What’s monstrous about it? Personal responsibility, right? They made their dumb choices.  | 
						
 ^^^ Azar learns of the risk Jan 3; he can’t get time with the president till Jan 18; “When he reached Trump by phone, the president interjected to ask about vaping and when flavored vaping products would be back on the market.”  | 
							
						
 Isn’t this around the time that Trump also started talking crap about not trusting intelligence agencies? More than usual?  | 
							
						
 Read this, from another thread. An account written by someone working the front lines, published this morning. “Reading about it in the news, I knew it was going to be bad, but we deal with the flu every year so I was thinking: Well, it’s probably not that much worse than the flu. But seeing patients with COVID-19 completely changed my perspective, and it’s a lot more frightening.” This is knocking out what should be perfectly fit, healthy people. “I have patients in their early 40s and, yeah, I was kind of shocked. I’m seeing people who look relatively healthy with a minimal health history, and they are completely wiped out, like they’ve been hit by a truck. This is knocking out what should be perfectly fit, healthy people. Patients will be on minimal support, on a little bit of oxygen, and then all of a sudden, they go into complete respiratory arrest, shut down and can’t breathe at all.” https://www.propublica.org/article/a-medical-worker-describes--terrifying-lung-failure-from-covid19-even-in-his-young-patients “Hopefully we don’t get there, but if you only have one ventilator, and you have two patients, you’re going to have to go with the one who has a higher likelihood of surviving. And I’m afraid we’ll get to that point. I’ve heard that’s happening in Italy.”    I’ve watched a loved one die on a ventilator, and it’s a horrible, horrible way to leave this earth.
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| Of course Trump knew about this and did not care. That much is obvious. |