Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
I think in the earlies the media here tried to promote fear into people, because they basically went ahead and say that 32000 people would die, and half a million would be infected. Sounds like small numbers compared to the states, right? Well keep in mind our population is around 1.5 million, so they basicallly said a third of our population would be down, and around .5 of our population would die. Again, sounds small, right? But again. Take iinto account the number of people who wouldn't take the time to do that math, or the ignorant over scared people. Even as cases start springing back up, they're trying to promote an Anti-Venezuelan agenda, as it is believed that illegal migrants are bringing the virus here. I agree its a threat, but I think the media here is trying to scare everyone.
Oh, and in reality, only 8 people died, and its questionable whether or not the virus caused it, as most of them had sevear pre-existing conditions.
Now, elections are just around the corner, and I'm worried. You see, currently, the PNM, or People's National Movement is in power, but I'm worried, that if the Opposition party, the United National Congress comes into office, the virus would run rampant. You see, the opposition leader, is a mini-Trump, to summarise. She demanded we open the borders, 2 months ago, she said that the sun is the reason the virus didn't thrive, and neglected our Prime Minister's measures, and in the earlies, she voted no to the Prime Minister's request to talk to the people in the parliiment about the virus. So with those things considered, I'm just pretty worried that I won't have the ability to go to KFC if she comes back into play. Mind you, she has decent views about other issues. Her party is more left than the current PNM administration, so she's all into big spending. She had a land for the landless programme, she gave away free laptops and she wants to bring those programmes back. I forgot to mention she was Prime minister from twenty ten to 15.
Oh, that also ties into how socialism can work. We only have a GDP of around 35 Billion US dollars, and god forbids the priice of oil tanks its down to 15 Billion, and we have free primary, secondary and post secondary education. Free healthcare, we have cheap ass water and electriiciity. I think its around 2 US cents per litre or so, could be more, but its still dog cheap. We have housing, for as low as a hundred TT dollars. You can convert that if you want, oh, and that house is in a suburban neighbourhood mind you, and many more programmes, including the afformentioned free laptops to all students, which is around 12 thousand laptops per year, there's free land, there's small business grants, etc etc. So America that spends a trilliion dollars on defense alone can more than damn well afford to take care of their people.
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