Don’t forget that hospitals in desperate need of PPE had shipments hijacked and stolen by the feds, given to corrupts pop-up resellers run by cronies and auctioned off back to the hospitals that originally bought them.
Having a memory and attention span longer than 2 weeks is fucking exhuasting
I, like Pepperidge Farm, also remember. That was such a massive shit show, I have no idea how the Administration Responsible for PPE Hijacking managed to get a second installment of the show going. That really should have been the end of them all.
Thats because the people who voted for him the second time either don’t know, or don’t care.
Man, I’m seeing smug videos online about everyone “finally admitting we were right all along.”
They’re just running around pretending that there was no real danger and no real deaths. It’s a death cult.
People treat 6 years ago like 20, eh?
The New England Patriots used their private plane to smuggle PPE into the country because the regime was stealing shipments off the runway.
IT happened in Maryland too. The took it right off the Tarmac.
I swear I read that some hospitals had to have it shipped to odd places or roundabout fashions just so they’d have a chance to actually get it delivered.
Yeah, supposedly that’s how we worked around it.
I worked in a rural hospital in a blue state throughout the entire pandemic and do not remember this. Can someone add sources bc I’m not seeing much when I Google it. The hospital I worked for had serious problems with misappropriation of funds from government funding but we did have PPE.
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Wow! Thank you so much!
I mean I guess you’re welcome lol… I hate that I remember like every single fucking thing this shitheel has done. It can eat away at you, watching nothing happen to these evil ghouls.
Only tangentially related, but… I decided at the start of 2025 to hit the little star to save a post on Lemmy every time I see something awful and illegal being done by Trump administration. Get a little running list going, maybe I could even use it to convince my parents to stop being fascists (nope).
Or I dunno if I thought maybe I’d come back years later and revisit, or compile into a goddamn coffee table book or something (“Remember this shit? One Harrowing Article a Day for a Year”? I dunno).
Turns out there were just way too many.
It’s unwieldy, and the Lemmy “saved article” page, bless its heart, was not built for parsing or navigating in any real way. Now I’ve got thousands (tens of thousands?) of saved articles and I wish I had enough programming knowhow to scrape them from my account into a CSV and categorize them or something…
Anyway, I don’t know why I’m even saying all of this other than to say that I remembered these ones without having to look at my saved articles.
Trump also routed very expensive reusable COVID testing machines to his boss, Putin, to make sure he stayed in good health at the cost of American lives.
Trump and all republicans are anti-American scum who need to go away from this planet.
Wow! Thank you so much!
I oddly only remember Blue Flame medical
The hilarious thing is that half the ‘masks cause brain damage’ crew is now masked up as ICE agents so no one can see their crimes against humanity.
To be fair, ICE agents do demonstrate a correlation between masks and brain damage. (The causality just happens to go the other way.)
It sucks that this is political here. Like, what the fuck? How much paint thinner are these people
inhaling… Chugging!?I think it was disinfectant that was recommended for chugging. That and putting lights inside my lungs.
Working in a retirement home. Covid arrived and within a few weeks, a third of the elderly died. The doctor that said it was just the flu didn’t dare come near the place after the first few deceased. And still so many people didn’t wanted to take it seriously.
I was delivering packages on Sundays during Covid, and retirement homes were always the scariest to deliver to because I was very conscientious of the fact I could be infected and I did not want to pass it through those doors. Fortunately most places had notes to drop packages at the front doors, but each of those deliveries was another chance to worry for the elderly inside. Thanks for working through that time, but also I’m sorry you did.
Thank you for being there with our elders during such a horrifying time. If not for brave people like you they would have been alone.
nursing homes, retirement community, centers are rife with abuse/neglect already.
A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
I hope to never be a hero, this country treats its heroes so poorly.
An example I learned of recently is Smedley Butler. Super decorated military careerist, but once he got out, he wrote War is a Racket and called out the corporate profiteers directly. The man basically singlehandedly foiled an attempt to coup the US government and prevented fascism from corporations like JP Morgan, City National Bank (Citibank), General Motors, Goodyear, Standard Oil, and more. Congress investigated and confirmed there was a coup planned and they would have acted. And since these companies don’t exist anymore, we can see that they were prosecuted and held accountable.
Oh wait, that’s right, they slandered Butler, called the whole thing a hoax and paid off the papers and members of congress to run the stories so that no one faced accountability.
It’s not even a new thing. Here is what happened to the Captain of the USS Indianapolis after successfully delivering, in secret, the bombs that were used to end WW2. On the way home they were attacked by a Japanese sub and the ship sank.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35)
Captain Charles B. McVay III, who had commanded Indianapolis since November 1944 through several battles, survived the sinking, though he was one of the last to abandon ship, and was among those rescued days later. In November 1945, he was court-martialed on two charges: failing to order his men to abandon ship and hazarding the ship. Cleared of the charge of failing to order abandon ship, McVay was convicted of “hazarding his ship by failing to zigzag”. Several aspects of the court-martial were controversial. There was evidence that the Navy itself had placed the ship in harm’s way. McVay’s orders were to “zigzag at his discretion, weather permitting”; however, McVay was not informed that a Japanese submarine was operating in the vicinity of his route from Guam to Leyte. Further, Commander Mochitsura Hashimoto, commanding officer of I-58, wrote in his testimony to Senator John Warner, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, that zigzagging would have made no difference.[38] Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz remitted McVay’s sentence and restored him to active duty. McVay retired in 1949 as a rear admiral.[39]
While many of Indianapolis’s survivors said McVay was not to blame for the sinking, the families of some of the men who died thought otherwise: “Merry Christmas! Our family’s holiday would be a lot merrier if you hadn’t killed my son”, read one piece of mail.[40] The guilt that was placed on his shoulders mounted until he killed himself in 1968, aged 70.[41]
A century ago, Fauci would have been lauded as a hero.
He is in my book.
Even just a decade ago.
Dubya’s supporters would have hated him
Stupidity has always been a defining characteristic of the 'Murican people
It’s worse actually, he took PPE from states he didn’t like and sent it to Russia. There’s a phone call proving it. Literally giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
And ventilators, testing kits and actually useful medications (not bleach or horse dewormer)
Another fucked up part of this is how much this brain dead conservative American anti science rhetoric spread across the rest of the world.
The brain dead right wingers are poisoning the world with their special flavour of idiocy.
Yep. It hit Japan hard too, anti mask anti vax fuckwits multiplied, oh and vaccines cause autism too didn’t ya know
Carl Sagan demon haunted world
Should be required reading for every human adult
You know, I used to think there was a possibility of Human self-destruction simply because we’re slow to react to say the climate crisis.
I didn’t think it would happen because a large portion of humans have become literal idiots.
That was a nasty wake up call during corona.
Hey, lots of places did it quite well, given how challenging it was
It’s was mostly 'Murica who chose to kill the vulnerable rather than just be halfway decent people
True, but even in Europe the portion of people that let themselves get influenced into thinking corona was fake and the measures taken were fascist/dictatorial was waaaay to high.
To be clear, propaganda paid for by billionaires and spread by Americans who can’t identify truth from lies if it comes from their favorite TV channel/social media profile. The rest of the world is just overwhelmed by convincing brainwashed idiots.
I will just leave this here.
Fauci is a hero.
Republicans— every single one of them— are fucking morons and pedo protectors.
“Mr. Fauci, how dare you tell people not to inject bleach and snort Ivermectin?!”
Then they say my body, my choice no doubt.
It’s only a thing if it benefits them
Anyone with family in medicine with even half a brain or heart during this time is keenly aware.
Yellow ribbons for days for troops, but largely thankless, brutal work for medical personnel. Turnover was high throughout and following covid from burnout and disrespect.
Dr. Fauci is a national treasure, up there with Mr. Rogers.
Trump and Republicans were responsible for so much loss of life during that time. People still don’t fully grasp.
Fauci was trying his best to navigate a shitty situation and you had fuckers like Krystal and Sagaar on Breaking Points spewing hatred at him. All of them are fucking assholes. Fauci isn’t a fucking politician or pundit or anything … he’s trying to save lives by making choices and decisions where people were ready to sacrifice him regardless for political reasons. But Breaking Points are oh so happy to shit on him and the comment section is full of antivax and covid deniers.
I have never heard of Krystal Ball until recently, and she’s making the rounds for an interview with Adam Smith, and seems to be portrayed as some leftist pundit. And now seeing this comment, it feels like life has been and will be ok not hearing from her ever again.
I generally like Krystal’s other views and she’s married to Kyle Kuklinski (whom I like) and they have shows together and she has good takes going up against Bill Maher. I started to watch her like a year or two ago. It was just when Fauci was getting an award around his retirement or whenever and I just saw an episode of Breaking Points just attacking him. They were like, he’s just a liar and he doesn’t deserve any awards for his career and it completely put me off for a while. I did restart listening to her myself … but I’m more “critical” or aware around her. Destiny popped into my feed recently and I really like him and then people say he’s pro-Israel … so I’m going to just pay more attention around those areas.
That being said I turned off Breaking Points the show itself entirely. The covid denial comments were overwhelming during the Fauci episodes and then Saagar (or however you spell it) was a Trump supporter to a degree for a while. He did a mea culpa from the “manosphere” stuff eventually though.
Yeah, kinda hard to forget how millions of people said “some fucking idiot politician doesn’t think this is real/as bad as doctors and scientists say it is, so clearly the politician is right because I’m an entitled overconfident asshole who doesn’t wanna give up muh freedom”. For the first time in human history (probably), we had the ability to prevent millions of deaths with knowledge. The circus of morons threw that in the trash.
Weird part is that they say that politicians are lying and corrupt, and still somehow believe them.
Only the politicians not vomiting back their preconceived ideas are lying.
Oh of course they aren’t always lying. Just when they disagree with me!
I guess she won’t read this but she is a real life hero.
Id love to send her some love and thanks — but that probably requires me joining a corrupt and toxic social network I’m purposely trying to avoid.
If you search the handle that’s in the screenshot, you can very quickly find what looks to be a legit email address for her.
