Cruel and unbelievably stupid. Caring for dying patients is orders of magnitude more expensive that treating them … even if the intent is actually to let them die.

So just to bring that 12.5% into clarity, 10% of americans live in florida, so florida has above average hic rates by about 20% above "expected" numbers.

What's worse, the anti-retroviral drugs also prevent people from PASSING HIV.. That's really how it became manageable. The same drug that protects one's health also prevents new people from being infected...

the appeasement approach is not going to work for the same reason it did not work for hitler. there is no rational actor to negotiate with here. you will need to accept hardship now in order to avoid greater hardship later.

Oh - And one last thing: Mussolini pardoned ALL political criminals so that they could join his blackshirts and be his loyal personal goons.

Think of everything you are seeing, and what analogies you can make from this playbook. 1/7 end

“We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done,” journalist Garrett Graff wrote: “A superpower is [dying by] suicide because the [Republican] Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.”