Yesterday was an alright day. Boris Johnson, the UK PM, has gone on oxygen. Not many people go on oxygen and come out of this thing. Usually once you’ve gone that far, it’s over. The president of the US is advising people to use a drug, hydroxychloroquine, to self-medicate. Trouble is, it can rob you of your vision and kill you. One guy a week or so ago drank some chloroquine phosphate (fish de-wormer or something), mistaking it for the anti-malaria drug, and he died. That was out in Arizona.
The death toll in the US will be 10K by noon EST today. I feel like one of those early cosmonauts that got sent up into orbit with assurances that the pod would survive re-entry, only to find it igniting on the way down due to a miscalculation by the chief engineer, and all my cursing and screaming as I burst into flames is justified, and history will look at it as justified, and the head-shaking and disbelief at the sheer incompetence of our leadership will be the echoes.
Or maybe…this is what it will take to kill fascism in this country, at least for awhile. No doubt some future neo-fascists will emerge, but for now a good long FDR-style enema is on order, to clean away the rabid nationalism, the white sycophants to colonial hierarchy, the bald brutes and the suburbanite armchair professionals. News:
‘A Really Chilling Moment’: Trump Refuses to Allow Dr. Fauci to Answer Question on Dangers of Hydroxychloroquine- “This is unacceptable. Dr. Fauci, one of the world’s top infectious disease scientists, was just censored live at a White House press conference.” - Common Dreams
Covid-19 coronavirus: UK Prime Minister ‘on oxygen’ after being hospitalized - New Zealand Herald
