All these Covid-19 deaths were unnecessary...

Powerful piece in the Rolling Stone,  Whistleblower Dr. Rick Bright Testifies That a Medical Supplier Warned: ‘We’re in Deep Shit’ by Peter Wade. If only Trump and his administration had acted in time, and if the GOP-controlled Congress hadn't defunded so many public heath care efforts, a lot of people would be alive today.

Maybe the most depressing section in the text, "Notably, Bright quoted medical supplier Mike Bowen, who sent Bright an email in January that talked about the 'completely decimated' supply of N95 respirators to protect health-care workers, adding that the government refused to ramp up production: 'We are in deep shit, the world is,' Bowen, a co-owner of mask manufacturer Prestige Ameritech, warned."

About me: I’m a writer and former journalist who has published material on everything from computers to the Jazz Age. (Among my small claims to fame is that I interviewed Steve Jobs just after that talented if complicated man got kicked out of Apple, and just before the company’s Board came begging him to come back.)

Please check out my new book, Padre: To The Island, a meditation on mortality, grief, and joy, based on the lives and deaths of two of the most amazing and unconventional people I ever met, my mother and father.

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