*The middle class are about to discover the cruelty of Britain's benefits system.* It will drive them into penury, as it has done to so many disabled Britons.

The murderer's ministers gave Gilead, a particularly greedy Pharma company, a 7-year monopoly over selling remdesivir, the one known medicine that has a good chance of saving people who have a severe case of Covid-19.

Gilead's business model is to procure such monopolies in order to extort high prices from wealthy Americans who would otherwise die. The non-wealthy Americans can't afford those prices do then die.

Would someone like to prepare to start selling banners and bumper stickers that say,

Trump and Gilead "Sciences"
murdered my relative

Doctors disagree about carrying "social distancing" to extremes.

It is always the case, for any kind of risk, that there are bigger risks and smaller ones. A rational plan to reduce the total risk to some target level involves trying hard to avoid the bigger risks, while accepting occasional smaller risks. The lower the target level, the more you'll reject risks of any given size, but it will always be rational for you to accept small risks occasionally.

To put it another way, if you choose to ride in a car or bus, you're accepting some small amount of collision risk. It is not rational to take, for Covid-19 risk, the attitude that "any risk whatsoever is too much", while ignoring small risks of collision.

The numskull has over 50% approval for his reaction to Covid-19 simply because he stopped saying it was no worse than flu.

That is a step up from a very low starting point. I think it shows how little keel Americans have today, except when rigidized by a church dogma.

(satire) *a disturbing new study … found American fifth-graders were only absorbing advertisements at a first-grade level. "Out of the 10,000 children we studied, over 75% of them scrolled right past products placed onto their social media feeds and did not even click or hover over the ad once…"*