If you look over the CDC website and the data they’ve compiled for US deaths and their listed causes you’ll notice a “weird” trend. Every-time a death certificate is issued, the cause of death must be listed or identified. Historically speaking, roughly 99% of death certificates clearly delineate a “cause” or reason for the death. The other 1% (roughly 500-600 deaths per week) is entered as a “mystery” death.

However, starting in 2020, the number of deaths in this “mystery” category has dramatically spiked.

A weird, “mystery” illness (that’s not being listed as Covid 19) is possibly killing up to 3000 Americans a week. And in many of the states that are pushing to reopen, this number seems to be skyrocketing.

Now if states like Florida, Texas, Georgia, etc. want us to believe that this massive uptick in unclassifiable deaths is somehow unrelated to Covid 19 - they still have to explain how hundreds of people mysteriously dying each week isn’t a public health crisis.

Adam Serwer in The Cruelty Is the Point in The Atlantic, October 3, 2018. I was reminded—again—of Donald Trump’s monstrous cruelty as he chose the anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub killings to rescind Obama-era health care protections for transgender Americans. Cruelty is his only guiding principle.  (via fatchance)

You know what, looking back on it, my friends and I survived the Bush Presidency

We would have survived a McCain Presidency

We would have survived a Romney Presidency

I honestly worry that there are some people who would not survive a Trump Presidency

I don’t care how much you love Gary Johnson, or Jill Stein. On November 8, 2016, one of two things will be true: either Hillary Clinton will be elected President, or Donald Trump will be elected President.

Which one, HONESTLY, would be worse?

This isn’t the year to “vote your conscience.”

There’s a fucking dangerous man one election away from being President.

This is the year to vote to survive.

Any other year, this would be an exaggeration. We survived Bush, we could have survived McCain or Romney. This year, Trump’s danger is no exaggeration.

Don’t vote your conscience, vote to survive.

We will not, not, NOT SURVIVE Trump.

The LGBT community will not survive.

The communities of middle eastern descent will not survive.

Women, especially women who want a right to choose, will not survive.

The black community will not survive.

The latino community will not survive.

The disabled community will not survive.

I guarantee that there are more groups.

We as a country will not survive a Trump-Pence Presidency

The poor will not survive

Please understand that Trump plans to not only do what the US did to Japanese Americans in WWII on a massive level with Mexicans and Muslims but also destroy the economy with it

Somehow this post is going around again and it’s appeared on my own dash and I still think Trump is going to kill us all. Y'all’s protest votes did nothing.

Hey look it’s my post from 2016

Now that it’s almost 2020, can you see that this wasn’t a fucking exaggeration

Do you understand now

This is going around again and now that we’re in the Democratic Primaries and y'all are already saying about how you’ll stay home if you’re favorite doesn’t win I’d just like to remind y'all that people are dying in the Trump administration

People are dying in concentration camps at the border

Trump rolled back Obamacare and now millions more people are without insurance

Trump is rolling back environmental regulations and climate change and pollution will kill us

States are banning abortion which will affect millions of poor women and women of color and SCOTUS night overturn Roe v Wade

Hate crimes against Jews and people of color and LGBT people are going up

There are Nazis in the White House and marching in the streets

And Trump has given tax cuts to billionaires and appointed judges that will take away your constitutional rights

Are you happy with your choice to vote third party? To stay home? Was it worth it? Was all of this worth it?

We’re facing the same choice again. We can’t have four more years of this.

Fight like hell for your candidate in the primaries. Then if and when they lose, get in line behind the winner.

We failed in 2016. The life and death stakes in 2020 are even higher.

Vote. For. Democrats.

The first sentiment in this post has gotten more literal as 2020 wears on.

I haven’t even updated this post to reflect the pandemic because I just

Tens of thousands of people are dead y'all. Obama and Biden had an entire infrastructure, a system to deal with pandemics and Trump abolished the office and ignored reports of the virus for months

When the curve of infections increases exponentially, even acting one day earlier could have saved thousands of lives

And Trump ignored it for months

Unemployment is now higher than at any time since the great depression

I knew people would die but I never imagined that Trump would be responsible for this many deaths and the worst economic disaster in a century

We have to vote for Biden. I don’t like Biden. I wanted someone progressive. Someone who didn’t sexually assault someone. But this is literally life and death.

(also Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 87 years old and has been hospitalized multiple times in the last year and we cannot allow Trump to appoint her replacement on the Supreme Court or continue giving lifetime appointments to judges to lower Federal courts)

This whole post y’all

united states citizens who are married to immigrants are being denied stimulus checks

These people are taxpayers with ITINS (individual taxpayer identification numbers) but they and their families are ineligible because stimulus checks are only granted to couples filing jointly if both individuals have SSNs ( UNLESS one spouse is in the military, but that’s a different post)

Not only is that policy driven by racism, It’s also a violation of the fundamental right to marriage ( Loving v. Virginia, Oberfell v Hodges). A precedent has been set that discrimination based on who someone is married to is unconstitutional.

An idaho man going by John Doe for anonymity has filed a class action lawsuit against Trump, Mcconell, and Mnuchin on behalf of “All United States Citizens married to immigrants that file joint taxes wherein the immigrant-spouses file tax returns using an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number whom would have otherwise qualified for the Stimulus Check.”

Stay informed and don’t let mixed status families lose out on potentially lifesaving money because of the U.S government’s discriminatory policies

particularly ironic because our absolute disgrace of a president is himself someone who is married to an immigrant

Do ppl know about trump actively trying to buy the company that’s currently working on a covid vaccine and wanting to keep it to American use only or is this a Germany only headline

A source

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8114015/Donald-Trump-tries-pay-German-company-creating-experimental-coronavirus-vaccine-US.html

It gets wierder and more troubling too. Apparently the CEO that met with trump has abruptly stepped down. The company is now being run by one of its founders. Wtf is going on here?

https://www.curevac.com/news/company-founder-ingmar-hoerr-succeeds-daniel-menichella-as-ceo-of-curevac-ag

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/was-it-something-he-said-biotech-ceo-who-met-president-trump-month-exits-without-a-word

have not seen it in america but that IS pretty fuckin horrifying so like hey what the fuck

You really need to see this in the US because everyone else on the fucking planet has been seeing this for nearly a week and we are PISSED

Your government, in the middle of a global fucking pandemic, literally tried to buy the vaccine under development for said pandemic exclusively for the US.

This isn’t just a daily fail bullshit squawk, this has been confirmed by multiple sources, INCLUDING THE GODDAMN GERMAN GOVERNMENT.  “CAPITALISM HAS LIMITS” and you have crossed a fucking line. 

This is, in fact, getting covered in the US: Here’s The NYT 5 Days Ago on it. Hadn’t heard about the CEO getting the boot until now, however.

This is why you don’t want to fly during this pandemic.

All these passengers took flights home after leaving the cruise ship.

No testing done.

A very bad situation.

The Trump Administration is doing nothing to stop this.

WarriorMale

My aunt was on one of these cruise ships, she just got back yesterday or the day before. Yesterday my mom told me that she was very sick after getting off the boat and isn’t feeling that good.

I’m so sorry to hear that.

I hope she is able to get the medical attention that she needs right now.

WarriorMale

just to be clear, the Fed gave banks abt the amount of money that could wipe out all student loans or like give every single person 4500 dollars w the result that the bump in the yellow circle happened

I Am Not An Economist, but I feel like this is one of those situations where stimulus at the level of institutions(corps, businesses, tax cuts, etc) isn’t going to help the market, because the market’s all about trading on future profits, meaning economic activity, and a global pandemic means ppl staying home, not working and not buying things, so bringing economic activity to a halt.

A better stimulus would be aimed at guaranteeing people help maintaining themselves during the period of inactivity, meaning direct payments to citizens(paid time off, fed checks in the mail, covering healthcare costs for the duration, etc). Pairing that with personal debt-relief as we start coming OUT OF the crisis would rapidly boost immediate consumption by reducing the percentage of personal spending going to rents(persistent costs, like debt service or residential rent), thereby allowing us to bounce back more quickly once folks feel safe being out in public, going to restaurants and stores again.

so wait, the other day everyone was like “coronavirus, no big deal, flu is worse, yadda yadda yadda” and now today everyone is like “WE’RE ALL GONNA DIEEEEE”

so which is it

I think it’s, we vaccinate for flu, but nobody’s vaccinated for coronavirus, and it spreads really quickly, so our infrastructure will likely be slammed by everybody susceptible getting it more or less at once.

part of it’s a joke based on a handful of conservative commentators who have pretty long track-records of being wrong coming out to say “we’ve got this under control everything’s fine” over the last week, but another part of it is that the Trump admin is just generally botching the response to coronavirus pretty spectacularly, trying to prevent medical experts from talking honestly about the coronavirus situation in the US and, as of yesterday, claiming it’s “a hoax” drummed up by dems and the media to “destroy the president” and “sabotage wall street”.

Huh:

Trump is pressuring the Department of Justice to reduce the recommended sentence for a Trump hack who was at the heart of the election scandal.

I’m floooooooooooooooooorrrrrred.

It’s totally cool how the official White House twitter is pushing white nationalist talking points.

important to note that this isn’t even being disguised as anti-illegal immigration.

the white house is taking a stance against LEGAL immigration here. their infographic says “admitted to the US”. it’s blatant racism.

— Opinion | Trump’s America Is a ‘White Man’s Country’ - The New York Times

Must read.

“Elevates its narrow shrinking base as the only authentic America” is spot on.

While Flint, MI still doesn’t have clean water.

Let’s talk about Yemen, where half of the population is expected to die by the next year if they don’t get immediate help, and there has been a civil war going on since 2014.

Friendly reminder that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Re-Elected went around congress to provide weapons to the Saudis to continue their attack on Yemen.

Which is to say: congress specifically blocked these sales and Trump made the deal anyway, which is illegal, and yet another impeachable offense. Not to mention that the tech he’s selling is classified as a national secret, so there’s also the question of legality in regards to that, too.

As of 1-25-2019, according to the New York Times. 

The world is falling apart

me when im definitely not guilty of human rights abuses

it’s not even funny anymore

I’m gonna get ranted at for this one