(satire) *[the bullshitter] publicly blamed China Monday for acting too late in coordinating the U.S. Covid-19 response. "China knew our nation was facing a deadly threat as early as January, and yet they did nothing to develop a plan we could use to slow the spread of the virus."*

The US and UK are starting to negotiate a new business-supremacy treaty.

With plutocratist liars heading both governments, they will surely aim to help businesses trample humans and to promote privatization. The bully will try to create obstacles to Medicare for All and to weaken all safety standards.

After writing that, I found out that is already part of the plan.

When Deborah Gatewood suspected she had Covid-19, she went to the emergency room at Beaumont Hospital she went there four times, each time being told "go home and rest". Then she died.

Why did she go to that hospital each time? Perhaps she assumed that, as an employee of that hospital, she would get careful treatment.

Was she given substandard treatment? We can't tell for certain from the information available. There was a shortage of testing capacity, especially in March. Perhaps there were so many patients that others who appeared to be sicker used up the testing capacity. Or perhaps not.

Was she the victim of racism? We can't prove that from the information available, but I wouldn't be surprised. One of the ways racism frequently manifests itself is as bias in making a judgment call.

*"It's being built on our blood": the true cost of Saudi Arabia’s $5bn megacity.*

As Arabia becomes ever more arid, and importation of food ever more costly and environment-damaging, people will eventually recognize it was a dumb idea to build a new city there of all places — even aside from the repression involved.

In 1970, construction workers in NYC attacked antiwar protesters, and Nixon egged them on, anticipating the conman today.

Meanwhile, right-wing extremists frequently killed black protesters marching for equal rights.