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April 18th<\/sup> 2020<\/i><\/p>\n

I was looking at the images of the \u201cRe-Open America\u201d demonstrations. For the most part, it was what you might expect to see at any Trump rally; Q Anon crackpots, white nationalists, gun nuts, neoconfederates, sagebrush rebellion freaks, and the occasional Nazi just for seasoning.<\/p>\n

But in a lot of the images, I also saw people who were wearing masks, or sitting in their cars, not waving political flags. The expressions were weary determination, rather than anger. They\u2019re not angry as much as they are afraid. They have no jobs, they have no money, and in many cases, they have no food. They are the flotsam of an economy that has been living on the edge despite immense wealth, just to feed the unending greed of the rich. There was barely enough to get by. Now that is gone.<\/p>\n

But they don\u2019t care about the rich right now. They just want food. They need to pay their rent and send their kids to school. They miss the million little things that we all took for granted just six weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Over the next couple of weeks, they will come to dominate the demonstrations. They won\u2019t be out there because they think the virus is a commie liberal plot or because they want to stick it to the Man. They just want to live, and the certainty of hunger will outweigh the possibility of getting sick.<\/p>\n

They are scared now, and feeling the first deep twinges of fear. In a few weeks they will be desperate, deeply frightened, and capable of anything.<\/p>\n

The President is a psychotic authoritarian of the sort that breed in fear and rage the way maggots breed in dog droppings. If he manages to stay a figurehead to these people, the resulting unrest will make Crystal Night look like a Welcome Wagon party.<\/p>\n

The only way to prevent that is to get these people food and shelter security first, and hope second. We can\u2019t solve the problems they have had inflicted upon them, but we can alleviate.<\/p>\n

We need to get food pouring into the cities, and available at no cost to the hundreds of millions of dispossessed. We need a rent jubilee until the end of the stay-at-home regimes. Pay their rents, pay their mortgages. Do so until the crisis passes.<\/p>\n

If we don\u2019t, our cities will be in flames within a fortnight. By the end of May, we will be dealing with mass revolt and even civil war. We are at the precipice.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t expect help from Washington. Trump is a dangerous psychotic authoritarian who sees several hundred thousand dead Americans as an opportunity to finish staging a coup and ripping off the country, like his hero Putin, for trillions.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re going to have troubles no matter what. But what we do right now can avoid the worst. Support your local food bank with food and money. Urge your Congressman, no matter how useless he might be, to drop partisan games and work at saving us from a societal meltdown.<\/p>\n

As for the virus itself, there have been some news stories this week that, if verified, will have considerable import.<\/p>\n

A French controlled study of 130 Covid-19 patients revealed that treating the patients with hydroxychloroquine <\/span>produced no discernible results. No positive response, no negative response. You might as well eat library paste. And in the wider population, <\/span>hydroxychloroquine <\/span>has some serious side effects.<\/span><\/p>\n

The good news is that there is some evidence world wide that the virus has spread far more than previously believed. We\u2019re not talking the half again or double the official numbers that many of us assume is closer to reality. There are reports that it may have affected 50 to 85 times the number of people as what we know about. Take this report with a large grain of salt; here in the US, the number of tests administered is nearing four million, a large enough number that epidemiologists are starting to rework their models of the contagion\u2019s communicability (still at 2.3 K) and lethality (about 5%). <\/span>But if it turns out there is a strain that is far more widespread that doesn\u2019t get picked up by the tests (and there are two strains, Type I and Type S, that we know of, so a third is quite possible) then it might be ou<\/span>r<\/span> \u201cc<\/span>ow<\/span>pox cure.\u201d It was known in the 16<\/span>th<\/span><\/sup> century that <\/span>those<\/span> who caught c<\/span>ow<\/span>pox were far less likely to get smallpox, a discovery that led to the vaccine that eventually eradicated smallpox. <\/span><\/p>\n

But if there is widespread dissemination of a mild version, then it might lead to either herd immunity, or a vaccine. That\u2019s why it\u2019s potentially good news.<\/span><\/p>\n

The scientific evidence we do have now doesn\u2019t support the wid<\/span>ely<\/span> spread theory, but it doesn\u2019t rule it out, either.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now for the bad news. And I\u2019ll start by saying NONE OF THIS HAS BEEN SCIENTIFICALLY SUBSTANTIATED!!! So don\u2019t go running out the door screaming \u201cWe\u2019re all doomed! We\u2019re all gonna die!!\u201d. Sure, we all are and will, eventually. But not today. And these reports are just that\u2014reports. They might be anomalies. They might be overfevered imaginings of stressed out caregivers. And of course, there\u2019s always the doomsayers, a crowd delighted by all the horrors of tomorrow. <\/span>For those folks, I say, go ahead. Run out the door. Scream. Bewail to the heavens. Just remember to wear a mask and gloves, OK? <\/span>Being annoying shouldn\u2019t be fatal.<\/span><\/p>\n

First, the reports are that in some cases, there is secondary and more permanent damage from the disease. Permanent granulations in the lower lungs, permanently reducing lung capacity. And weakening of heart muscles and arrhythmias may result, elevating the risk of an eventual heart attack. <\/span><\/p>\n

Second, and this is even more disturbing. The disease stuff guys, the epidermals or whatever, are suggesting that the coronavirus may be the opening salvo of a long term auto-immune disease, such as lupus, or rheumatoid arthritis. This doesn\u2019t even rise to the level of \u201creports\u201d–it\u2019s just conjecture, based on what relatively little is known about coronaviruses in general and Covid-19 in particular. <\/span><\/p>\n

We still don\u2019t really know shit about this disease, which is one of the reasons we can\u2019t just \u201cride it out.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

People are going to take to the streets, either in service to a mad despot or just because they are scared and alone. <\/span>If you are one of them<\/span> take precautions, even if you think it\u2019s a hoax. You may be risking more than the glamor of a 1 in 20 chance of dying a slow nasty death, or the <\/span>1 in 5 <\/span>opportunity of spending 1 or 2 months struggling to breathe and feeling like absolute shit. You\u2019re risking the lives of everyone near and dear to you, and may be risking a lifetime incapacitation if the rumors are to be believed.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard. <\/span>For some, staying home risks starvation. But be brave. <\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t lose hope. Never lose hope.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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