[Hoot Gibson]

1. People were struggling with food before the pandemic. Where was yours and the right wing’s concern before? Hard to listen to that garbage when most right wing platforms wanted to cut food stamps and food programs prior to a pandemic that hampered making money.

1b. Food shortage is another failure by the leadership in this country. It has taken months to act; there is a need and a surplus of food from farmers. Finally, there is an attempt to get food that is wasting to food banks and those in need, but when our leaders spend all days that end in “y” worried about dollars.

I understand your concern about basic human needs because this administration has made no attempt to develop a plan that would help its citizens. Rent/mortgage freeze or aid, food assistance, and a concerted focus on keeping essential workers safe should be priority one, but Trump just wants to send the “warriors” back out to get sick, get someone sick, and/or possibly die.

I keep asking for a plan the follows the initial White House guidelines. Ain’t happening. CDC tried to release opening guidelines, and they were squashed by the Trump administration because they didn’t push the reopening movement.

The richest nation in the world has the lion’s share of deaths and cases. Let that sink in. American exceptionalism boils down live free and die because our govt. fails to protect its citizens. Third world countries have done a better job of supporting and protecting their citizens.

The nation is on the verge of the destruction that conservative policy will bring. I won’t say Republican because there are GOP Governors and leaders following appropriate precautions to battle a pandemic.

Even the Chinese Communist Party understands that capitalism is the most efficient system of allocating resources and feeding a nation's people that has ever been devised by mankind. Your socialist ramblings show a deep failure to understand the realities of this world. Without work and without a functional economy that works in harmony with human nature, people starve. I am not talking about a few people, what we are talking about here is mass starvation the likes of which we have seen every time that national economies have collapsed because of irrational government policies. Think North Korea, Venezuela, and Haiti.

Ironically, the first and hardest hit if this nation pursues the idiotic policies that you support will be the very people who have empowered authoritarian liberal politicians to rule the most densely populated parts of this country.