More on Cuba

John Manning: “Proper and needed DUI [roadblocks] are declared constitutional by the US and California supreme courts.”

By that reasoning, Manning likely supports “constitutionally” chipping away the Second Amendment to alleviate gun violence.

John Manning: “[Marsh] likes to comment on Cuban government reports of its healthcare system. Why he blindly believes is his business, but such announcements may have no more veracity than the early reports from China about how well they had controlled COVID outbreaks, which are now out of control.”

I’ve never commented on Cuban government reports.

Much of the information I convey concerning Cuba’s healthcare system is gleaned from the CIA’s World Factbook and the peer-reviewed American Journal of Public Health.

For example, the CIA’s World Factbook shows that Cuba surpasses the US regarding infant mortality, health expenditures, hospital bed density, physician density, life expectancy, etc.

And China’s current COVID-19 surge is due to China’s well-documented success against the virus during the early stage of the pandemic. Dr. Manning needs a basic understanding of epidemiology.

Manning: “The average Cuban state salary today is 5,000 pesos/ month (about $29), while over the past twelve months, 200,000 Cubans, about 2% of the population, have been stopped trying to enter the US.

Manning continues to ignore the war-by-othermeans known as the US embargo against Cuba because he knows it’s the primary reason for Cuba’s distress.

Manning: “Karl Marx was a despicable, racist human being...”

Not only have I repeatedly debunked that disinformation, but Manning’s use of presentism is nothing more than concern trolling.

And if John Manning is concerned with racists and racism, why have (none) of his hundreds of letters addressed police shootings of unarmed black people, mass incarceration, educational racism, environmental racism, (medical) racism, or any other issue negatively affecting people of color? Because he doesn’t care. Guy Marsh Lancaster