I can’t believe, with millions of lives on the line, companies like Fox News are still allowed to broadcast, incompetent politicians like Trump still allowed to hold office, and billionaires like Bezos still allowed to hoard the wealth. How many lives have be sacrificed for them?
How many Americans will die if we wait until January 20th before a new president takes office? What if Trump continues to refuse to use the Defense Production Act and the majority of hospitals go without masks or ventilators until 2/2021? Is that an acceptable sacrifice? Why?
What if Fox News continues to encourage people to downplay the crisis, leading to more people going outside and potentially infecting up to 59,000 other people each? Or if they continue to tell the president that states “don’t need ventilators.” Is that an acceptable risk? Why?
And what if millions of Americans permanently fall out of the middle-class/remain in poverty who didn’t have to if, say, 70% of Jeff Bezos wealth was redistributed? Is that acceptable vs the alternative? Why?
These are the stakes and it’s not clear why we’re operating like these shouldn’t be at the forefront of the questions being asked because we’re all at risk here.
