Dr. Paul Farmer: Centuries of Inequality in the U.S. Laid Groundwork for Pandemic Devastation

[@amourishcuisine]

Wealthiest country? I think not. It's a country of the wealthiest few. The rest are barely getting by...

[@daysjours]

It is the wealthiest -- but everything is concentrated in a few hands, impoverishing everyone else. BIden is gonna make sure it stays that way too,

[@jerryrichardson2799]

@@daysjours Trump was awful on that front, are you a Trump tool?

[@daysjours]

@@jerryrichardson2799 Why if I criticize Biden would I be for Trump? Are you that binary and thick?

[@ongoinglife]

@@jerryrichardson2799 Sorry, but... Very stupid PARTISAN TRIBALISTs (or identity politician) like YOU are PART of the PROBLEM !

[@ongoinglife]

@@jerryrichardson2799 Independents, Progressives and TRUE leftists are NOT fans of BOTH of trump and biden at all. Trump has awful characteristics and he's a neo fascist. BUT BOTH of them are the same old corrupt PLUTOCRATS, Corporatists, Neoliberals(neoliberalism) and warmongers. Please do your own independent research on Joe biden. Have you ever checked biden's cabinet members ?

[@jerryjones7293]

Spending would be better spent on public health infrastructure rather than the military industrial complex.

[@raia9]

How is it possible? an appalling lack of leadership and moral responability by those in power and an obession with too many of Americans with the idea of their rights and frreedoms rather than a sense of social responsinbility. That would be my answer.

[@ngonea]

Don't act like there is no history for concern ,ask indigenous people.

[@mindseyeproductions8798]

Thank you for all your hard work; always top quality production and excellent reporting. Amy always hard at work; I have not noticed any holiday or time off for Amy is many years... such profound dedication to report.

[@tuttt99]

Amy Goodman is a national treasure

[@007nadineL]

Watch Jimmy dore and yr opinion may change soon .

[@mindseyeproductions8798]

@@007nadineL Jimmy dore is a bore. Yes listened many times, He was much better prior to QAnn0 n Ai B.S.

[@Arcy0429]

Time for Americans to be assertive and reign in the cabals causing their sufferings!

[@Nomatternow]

People have power... they’ve been tricked into forgetting this with red herrings tossed out by the corporate fascist state.

[@beantianja]

Greetings, Thank you Dr. Farmer for telling us what has been spoken of on the continent for years. Thank you again.

[@creativegaze]

Why does America think it's the "wealthiest country in the world?" It's not in the top 10 guys. Get over yourselves. It's a pretty simple fact to find.

[@ngonea]

repeat lies often enough and long enough people will start to believe

[@eottoe2001]

I hate the term "income inequality" when we need to be talking about poverty, wealth consolidation, hunger or no hope.

[@learning2800]

A totally brilliant piece of report on the deadly virus, especially from an American source. Thanks

[@Arcy0429]

HUMILITY and DECENCY in U.S. government and corporate culture is key! Bring them back!

[@susanmercurio1060]

They were never truly there. Read "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn

[@26Toshiro]

Sublime interview. Thank you, Amy.

[@ponyboy7346]

Spot on!!! Dr. Paul Farmer years of inequality has laid the ground work for you name it

[@MrMiamiswaggz305]

RIP, what a wonderful human being. Dr. Farmer you will not be forgotten

[@denisekelley5842]

We should be thinking of providing adequate housing, food and the things people need to slow the spread including taking care if the homeless.

[@brianfordham2515]

The homeless are no The homeless are not spreading the virus dumb ass.

[@rogbrogb5341]

And public bathrooms like Europe has!

[@tigerlily9051]

Today I see Pence wearing a mask in his meeting with CDC, why so late? Sorry Mr Trump, this was the easy part. It shouldn’t have ended this way for YOUR administration, or for our country. Choices have consequences.

[@FlorinGN]

I've met some of the kindest and nicest people in USA. My warm wishes to them.

[@kadic6305]

It must have been me, l am not rich, and that's why you felt that way....

[@FlorinGN]

@@kadic6305 Could be 😁😁

[@davealy8347]

One of the best , honest news by Amy!!!

[@carolplan171]

Exactly, common decency. This is what is wrong in this country. I just dare to advise the invitees to the x'mas parties planned, "just don't go".

[@thingy2780]

do you understand that democracy Now is pure misinformation... Most of what you hear here is an outright lie

[@thingy2780]

@Bill S. the most obvious example is the simple fact that they refer to Biden as President elect Biden - Biden has not yet achieved that title. It is simply a lie.. there are many of these. These Dem now programs are notorious for whipsaws- that is one of the most dishonest things a media outlet can do.

[@thingy2780]

@Bill S. He hs not received that position yet- he may- but he has not yet.

[@tuckerbugeater]

@@thingy2780 Trump helped them out. He's on their side.

[@jamesnadell7144]

For anyone who is uncertain about what a real human man is, take a look at Paul Farmer. Brilliant, compassionate, humble, putting others first. He is everything that Agent Orange#45 is not.

[@dianeowen2971]

I admire Dr. Farmer. As a Counsellor in crisis management and abuse, he provided wisdom and inspiration to my work.

[@BigMikeGuitar]

The only thing that solves a pandemic is scientific socialism; where science is the language of both Western medicine and the natural environment, and where socialism represents the systems-based policies that design social coordination with the egalitarian universal requirements of both science and environmentalism. Systems-based solutions reduce to achieving global hegemonic solidarity among the working class to represent a cohesive democratic system, which can all move in the same direction at the same time, in coordination with the requirements of science and environmentalism.

[@ralphmckinney2719]

Trump needs to go ASAP

[@VIsTheMusic]

Thank you !!!

[@noahnelson6385]

They always have the best guests on here. And Amy is amazing

[@watershedbarbie9685]

This is ridiculous. Why do we have to wait? I have been masking for over eight months. Why don't people who aren't doing it start now? Why wait for Trump to get out?

[@marcgionberthoud9394]

"egalitarian countries like the US...." What did you smoke before this interview????

[@ivandafoe5451]

I'm sure he meant supposedly or constitutionally, because it couldn't have been meant as in reality, judging by the context of his presentation here.

[@susanmercurio1060]

Yeah, I was shocked by that too

[@diannaskare7829]

IT IS CRIMINAL TO CHARGE ANYTHING FOR A VACCINE TO A PANDEMIC/ EPIDEMIC

[@ALL_CAPS__]

For profit health care should be banned around the world. Arguably, R&D should be a government venture. At the very least, strict government oversight and compensation. Single payer system.

[@ryanedgemon8050]

Yeah but a lot of research IS government funded (by taxpayers) and then the corporations put a patent on it and sell it back to us. 🇺🇸 The corona vaccine is the same way... The people always pay twice

[@ALL_CAPS__]

@@ryanedgemon8050 💯. It's politicians that make the deals and the people are not in tune enough to hold them accountable. They complicate things for a reason. Hopefully that'll change.

[@susanmercurio1060]

Where did Dr Farmer find the time to write a book, with all the rest of the things he does? On the plane between appointments?

[@thosethatcan]

GUESS CHOMSKY NAILED IT. Drumph n co. Went "Viva death... Mode.. Always were IMHO.

[@larryross1819]

Democrat Hunter Biden has been investigated by the Feds for nearly a year, and that includes tax evasion allegations. Honest Hunter Biden did not report “approximately $400,000” in income he collected from his position on the board of Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings when he joined in 2014, according to an attorney for his firm who noted that his tax returns needed to be amended. The memo dated Jan. 16, 2017, one of multiple new emails, detailed democrat Joe Biden’s son's income for the years 2013 through 2015 for tax purposes. “I learned yesterday for the first time that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware advised my legal counsel, also yesterday, that they are investigating my tax affairs,” democrat Hunter Biden said in a statement last week. “I take this matter very seriously but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors.” A well-placed government source said that democrat Hunter Biden has been a target of the grand jury investigation. According to the source, a "target" means that there is a "high probability that person committed a crime".

[@jblakeinc]

Fevers, Feuds , and Diamonds is the sequel to Guns, Germs, and Steel. Well, an addendum anyway.

[@juanmedrano2616]

Not really. Diamonds are not that important.

[@susanmercurio1060]

@@juanmedrano2616 : The point is that slave labor is digging up diamonds in Sierra Leone. As you are reading this. Today.

[@juanmedrano2616]

@@susanmercurio1060 that sounds horrible and I do not want to diminish that injustice, but that injustice is not sustaining an empire like guns, germs and steel did.

[@homerco213]

I remember Paul Farmer from my studies of Haiti. Why isn't he on Biden's team?

[@susanmercurio1060]

Have you looked at the backgrounds of the people who ARE on Biden's team? Corporate hacks & military/industrial reps.

[@homerco213]

@@susanmercurio1060 Good point.

[@lizkeith1356]

metabolic health is key to avoid illness, not vaccines.

[@lizkeith1356]

@earth ocean yupper, we have a long way to go.

[@susanmercurio1060]

Yes, on an everyday level. I practice that myself. But they're not calling coronavirus a "novel virus" for a joke. It is over and above the level of an ordinary infection. Metabolic health didn't protect a lot of people, including the President of the United States, from getting polio.

[@lizkeith1356]

@@susanmercurio1060 he didn't have Polio. he had Guillain Barre syndrome. learn the vaccine history...

[@jerrysamuels8716]

In some situations, like now, you don't ask people anything. You tell them what to do. I'm not saying I know what page we should be on, but everybody should be on the same page.

[@fourdotsYT]

Amy: "Over 28-hundred people have died.." ..Nope! That's just 2800+. Off by 2x orders of magnitude. It's 280 000+ i.e. "Over two hundred and eighty THOUSAND people have died..". I mean, technically she's correct, but I don't think that's what she meant.

[@lucymarykempe3637]

oh dear, corporations are people, what a bad decision made by supreme court.

[@ivandafoe5451]

Very bad psychopathic people who think they are invulnerable to Covid-19.

[@diegogmx2000]

please make a part 2

[@davidharrington5287]

You really should have let the Dr. speak without pics of people getting shots. It is horribly distracting from the information the Dr. is trying to provide.

[@theraven5935]

Wealthiest country? They call that the american dream ,right?

[@v1v2x3]

I'm in, let's get some Dr. Farmer money.

[@kjmax1068]

100 days of masks, handwashing often, and social distancing. Works better

[@rosesprog1722]

Holding insanely expensive elections in the middle of a pandemic?

[@miriamschiro1773]

Yea it’s crazy but life still goes on regardless. Just like they still held Black Friday sales in stores 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@rosesprog1722]

@@miriamschiro1773 I think it would have been so easy to report the elections for like 6 months plus they would have done a better job, it just shows that they care more abourt themselves than for the people but hey, I'm a dreamer, don't listen to me. :-)

[@lauraanne4089]

I would like to criticize all countries not feeding their populous organic and sending out organic vitamins at a time like this! What the heck!

[@edwardmiessner6502]

I wish Democracy Now was on FOX News with Amy Goodman sharing the anchor desk with Tucker Carlson. She'll make him look like an idiot!

[@smitty1105]

You don't need Any Goodman to make Tucker Carlson look and sound like an elephants blowhole He does a good enough job of rhat by himself.

[@erincaitlin1655]

They wouldn't have Amy on Fox as they know that telling the truth would scare most of their listeners who cannot handle the truth or reality, hence not good for their coffers.

[@rll9911]

How has this happened? That is a naive question!

[@vhs10907]

Paul Farmer is a person to listen to.

[@indiegogogirl2662]

We need more than masks..we need universal healthcare. What a corporate tool.

[@susanmercurio1060]

PAUL FARMER? - a "corporate tool"? Read "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder to find out more about the "corporate tool," Paul Farmer

[@vc62]

The doublethink of caring about the global south while hoping Biden won't continue his imperialist policies.

[@KaikalaMoon]

Why was US at UN asking for money from countries that didn't exp. expected outbreak?

[@Orion-fp4km]

Thank Polosi and McConnell For there Greed!

[@philoz08]

Pretty sure he got inspired for the title of his book from Jared Diamond's "Guns, Steel & Germs".

[@rubies2905]

Where is the beginning?

[@tellleoonce]

Click on the Democracy Now! logo (and the SUBSCRIBE button while you're at it)

[@walterarchibald1318]

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Diamond

[@philoz08]

I knew someone had picked on that already. Ahaha

[@jreds79]

I think the country which the vaccine materials are sourced from should be the first to get the vaccine.

[@miriamschiro1773]

Well what about gloves. Many ppl do not wear their mask in their car they cough and sneeze on their hands then touch stuff that other people touch like doors, elevator buttons, gas pumps, atm, paying card machines by the cashier then touch their face to adjust their mask or take it off to drink and or eat. I suggest they have a sanitation cloth stationed next to every gas pump and outside and inside of every door outside and inside by every elevator escalator and bathrooms and by every card paying machine at the cashier AND by every atm

[@petestanton1945]

blu blu blu blu blu

[@collinbording4606]

Wealthy... Your society is racing to the bottom. Money is not buying you out of this mess.

[@presterjohn1697]

Democracy Now thinks we're stupid.

[@indrekviller]

Amy you make a really good point. I understand that society should be outraged for having 5% of the Worlds population while having 25% of the cases of medical health issue is important but shouldn't the same ration in almost anything make is news worthy... For example we also have 25% of the Worlds PRISON population. Yet public outrage or at least gaining an understanding WHY that's the case (i.e. how many are there for petty crimes or crimes general public no longer considers crimes - marijuana possession) does not get ANY air time...

[@annagiesking5828]

the good thing about the hundred days of masks is that it only takes about a month to form a habit.

[@user-vn8mt2wc1b]

What happened to your country, dear Americans?

[@dreamlife2351]

Ask your fearless leader, treasonous trump. Damm troll

[@juanmedrano2616]

I understand that the recommendations are not political in nature, but regardless of that they have become political. People like paul need to accept that.

[@tyronex9518]

How about educating the American people about the ingredients of the vaccine so people can do their own research and make informed decisions. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

[@theother1406]

man!!...I don't want to see needles going into arms over and over!....Great piece though!

[@williamjacobsen2291]

Do we know the. long term expectations of the efficacy of the vaccine?

[@dawnpalmby5100]

Nope. We need more info for sure. mRna technology is so new we dont know the long term ramifications of snipping out n replacing our DNA, its cRisper technology if u wanna learn more about it, the scientists who discovered it won a Nobel prize... Im not anti vaccine, im pro safe, fully tested, peer reviewed vaccine.

[@jeffsartadventure3634]

Nah,but fuck it right? Lotsa moolah to be made..

[@badger1296]

I wish they would have put this much effort for the first 20 years after AIDS.

[@meckersley2123]

Could you please say a total number of deaths from Covid and the daily number of deaths” instead of putting the two together

[@brucegibbins3792]

So whats going on in The Global South that requires special attention? Any idea's?

[@AudioPervert1]

After all the blahblahbla is done, centuries of inequality will remain centuries to recover .. or most likely america will become like Brazil, Columbia, Mexico and all the devastated nations of the south. This Farmer dude is not going to say that... The future of america is cancelled, much like the rest of the world. PS _ Albert Camus Plague is a great great book. Having re-read it last year, this year was a wee bit easier to deal with. Humanity is a ship of fools. Adios!

[@beckymesser4896]

Because our President is a fool. He isn’t concerned one bit about our people and country. We need to send trump for a Psych evaluation and let Biden take office now and get to work. Dame our lives depend on it.

[@rogbrogb5341]

Jimmy Dore reported on a street demo in Detroit where they chanted: "Fuck Donald Trump! Fuck Biden too! Neither corporate party gives a Fuck about you!

[@blakesbasement]

its hard to watch the b roll

[@danmarquez3971]

Question for the mRNA vaccine manufacturers: will the mRNA cause CTL's (CD8+) white blood cells to attack the cells (via MHC-1) embedded with the mRNA? (That's my biggest worry).

[@Freckles303]

“...without significant adverse effects.” Lies! Terrible flaws in the trials. Nowhere near the time to evaluate long-term effects. And unanswered questions about infertility effects regarding a protein required for placental development.

[@petestanton1945]

"we" , repeat

[@omigunblade]

Why is a vaccine going to come...."online"...?

[@lucymarykempe3637]

Pompeo for president, oh god not another non democratic thinker. He would be worse that dummy don, why? you ask. Pompeo is smart. I think dummy don said"don't talk to me about smart. It is in the 3rd debate. No one will mistake dummy don as being smart.

[@mcmars273]

Dr. Farmer, I am in awe of your commitment to saving lives around the world. However, with all due respect, sir, you lost me when you brought up HIV. You just a made statement that you can get a good HIV treatment for about $60 a month? In a third-world country where people are making a dollar a day that's a lot of money. Also, right here at home, where my insurance pays $2,7000 a month for my HIV treatment, your numbers don't add up.

[@heatherrobinson6756]

Common decency well that takes out our Heath care community’s in our Racist health care system

[@twallace2038]

Listen carefully.... If you heard what I heard do not mention it just share it with friends.

[@ellenmass5934]

. Farmer was key in American Haitian health plans which were highly questionable. Controversial figure in developing countries. Maybe good sign he was willing to be on Democracy Now program. He represents the highest of corporate medical establishment, with outreach into Agency of International development countries, laying the groundwork for US foreign policy. Very nice guy, nevertheless, who is a good emissary for quietly peddling US influence. Very cautious here, I hope. Record needs questioning. So far in listening I hear him peddling the benefits of using western offerings. Yes, use our offerings, but in conjunction with other countries with no influence strings attached and willingness to work with other power blocks in the region to help local populations. Just a thought. Don't feel comfortable here.

[@jasonbean591]

What keeps pinging?

[@theother1406]

Imagine if this hit in the middle of Trumpdom like, 2018..??

[@roskogee4843]

Dr. Paul Farmer seems to be trying to protect a line of though without Naming....! Hugo Chaves for example...?

[@stevecole2616]

This a world dilemma. Stop lying!!

[@692ALBANNACH]

Thought they were already wearing mask?

[@lauraanne4089]

MRNA?! How alive are these vaccines 👀😲

[@susanmercurio1060]

M-RNA is not an "alive" thing. It is a string of molecules that replicate ("R") DNA. That's why it's better than being shot with a form of the virus itself: it fakes the appearance of the virus to your immune system so that it, the immune system, will make antibodies to what it thinks is the virus. For crying out loud, look things that you don't understand up! Do your research! "M-RNA" stands for "Messenger-Replicated Neucleotides.

[@antiwar8859]

The Greater Plan is working. Thin the multitude out.

And an epically do nothing government.

[@ricketdykes3329]

Does that misallocations of funds include racial discrimination in housing,jobs,education.medical and business loans and development to name a few towards the ADOS=AMERICAN DESCENDENT OF SLAVERY?Some say the RNA synthetic vaccines carries the message to the DNA which the DNA will be altered and the human will be something else.

[@topherdalrymple6535]

Eat the rich,

[@robbie3333]

Blah blah blah bs..

[@skyfish5517]

history give you the answer

[@heatherrobinson6756]

Fascism

[@007nadineL]

*FOLLOW JIMMY DORE ON KZbin. EFF TEDROS!* . .

[@TD-cu3tg]

All BS!

[@ese_cholito]

Stop pretending to care about inequality when you wanted private businesses to close down... Leaving millions of families stuck at home.

[@ALL_CAPS__]

We wanted millions of people to stay home and be paid at the same time. Just like every other civilized country is just about doing. The genius' in power thought it would be better to put people on unemployment instead of guaranteeing their paycheck. American exceptionalism.

[@ese_cholito]

@@ALL_CAPS__ lmaoooooooo hyperinflation is a concept that leftists don't know about.

[@jensonee]

quality education, preschool through post grad, is the only thing that will end this anti logic, anti fact, phantasy world our right wing brothers and sisters live in. the Finland model for education is a must see but there are other models where a country's people are well educated. not here though, teach to the test is still the rule.

[@farbensomalin1313]

The statuesque lentil disappointingly return because curve psychophysically use upon a rainy instruction. onerous, ambiguous religion

[@deborahmulloy3580]

To Ima Farmer, Pitiful,

[@LowescC]

We're all going to die, Amy...and Trump is never going to leave....Merry Christmas