Yet Donald Trump this week declared coronavirus testing "overrated," adding:
"And we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why? Because we do more testing. When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn't do any testing, we would have very few cases."
While he's right we have "more cases than anybody in the world," he's lying about doing more testing.
Trump's logic is we only have the world's highest confirmed cases because we know about them; if we just didn't know, fewer would be infected.
Trump's call for reduced testing began after his son in law, Jared Kushner, warned him rising of cases might rattle Wall Street.
In Trump's America, prisoners, undocumented immigrants, migrant farm workers, Native Americans, the homeless, and the elderly-the most expensive and, in wealth-speak, expendable-should go out there and take one for the team.
In laissez-faire capitalism's sociopathic milieu, fewer people equals fewer social safety nets for which to pay.
As long as the wealthy hegemony keeps the truth concealed, we will continue sacrificing the least among us on the altar of the almighty dollar.
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