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HI ,
Yesterday morning, most of us woke to the news that the president is
COVID-19 positive. We wish Mr. Trump and the First Lady the best and hope
for a speedy recovery - as we do with the millions of others around the
world who have been infected with COVID.
For Donald Trump this diagnosis means canceling campaign rallies during the
crucial leadup to the election, it means leaving the next debate up in the
air and it means placing in doubt his abilities to conduct daily duties --
Mike Pence is standing by. But mostly, of course, it means being not just
politically but personally confronted with the months of vehemently denying
the existence and extent of the pandemic while more than 200,000 Americans
were struck down by the virus, while he had the power and responsibility to
do much more.
Donald Trump joins the more than 7 million Americans and more than 34
million people around the world who have contracted this murdering virus.
With more than a million deaths so far, we do not care to see anyone else
sicken or die from COVID-19, no matter what their party affiliation, where
they live or any other irrelevant details. No more deaths.
Our campaign and the work of the Green Party has never been to isolate or
target one politician. Behind Donald Trump is an army of Republicans who
are cheering him on at every turn. Behind the Republicans is an army of
Democrats who agree with the same policies and systems that have led to the
catastrophic impact our country is facing. Environmental destruction [8],
economic injustice and pervasive racism are often more than acceptable
byproducts of the policies of both major parties.
Climate change increases the spread of many infectious diseases [9]. Air
pollution increases virus transmission. Many of the root causes of the
climate crisis such as deforestation and massive livestock farming increase
the risk of pandemics. NASA is studying [10] how environmental degradation
is helping to spread COVID-19.
But even our schoolchildren know this [11], so how can things ever be
different when our elected leadership have all of the knowledge and all of
the resources to act, but still keep failing us?
It is only through systemic change that we will turn the tide on the
pandemic, its economic fallout [12] that is unsurprisingly hurting poor,
black, Latinx, Asian and indigenous people [13] disproportionately, and the
healthcare systems rendered woefully inadequate [14] to care for people who
are sickened.
It's a vicious cycle: (1) the pandemic, if not caused by Democrat and
Republican-led assaults to our ecosystem, was certainly exacerbated by a
government infrastructure built by two parties who are more beholden to
corporate donors and Big Industry than to the welfare of the American
people. (2) The economic fallout from the pandemic devastates huge layers
of workers and their families who were already struggling to survive. (3)
Unequal access to housing, medical care, good jobs and social safety nets
because of racist systems pushes communities of color even further into
despair and makes them more susceptible to COVID-19.
Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos [15], supporter of both major parties but mostly a
Democrat donor [16], made more than a million dollars in the time it took
you to read this message [17], while thousands and thousands of his
vulnerable workers are getting sick [18] with COVID.
Our system is unquestionably broken and we cannot spend one more second
scrambling to patch it back up so it limps on to hurt more of us. No more
pretending that we don't need a government that is eco-socialist and truly
democratic, or that it isn't possible to create something better, where
neither presidents nor meatpackers [19] are hurt by a preventable virus
[20], where contact tracing and uniform distancing measures are in place
and all Americans have accessibility to tests as they do in most other
countries.
We deserve better. Our families deserve better. Our communities and the
world need better.
_THE WAY TO MAKE THAT DEMAND FOR WHAT WE NEED AND DESERVE IS VIA A VOTE FOR
HAWKINS/WALKER 2020._
In solidarity,
TEAM HOWIE
P.S.: We're phone and text banking right now, with a goal of connecting
with 7 million voters in the next two weeks. CAN YOU MAKE A DONATION TODAY
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