Working Class Solidarity

Is it really that fucking hard to wear a mask or stand a few feet away from people at the store?

Why do some people act like this is a difficult concept?

I don't want you breathing on my ass anyway so back the fuck off!

So we're supposed to stay at home now because the Covid Pandemic is worse than ever in the US.

Only, this time they want us to magically stay at home without financial support or stimulus payments even as Unemployment is running out and the eviction moratorium is ending.

So basically if you're wealthy enough to work at home, do it, if not fuck off and die.

It's just lovely how all of America is busy arguing weather the Caronavirus is real or whether people should have to wear something as hooorrrriiiibbbllllee as a mask; meanwhile the virus ravages Jails and Prisons completely ignored while Corrections Facilities use this as an excuse to keep inmates locked down in their cells two at a cell for 23 hours a day.

Guess what folks?

These people in your Jails and Prisons don't live in a bubble. They're your community members and the average jail sees dozens of people in and out every day.

And it's not just the inmates getting sick. Two Corrections Officers one Parish over died from Covid-19 before the Sheriff's Dept. just stopped putting out news reports. More than 84 staff members had tested positive by Mid-April when the news reports suddenly stopped. Yet, the Sheriff's Office has had to send units into the Jail and Youth Correction Center multiple times to "quell disturbances".

If by disturbances they mean the inmates that finally can take no more of being locked up in a 3ft by 7ft cell two at a time 23 hours a day and being left to die of the virus as it spreads wantonly through the jail while inmates (most of whom have NOT been convicted of any crime, they simply cannot afford bail) are denied testing and treatment.

And that's just one jail. In one Parish, in one State. (a Parish is essentially a County in Louisiana for those unfamiliar)

Most Jails and Prisons in the US are under NO obligation to report deaths or complete autopsies when violence wasn't involved in a death. Many don't even report deaths to family members and if no one comes to claim the body, they're dumped in near by pauper's graves often simply behind the Prison facility.

I don't think I have to remind people that black and brown Americans and other minorities are disproportionately incarcerated. Often being thrown in and out of jails for minor tickets and unpaid fines.

There's 2 million Americans locked up in Jails or Prisons at any given moment. That doesn't include Youth Facilities. These people are often released from local jails back out into the Community without physical check-ups or so much as a bus ticket.

So if you simply think, fuck those people, they're nothing but criminals? Think again.

Thousands of inmates are in and out of Jails everyday. Without adequate testing and treatment, they're spreading the virus throughout your community.

Being humane is in your fucking interest. Act like it.

There really are no words for just how Seth Meyers and John Oliver have stepped it up not just in this Coronavirus Pandemic, but in the entire maddening Trump Era.

Watch, like and share even if for no other reason than it probably pisses off Donald Trump and his goon squad of Liars, Con Artists, Petty Thieves and Dr. Evil wannabes.