Yesterday, out of blue, my wife's phone carried a doomsday message all about the claimed Covid-19 conspiracy. The only name at the end was a Mark Sargent. Haven't been able to find out much about him but he does appear to be connected to the flat earth group. Anyone know anything else about him?

I disliked him as soon as he said he didn't know who the Chumash are. Guess he's not from California.

Don’t know anything about that one.

But here’s an example, just a small one of many, of a Covid conspiracy that should make Americans hurl:



Covid-19 Isn’t the Only Virus Killing Americans

In a stunning display of virulent greed, health care giants are taking COVID-19 relief money while cutting jobs and paying CEOs millions.


The holy mantra of health professionals was coined about 2,500 years ago by the Greek physician Hippocrates: “Do no harm.” Of course, that was before corporate healthcare took charge and asserted a new guiding ethic: “Jack up profits.”

Putting this in practice, America’s largest and richest hospital chains rushed to the front of the COVID-19 bailout line this spring to pull $15 billion from the government’s emergency fund. They pocketed the taxpayers’ money despite sitting on tens of billions of dollars of their own cash reserves.

But hold your nose, for it gets much stinkier.

The bailout was intended to keep hospital workers on the job. Yet the wealthiest chains have hit nurses, janitors, and other crucial frontline staffers with layoffs, pay cuts, and deadly shortages of protective gear.

For example, HCA, the $36-billion a-year health care behemoth that’s wallowing in profits, snatched a billion-dollar taxpayer bailout for itself, then demanded hospital staffers accept wage freezes and the elimination of company pension payments… or have thousands of jobs eliminated.

However, in a public show of compassion, HCA’s chief executive Samuel Hazen donated two months of his $1.4 million salary to an employee support fund. Magnanimous? Deceptive is more like it.
The trick is that a CEO’s “salary” is a miniscule part of total pay. Hazen’s annual bonus, stock payouts, and other compensation will raise his actual pay to almost $27 million.

So his donation is less than 1 percent of his pay, and he almost certainly will write that off his income taxes. That means we taxpayers — including the nurses and others he’s knocking down — not only underwrite his fat take-home pay, but we also subsidize his face-saving philanthropic gimmick.

What we have here is a raging virus of executive suite greed doing deeper damage to our society than COVID-19 ever could.

https://scheerpost.com/2020/08/08/covid-19-isnt-the-only-virus-killing-americans/

Capitalism

Capitalism gives you wings, socialism cuts them. People do bad things in both scenarios.

Suppose you define "socialism" for us.

Excellent, Human!

I’ve always thought that if you want to see the forest for the trees, if you want to know what is really going on and for whom, FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL.

He's the flat earther bigwig who keeps getting his ass kicked by sci man dan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89RvUQjjTFE

Conspiracy or not I am glad today for medical help. Just got back from the ER with a kidney stone problem, my first for more than 11 or 12 years. Very small and low down before producing pain. Thank heavens for pain meds. Nothing bad to day about the medical industry today. Needs must when the devil drives.

For every dollar we men lose while laid off from our jobs, women only lose 73 cents.

Then we'll be rich!

May I suggest that you write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper expressing that exact sentiment. No doubt it will provide comfort to all the single mothers facing eviction in your city.

Okay, I laughed. :D

A very teachable moment! We simply have to emulate New Zealand! They didn't fall for the scam!



https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/significant-milestone-new-zealand-hits-100-days-without-community-transmission