"No, there is no fourth stimulus check on the way"

[orangecrush]

Washington (CNN)The federal government has sent out three rounds of stimulus checks to help people during the pandemic, but despite their political popularity, there's no proposal on the table to deliver a fourth round.

Congress, which would have to approve the money, is unlikely to consider more spending on direct payments as the economy rebounds. While there's some support from Democratic lawmakers for recurring payments, the party has slim majorities in the House and Senate and limiting the third round of payments was a key priority for moderates during negotiations of the latest pandemic relief package passed in March.
Instead, lawmakers are focused on a massive infrastructure bill that could be taken up this summer. A bipartisan-backed outline of the package released last week does not include any direct payments. President Joe Biden is also pushing Congress to pass his American Families Plan, but that doesn't call for a fourth round of stimulus payments, either. Instead, it calls for making community college free, child care more affordable and provide guaranteed paid sick and family leave.

But there's still some pandemic aid already approved by Congress making its way to American families. The Internal Revenue Service is making payment adjustments for people who lost income during 2020 and are due more money than they originally received, and some families are set to receive advanced payments of the expanded child tax credit. Some people are still receiving the federal boost to unemployment benefits, though several states have ended that those payments early in an effort to get people back to work.


https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/29/politics/stimulus-check-no-fourth-round/index.html

[marybourg]

1. I just got my first two - in the form of a tax credit

on my 2020 taxes - today!

[orangecrush]

4. Congrats!

[SheltieLover]

2. Wait until delta takes off

[orangecrush]

3. Rather not get one

Than go through that again.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. While A Reasonable Concern...

...a CNN report today says 26% of all US cases of COVID are delta.
Yet, the Worldometer 7 day moving average of daily cases has been very gradually falling all month.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/?fbclid=IwAR2AveY4MLc1S8-4LeOXNjoIwLZ1Q8Y2RkwFtC9--4Jub3VGmLlCD277KHc
The Israel numbers of 50% of hospitalizations being vaccinated folks is an outlier compared to the US, Canada, Australia (although their delta percentage is quite low), & the UK. I think we need more time to see if that's a testing error outlier.
But, even with 26% of cases being delta, overall case numbers are, at worst, flat for the last 2 weeks. We went from 10% to 26% since June 7, but cases per day aren't bubbling up substantially.
I'm hoping that it won't be as bad as what they're reporting in Israel.
The efficacy of the vaccine against this appears good, and prior COVID patients may be still resistant.

[SheltieLover]

6. Please read #4 in this thread

Harvard epidemiologist sounding alarms.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215572903

More contagious than smallpox & cloth masks no longer adequate, among other things.

Lots of charts & graphs which Rhiannon was gracious enough to post for us.

[Nexus2]

7. Why the mocking tone created by Nelson image? [nt]

[orangecrush]

8. A reference to another thread

I posted about the large number of clickbait articles I was running to elsewhere that usually said something like "4th stimulus check being discussed".

[Nexus2]

9. Oh, sorry, my mistake then! [nt]

[orangecrush]

10. No prob!