All
The Craziest Things About America Are Being
Highlighted By This Virus
By
Caitlin Johnstone
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“Corona is
a black light and America is a
cum-stained hotel room,” comedian Megan
Amram colorfully
tweeted
a couple of weeks ago. Her observation
has only grown more accurate since. |
March 28, 2020
"Information
Clearing House"
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The corporate cronyism of America’s
political system has been highlighted
with a massive kleptocratic
multitrillion-dollar corporate bailout
of which actual Americans are only receiving a tiny
fraction. Instead of putting that money toward
paying people a living wage to stay home
during a global pandemic, the
overwhelming majority
of the money is going to corporations while actual
human beings receive a paltry $1,200 (which they
won’t even be getting
until May at the earliest)
at a time of
record-smashing unemployment.
America’s
capitalism worship has been highlighted
with
Wall Street Journal
headline “Dow
Soars More Than 11% In Biggest One-Day Jump Since
1933”
running at the exact same time as “Record
Rise in Unemployment Claims Halts Historic Run of
Job Growth — More than 3 million workers file for
jobless benefits as coronavirus hits the economy”.
Stocks are booming,
Amazon is surging,
and mountains of wealth are being transferred to
sprawling megacorporations, while actual human
beings are terrified of what the future holds.
America’s joke of a healthcare system
is being highlighted
as uninsured COVID-19 patients are
racking up $35,000 medical bills
and even insured COVID-19
patients are looking at
out-of-pocket expenses in excess of $1,300.
Combine this with the millions of Americans getting
thrown off of employer-provided health insurance and
you’re looking at a huge number of people who will
avoid getting tested and avoid treatment as much as
possible. Both heads of America’s two-headed
one-party system have spent decades forcefully
creating this dynamic. |