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Remember the Neutron Bomb?

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Kill the Poor

Efficiency and progress is ours once more
Now that we have the Neutron bomb
It's nice and quick and clean and gets things done
Away with excess enemy
But no less value to property
No sense in war but perfect sense at home…

That above lyric came from the song Kill the Poor by the Dead Kennedys. Offensive group name, I know but the song and the concept came to mind as I’ve been reading about the spread of COIVID19 and various stories like the Vanity Fair article that illuminated the Kushner/Trump decision to do nothing as it seemed to be  Blue State problem, and the other diary speculating about what happens when COVID19 deaths in Red States start surpassing Blue States on a per capita basis. While the Vanity Fair article is appalling, I am not sure that’s the entirety of what is going on. Sadly, I also don’t think the death rate per capita  in Red States passing Blue States is going to change much in the response from the Trump Administration. That is why I thought about the neutron bomb.  COVID19 is simply a biological bomb that will effect the poor and people of color disproportionately in Red, Blue and Purple states alike. 

As the Vanity Fair article suggests, there was a lack of motivation to help in April and a desire to shift blame to Blue Governors. Sure, that makes sense in an immoral political way, which is what I have come to expect from the Trumpublicans. However, if you know the disease is going to kill more people who are more likely Democratic voters wherever the disease roams this administration is precisely sick enough to do nothing anywhere. It may be less efficient than a neutron bomb, but if its killing more of their voters than your voters that’s yet another reason for the complete denial and disinterest we continue to see from Trump. We seem to be focusing on Trump’s magical thinking or what appears to be his stupidity, but what if its just a simple cold blooded calculation pushed by a sociopath who will try to win an election at all costs? How many votes did he win by in the battleground states of MI, PA, and WI? How many will die of COVID19 between now and casting a ballot? How can that number be juiced? We already know Trump kept meatpacking open. We know that “essential workers” are proportionally more poor and people of color. Why is he pushing so hard to open schools when it seems like that’s a losing proposition in the suburbs? I hate to assign a strategy to what they are doing, but what if some of Kushner’s asshole McKinsey associates have crunched some rather diabolical numbers? Shave some votes with COVID19, plus who knows what the Russians are up to and what they can add to the tally? 

Sadly, its thoughts like these that have kept my anxiety levels consistently high along with my alcohol consumption. I definitely pick the wrong year to try to quit drinking...


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