Scroll down to page 27 for the full text of the CDC Whistleblower complaint against the administration's malfeasance on handling the pandemic. It's damning.
Gov Phil Scott has announced that Vermonters may now get together with family and friends, if they keep such gatherings to 10 or fewer people, use common sense and good hygiene.
This means that I can be with my Vermont grandchildren again!!!!!!!!!!!!
I jumped for joy all day and now as I wrote it out I got tears in my eyes!!
My family is looking to begin with very small OUTDOOR gatherings, for the most part.
The Public Is Astonishingly United [Click] “Pollsters have finally found an issue that transcends partisan divides, with the overwhelming majority of Americans siding against President Trump.”
It's actually a three-body system, counting the black hole. Such systems are stable only under special circumstances. Proxima Centauri, for example, is so far from Alpha Centauri A and B that it sees them as a single point of attraction. The article doesn't explain why this system is stable.
The black hole and one of the stars revolve around their common center of gravity; the second star is much farther out, and revolves around the common center of gravity of the three. Or so it seems to me from the illustration.
“A company created just six weeks ago by a pair of Republican operatives collected hundreds of millions of dollars in payments from desperate state and local governments for coronavirus supplies, but is now facing a federal criminal investigation and a rising chorus of complaints from customers who say their orders never arrived,” the NY Times reports. [Click]
A new Monmouth poll finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump among registered voters, 50% to 41% with another 3% saying they would vote for an independent candidate and 5% undecided.
A new Economist/YouGov tracking poll finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in the presidential race, 46% to 42% with 4% choosing someone else and 5% still unsure.
In case you missed it: As President Trump toured an Arizona face mask manufacturing plant, the song “Live and Let Die,” as performed by Guns ‘N Roses, blared in the background.
"“Let me show you my favorite picture of her,” he says, holding up a snapshot of Neilia in a bikini. “She had the best body of any woman I ever saw. She looks better than a Playboy bunny, doesn’t she?
“My beautiful millionaire wife was a conservative Republican before she met me. But she changed her registration. At first she didn’t want me to run for the Senate—we had such a beautiful thing going, and we knew all those stories about what politics can do to a marriage. She didn’t want that to happen. At first she stayed at home with the kids while I campaigned but that didn’t work out because I’d come back too tired to talk to her. I might satisfy her in bed but I didn’t have much time for anything else."
All I know is that I am blazingly angry at the Democratic Party for choosing the WEAKEST most BUMBLING AND UNAWARE candidate they could find. I guess their only concern that that Bye Done will do as he is told.
I can't understand the voters in South Carolina (which no Democrat will win in the general election) voted for someone who couldn't be bothered to campaign in their state. But the same thing happened in other states as well.
Gov. Pritzker has announced a five-phase plan for reopening Illinois. Regardless of the number of cases and availability of testing and contact tracing, phase five -- essentially full reopening -- will not take place until there is a vaccine or effective treatment. That could very well be sometime next year.
New Hampshire__ 1,360,000_______88 Maine__________ 1,344,000_______56 Montana________ 1,069,000_______13 Rhode Island___ 1,059,000______ 333 Fresno County__ 1,000,000________9 Tulare County** __466,000_______41 Delaware_________974,000______ 211 South Dakota_____885,000_______21 North Dakota_____762,000_______26 Alaska___________732,000________5 DC_______________706,000______299 Vermont__________624,000_______53 Wyoming__________579,000________6
*Accuracy of COVID-19 death numbers is uncertain; criteria differ by jurisdiction.
**Tulare County (Devin Nunes’ home county) included for comparison with adjacent Fresno County; Tulare is more Republican, was slower to adopt control measures, and has the biggest nursing home outbreak in California.
Just read this on Facebook: ""A top donor to President Trump and the Republican National Committee will be named the new head of the Postal Service, putting a top ally of the president in charge of an agency where Trump has long pressed for major changes in how it handles its business."
We are so screwed, and we all it ALL to the Republicans.
I'm not sure that one appointee can do a lot of damage in six months, given the way it is regulated. But he could do further damage to Trump's electoral chances. BTW, I think the Post Office ought to bring back the Postal Savings system to get people out of the clutches of payday lenders, and to provide banking services to those banks can't be bothered with.
“We expected this ad to hit. We did not expect him to behave in the completely maniacally way he behaved all day today, but here we are.” — GOP strategist Rick Wilson, quoted by the HuffPost, on the Lincoln Project’s “Mourning in America” ad. [Click]
Millions predicted to develop tuberculosis as result of Covid-19 lockdown [Click] I trained in a hospital with a TB ward; I don't know if there are any left in the US. The diagnostic methods we had worked, but were slow. The fancy modern ones are very fast, but probably impractical in underdeveloped countries. The gal who taught me microbiology (including mycobacteriology) grew up and went to college in DC in the days when (as I recall) about 95% of the population was infected. It was similar in other large cities.
From Liane*in*VT (who is now in MA)...
ReplyDeleteScroll down to page 27 for the full text of the CDC Whistleblower complaint against the administration's malfeasance on handling the pandemic. It's damning.
https://www.kmblegal.com/sites/default/files/NEW%20R.%20Bright%20OSC%20Complaint_Redacted.pdf
VT Today!
ReplyDeleteVT: 908/52 (+1/ 0)
(No deaths for 3 days)
Hospitalised 6 (-2)
Tests 17,876 (+353)
*HUGE* news in Vermont today!!!
DeleteGov Phil Scott has announced that Vermonters may now get together with family and friends, if they keep such gatherings to 10 or fewer people, use common sense and good hygiene.
This means that I can be with my Vermont grandchildren again!!!!!!!!!!!!
I jumped for joy all day and now as I wrote it out I got tears in my eyes!!
My family is looking to begin with very small OUTDOOR gatherings, for the most part.
Also, today, I obtained a written prescription for an antibody test!
DeleteNow to decide if it’s worth giving blood for.
OHIO; COVID 21,576 and 1,225 deaths.
ReplyDelete5.68%
DeleteThe Public Is Astonishingly United [Click] “Pollsters have finally found an issue that transcends partisan divides, with the overwhelming majority of Americans siding against President Trump.”
ReplyDeleteA Black Hole Is ‘Almost on Our Doorstep’ [Click] “The invisible point of darkness resides in a double-star system just 1,000 light-years away.” Fascinating!
ReplyDeleteIt's actually a three-body system, counting the black hole. Such systems are stable only under special circumstances. Proxima Centauri, for example, is so far from Alpha Centauri A and B that it sees them as a single point of attraction. The article doesn't explain why this system is stable.
DeleteThe black hole and one of the stars revolve around their common center of gravity; the second star is much farther out, and revolves around the common center of gravity of the three. Or so it seems to me from the illustration.
DeleteEchoes of the union activism of the 1930’s [Click] (It was thought that the Depression would break the unions. Didn’t work out that way.)
ReplyDeleteSpanish film made by mystery female director discovered during lockdown [Click] “Mallorca, an eight-minute documentary, could be Spain’s first talking picture directed by a woman”
ReplyDeleteHere's a bunch more, and then I better do in some weeds:
ReplyDeleteTrump Doubles Down On Plan To ‘Terminate’ Obamacare In SCOTUS Case [Click] With a second wave of coronavirus deaths just getting started, this *ought* to be quite a motivator for voters.
Pelosi: ‘Death Is Not An Economic Motivator’ [Click]
“A company created just six weeks ago by a pair of Republican operatives collected hundreds of millions of dollars in payments from desperate state and local governments for coronavirus supplies, but is now facing a federal criminal investigation and a rising chorus of complaints from customers who say their orders never arrived,” the NY Times reports. [Click]
A new Monmouth poll finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump among registered voters, 50% to 41% with another 3% saying they would vote for an independent candidate and 5% undecided.
A new Economist/YouGov tracking poll finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in the presidential race, 46% to 42% with 4% choosing someone else and 5% still unsure.
In case you missed it: As President Trump toured an Arizona face mask manufacturing plant, the song “Live and Let Die,” as performed by Guns ‘N Roses, blared in the background.
Michael Tomasky: American Exceptionalism is Dead. And then some. [Click]
Why Trump Should Worry About His Approval Rate [Click]
Box Scores Show Trump Lied His Ass Off About Being a High School Baseball Legend [Click] I’m shocked! Shocked, I say! And totally surprised!
https://www.washingtonian.com/1974/06/01/joe-biden-kitty-kelley-1974-profile-death-and-the-all-american-boy/
ReplyDeleteFrom the article:
"“Let me show you my favorite picture of her,” he says, holding up a snapshot of Neilia in a bikini. “She had the best body of any woman I ever saw. She looks better than a Playboy bunny, doesn’t she?
“My beautiful millionaire wife was a conservative Republican before she met me. But she changed her registration. At first she didn’t want me to run for the Senate—we had such a beautiful thing going, and we knew all those stories about what politics can do to a marriage. She didn’t want that to happen. At first she stayed at home with the kids while I campaigned but that didn’t work out because I’d come back too tired to talk to her. I might satisfy her in bed but I didn’t have much time for anything else."
Aarrgghh! I threw up in my mouth.
Bleeaakh!!!!
DeletePardon me for doubting that the leopard can change its spots. And I can safely say that such speech was not common in my experience of those times.
DeleteAll I know is that I am blazingly angry at the Democratic Party for choosing the WEAKEST most BUMBLING AND UNAWARE candidate they could find. I guess their only concern that that Bye Done will do as he is told.
DeleteI can't understand the voters in South Carolina (which no Democrat will win in the general election) voted for someone who couldn't be bothered to campaign in their state. But the same thing happened in other states as well.
DeleteGov. Pritzker has announced a five-phase plan for reopening Illinois. Regardless of the number of cases and availability of testing and contact tracing, phase five -- essentially full reopening -- will not take place until there is a vaccine or effective treatment. That could very well be sometime next year.
ReplyDeleteAnd because that makes it essentially impossible to plan for any future date, the 2020 Disability Pride Parade was cancelled last night.
Delete😟
DeleteLocality_______ Population___COVID deaths*
ReplyDeleteNew Hampshire__ 1,360,000_______88
Maine__________ 1,344,000_______56
Montana________ 1,069,000_______13
Rhode Island___ 1,059,000______ 333
Fresno County__ 1,000,000________9
Tulare County** __466,000_______41
Delaware_________974,000______ 211
South Dakota_____885,000_______21
North Dakota_____762,000_______26
Alaska___________732,000________5
DC_______________706,000______299
Vermont__________624,000_______53
Wyoming__________579,000________6
*Accuracy of COVID-19 death numbers is uncertain; criteria differ by jurisdiction.
**Tulare County (Devin Nunes’ home county) included for comparison with adjacent Fresno County; Tulare is more Republican, was slower to adopt control measures, and has the biggest nursing home outbreak in California.
Go Fresno County!
DeleteThe Pandemic Has Revealed the Weakness of Strongmen [Click] “Women leaders are a symptom of a political system’s success, not necessarily its cause.”
ReplyDeleteJust read this on Facebook: ""A top donor to President Trump and the Republican National Committee will be named the new head of the Postal Service, putting a top ally of the president in charge of an agency where Trump has long pressed for major changes in how it handles its business."
ReplyDeleteWe are so screwed, and we all it ALL to the Republicans.
I'm not sure that one appointee can do a lot of damage in six months, given the way it is regulated. But he could do further damage to Trump's electoral chances. BTW, I think the Post Office ought to bring back the Postal Savings system to get people out of the clutches of payday lenders, and to provide banking services to those banks can't be bothered with.
DeleteNYT: Trump Declares Victory Before the War Is Over [Click]
ReplyDelete“Top Democratic lawmakers say the Trump administration should share with Congress the allegedly ‘enormous’ evidence showing that the coronavirus sprang from a Chinese lab” [Click]
Supreme Embarrassment [Click] Maybe SCOTUS should have held a rehearsal?
Trump Lashes Out Because He Knows [we know] the Truth [Click]
“We expected this ad to hit. We did not expect him to behave in the completely maniacally way he behaved all day today, but here we are.”
— GOP strategist Rick Wilson, quoted by the HuffPost, on the Lincoln Project’s “Mourning in America” ad. [Click]
Arizona Halts Work on Model Predicting Virus Peak [Click] Because it isn’t what Our Dear Leader wants to hear.
ReplyDeleteMillions predicted to develop tuberculosis as result of Covid-19 lockdown [Click] I trained in a hospital with a TB ward; I don't know if there are any left in the US. The diagnostic methods we had worked, but were slow. The fancy modern ones are very fast, but probably impractical in underdeveloped countries. The gal who taught me microbiology (including mycobacteriology) grew up and went to college in DC in the days when (as I recall) about 95% of the population was infected. It was similar in other large cities.
ReplyDeleteA hundred years ago most medical school graduates were infected with TB, and a quarter of them would die of it.
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