Fuck you, Trump Loyalists, You Put Baby Yoda in a Cage!
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Are there worries that Trump's Space Force will
break the international space treaty ?
Those policies are intended in part to comply with Article 9
of the Outer Space Treaty, which requires countries to avoid
“harmful contamination and also adverse changes in the environment
of the Earth resulting from the introduction of extraterrestrial matter.”
NASA developed policies to avoid contamination of potentially
habitable worlds by its spacecraft, and to avoid contaminating the
Earth’s environment with any materials those spacecraft return.
Missions like Mars 2020 and Europa Clipper, which will make
multiple flybys of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, require a reconsideration
of how NASA handles planetary protection policy development, the
committee concluded. It called for the development of a
“planetary protection strategic plan” that includes elements
such as how to secure expert advice from outside the agency,
forecast future missions that will have planetary protection issues
and identifying research and technology development priorities for
planetary protection.
The report also recommended a change in a 40-year-old policy,
presidential directive NSC-25, that governs how to approve
missions that could have “large-scale environmental effects.”
That is primarily used for the approval of missions with
nuclear power sources but can also govern missions that
plan to return samples or even astronauts from potentially
habitable worlds.
https://spacenews.com/report-recommends-nasa-revise-its-planetary-protection-policies/
PBS re- aired a bit of the Cassini mission to Saturn
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab
- made the decision to kill Cassini, in order to protect moons
that may have some form of life on them
(because of an international treaty with a rule to not contaminate
potentially-habitable worlds)
“Of course it’s really going to be hard to say goodbye
to this plucky, capable little spacecraft that has returned
all this great science,” said Cassini Project
break the international space treaty ?
Those policies are intended in part to comply with Article 9
of the Outer Space Treaty, which requires countries to avoid
“harmful contamination and also adverse changes in the environment
of the Earth resulting from the introduction of extraterrestrial matter.”
NASA developed policies to avoid contamination of potentially
habitable worlds by its spacecraft, and to avoid contaminating the
Earth’s environment with any materials those spacecraft return.
Missions like Mars 2020 and Europa Clipper, which will make
multiple flybys of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, require a reconsideration
of how NASA handles planetary protection policy development, the
committee concluded. It called for the development of a
“planetary protection strategic plan” that includes elements
such as how to secure expert advice from outside the agency,
forecast future missions that will have planetary protection issues
and identifying research and technology development priorities for
planetary protection.
The report also recommended a change in a 40-year-old policy,
presidential directive NSC-25, that governs how to approve
missions that could have “large-scale environmental effects.”
That is primarily used for the approval of missions with
nuclear power sources but can also govern missions that
plan to return samples or even astronauts from potentially
habitable worlds.
https://spacenews.com/report-recommends-nasa-revise-its-planetary-protection-policies/
PBS re- aired a bit of the Cassini mission to Saturn
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab
- made the decision to kill Cassini, in order to protect moons
that may have some form of life on them
(because of an international treaty with a rule to not contaminate
potentially-habitable worlds)
“Of course it’s really going to be hard to say goodbye
to this plucky, capable little spacecraft that has returned
all this great science,” said Cassini Project
Supreme Court Poised to Overturn 38 State Constitutional
Amendments on Church-State Separation
Jan. 22, 2020
Religious conservatives asked the Supreme Court
Wednesday to overturn 38 state constitutional amendments
and require taxpayers to fund religious schools.
You read that right.
The case, Espinoza v. Montana Dept. of Revenue isn’t
about whether a state may fund religious schools through
a school choice, voucher, or similar program. It’s about
whether it must.
And the conservatives might just win.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/supre...utional-amendments-on-church-state-separation
The Supreme Court Will Decide If Taxpayer Money
Should Benefit Religious Schools
January 22, 2020
This morning, the Supreme Court will hear a case called
Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue that could l
ead to public money going to private religious schools.
The wall of separation between church and state has
never looked so weak.
For anyone who may not be aware of what the case is
about or why this matters, I hope this background
material is useful.
In 2015, the Montana legislature passed a bill giving a $150
income tax credit to residents who funded private school
scholarships. If you gave the schools some money, the state
would, in essence, reward you for it.
It sounded fine… until you realized most of those private schools
were religious. So the government was really just rewarding people
for giving money to a religious school even if the law was always
meant to be secular.
The money itself wasn’t a huge deal. It was the principle
that mattered. Article X, Section 6 of Montana’s constitution
explicitly forbids public money funding religious schools…
yet this new law established a link between public money
and religious schools.
The argument against this line of thinking was that a tax credit
wasn’t really “public funds,” and the donations were ultimately
helping students, not the religious schools.
Both defenses were weak. The government was effectively,
albeit indirectly, subsidizing tuition at religious schools.
Even if the scholarships were for students, the schools received
a benefit from being able to offer those scholarships since
they enticed more people to possibly go there.
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com...payer-money-should-benefit-religious-schools/
Amendments on Church-State Separation
Jan. 22, 2020
Religious conservatives asked the Supreme Court
Wednesday to overturn 38 state constitutional amendments
and require taxpayers to fund religious schools.
You read that right.
The case, Espinoza v. Montana Dept. of Revenue isn’t
about whether a state may fund religious schools through
a school choice, voucher, or similar program. It’s about
whether it must.
And the conservatives might just win.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/supre...utional-amendments-on-church-state-separation
The Supreme Court Will Decide If Taxpayer Money
Should Benefit Religious Schools
January 22, 2020
This morning, the Supreme Court will hear a case called
Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue that could l
ead to public money going to private religious schools.
The wall of separation between church and state has
never looked so weak.
For anyone who may not be aware of what the case is
about or why this matters, I hope this background
material is useful.
In 2015, the Montana legislature passed a bill giving a $150
income tax credit to residents who funded private school
scholarships. If you gave the schools some money, the state
would, in essence, reward you for it.
It sounded fine… until you realized most of those private schools
were religious. So the government was really just rewarding people
for giving money to a religious school even if the law was always
meant to be secular.
The money itself wasn’t a huge deal. It was the principle
that mattered. Article X, Section 6 of Montana’s constitution
explicitly forbids public money funding religious schools…
yet this new law established a link between public money
and religious schools.
The argument against this line of thinking was that a tax credit
wasn’t really “public funds,” and the donations were ultimately
helping students, not the religious schools.
Both defenses were weak. The government was effectively,
albeit indirectly, subsidizing tuition at religious schools.
Even if the scholarships were for students, the schools received
a benefit from being able to offer those scholarships since
they enticed more people to possibly go there.
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com...payer-money-should-benefit-religious-schools/
George Takei ✓
Twitter › GeorgeTakei
If you want to understand what privilege looks like in the age of coronavirus,
two black customers reported being followed around by a cop and kicked out
of a WalMart for wearing masks.
(link)
Atlanta Black Star
2 hours ago
Atlanta Black Star
Twitter › ATLBlackStar
China’s New Immigration Policy Proposal Sparks Racial Backlash Against Blacks
47 minutes ago
Twitter › GeorgeTakei
If you want to understand what privilege looks like in the age of coronavirus,
two black customers reported being followed around by a cop and kicked out
of a WalMart for wearing masks.
(link)
Atlanta Black Star
2 hours ago
Atlanta Black Star
Twitter › ATLBlackStar
China’s New Immigration Policy Proposal Sparks Racial Backlash Against Blacks
47 minutes ago
Ziggins
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That is part of how they are flipping black voters, who are generally conservative, religious, and very tired of being screwed by public schools.
Trump Silenced Dr. Fauci
Dr. Fauci Insists on telling the public that Trump's "miracle drug" has not been tested or proven to be effective-
:...there's no real evidence that the drug works, much less that it's the "game-changer"
that Trump desperately wants it to be."
But Fauci wasn't able to answer the question, because Trump stopped him.
"You don't have to ask the question," the president said, stepping in front
of the podium, waving his hand in the air and using his girth as a physical
barricade between Fauci and the reporter.
During this exchange, there was a hint of one reason Trump is championing
this drug as a of miracle cure, despite the lack of evidence:
He's starting to workshop the excuses he will use and the scapegoats he will sacrifice
in order to escape the blame — which he richly deserves — for how badly this crisis
spun out of control. And the person most in danger of becoming the primary scapegoat
for Trump and his minions is Fauci himself.
"If it does work, it would be a shame we did not do it early," Trump said
about hydroxychloroquine during the press conference Sunday.
At that point, it became clear to me what Trump hopes to get out of this endless
hype about an unproven and dangerous drug: A QAnon-style conspiracy theory
he can roll out, after the worst of the crisis has passed, about his heroic efforts
to save everyone with a miracle drug, which were thwarted by shady "deep state"
forces who denied the public this lifesaving drug as part of a plot to make him look bad.
Tucker Carlson of (FUX TV) has been leading the pack in the effort to cast Fauci
as the villain in the right-wing conspiracy theories...
Fauci will be held up as the straw-man villain in this conspiracy because he
supported social distancing and was skeptical of Dr. Trump's miracle drug.
https://www.salon.com/2020/04/06/ar...etting-up-dr-fauci-as-the-pandemic-scapegoat/
"Dr. Fauci is prescribing “national suicide,” Carlson claimed on his show last week,
declaring that the economic collapse caused by social distancing protocols is
“a far bigger disaster than the virus itself, by any measure” and declaring that
our “response to coronavirus could turn this into a far poorer nation.”
https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/ar...setting-up-dr-fauci-as-their-elite-scapegoat/
Doctors and nurses in America have been cautioned by the owners of hospitals
to not tell the truth about how bad everything really is. They can lose their jobs
if they speak out-
“Associates are not authorized to interact with reporters or speak on behalf
of the institution in any capacity, without pre-approval.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...octors-they-ll-be-fired-if-they-talk-to-press
Save the Truth!
One of the worst examples, as so often in recent years, comes out of Hungary, where the rubber stamp parliament has passed a set of “emergency measures” – without actually facing an emergency (as of 31 March, Hungary has officially had only 492 cases, including 16 deaths) – to give the far-right prime minister Viktor Orbán “dictatorial powers”. As Orbán rules by decree, anything that he deems “fake news” will be punishable to up to five years in prison – a death sentence for independent media, in so far as it still exists in Hungary.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/06/coronavirus-free-speech-hungary-fake-news
Dr. Fauci Insists on telling the public that Trump's "miracle drug" has not been tested or proven to be effective-
:...there's no real evidence that the drug works, much less that it's the "game-changer"
that Trump desperately wants it to be."
But Fauci wasn't able to answer the question, because Trump stopped him.
"You don't have to ask the question," the president said, stepping in front
of the podium, waving his hand in the air and using his girth as a physical
barricade between Fauci and the reporter.
During this exchange, there was a hint of one reason Trump is championing
this drug as a of miracle cure, despite the lack of evidence:
He's starting to workshop the excuses he will use and the scapegoats he will sacrifice
in order to escape the blame — which he richly deserves — for how badly this crisis
spun out of control. And the person most in danger of becoming the primary scapegoat
for Trump and his minions is Fauci himself.
"If it does work, it would be a shame we did not do it early," Trump said
about hydroxychloroquine during the press conference Sunday.
At that point, it became clear to me what Trump hopes to get out of this endless
hype about an unproven and dangerous drug: A QAnon-style conspiracy theory
he can roll out, after the worst of the crisis has passed, about his heroic efforts
to save everyone with a miracle drug, which were thwarted by shady "deep state"
forces who denied the public this lifesaving drug as part of a plot to make him look bad.
Tucker Carlson of (FUX TV) has been leading the pack in the effort to cast Fauci
as the villain in the right-wing conspiracy theories...
Fauci will be held up as the straw-man villain in this conspiracy because he
supported social distancing and was skeptical of Dr. Trump's miracle drug.
https://www.salon.com/2020/04/06/ar...etting-up-dr-fauci-as-the-pandemic-scapegoat/
"Dr. Fauci is prescribing “national suicide,” Carlson claimed on his show last week,
declaring that the economic collapse caused by social distancing protocols is
“a far bigger disaster than the virus itself, by any measure” and declaring that
our “response to coronavirus could turn this into a far poorer nation.”
https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/ar...setting-up-dr-fauci-as-their-elite-scapegoat/
Doctors and nurses in America have been cautioned by the owners of hospitals
to not tell the truth about how bad everything really is. They can lose their jobs
if they speak out-
“Associates are not authorized to interact with reporters or speak on behalf
of the institution in any capacity, without pre-approval.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...octors-they-ll-be-fired-if-they-talk-to-press
Save the Truth!
One of the worst examples, as so often in recent years, comes out of Hungary, where the rubber stamp parliament has passed a set of “emergency measures” – without actually facing an emergency (as of 31 March, Hungary has officially had only 492 cases, including 16 deaths) – to give the far-right prime minister Viktor Orbán “dictatorial powers”. As Orbán rules by decree, anything that he deems “fake news” will be punishable to up to five years in prison – a death sentence for independent media, in so far as it still exists in Hungary.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/06/coronavirus-free-speech-hungary-fake-news
George Takei ✓
Twitter › GeorgeTakei
Covid-19 comparison: U.S. deaths 12,400 South Korea deaths: 192
Both had first positive case Jan 21. They had higher population density
and a supercluster of cases. But they got lots of testing and tracking
going right away. Trump called it a hoax. This is the result.
4 hours ago
Twitter › GeorgeTakei
Covid-19 comparison: U.S. deaths 12,400 South Korea deaths: 192
Both had first positive case Jan 21. They had higher population density
and a supercluster of cases. But they got lots of testing and tracking
going right away. Trump called it a hoax. This is the result.
4 hours ago
Ghouls
"Trump’s Sick Reality Show Is Built on Coronavirus Corpses"
- Margaret Carlson
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-sick-reality-show-is-built-on-coronavirus-corpses
"Trump’s Sick Reality Show Is Built on Coronavirus Corpses"
- Margaret Carlson
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-sick-reality-show-is-built-on-coronavirus-corpses
When will the sacrifices that Trump demands from people, become worth it ?
(I supsect that this demand for sacrifice, was just another set of meaningless gibberish.)
Then, again, many people have experienced painful loss at the hands of Trump
and his minions.
/end bodysong comment
Trump's narcissism has taken a new twist.
And now he has American blood on his hands
- Jonathan Freedland
27 Mar 2020
It’s become a commonplace to note Trump’s lack of basic human empathy,
his tendency to be unmoved by others’ loss. But that gap in his mindset
matters now far beyond an inability to offer consolation to the bereaved:
it is warping his approach to a lethal disease.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/27/trump-narcissism-american-blood-coronavirus
Is the ultimate aim of Trump loyalists, the ambition to rid America of democracy ?
“WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF,”
The cure for getting rid of votes that go to Democrats, was sending voters to
the brick and mortar polling place. That forced people to gather together during
the coronavirus lockdown. Today, people were told to keep their distance because
there is such a thing as a draft.
Tour de France: How to cycle as fast as a pro
- Lucy Proctor
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-44897751
“WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF,”
The extremist Christian Evangelists and many other religious groups rejoice
that Planne Parenthood was rejected, defeated, and exiled. Women now die
from cancer, injuries in pregnancy, lack of reproduction organ care, in numbers
not seen since 1920. As if, all the advances in medical science did not exist.
“WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF,”
Babies died in large numbers, like flies- in Trump's prison camps for children.
Their mothers had no one to help them give birth, and nothing was provided for
the newborn. So much, for baby Jesus in a prison, because the enfant was not
born with blonde hair and pale skin- The real Jesus of Christian legend did not
have blonde hair and pale skin, but that does not matter to White Supremacists.
Immigrants in Trump's prison camps are likely to die of coronavirus- lack of clean
water, soap, filthy conditions, overcrowding, no medical care, cruel and sadistic staff,
insure that the virus will spread faster than Trump's goons can throw people out
of the United States.
(I supsect that this demand for sacrifice, was just another set of meaningless gibberish.)
Then, again, many people have experienced painful loss at the hands of Trump
and his minions.
/end bodysong comment
Trump's narcissism has taken a new twist.
And now he has American blood on his hands
- Jonathan Freedland
27 Mar 2020
It’s become a commonplace to note Trump’s lack of basic human empathy,
his tendency to be unmoved by others’ loss. But that gap in his mindset
matters now far beyond an inability to offer consolation to the bereaved:
it is warping his approach to a lethal disease.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/27/trump-narcissism-american-blood-coronavirus
Is the ultimate aim of Trump loyalists, the ambition to rid America of democracy ?
“WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF,”
The cure for getting rid of votes that go to Democrats, was sending voters to
the brick and mortar polling place. That forced people to gather together during
the coronavirus lockdown. Today, people were told to keep their distance because
there is such a thing as a draft.
Tour de France: How to cycle as fast as a pro
- Lucy Proctor
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-44897751
“WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF,”
The extremist Christian Evangelists and many other religious groups rejoice
that Planne Parenthood was rejected, defeated, and exiled. Women now die
from cancer, injuries in pregnancy, lack of reproduction organ care, in numbers
not seen since 1920. As if, all the advances in medical science did not exist.
“WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF,”
Babies died in large numbers, like flies- in Trump's prison camps for children.
Their mothers had no one to help them give birth, and nothing was provided for
the newborn. So much, for baby Jesus in a prison, because the enfant was not
born with blonde hair and pale skin- The real Jesus of Christian legend did not
have blonde hair and pale skin, but that does not matter to White Supremacists.
Immigrants in Trump's prison camps are likely to die of coronavirus- lack of clean
water, soap, filthy conditions, overcrowding, no medical care, cruel and sadistic staff,
insure that the virus will spread faster than Trump's goons can throw people out
of the United States.
LincolnDuncan
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I agree. Fuck Trump, his family, his cabinet and all of his disgusting sycophants.
Where did all of that tax-payer funded protective supplies meant for hospitals, go ?
To Trump's supporters.
State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos epitomized the sickening hypocrisy by
showing up at his voting station in Burlington, Wisconsin...
...a town of 10,000 people in the southeastern part of the state—
with his body draped in full protective gear as if he were ready to perform surgery.
Oblivious to the optics as thousands of frontline health care workers all around the
nation are heading into battle trying to save COVID-19 patients with inadequate gear,
Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly (Trump fan) Vos’s suited-up body stood
in contrast to the long lines of comparatively unprotected people waiting to vote in
Milwaukee.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/10/election-travesty-wisconsin-wake-call-nation
Republican Hypocrisy on Election
Why wouldn’t Vos, Fitzgerald postpone the election? Because they were safer.
April 6th, 2020
Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is a brave man.
While refusing to postpone the election and make it a mail-in election only,
Vos let the media know he would be volunteering at his polling place.
But that’s in the small city of Burlington, which was planing to conduct
a drive-through election only.
By contrast, the City of Milwaukee, should the election be held, could have
0,000 or more people coming to each voting location and would allow up to
150 people into the polling place at a time. Needless to say that would mean
far more chances for human contact and the spread of the deadly COVID-19
virus.
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2020/04/06/murphys-law-republican-hypocrisy-on-election/
To Trump's supporters.
State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos epitomized the sickening hypocrisy by
showing up at his voting station in Burlington, Wisconsin...
...a town of 10,000 people in the southeastern part of the state—
with his body draped in full protective gear as if he were ready to perform surgery.
Oblivious to the optics as thousands of frontline health care workers all around the
nation are heading into battle trying to save COVID-19 patients with inadequate gear,
Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly (Trump fan) Vos’s suited-up body stood
in contrast to the long lines of comparatively unprotected people waiting to vote in
Milwaukee.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/10/election-travesty-wisconsin-wake-call-nation
Republican Hypocrisy on Election
Why wouldn’t Vos, Fitzgerald postpone the election? Because they were safer.
April 6th, 2020
Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is a brave man.
While refusing to postpone the election and make it a mail-in election only,
Vos let the media know he would be volunteering at his polling place.
But that’s in the small city of Burlington, which was planing to conduct
a drive-through election only.
By contrast, the City of Milwaukee, should the election be held, could have
0,000 or more people coming to each voting location and would allow up to
150 people into the polling place at a time. Needless to say that would mean
far more chances for human contact and the spread of the deadly COVID-19
virus.
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2020/04/06/murphys-law-republican-hypocrisy-on-election/
At long last, Hobby Lobby can shut their doors.
Trump's good friends-
Apr 8th, 2020
The heavily subsidized Mount Pleasant plant owned by Foxconn will be used to manufacture ventilators, Medtronic Plc Chief Executive Officer Omar Ishrak told CNBC.
Foxconn confirmed the partnership in a statement on Wednesday, as Bloomberg reported, noting that “Evelyn Tsai, spokesperson for Foxconn founder Terry Gou, said production would take place in Wisconsin and Taiwan.”
“There has been a critical shortage of supply globally for ventilators needed in the treatment of severe cases of Covid-19,” the story reported. “Foxconn’s collaboration with Medtronic covers design and development of the devices. Production will start within the next four to six weeks, Ishrak said, without quantifying a volume.
“Foxconn has been making face masks, used to curb the spread of the virus, in China since February and its subsidiary Sharp Corp. also began churning them out in Japan in late March.”
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2020/04/08/back-in-the-news-foxconn-plant-will-make-ventilators/
Trump's good friends-
Apr 8th, 2020
The heavily subsidized Mount Pleasant plant owned by Foxconn will be used to manufacture ventilators, Medtronic Plc Chief Executive Officer Omar Ishrak told CNBC.
Foxconn confirmed the partnership in a statement on Wednesday, as Bloomberg reported, noting that “Evelyn Tsai, spokesperson for Foxconn founder Terry Gou, said production would take place in Wisconsin and Taiwan.”
“There has been a critical shortage of supply globally for ventilators needed in the treatment of severe cases of Covid-19,” the story reported. “Foxconn’s collaboration with Medtronic covers design and development of the devices. Production will start within the next four to six weeks, Ishrak said, without quantifying a volume.
“Foxconn has been making face masks, used to curb the spread of the virus, in China since February and its subsidiary Sharp Corp. also began churning them out in Japan in late March.”
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2020/04/08/back-in-the-news-foxconn-plant-will-make-ventilators/
Trump leaves trail of unmet promises in coronavirus response
Apr 11, 2020
For several months, President Donald Trump and his officials have cast
a fog of promises meant to reassure a country in the throes of the
coronavirus pandemic.
Trump and his team haven’t delivered on critical ones.
They talk numbers.
Bewildering numbers about masks on the way.
About tests being taken. About ships sailing to the rescue,
breathing machines being built and shipped, field hospitals
popping up, aircraft laden with supplies from abroad.
Dollars flowing to crippled businesses.
Piercing that fog is the bottom-line reality
that Americans are going without the medical supplies
and much of the financial help they most need from the
government at the very time they need it most —
and were told they would have it.
The U.S. now is at or near the height of COVID-19 sickness and death,
experts believe.
There’s no question that on major fronts — masks, gowns, diagnostic tests,
ventilators and more —- the federal government is pushing hard now to get
up to speed. Impressive numbers are being floated for equipment and testing
procedures in the pipeline.
But in large measure they will arrive on the down slope of the pandemic,
putting the U.S. in a better position should the same virus strike again
but landing too late for this outbreak’s lethal curve.
Concerning ventilators, for example, Trump recently allowed:
“A lot of them will be coming at a time when we won’t need them as badly.”
Two weeks ago, Trump brought word of an innovative diagnostic test
that can produce results in minutes instead of days or a week. The U.S.
testing system, key to containing the spread of infection, has been a
failure in the crunch, as public health authorities (but never Trump)
acknowledged in March. The rapid test could help change that.
False starts and dead ends are inevitable in any crisis, especially one driven
by a virus never seen before. By its nature, a crisis means we’re not on top of
it. Desperation is the mother of invention here and officials worldwide are
winging it, many more successfully than in the U.S
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-leaves-trail-of-unmet-promises-in-coronavirus-response
But bold promises and florid assurances were made, day after day, from
the White House and a zigzagging president who minimized the danger
for months and systematically exaggerates what Washington is doing
about it.
“We’re getting them tremendous amounts of supplies,” Trump said of
health care workers. “Incredible. It’s a beautiful thing to watch.”
This was when Americans were watching something else entirely —
doctors wearing garbage bags for makeshift protection.
___
MASKS, GLOVES, GOWNS
(failed)
___
TESTS
(failed)
“There were many, many opportunities not to end up where we are,” Dr. Ashish K. Jha, director of the Global Health Institute at Harvard, told AP.
Jared Kushner's test sites are a fraud.
___
VENTILATORS
(failed)
___
WHERE’S THE (economic relief) MONEY?
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said with some exaggeration, but not much, that “no money has gone out the door yet.”
Because of the bureaucracy.
Because of website glitches.
Because of confusion among lenders with the money to farm out and among those who need it to keep their businesses afloat.
Associated Press writers-
Amanda Seitz in Chicago, Matthew Perrone and Michael Biesecker
in Washington and Ken Sweet in New York contributed to this report
April 12, 2020
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/12/8329...mps-coronavirus-promises-spain-eases-lockdown
https://www.wgbh.org/
Apr 11, 2020
For several months, President Donald Trump and his officials have cast
a fog of promises meant to reassure a country in the throes of the
coronavirus pandemic.
Trump and his team haven’t delivered on critical ones.
They talk numbers.
Bewildering numbers about masks on the way.
About tests being taken. About ships sailing to the rescue,
breathing machines being built and shipped, field hospitals
popping up, aircraft laden with supplies from abroad.
Dollars flowing to crippled businesses.
Piercing that fog is the bottom-line reality
that Americans are going without the medical supplies
and much of the financial help they most need from the
government at the very time they need it most —
and were told they would have it.
The U.S. now is at or near the height of COVID-19 sickness and death,
experts believe.
There’s no question that on major fronts — masks, gowns, diagnostic tests,
ventilators and more —- the federal government is pushing hard now to get
up to speed. Impressive numbers are being floated for equipment and testing
procedures in the pipeline.
But in large measure they will arrive on the down slope of the pandemic,
putting the U.S. in a better position should the same virus strike again
but landing too late for this outbreak’s lethal curve.
Concerning ventilators, for example, Trump recently allowed:
“A lot of them will be coming at a time when we won’t need them as badly.”
Two weeks ago, Trump brought word of an innovative diagnostic test
that can produce results in minutes instead of days or a week. The U.S.
testing system, key to containing the spread of infection, has been a
failure in the crunch, as public health authorities (but never Trump)
acknowledged in March. The rapid test could help change that.
False starts and dead ends are inevitable in any crisis, especially one driven
by a virus never seen before. By its nature, a crisis means we’re not on top of
it. Desperation is the mother of invention here and officials worldwide are
winging it, many more successfully than in the U.S
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-leaves-trail-of-unmet-promises-in-coronavirus-response
But bold promises and florid assurances were made, day after day, from
the White House and a zigzagging president who minimized the danger
for months and systematically exaggerates what Washington is doing
about it.
“We’re getting them tremendous amounts of supplies,” Trump said of
health care workers. “Incredible. It’s a beautiful thing to watch.”
This was when Americans were watching something else entirely —
doctors wearing garbage bags for makeshift protection.
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MASKS, GLOVES, GOWNS
(failed)
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TESTS
(failed)
“There were many, many opportunities not to end up where we are,” Dr. Ashish K. Jha, director of the Global Health Institute at Harvard, told AP.
Jared Kushner's test sites are a fraud.
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VENTILATORS
(failed)
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WHERE’S THE (economic relief) MONEY?
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said with some exaggeration, but not much, that “no money has gone out the door yet.”
Because of the bureaucracy.
Because of website glitches.
Because of confusion among lenders with the money to farm out and among those who need it to keep their businesses afloat.
Associated Press writers-
Amanda Seitz in Chicago, Matthew Perrone and Michael Biesecker
in Washington and Ken Sweet in New York contributed to this report
April 12, 2020
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/12/8329...mps-coronavirus-promises-spain-eases-lockdown
https://www.wgbh.org/
oops Too sleepy to notice the mistake, last night
With working Americans' survival at stake, the US is bailing out the richest
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...al-at-stake-the-us-is-bailing-out-the-richest
Rep. Mark Meadows resigned from Congress, just to become Trump's
chief of staff. Meadows is docile enough to be Trump's "pretend" head
of Council To Re-open America
(Where is Mick Mulvaney ? Self-quarantine does not take this long.)
Ivanka, Jared Kushner, and Steve Mnuchin know how to keep their
mouths shut. Wilbur Ross is the little gnome that may...
Larry Kudlow is feeling much better about supporting any plan,
because his wife has mad stimulus money.
What will Robert Lighthizer's next pitch to China be ?
Oh Thank God: Trump Appoints Ivanka and Jared to Council to Reopen America
The economy is in shambles, but fear not: the poster children for nepotism are
on the case.
- Bess Levin
April 13, 2020
Pop quiz time! An unprecedented pandemic has killed more than 114,000 people
worldwide and infected more than 1.9 million. The U.S. just surpassed Italy as
the country with the highest number of deaths. As a result of people necessarily
being told to stay home, i.e. the only way at this point to stop the spread, the
economy is in shambles.
Almost 17 millionAmericans have filed for unemployment, with some predicting
that 20 million will be out of work by the end of the month. Economists believe
the chance of a recession within the next twelve months is 100%, with many
saying the country is already in one. You, as president, are in charge of said
country. What do you do?
If you’re Donald J. Trump, you (1) resist mass testing or really any semblance of
a plan for developing virus-tracking measures that could, in theory, help some parts
of the population safely return to work, and (2) appoint your idiot daughter and
son-in-law to your economic task force, because scarily, in a family of certifiable
morons, they’re considered the smart ones.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-council-to-reopen-america
With working Americans' survival at stake, the US is bailing out the richest
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...al-at-stake-the-us-is-bailing-out-the-richest
Rep. Mark Meadows resigned from Congress, just to become Trump's
chief of staff. Meadows is docile enough to be Trump's "pretend" head
of Council To Re-open America
(Where is Mick Mulvaney ? Self-quarantine does not take this long.)
Ivanka, Jared Kushner, and Steve Mnuchin know how to keep their
mouths shut. Wilbur Ross is the little gnome that may...
Larry Kudlow is feeling much better about supporting any plan,
because his wife has mad stimulus money.
What will Robert Lighthizer's next pitch to China be ?
Oh Thank God: Trump Appoints Ivanka and Jared to Council to Reopen America
The economy is in shambles, but fear not: the poster children for nepotism are
on the case.
- Bess Levin
April 13, 2020
Pop quiz time! An unprecedented pandemic has killed more than 114,000 people
worldwide and infected more than 1.9 million. The U.S. just surpassed Italy as
the country with the highest number of deaths. As a result of people necessarily
being told to stay home, i.e. the only way at this point to stop the spread, the
economy is in shambles.
Almost 17 millionAmericans have filed for unemployment, with some predicting
that 20 million will be out of work by the end of the month. Economists believe
the chance of a recession within the next twelve months is 100%, with many
saying the country is already in one. You, as president, are in charge of said
country. What do you do?
If you’re Donald J. Trump, you (1) resist mass testing or really any semblance of
a plan for developing virus-tracking measures that could, in theory, help some parts
of the population safely return to work, and (2) appoint your idiot daughter and
son-in-law to your economic task force, because scarily, in a family of certifiable
morons, they’re considered the smart ones.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-council-to-reopen-america
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