Europe's response has been as expected. Italy is the worst in Europe and as of my last reading they've test 42,000. Their governments have created systems in an emergency to aid people who will be quarantined (in particular, waiving rents and mortgages for the time period). They've deployed government capital to aid their people. What have we done?
1. Tested less than a 10th of those people
2. Injected 1.5 trillion into the market so orange man doesnt lose his baby
3. Waived student loan debt interest (???) for some reason instead of injecting the 1.5 trillion into paying off underwater student loans
4. No assistance for people who will be put out of work/onto the street when they can no longer work (think entertainment industry, service industry, etc).
5. Blamed Obama and the Democrats for a lack response after
firing the pandemic response team
6. Instead of working across the aisle the Democrats are using the virus as an opportunity to push their garbage through on bills
7. A healthcare system that isn't the best
8. Record insurance company profits as more people get tested/get the disease
We live in a bizzaro world compared to Europe when we look at the response to COVID. We're borderline third world in comparison. We will likely see many multiples of the deaths in European countries due to our garbage healthcare system. People who are uninsured won't risk getting put on the street by being ventilated so they'll die in their homes. People who are insured won't be covered until they pay their deductibles which for exchange insurance are exorbitantly high.
This is the perfect storm of "why American health insurance is the worst on the planet". We will see if we are truly the country "with the best healthcare in the world". I speculate we aren't, and we haven't been for a long time.
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. Have some fun calculating your lower tax bills and send Trump a thank you for lowering your health care bills.
