. If necessary, they'd dump $200m on his campaign.
Quote (Skinned @ 23 May 2020 15:40)
It is the GOP senate's fault Trump was impeached. If the House could have trusted it to act in good faith they could have disciplined the president in other ways for his high crimes and misdemeanors. But the Senate keeps acting in bad faith the House had other choice to be heard. That is sad!
Roflmao!
Yeah, right, if the GOP senate was as Trump critical as the Dems, then the House wouldnt have needed to impeach him. It's the Senate GOP's fault!!!11

Quote (Goomshill @ 23 May 2020 08:50)
https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/father-of-20-year-old-patient-who-beat-elderly-man-at-detroit-nursing-home-says-son-shouldnt-have-been-thereso what makes this story so extra disturbing isn't just the helpless old man being beaten in a hate crime, its the circumstances that led to it
the state has been discharging covid-infected people from hospitals to go to nursing homes rather than return to other care facilities- even people like this guy who are mentally disturbed and violent young people. Not only have they been sending infected elderly patients back to their own care homes and forcing the facilities to take them back and thereby spreading the infection where its most deadly, but they've been sending dangerous mental patients to those homes.
imagine being an 80 year old pensioner living in a nursing home and the government says its going to intentionally send coronavirus infected 20 year old violent psychopaths to your room to come beat you to a pulp
I'm sure this is also somehow Trump's fault, because he... uh... said something mean about Michigan's governor?!