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crickets's JournalThe man signing for the deaf is a treasure.
I adore him; he completely captured the tone of what Lori Lightfoot had to say. Kudos to both of them! (I say that as someone who does not know ASL, but I can read a face. His was priceless.)
GA is going absentee for the primary and likely the general election as well.
Kemp is terrified.
Georgia GOP Leader: More Absentee Voting Will Help Turnout, Be 'Devastating To Republicans'
I, however, am filled with glee. GA has been trying to go blue or so close to it for several cycles now, but the machines and the voter suppression tactics have been enough to stave that off. It's about to get really interesting.
The tendency for projection is strong in trumplandia.
They can't help themselves. They have to accuse everyone around them of doing exactly what they are guilty of, while they are doing it. It's a consistent pattern.
I am so tired of Republicans making excuses for their short-sighted partisan idiocy.
"Who knew?" The people asking for enough resources to do their jobs knew. YOU knew, you just won't admit it. Fools.
“We recognized the need for replenishment of the stockpile and budgeted about a 10% increase,” said Dr. Nicole Lurie, who served as the assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the Department of Health and Human Services during the Obama administration. “That was rejected by the Republican House.”
Republicans took over the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterms on the Tea Party wave of opposition to the landmark 2010 health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The new House majority was intent on curbing government spending, especially at HHS, which administered Obamacare.
Congressional Republicans, led by Mitch McConnell in the Senate and House Speaker John Boehner, leveraged the debt ceiling — a limit on the government’s borrowing ability that had to be raised — to insist that the Obama administration accept federal spending curbs. The compromise, codified in the 2011 Budget Control Act, required a bipartisan “super committee” to find additional ways to reduce the deficit, or else it would trigger automatic across-the-board cuts known as “sequestration.”
And there he is again. Moscow Mitch.
There is much more at the link. It's a good article and well worth the read.
eta - sorry, bronxiteforever. I meant to reply to the thread. Oops!
Typical.
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Yet a document circulated among officials at the Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Emergency Management Agency this week shows that state and local public health labs were set to receive a total of only 5,500 coronavirus tests from the giant manufacturer of medical devices, diagnostics and drugs, according to emails obtained by Kaiser Health News.
That number falls well short of the “about 500,000 capacity of Abbott tests that” Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said were in the states and were “not being utilized.” Although it is unclear whether she was referring to just the quick test or combining it with another test — one with slower results — that Abbott previously received authorization to sell.
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Labs in all 50 states were set to receive roughly the same number of Abbott’s test cartridges and the devices on which they run ― 100 tests and 10 or 15 devices — the document shows, regardless of how many confirmed COVID-19 cases officials had reported in each state.
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Abbott Labs spokesperson Darcy Ross on Thursday said the company had shipped tests to customers in 18 states but did not elaborate on how many were public clients or governments as opposed to private health care facilities. Ross also said the document circulated among federal officials showed an “intended purchase by HHS and FEMA” of tests and related instruments.
FEMA referred questions to HHS, whose spokesperson Mia Heck said, “We do not comment on any allegedly leaked documents.”
“We can confirm that the federal government is looking to make the initial purchase of a rapid point-of-care test to increase COVID-19 testing capacity in the United States,” she said. “Initially, each state will receive 15 point-of-care instruments, and then they will be able to resupply through the commercial market.”
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The price of Abbott's stock has jumped 26.5% since March 23.
Much more; it's a long article. May also be found at Salon for those who don't go to Rawstory.
https://www.salon.com/2020/04/03/trump-touted-abbotts-covid-19-test--but-emails-show-only-5500-on-way-for-entire-us-report_partner/
Meanwhile in Las Vegas
https://twitter.com/Gerrrty/status/1245300141445320704Video. Parking lots. Really.
Thank you for posting this info.
Trump lies to keep people from finding out that they don't need his permission or say-so. He has nothing to do with it. It just goes to show that trump* will do anything he can think of to keep people from getting the help they are entitled to, the murderous SOB.
The way we treat homelessness in this country is shameful.
Elizabeth Warren Wants $15.5 Billion To Help Homeless During Coronavirus Outbreak
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213219342
I am glad some of our congresspeople are thinking of them and trying to help.
I am a bit appalled by the reaction to this.
Look, I don't like this guy either but lawless behavior like this is bad regardless. Asian Americans facing public discrimination, a train derailment aimed at the Mercy ship, Fauci surrounded by a security detail, wacko Evangelicals refusing to let go of the collection plate with no regard for the deaths that follow from holding services... enough. Everybody is way too keyed up. The real reason why things are this bad has one name: trump.
If we had a real sense of leadership in the country right now, if our president was actually trying to handle the situation capably, we as a people would be much better able to deal with the stress everyone is going through right now. We shouldn't be dealing with the shortages that trigger an NFL team owner to fly in N95 masks from China, we shouldn't be dealing with a death rate that has bodies piled in refrigerated trucks, we shouldn't be dealing with doctors and nurses dressed in garbage bags instead of proper PPEs. But we are.
Freedman could have helped Philadelphia out by donating use of the hospital for free but he didn't. After cooling off about it, it occurs that maybe it would have been ruinous for him to try. We may not know all of the facts here. Regardless, it's possible to judge the hell out of the man (and I still do) without vandalizing his property.
Eyes on the prize: the real demon in all of this is trump.
Thanks, Wednesdays, I stand corrected on network licensing.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2017/10/11/trump-threatens-to-challenge-nbcs-license-over-fake-news/Stations (carrying a combination of broadcast, cable, and educational channels) are licensed, not networks. Seems I made the same mistake as the idiot in chief. Dang.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
[Long explication of the rise and fall of the Fairness Doctrine, as well as attempts to revive it.]
The intrusion by government into the content of programming occasioned by the enforcement of [the Fairness Doctrine] restricts the journalistic freedom of broadcasters ... [and] actually inhibits the presentation of controversial issues of public importance to the detriment of the public and the degradation of the editorial prerogative of broadcast journalists.
Seems to me controversial issues and outright lies are two different things, but...
https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/public-and-broadcasting#LICENSING
Interesting reading:
Hmmm.
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