Fears Rise for World Leaders as Officials Test Positive for Virus

The global pandemic has reached into the circles of political elites around the world, as their top aides, ministers and even a spouse test positive for the coronavirus.

Bernie or Bust: the Sanders fans who will never vote for Biden

“Only Bernie” could re-elect Trump and the difference that would make life even worse than it has been and would cost lives.

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Supporters distrust the Democratic party and are frustrated with an election system they say works against their candidate

Ekene Okonkwo studies political science, advocates for gun control and reproductive rights, and is voting in a presidential election for the first time this year. But only if she can vote for Bernie Sanders.

The 19-year-old, who studies political science and lives in the Bronx, said the Vermont senator is the only candidate she trusts to deal with the issues she cares most about – on climate change, for instance, she called former vice-president Joe Biden’s plan “unfeasible”. A vote for Biden, who is likely to be the Democratic nominee in November, would only give the party more reason to take her vote for granted, she said.

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I’ve been sick for three days with a confirmed bout of the flu. Luckily, Tamiflu has been helping. I…

I’ve been sick for three days with a confirmed bout of the flu. Luckily, Tamiflu has been helping. I have paid time off I can use, access to healthcare, and childcare. I’ll go back to work tomorrow. These things should be available to everyone, but instead are viewed as a privilege or luck and not a guaranteed right.

I don’t have Coronavirus but if I did, I’d probably be ok and would maybe be able to weather the 14 day quarantine. But how many others couldn’t? How many will push through, thinking it’s just a bad cold? How many will think, I CAN’T miss one paycheck and CAN’T afford the test or treatment, so I’ll just deal? Are we comfortable with those numbers above zero?

I’m not.

The senate just declined to hear a bill that would guarantee sick time, treatment coverage, etc. because Sen. McConnell said they’ll have a better idea after an 11 day recess of what we’re dealing with, so they’ll address it then.

We don’t HAVE 11 days to wait if epidemiologists are correct. By that point, we’ll likely be looking like Italy. But we will never know the full scope because we’re under testing, under-reacting, and the cases that will present for hospitalization are the most critical, meaning those for whom it presents mildly will still be coughing on our food, our public spaces, our grandparents, our children, etc., often for no other reason than they can’t afford to stay home. They don’t have childcare. They don’t have paid time off. They have no insurance or insurance with high deductibles and copays they can’t afford.

So now we wait, hoard supplies, wash our hands, and hope we’ll be okay. Meanwhile, Prince Prospero and his aristocrats ignore the skulking masked figure moving silently from city to city, only confronting it once it’s too late. We are only as safe as our most vulnerable, and I hope in several weeks you’re all mocking me as being overly anxious instead of woefully correct.