Does Wearing Gloves Make Grocery Shopping Safer?
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Trump fires intelligence community watchdog who told Congress about whistleblower complaint that led to impeachment – CNNPolitics
Trump on Friday fired Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, who had told Congress about the whistleblower complaint that led to Trump’s impeachment.
…Atkinson — a career, nonpartisan official — came under fire from the President’s allies last year for alerting lawmakers to the then-unknown whistleblower complaint, which Congress later learned was an allegation that Trump had sought dirt on his political rival former Vice President Joe Biden from Ukraine’s President while withholding US security aid from Kiev.
The allegation sparked a House impeachment inquiry that detailed the quid pro quo effort and led to Trump’s impeachment in December on two articles.
…Atkinson’s firing is the latest case of the Trump administration removing officials who took part in the [Trump]’s impeachment. Trump also removed Alexander Vindman, a then-National Security Council official who had testified in the House’s proceedings, along with Vindman’s twin brother, both of whom were reassigned out of the NSC, and fired then-US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland.
Other officials, including then-US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and her acting successor, Bill Taylor, left the Trump administration after the impeachment proceedings.
Trump also fired former FBI Director James Comey in 2017.
authoritarian, despotic, totalitarian, comic book villain.
Trump Falsely Claims He Inherited ‘Empty’ Stockpile – FactCheck.org
More than once, President Donald Trump has falsely claimed that the federal stockpile of emergency medicine and supplies he inherited from his predecessor was an “empty shelf.”
While the government does not publicize all of the contents of the repository, at the time Trump took office, the Strategic National Stockpile, as it is formally known, reportedly contained vast amounts of materials that state and local health officials could use during an emergency, including vaccines, antiviral drugs, ventilators and protective gear for doctors and nurses.
…The Strategic National Stockpile was created in 1999, and, as of April 2, was described on a Department of Health and Human Services website as “the nation’s largest supply of life-saving pharmaceuticals and medical supplies for use in a public health emergency severe enough to cause local supplies to run out.” [emphasis: Peanut Gallery]
(That description was later altered to say, “The Strategic National Stockpile’s role is to supplement state and local supplies during public health emergencies.” The change was made after Trump’s son-in-law and White House adviser, Jared Kushner, said on April 2: “The notion of the federal stockpile was it’s supposed to be our stockpile. It’s not supposed to be states’ stockpiles that they then use.”
…[June 26, 2016] There are rows upon rows of ventilators that could keep sick or injured people breathing. Mabry explains that they’re kept in a constant state of readiness. “If you look down to the side you’ll see there’s electrical outlets so they can be charged once a month,” she says. Not only that—the ventilators get sent out for yearly maintenance.
In fact, everything here has to be inventoried once a year, and expiration dates have to be checked. Just tending to this vast stash costs a bundle — the stockpile program’s budget is more than half a billion dollars a year.
One of the reasons for the current supply shortage, she said: “We’ve allowed our own national capacity to manufacture things to degrade and in some places go away. And we’ve done that for cost-efficiency sake.”
She later added: “What we need is not a big stockpile. We need a new strategy. We need to use the technologies we have now to create the capacity to respond to something in close to real-time.”
That means being able to “rapidly design and manufacture what we need, when we need it, and the quantities demanded,” she said.
Trump Falsely Claims He Inherited ‘Empty’ Stockpile – FactCheck.org
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New York Daily News: Salute a naval officer choosing sailor lives over career on a coronavirus-infected vessel
Publicly bucking those you’re supposed to salute is a surefire pink slip. Yet the Navy got the message and began evacuating the Roosevelt.
May the wind be at Brett Crozier’s back, whether he’s on land or sea.
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Donald Trump Has Stake In Hydroxychloroquine Drugmaker
Donald Trump Has Stake In Hydroxychloroquine Drugmaker: Report
Why would he be interested in any solution he does not have an interest in?
CDC removes unusual guidance to doctors about drug favored by Trump | Article [AMP] | Reuters
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has removed from its website highly unusual guidance informing doctors on how to prescribe hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, drugs recommended by President Donald Trump to treat the coronavirus.
The move comes three days after Reuters reported that the CDC published key dosing information involving the two antimalarial drugs based on unattributed anecdotes rather than peer-reviewed science.
CDC removes unusual guidance to doctors about drug favored by Trump | Article [AMP] | Reuters
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Bernie Sanders drops out of the 2020 race, clearing Joe Biden’s path to the Democratic nomination – CNNPolitics
2nd time around is the charm? Interested to see what he says to his supporters in the coming months.
Full Transcript: Thomas Modly on Capt. Brett Crozier to Sailors on the USS Theodore Roosevelt
(INDISTINCT YELLING IN BACKGROUND)
….(LOW BACKGROUND YELLING: HE WAS ONLY TRYING TO HELP US)
….”a chain of command which includes the media” [since when, dipshit?]
…..(INDISTINCT YELLING IN BACKGROUND)
…”What do I do to help the E2’s and E3’s that are on this ship? That’s your duty. Not to complain.
Everyone’s scared about this thing. But I tell you something, if this ship was in combat and there were hypersonic missiles coming at it, you’d be pretty (BLEEP) scared too. (BACKGROUND YELLING: WHOA)]
Thomas Modly transcript on Capt. Brett Crozier to USS Theodore Roosevelt – CNNPolitics
Never ever forget that this is how the Trump administration spoke to these sailors. Never forgive and never forget. Never. Ever. Forget.
Navy Secretary Modly’s aircraft carrier speech misfires badly
Secretary Modly addressed Crozier’s crew over the ship’s loudspeakers. Punctuated with profanity, his words provide a fascinating case study in speechmaking around sensitive topics.
…Modly’s address also included broad, blanket statements and he spoke in absolute terms, which should be avoided in such circumstances.
…Modly’s mention of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee by name made it virtually impossible to claim the speech was not political.
…Knowing your audience and speaking to them in terms that are likely to resonate with them is something most speakers at least attempt to do. Modly didn’t bother. He mocked the crew’s popular leader, who has tested positive for COVID-19, by sarcastically calling him “a martyr C.O. who wasn’t getting the help he needed.”
….Modly asserts incorrectly and definitively that “no one expected this pandemic.” A range of astute observers and global health professionals have been warning us about this very topic for years.
…“The only reason we are dealing with this right now is a big authoritative regime called China was not forthcoming about what was happening with this virus,” said Modly. But we know from extensive, highly sourced reporting that the president and his administration were being briefed on the situation developing in China as early as the first days of January.
Navy Secretary Modly’s aircraft carrier speech misfires badly | TheHill
Incompetence? Meet arrogance and malice.
In the years, decades, and centuries to come, teachers and students will point to the Trump administration as the definition of what not to do.
In fact, after this TrumpVirus crisis is over, Trump might just come to mean the opposite of not only what is right but the opposite of intelligent thinking and might become shorthand for “what not to do.”
Coronavirus: The race to stop the virus spread in Asia’s ‘biggest slum’
But an outbreak of coronavirus in a place where social distancing is an oxymoron could easily turn into a grave public health emergency and overwhelm the city’s stretched public health system.
Nobody realises this more than the officials racing to track and contain the infection.
Patient No 1 of Dharavi lived with his eight-member family – his wife, four daughters, and two sons – in a poky 420 sq ft one-room apartment in a low-rise slum tenement ringed by squalid shanties.
…The man owned another apartment in the same complex. There he hosted five people who had reportedly arrived from Delhi after attending a conference in early March organised by Tablighi Jamaat.
…Hundreds of people who attended the religious event in the capital set off several Covid-19 clusters across the country and are now linked to some 650 cases across 14 states.
The police believe the five men lived in the Dharavi apartment for two days – between 19 and 21 March- before they left for Kerala. “We are trying to trace these people,” said Mr Dighavkar.
…On Thursday, a 35-year-old doctor working with a private hospital and living in the slum tested positive for the virus. Municipality workers scrambled to isolate and seal 300 people living in the doctor’s building. They have also identified 13 high-risk contacts in the building and sent their swabs for testing. The doctor told officials that two nurses in his hospital had tested positive for the virus. And at the weekend, a 30-year-old woman inside the same building complex as the trader, a 60-year-old man, who owns a metal fabrication shop and a 21-year-old male lab technician, tested positive.
“We are still able to try to contain the infection of the gated slum colonies. But there are the slums outside, and if we get cases there, we can’t isolate them at home, and have to send even the high-risk cases to the sports complex quarantine centre,” says Mr Dighavkar.
Coronavirus: The race to stop the virus spread in Asia’s ‘biggest slum’ – BBC News
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Coronavirus: Boris Johnson moved to intensive care as symptoms worsen
Coronavirus: Boris Johnson moved to intensive care as symptoms worsen – BBC News
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An awful price to pay for being so arrogant and obstinate.
Peter Navarro Touts His Qualifications on Unproven Coronavirus Drug, Says ‘I’m a Social Scientist’
Peter Navarro Touts His Qualifications on Unproven Coronavirus Drug, Says ‘I’m a Social Scientist’
The nice lady with the emails was right, these idiotic comic-book villains are going to do their best to get us all killed.
Coronavirus: Pastor who decried ‘hysteria’ dies after attending Mardi Gras
Pastor Spradlin was one of those who became ill, but tested negative for Covid-19. Even as he was sick, he posted on social media about “hysteria” surrounding the virus.
On the 13th of March Pastor Spradlin shared on Facebook a misleading post comparing swine flu and coronavirus deaths.
It suggested that Barack Obama and Donald Trump respectively had been treated very differently by the media and that it was a politically motivated ploy to harm President Trump.
Earlier the very same day, the president himself had insinuated something very similar at a news conference.
Coronavirus: Pastor who decried ‘hysteria’ dies after attending Mardi Gras – BBC News
For all of the whinging by his family let’s call his opinions about Trump and the media what they are dog whistles, coming from a selfishly arrogant place of ignorance and hate.
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