Thursday April 2 2020

Science does not have an agenda other than the truth. Science is neither left nor right. Science it not religious. It is just cold hard facts and trying to make sense of them. When epidemiologists say to do something or so many people will die they do not have a political agenda. They are just telling the truth. When climate scientists say we should do something or we will ruin the environment they are just telling the truth. You can try to ignore it or listen to someone tell you it isn't so. But then you are just hiding from the truth.

Two things that would really be helping America right now are Andrew Yang's universal basic income and Bernie Sanders' Medicare for all.







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