Oct. 6, 2020 This should have come before the Oct. 11,2020 post

 

On Tuesday, his first morning back in the White House, the president took to Twitter to compare Covid-19 to the flu.

"Flu season is coming up!" he wrote. "Are we going to close down our Country? No, we have learned to live with it, just like we are learning to live with Covid.

 

It is nice for Mr. Trump to say this. He has a whole team of specialist doctors to look after him and monitor him all day every day and he has access to the latest and best possible medicines. You or I will be lucky if we can get a bed and maybe some orange juice. And many people won’t even go because they are afraid of the hospital bill. Nice words but not for the real world that most people have to face and live in.

 

I have been thinking of tax cuts that benefited the wealthy the most, and I came across this statistic while I was looking.

 

The United States added 675,000 new millionaires from 2018 to 2019 alone. The total number of millionaires in US equals to 18.6 million. There are 705 billionaires in the United States.Jun 19, 2020

   

 

I am sure that these poor millionaires (18,6 million of them) and billionaires (only 705 of them) are not hurting because of the pandemic. They may have lost a millions here or there but it really hasn’t affected their life style.

 

But for the poor bod at the bottom of the food chain, who is now out of  a job, whose life savings have been wiped out, some of whom have no food for their kids and don’t know when or where they will find some, much less think of the future,, because survival today is the focus, should be a prime target of our financial planning for whatever future we will experience in the next few months / years, We just cannot continue to ignore them as in the past.

 

I am not a millionaire but I can imagine some lady coming to me after a church service saying, “ it is nice for you, father, to tell us to put our faith in God, but you go home to 3 meals a day, a roof over your head, a nice bed to sleep in, whereas I sit here, without a job, kids to feed, no place to stay because I couldn’t pay the rent, no food no money and wonder what to do now. What do I say? What do I do?

 

I saw the snippet of a program where Oprah Winfrey was interviewing Sr. Joan Chittister, a well known nun who is a social scientist and who critiques the government and the Church, and asked her what one should do as we are overcome by this pandemic. She answered, “SOMETHING”,

Think about that.

 

These bikers aren't praying for President Trump

These bikers aren't praying for President Trump Image copyrightTIKTOK A video which claims to show bikers praying for President Donald Trump outside the Walter Reed Medical Center in suburban Washington isn't from this weekend, and wasn't even filmed in the United States. The clip, shared more than 25,000 times on Twitter and viewed over 1.3 million times, was uploaded onto video-sharing platform TikTok on Friday. However, detective work by fact-checking website Lead Stories, verified by the BBC, reveals that the video was actually shot in South Africa and shows bikers protesting against farm murders. The original clip was uploaded to TikTok on 29 August, and comparison with Google Street View shows it was shot outside the Union Building in Pretoria.

Image copyrightTIKTOK

A video which claims to show bikers praying for President Donald Trump outside the Walter Reed Medical Center in suburban Washington isn't from this weekend, and wasn't even filmed in the United States.

The clip, shared more than 25,000 times on Twitter and viewed over 1.3 million times, was uploaded onto video-sharing platform TikTok on Friday.

However, detective work by fact-checking website Lead Stories, verified by the BBC, reveals that the video was actually shot in South Africa and shows bikers protesting against farm murders.

The original clip was uploaded to TikTok on 29 August, and comparison with Google Street View shows it was shot outside the Union Building in Pretoria.