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crickets's JournalSadly true.
For those surviving children who are infected but recover, there's no telling how their health may be affected for the rest of their lives. The repercussions to national health and the accompanying financial hit in health care costs will be just another lovely gift that keeps on giving long after trump is gone.
Yes, it's political. That's why it's happening.
What concerns me almost as much as the potential loss of young lives or the loss of their parents and other family members is the crushing guilt some children may face as they grow up and come to understand that they were the vector that brought death into their homes. I also can't imagine children having to deal with the deaths of classmates and teachers at such young ages. All of these things will happen on a scale far beyond what would normally be expected, and it's an awful emotional burden they don't deserve.
You're right. How many dead has never mattered to them beyond how if affects the poll #s.
Pelosi, Schiff and others surely have thought of this as well. Here's hoping they will act when the time comes. Dems have a regrettable habit of hanging back on these things.
We've been waiting for what seemed forever for Obama to speak out
and today he did - beautifully expressed, exquisitely timed. It was perfect.
Links to Clinton, Bush, Obama and Pelosi eulogies in their entirety, plus Carter letter
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213831434
He had me talking to the TV today. I miss him too!
https://twitter.com/hashtag/MyPresidenthttps://twitter.com/hashtag/ObamaWasBetterAtEverything
Obama's still got it, that power to spellbind and stir an audience. It's amazing.
All the things we've been wanting to hear from him over the weeks and months are pouring out now, gently but powerfully woven together with a stirring tribute to John Lewis. It's wonderful.
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https://twitter.com/search?q=%23mypresident
And everyone knows where that money is really meant to go - right into trumpie's pockets.
This relief bill needs to be about RELIEF - badly needed financial help for the American people during a national crisis that trump has made no real effort to handle. Piss on any of his attempts at last minute grifting. The Biden administration can handle any renovations needed when the time comes.
This arrest was so poorly conceived and conducted, the mind boggles.
https://twitter.com/MichelleLhooq/status/1288253381883113475At a time when unidentified federal jackboots have been plucking people off the streets in Portland, or at any time really, choosing to arrest a woman at a protest by having a gaggle of male cops in plainclothes swarm her and pack her into an unmarked minivan is not the way.
Until the bike cops showed up, it really wasn't clear that it was police making an arrest, and until later reporting filled in some of the details, there was no way to know she had an outstanding warrant.
Bad form. Really, really bad.
https://twitter.com/CarynColn/status/1288280992164114435
Yes, that. 👆
SA: Can a pocket laser damage the eye?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-a-pocket-laser-damage/Well, that's not good. The lasers I have seen in vids are green. 😕
Possible more potentially damaging -- although not to the eye -- is that a regular pointer laser can overwhelm the eye with light, typically called flash blindness. If a person is walking a rocky path, operating machinery, a vehicle or aircraft, this temporary loss of vision could cause injury or disaster. At night, when the pupil is most open, the effects would bemagnified.
Still unclear from this article whether green lasers can cause permanent blindness. It's hard to believe it would when the simple remedy for a laser pointer is to look away or turn around.
Adding one more link:
https://www.aao.org/eye-health/news/laser-pointer-eye-injury
Is this all still about hydroxychloroquine?
Fox apparently has not let this go. I have a SIL who will not stop watching Fox and on a family call last week she was bleating on about hydroxychloroquine and how unfair it is people can't easily get it. I gently asked, "You've heard about how it was killing people, haven't you? People with heart problems were especially susceptible to poor outcomes." Oh, she went off. Not only would she not acknowledge it wasn't necessarily safe or effective, she got angry that I wasn't in line with her way of thinking.
When you stay away from politics, she is a warm, lovely, intelligent person. Fox has warped her thinking - she will parrot the list of talking points louder and louder until you leave off disagreements, not matter how minor or gently phrased. It's so frustrating and sad. That channel warps people's brains. It's killing people.
Now it seems when trump can't get his pet garbage on Fox or Sinclair, he'll send a lackey like Rudy or Jr. to post things over and over online. He spent millions of taxpayer dollars on that drug, hoping to score big. He wants his grift, even if more people have to die for it. I'm glad Twitter called Jr. on the BS, but it would be better for everybody if they just banned the lot of them.
