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So, COVID-19, which does not sway Democratic or Republican, nor show much interest in the outcome of the election, will spread like a massive, uncontrolled wildfire through the United States. Hospitals in Utah, Montana, SW Texas, Wisconsin and rural Kansas/Missouri/Nebraska — among others — are already beyond full and debating how to ration care. At 100,000 cases a day, the flow-through hospitalizations and deaths are on the way, putting dozens if not hundreds more hospital systems at risk. And half the country will insist on “giving thanks” in person, indoors, at family gatherings one month from now. In case we needed another dose of fuel on the fire. If we assume the typical percentages of hospitalizations and time period for progression after infection, the new infections we record next week, while we are focused elsewhere, will begin to manifest as new hospitalizations at or near the end of November. Right about when flu season starts peaking.

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if you want to actually start to end homelessness, you need to give homeless people unconditional homes, including when we use them to do drugs or sit around drinking. either housing is unconditional or it isn’t

someone sitting at home alone, an active alcoholic, squandering your charity, drinking all day is better situation than a street homeless alcoholic. someone using drugs in your charity house is better than them doing the same w no shelter

most of you would not like most street homeless people, I definitely don’t and didn’t when I was street homeless. for every one person who uses unconditional shelter to turn themselves around, someone else will do jack shit and very slowly, if ever, work through the issues that made them homeless, will maybe never be able to live independently. still better than street homelessness, still worth doing. ultimately either you believe that shelter should be universal or you don’t

homeless people actually can’t be rehabilitated if you want to end homelessness. we either affirm the right to shelter for the worst drunken, lying, filthy, cheating, self destructive homeless people that exist, genuinely irredeemable wankers, or we concede that shelter is not a right

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‘Corrupt Bargain’: Chris Hayes Says GOP Traded 100,000 Lives For Supreme Court Justice | All In

What the GOP has done cannot be undone—but not just swearing in a new Justice. “They have participated in a project that has led to the deaths of probably 100,000 Americans who didn’t have to die. Congratulations, you got that done, too. That also can’t be reversed,” says Chris Hayes. Aired on 10/26/2020.

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