Good point, which begs a huge question: why do we trust our medical "experts" if they still, after seven long months going on an eighth, still do not have one single thing that THEY can do to give us hope? We have all stopped pursuing our livelihoods, our dreams, our relationships, our schooling, our stress relieving past times. Our middle class businesses have been gravely harmed if not outright closed forever. Our loved ones die alone, no time to make amends or feel any love. But the experts still have not one single thing they can do. Yet we are letting these no nothing bozos dictate what we can and can not do, all over the world. Something is not right, and I believe we will not get any of our lives back until we take them back.
On another topic altogether, how have things gotten in Venezuela since the US has essentially declared war on your country? Is Maduro still the bad guy? I have to admit, I am impressed that he did not fall to the attempted coup (Guaido) earlier this year. Has your situation gotten even worse? The only news we get in the US is corona virus and politics, all teeming with obvious lies. No news of Venezuela at all.
I am really angry at the scientific community. I cannot believe that with the alleged rigor they rule their institutions and agencies, they can't agree on a single course of actions and neutralize any pseudo science that that is aggravating the problem.
About Venezuela, things are way worse, and maduro is the bad guy. He is the devil incarnate. He and all his croonies. Unfortunately for us the people who have acted as opposition so far are proving conspiracy theorists right. they seem to have more tights to the dictator than ever imagined.
As I have written elsewhere, I am fully aware of the USA historical screwups, but venezuela is one of those cases where it would have been mroe than justified and welcomed an intervention that could have put an end to a ruthless dictatorship that turned a state into a narco-state and has links with terrorist groups that sooner or later will seriously harm the USA from our land.
I have posted some street chronicles of the state of things. More poverty, more scarcity, more inflation, less health services, less protection of any kind for the average citizen. In the mean time all kinds of corruption scandals are being unconvered worldwide involving high ranking government officials and/or their figureheads. The amount of money those people have stolena nd the dirty business they have sponsored are unprecedented in political history. They must be toppled down. Unfortunatelly, the rest of the world seems to be rather ok with this and the USA has its own internal contradictions to deal with
Thank you for the elaboration. I'll go read some of your other posts on the matter.
It's hard to believe Venezuela could have gotten any worse. I'm so sorry to hear this.
Yes corruption at high levels world wide is a terrible problem, and probably has been since the earliest governments were ever formed. We can hope justice prevails, but if history is any indication, most of the bad guys will get off scot free.
Is there another election coming up in Venezuela that might get rid of Maduro? I don't like the idea of the US staging yet another coup in the world for you. That has never ever turned out well for the countries we do this in. You've got to fix it yourselves, that's the only way for the fix to hold. US sanctions can not be helping matters.
There are legislative elections due this year, but there are not guarantees that the elections will be fair.
I have said this many times. Venezuela is not a regular country/democracy where people can solve the problem by themselves, where you have check and balance among the different branches of government. Maduro and his gangsters control EVRYTHING, especially the military bodies. For years people have participated in all kinds of elections and protests. For years inocent people, especially young, have been killed in the streets, others are rotting in inhumane prisons and nothing happens: neither the whole population reacts in mass, or the military reacts and does the right thing, let alone the international community. Nothing changes. That's why more than 5 million venezuelans have left the country since 2003 (after it ws obvious that the government would turn totalitrian; 20,000 specialized workers were fired from the main oil company, PDVSA. They were substituted by more than 100,000 underqualified "workers" whose only duty was to make sure the company will be ideologially brainwashed. You check what's the state of that oil company now, in ruins).
We get this a lot and every time, after so much has happened, it is harder to respond to it
It sound easy and logical,but it cannot be done. People do not have weapons; the electoral body is controled by the government, the military is a the complete service of the government, all of the high rank miliraty are capos. We are not a regular democracy that can find its way back to normalcy in normaldemocratic processes.
The US is not a democracy either, especially not now with all the businesses owned by lower and middle classes unable to operate, schools closed, families unable to visit each other, churches unable to hold services, etc. Totalitarianism is everywhere. But half of us do have guns at at least, and I hear there are far more guns in the US than there are people. At times like these, I am a supporter of the second amendment big time. What happened to citizen guns in Venezuela?
So Venezuela has been difficult to live in since 2003? What happened then?
I'm hoping @dustsweeper comes along on this upvote!