Hey.
So, 2020 has been a bust. We all thought, "This is going to be our year!" Well guess what, it’s not. The world is falling apart, and no popular figure is doing anything about it. If they won't then god damnit, I will. I am sick of being told that more and more bad things are happening.
Right now, we are in the middle of a pandemic. Covid-19 (Coronavirus) has a current the death toll of 100,000+ and President Donald J. Trump is simply ignoring it. He chose to say that "We have it all under control..." when we obviously don't. It all started when the President started to spread misinformation about the Coronavirus. He said in an interview, that it will "miraculously" go away when the warm weather comes. He also claimed "the risk is very low" for a vast majority of Americans. So far, both of those claims have been false. He claimed that "intense light" will cure you of Covid-19. He claimed that taking/ingesting cleaning products will cure you as well. After all of the backlash he received, he said he was being sarcastic. He obviously wasn’t. Currently, the President is taking an Anti-Malaria drug (Hydroxychloroquine) that can be fatal if taken without the Malaria virus. He continues to ignore health care professionals when they say it doesn’t help against Covid-19.
George Floyd was murdered for a jailed offence. He tried to pay for food so he could feed his family with a counter-fit 20$ bill. He shouldn’t have been killed for that. Riots are happening all over the Unites States, and they are killing innocent people. The President is doing nothing about this, and is more focused on the "Fact Checking" on Twitter. Our world is being torn to shreds before our eyes, and the most known figure that represents the USA, is doing nothing.
Currently, at the time of writing this (1:00 am 5/30/20) the City of Buffalo has a curfew from 10:30 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. because the citizens of Buffalo are burning city property. In Minneapolis, Rochester, Buffalo, Atlanta, LA, and other cities, the citizens were holding peaceful protests until the Police decided to tear gas people, shoot them with rubber bullets, and pepper spray them. So, in turn, the angered people started to riot. I do believe that all of this is getting out of hand. I understand they are mad, but that doesn’t give the right to destroy City and Government property. In Minneapolis, 2 people were killed already. Police are macing children, taking hijabs off of women, and an officer kicked a pregnant woman which caused her to go into miscarriage. They are shooting rubber bullets into peaceful protesters and throwing tear gas into crowds. In LA, the Police staged a cop car at a peaceful protest, and lit it on fire. Police tazed and arrested an innocent black couple after having their tires slashed, and windows broken while they were just driving on the roads. A Police Officer in LA got caught asking a fellow officer to turn off his body cam. Another officer threw a woman down the stairs so hard, it caused her to seizure. ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) was deployed in LA. The officers in cities are taking away our rights. We currently don’t have the freedom of speech because if we say something, we will be injured, or even killed. In NJ, the Police are actually protesting with the citizens against all of the brutality that’s going on. This is all happening because of the death of George Floyd.
I believe as a 15 year old teenager, I shouldn’t feel the need to speak up about this topic because people are going to tell me that I don’t understand. I am fully aware of what’s going on in the world, and I completely understand everything that’s going on. I shouldn’t have to speak up. But I feel the need to because no one else is going to say something about it, and it needs to be said. Our President should have said something to stop this before it got out of hand.
All of my information came from CNN articles.
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