I think getting tests put is a top priority. Besides, don't you remember when there were tests sent out that were infected?
I don't understand the point you're trying to make. One manufacturer fucked up so we should just stop testing? No, simply use a different test manufacturer.
It's based on how hard you work. The welfare recipients who do work often don't work very hard because they're already getting more than enough money to sustain their families...and we're paying for it.
It has nothing to do with how hard they work. A full-time job is a full-time job, and most minimum-wage positions are much more strenuous than desk work. When corporations under-pay their employees, the taxpayers have to make up for it. So get pissed at those corporations, not the people struggling to make ends meet.
It makes perfect sense to only include comfirmed cases.
We don't have the testing capacity to confirm every case, that should be obvious by this point in the conversation. There's a 99.9% chance that anybody who dies from a lack of oxygen right now had the Rona, so advocating for only counting them if they tested positive is the same thing as advocating for under-reporting. Which would make us no better than China.
Give me one example of a """""free""""" healthcare system where you don't have to wait months for operations.
There have been plenty of instances of people waiting months for operations in the US, while still being forced into bankruptcy to pay for them. You can't just make healthy organs magically appear from thin air, so you could find this type of anecdotal evidence anywhere in the world.
Did you even watch the video?
No, for the same reason I don't watch other sensationalist garbage like cable news.
Here's a benefit to our healthcare system: just go to a different hospital.
Did you forget we're in the middle of a pandemic for a moment? Many hospitals are overwhelmed, and there are plenty of areas in the US where you only have one hospital for every hundred square miles or so.
Okay. What happens when an old homeless person gets Flu Bear and, under that free healthcare plan, can't go to a hospital?
What do you mean "can't go to a hospital?" Even without any healthcare coverage you can still go to a hospital as it stands now, it's just that the taxpayers end up footing the bill in the long run. The only difference with universal coverage is that the government negotiates that bill down to a reasonable cost, saving taxpayers money.
I've never heard of Chron. It could easily just be clickbait. Besides, Trump took it daily for weeks and he's still perfectly fine. That article also mentioned that there was a cure.
The study was done by The Lancet Medical Journal, which is a respected source. You're free to look it up directly without going through any news site. And this might shock you, but Trump is full of shit. He never took it, a narcissist like him would never risk his own life like that. It's widely speculated he has stock in the manufacturer of hydroxychloroquin, and that his push for others to take it is just another money-making scheme.
There is no mention of a cure in the article, that would make national news. The fastest a vaccine has ever been created was around 5 years, so even a 1 year timeline is extremely optimistic.
What if it's too late before those standards are met?
If the government had acted properly from the beginning of this pandemic and froze all obligations for individuals and small businesses, there would be no such thing as "too late." It's only because America treats our workforce as disposable, unlike the rest of the world, that we're being given the dystopian choice of returning to work and exposing ourselves to the virus versus staying home and running out of food/necessities.