The Coronavirus pandemic has disrupted lives all over the world. Here in the United States, many states are forbidding residents from going to work and from leaving their homes except for necessities such as grocery shopping or medical visits.
Many Americans have already been living from paycheck-to-paycheck, some are unemployed, and some are without homes. Needless to say, poverty can only increase under these circumstances. Businesses will fail. People will lose their jobs and their homes. Many will not bounce back.
How did this pandemic become so severe that we're needing to shut entire cities down? Why are we not testing more people? Why are we lacking test kits, ventilators, and other resources to stop this pandemic? Here, in the United States of America, surely we have plenty of resources to build whatever we need to curb the spread of this virus.
We've been practicing trickle-down economics, listening to millionaires and billionaires assure us that helping them will trickle down back to us. Yet the wealthy are mysteriously silent, unable to fund the resources we need to fight this disease. Why?
Could it be that some people are profiting from this epidemic? Why did Trump shut down the pandemic response team and reduce funds for the CDC? Why did the CDC refuse test kits from the World Health Organization and restrict laboratories from making their own kits?
We, the people, are paying taxes to support a government whose job is to prevent pandemics like this. We want answers. We want our money back!
The Republicans have an economic "stimulus" plan that benefits big corporations, not the average person. Both Democrats and Republicans will probably use this pandemic as another way to extend the Patriot Act and take away more of our civil liberties.
