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It’s coffins not cases that I want to see numbers for. If more and more people are getting Covid19 but the death rates do not increase this suggests either the health care system is coping or the virus is not deadly to those outside of the senior group, who are presumably taking the virus more seriously than others.
Of course they exist. Why is this a surprise? I would argue each wave of immigrants resents the next. I have friends who parents emigrated from Italy in the 1960s, friends who “fled” Brampton for Georgetown because there were too many brown and black folk moving in. As a UK-origin White person, I told them that in the 1960s, people who would have moved away from the tan coloured Italians. It’s funny how they consider themselves white, when back in 60’s Canada no one did.
He would probably take that as a very nice compliment.
If these 30s only get mild Covid19 it will only embolden those who want to open up. But I suspect in about two weeks the death and ICU numbers will jump.
www.theguardian.com
More fuel for the free universal health care movement in the United StatesCovid-19 survivors could lose health insurance if Trump wins bid to repeal Obamacare
Sat 27 Jun 2020
Millions of Americans who have survived Covid-19 or face future infections could lose their insurance or be barred from getting coverage should the Trump administration successfully repeal Obamacare.
The Trump administration asked the supreme court late Thursday to overturn the Affordable Care Act – a move that, if successful, would bring a permanent end to the health insurance reform law popularly known as Obamacare.
Under the ACA, insurance companies cannot deny coverage for pre-existing conditions. Its abolition would mean millions of Americans who have had or have cancer, multiple sclerosis or other diseases would struggle to find insurance.
Anyone applying for insurance who subsequently contracts Covid-19 could also find their insurance invalidated or be denied coverage in the future. If they were allowed to keep their insurance, they could still be charged higher premiums or have future treatment for coronavirus turned down.
Covid-19 survivors could lose health insurance if Trump wins bid to repeal Obamacare
ACA prevents denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions but abolition could mean people with Covid-19 could be turned down for treatment
That may be the silver lining in this catastrophe, with the discrediting of US conservatism and pushing the US towards offering health care as a right. But who knows, they have mass shootings and no gun control as of yet.
