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turbinetree's JournalInfectious Diseases Experts Foresee COVID Reaching 60-70% Of Population In 2 Years
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Cristina Cabrera
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May 1, 2020 3:23 p.m.
Dr. Michael Osterholm, the director at Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, had some bleak news about the future of the COVID-19 pandemic on Friday.
During an interview on CNN, Osterholm explained a report he and his colleagues at the university had released early in the day, which found that the virus will likely keep spreading for 18 to 24 months until it reaches the high threshold of COVID-19 cases needed to create a herd immunity.
“This is going to continue to do that until 60% or 70% of the population has been infected,” the doctor told CNN anchor Jim Sciutto.
Osterholm warned that the pandemic is a “rolling situation” throughout the world and that New York, which currently has the highest number of cases in the U.S. by far, won’t be the only area to suffer an explosion of infections.
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/infectious-diseases-experts-foresee-covid-reaching-60-70-of-population-in-2-years
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While on the other side of the fence the country is watching suicide squads storming capitals.............
How Profit and Incompetence Delayed N95 Masks While People Died at the VA
Federal agencies have hired contractors with no experience to find respirators and masks, fueling a black market filled with price gouging and multiple layers of profiteering brokers. One contractor called them “buccaneers and pirates.”
By J. David McSwane
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May 1, 2020 3:11 p.m.
This post first appeared at ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.
Before embarking on a 36-hour tour through an underground of contractors and middlemen trying to make a buck on the nation’s desperate need for masks, entrepreneur Robert Stewart Jr. offered an unusual caveat.
“I’m talking with you against the advice of my attorney,” the man in the shiny gray suit, an American Flag button with the word “VETERAN” pinned to his blazer, said as we boarded a private jet Saturday from the executive wing at Dulles International Airport.
It remains a mystery why the CEO of Federal Government Experts LLC let me observe his frantic effort to find 6 million N95 respirators and the ultimate unraveling of his $34.5 million deal to supply them to the Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals, where 20 VA staff have died of COVID-19 while the agency waits for masks.
It’s also unclear why the VA gave Stewart’s fledgling business — which had no experience selling medical equipment, no supply chain expertise and very little credit — an important contract. Or why the VA agreed to pay nearly $5.75 per mask, a 350% markup from the manufacturer’s list price. In the end, after ProPublica asked questions about the deal this week, the VA quickly terminated it and referred the case to its inspector general for investigation.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-profit-and-incompetence-delayed-n95-masks-while-people-died-at-the-va
MY 89 going on 90 year old father is veteran of the Korean War, The Forgotten War" and this is just fucking outrageous, because of the simple fact he goes to the VA to get check-ups...............and they have no masks............
GOP senator: People will ignore virus safety rules so we should just get rid of them
By Josh Israel -May 1, 2020 1:30 PM
'At least the people in my state are just gonna stop complying,' Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said Thursday that statewide stay-at-home orders should be lifted because his constituents will simply ignore them anyway.
On Fox News, he made the argument that state and federal social distancing guidelines aimed at curbing the COVID-19 pandemic have been a "Nightmare on Elm Street" and that they should be ended.
"We can't sustain this," he said. "Number one, the economy will collapse. And number two, at least the people in my state are just gonna stop complying."
Kennedy claimed that, although he does "respect" Gov. John Bel Edwards' extension of stay-at-home orders until May 15, he thinks the governor "hasn't been able to completely convince the people of Louisiana" that it was necessary to do so. "Many of my people are opening up. Many Louisianians and many Americans — many of us can't earn a living behind a laptop. Many of us don't live in the Hamptons and eat quinoa summer salads," he said.
https://americanindependent.com/john-kennedy-coronavirus-social-distancing-gop-senate-louisiana-john-bel-edwards-fox-news/
Thank you senator asshole for showing and telling the country how you really fucking feel..............your first fucking priority is the economy, not asking for test strips or swabs for your state, nope...............your worried about people eating quinoa salads in the Hampton's...........or you worried about people eating crayfish poorboy's in your state, without masks or gloves or social distancing, to protect others in the state..........probably not ............ .........do you have enough test swabs to go back into session of the senate asshole..........did you confer with the Congressional doctor..........you even sound like an full fledged dumb libertarian idiot with marbles in your federalist society mouth................ 
GOP senator's new ad doesn't mention she paid woman praising her $380,000
By Dan Desai Martin -May 1, 2020 12:24 PM
Sen. Martha McSally's former staffer is starring in a campaign ad after being paid nearly $400,000 over the years.
Not only does a new campaign ad for Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) feature Kristen Douglas, McSally's former staffer, lying about McSally's position on protecting people with preexisting conditions — the ad also fails to disclose that Douglas formerly worked for McSally and was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years, according to a recent report from the Arizona Republic.
"Martha McSally will fight tirelessly to make sure that people with preexisting conditions are insured," Douglas, a cancer survivor, falsely claimed in the ad. "She's fighting for what's right when it comes to preexisting conditions, and making sure everybody has access to health care."
However, McSally has voted numerous times in Congress to take away health care protections from people with preexisting conditions.
Douglas says in the as that her "path collided" with McSally after battling cancer. The ad did not disclose that Douglas was McSally's campaign manager on her 2014 House race, McSally's deputy chief of staff from 2015 to 2017, and that she worked as a consultant for McSally's failed 2018 Senate campaign.
https://americanindependent.com/martha-mcsally-campaign-ad-former-staffer-health-care-preexisting-conditions-gop-senate-arizona/
This fucking ad says everything about you and this person sitting in this ad.........deception.......
solution:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/adopt-mark-kelly
GOP senator's new ad doesn't mention she paid woman praising her $380,000
Where is the FEC and the FCC...............
Wall Street slides at open as Trump warns of new tariffs on China
Source: Reuters
BUSINESS NEWS MAY 1, 2020 / 7:08 AM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
(Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell at open on Friday after President Donald Trump threatened to slap new tariffs on China over the coronavirus crisis, while Apple and Amazon became the latest companies to warn of more pain in the future.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 224.94 points, or 0.92%, at the open to 24,120.78.
The S&P 500 .SPX opened lower by 43.34 points, or 1.49%, at 2,869.09. The Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 208.26 points, or 2.34%, to 8,681.29 at the opening bell.
Reporting by C Nivedita in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D'Silva
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-stocks/wall-street-slides-at-open-as-trump-warns-of-new-tariffs-on-china-idUSKBN22D58W
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This action by this fucking immature child throwing a temper tantrum by telling some country that because of where the virus came from I am going to place tariffs on you..............shows just how fucking dangerous this asshole really is, by using economic blackmail when he "knew" back in December and November that this virus was going to be dangerous to this country, and he has failed at the rate of over 63,000 + deaths and over 1,000,000+ known cases...in this country.....as of May 1, 2020........ what a sick fuck........instead of trying to get ahead of this issue he goes and does this..........and to add to his insanity the market is doing this ............the manufacturing is contracting at a faster rate.............and he thinks with whatever is between his ears that he is nothing great in that brain..........he has no clue what he is doing, so he goes out and begins lashing out to deflect because he his absolute total failure..................
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142484230
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November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough and neither can January 20, 2021..............
U.S. manufacturing skids to 11-year low in April as orders sink: ISM
Source: Reuters
BUSINESS NEWS MAY 1, 2020 / 10:07 AM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. manufacturing activity plunged to an 11-year low in April as the novel coronavirus wreaked havoc on supply chains, supporting analysts’ views the economy was sinking deeper into recession.
The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said on Friday its index of national factory activity dropped to a reading of 41.5 last month from 49.1 in March. That was the lowest level since April 2009, just a few months before the Great Recession ended. A reading below 50 indicates contraction in the manufacturing sector, which accounts for 11% of the U.S. economy.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the index falling to 36.9 in April. The smaller-than-expected drop in the ISM index was because the survey’s measure of supplier deliveries surged to a reading of 76.0 last month from 65.0 in March.
A lengthening in suppliers’ delivery times is normally associated with a strong economy and increased customer demand, which would be a positive contribution. But in this case slower supplier deliveries indicate supply shortages related to the coronavirus pandemic and not stronger demand.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-manufacturing/u-s-manufacturing-skids-to-11-year-low-in-april-as-orders-sink-ism-idUSKBN22D5M0
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It took a ego driven reality fake to drive the best economy in decades into the ground because of his pettiness to to be liar and blaming everyone except himself for his outright malignant ego of being a lunatic, and if the orange fatNixon, Pence, Pompeo, Esper, Kraninger, Kushner, Ludlow, Chao, Mnunchin, corporations, oligarchs, and anyone else think's that this is just going to bounce back magically on some false premise that you have to re-open things just to make buck, when you have no fucking testing to the virus, to show the true numbers of this criminal enterprises complete and utter failure of how many people in this country are infected ....................you have another thing coming down the pike...........
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