The NY Times: Could Buttigieg Be Harris’s V.P. Pick? His Donors Hope So.
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The NY Times: Could Buttigieg Be Harris’s V.P. Pick? His Donors Hope So.
Can't wait for their campaign yard signs:
"VOTE HO AND MO! 2024!"
🤣
Is that what experts say?Psychology, conflicting rules, misinformation and anxiety fueling bad behavior and violence, experts say[.]
"...decades of sound public health policy." Okay, then.San Francisco is using private donations to deliver alcohol, tobacco and medical marijuana to a few dozen people dealing with addiction as they isolate or quarantine in city-leased hotel rooms during the pandemic, officials confirmed Wednesday.
There are about 270 people, mostly homeless, staying in hotel rooms to recover from COVID-19 or to wait out possible exposure to the virus. Nearly a dozen people have received alcohol and more than two dozen have received tobacco, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
City officials said that private donations pay for the items, and that helping manage nicotine, opioid and alcohol cravings ensures that recovering people don't go out and possibly infect others.
Dr. Grant Colfax, San Francisco's public health director, said the harm-reduction approach is widespread and based on decades of sound public health policy.
Typical Liberal...do nothing proactive. Wait until chaos hits then be reactive.New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, has said he wishes he had “blown the bugle” about Covid-19 earlier.
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“When we heard in December that China had a virus problem,” he said, “and China said basically, ‘It was under control, don’t worry,’ we should’ve worried.
“When China says, ‘Don’t worry, I have a fire in my backyard,’ you don’t hang up the phone and go back to sleep, right? You get out of your house and you walk two houses over to make sure I have the fire under control. Where was every other country walking out of their home to make sure China had it under control?”
Cuomo added: “I wish someone stood up and blew the bugle. And if no one was going to blow the bugle, I would feel much better if I was a bugle blower last December and January ... I would feel better sitting here today saying, ‘I blew the bugle about Wuhan province in January.’ I can’t say that.”
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is set to cruise into a fourth four-year term as governor of New York, a feat no Democrat has ever accomplished in the state.I have a terribly low supply of sympathy for people who continue to cut themselves and then whine that they're bleeding and why won't someone help me?
During an interview that aired on Sunday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” Microsoft co-founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates argued against a focus on China for allegations it mishandled the early stages of the coronavirus breakout and could have act early to have prevented the global pandemic."[China] missed some things..."? It's like Gates is pulling an Ilhan Omar, "Some people did something."
Gates said it was not timely and it was also a “distraction.”
“I don’t think that’s a timely thing because it doesn’t affect how we act today,” Gates said. “You know, China did a lot of things right at the beginning, like any country where a virus first shows up. They can look back and say they missed some things.["]
The April 14 Patch Tuesday updates included fixes for a total of 133 vulnerabilities, including seven critical security flaws in Windows 10.
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And bugs there seem to be, with one cumulative security fix[.]
Scientists have cast doubt on everything we thought we knew about the origins of the coronavirus. A new report from the University of Cambridge claims to shed new light on the initial outbreak in China.-
It has so far been widely accepted that the Covid-19 infection originated in a wet market in the Wuhan province late last year. But the new research suggests it may have started farther south and was spreading among humans as early as September.
The findings have been published by the research team in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - although have not been peer-reviewed. They cite a "network" of infections that has thrown existing knowledge into doubt.
"The virus may have mutated into its final 'human-efficient' form months ago, but stayed inside a bat or other animal or even human for several months without infecting other individuals," University of Cambridge geneticist Peter Forster said on Thursday[.]
"Then, it started infecting and spreading among humans between September 13 and December 7, generating the network we present in [the journal] Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [PNAS]."
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By counting the various mutations of the virus, they were able to get closer to figuring out when the first human was infected by a strain closest to a virus spread among bats.
They found hundreds of mutations, indicating that the virus may have been spreading quietly in host animals for years before finally infecting humans.
A coronavirus typically acquires one mutation a month.
There have been unverified reports that the virus originated in a Wuhan lab where researchers were doing work into diseases in bats, but the new study doesn't support that.
"If I am pressed for an answer, I would say the original spread started more likely in southern China than in Wuhan," Mr Forster said.
The Chinese city of Wuhan – ground zero for the coronavirus pandemic – has revised its fatality count, increasing the total by just shy of 1,300 deaths, which officials say went unreported due to “delays” and “omissions.”I don't think we have any idea of what's really going on in China and we may never know the full extent of their "omissions". I wonder what the future holds for more reports of more Corona death "omitted fatalities"?
Authorities in Wuhan added another 1,290 deaths to the city’s death toll on Friday, putting the overall figures at 50,333 infections and 3,869 fatalities in the virus’ first epicenter.
The revision was necessary to “address incorrect reporting, delays and omissions of cases,” city officials said, according to Reuters, with the new numbers increasing Wuhan’s death tally by some 50 percent.
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China’s comparatively low fatality figures – which never broke 5,000 overall – have prompted accusations from US officials, who insist the country vastly underreported deaths and new cases and that Beijing conspired with the World Health Organization to “cover up” the extent of its crisis. Little evidence has been brought to support the assertion, however.
Only boat with those in your immediate household.Run! RUN! Run from your vehicle or door to your boat, and the other way around. Don't look behind you. Just run! RUN! Keep moving! Faster! Just RUN! RUN-FUCKING-RUN!!
Do not invite guests onto your boat. This includes family members not in your immediate household and your favorite fishing buddies. (I've always found the best fishing trips were those with strangers who later turned out being serial killers. I didn't know at the time. - DD)
Go right from your house to the boat and back, avoiding all unnecessary contact with anyone during your trip. (WTF is this, "TWD"? -DD)
Do not use a beach, boat ramp or marina that is closed. (Now where's the fun in that? - DD)
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It was announced earlier this week that the State of Minnesota was loosening the requirements for its Stay at Home order so that more people in the leisure boating industry would be able to return to work. (It's okay for a group of strangers to hop onto a commercial, leisure boat but not okay for non-family members to join you on your personal boat? Hey, this makes perfect sense, I mean, we're talking about procedures created by Minnesota bureaucrats.- DD)
Protesters inside their vehicles lined the streets around the Michigan Capitol Wednesday ahead of a noon rally to protest provisions of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's executive order that aims to protect public health during the coronavirus pandemic.
Several of the vehicles participating in "Operation Gridlock" sported American flags and MAGA (Make America Great Again) banners. A banner across the Capitol lawn read "Security without liberty is called prison."
Drivers laid on their horns repeatedly, and others had megaphones.
The protest is organized by the Michigan Conservative Coalition, which told supporters to "come ready for a potentially major traffic jam around the (taxpayer funded) Michigan Capitol Building."
A press release from the group warned attendees to "display signs, make noise and be disruptive, but stay in your vehicle so that the 'Whitmer police' cannot say you are ignoring the 'social distancing' order."
Face masks aren't mandatory everywhere, but strict rules on wearing them have been enforced in the Czech Republic -- even for nudists.
The European country has begun to relax restrictions imposed because of the coronavirus, but at the height of concerns late last month, police were called in to remind people that while it was OK to get naked in designated public places, mouths needed to be covered.
Czech law enforcers issued a warning after officers were called out on March 27 in the small town of Lázně Bohdaneč, east of Prague, because of complaints about maskless naturists basking in warm weather.
"Unfortunately, many of the sunbathing citizens were gathered in large groups, and some were not wearing face masks.," a police statement said. "Upon the arrival of the police, everyone agreed to respect the government regulation [that face shields are compulsory outside the home].
"Citizens are allowed to be without clothes in designated locations, but they still must cover their mouths, and only gather in appropriate numbers."
Someone needs to ask Dr. Fauci about Covid-19 being spread by farts. Do we need ass-masks or do we wear pants over our head?Do farts spread the COVID-19 virus? Pants work just fine to cut off novel coronavirus transmission in farts, a Beijing district disease control center announced on Sunday.
In a lengthy and seemingly humorous yet serious article on its WeChat account, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of Tongzhou district in Beijing clarified that farts, normally, do not constitute another transmission route of COVID-19, unless someone takes a good and rather close sniff of gas from a pantless patient.
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The findings made some worry that the virus is too "toxic" that farts could be a new transmission route.
Some anxious individuals also called for mass production of N95 facial mask-like protection for their bottoms.
The Tongzhou district CDC said it had clearly done their homework before writing the article, and they cited a fart experiment carried out by Karl Kruszelnicki and Luke Tennent a couple of years ago. Their findings were published on discovermagazine.com with the conclusion that pants can effectively screen out germs.
That is to say, as long as everyone is wearing their pants, there is no need to be worried that passing gas would cause a micro biological contamination risk.
...researcher, Jeremy Howard, pointed to findings in dozens of scientific papers that indicate even the most basic of masks can be an effective tool in reducing virus transmission. A simple mask can be made without sewing by tying together two layers of a cut-up cotton blend T-shirt and covering the face and nose with it, being sure to wash the covering after each use.Jeremy Howard was also on Laura Ingraham's program tonight and a segment featuring DIY paper towel masks. Take two or three sheets of paper towel, keep folding it length-wise until narrow, staple the ends together including a rubber band being attached with a staple (or two). Unfold it, put rubber bands on your ears, cover your mouth and nose and there ya go, a disposable face mask.
JUCCII MANE@JucciiMane -22h-
Replying to @brandonBowser10
I work in a Radiology department in a hospital. My hours have been cut and I showed up to work today and have been told to not show up the rest of the week. It’s absolutely dead in our hospital. The media is LYING, AGAIN!
JUCCII MANE@JucciiMane -22h
The worst part of all this is I now believe that our hospitals are run by the same groups that run the media. We have 30 potential covid patients, I think only 3 are positive. But they won’t tell us which ones are the positives.
82ndVet@82ndVet -Mar 30
Replying to @brandonBowser10 and @JimDelRey
I’m furloughed tomorrow. So I will be doing the same here in CT tomorrow. I’ll be see the war zone for myself. [sic]
Q-baby@SuperPowersT -17h
Replying to @brandonBowser10 and @TruthSeekerQSD
Brandon, took your cue. Canton GA Northside Cherokee Hospital. March 30 2020. Crickets. This is a 544 bed university hospital that services north Georgia rural areas as well.
WarDamnEagle@Wardamn5 -22h
Replying to @brandonBowser10
Either they’re awaiting some randomly predicted #ChineseBioterrorism apocalypse incoming soon.. or.. there something MUCH bigger coming that they are preparing for that we the people don’t know about!
Robert Stones@Hontorstones -22h
Replying to @brandonBowser10
Same with many hospitals in Utah. Things could change but for now very little is going on and staff are having hours cut.
Candy THE END IS NIGH Truong@CandyTruong0122 -15h
Replying to @brandonBowser10
My brother's wife is a surgical nurse at Beaumont in Detroit. I was kinda shocked when she posted today she is going to be sent home because there's "no work". 2 days ago, this hospital was "almost at capacity"?
ChrisCunningham@Chris22748242 -14h
Replying to @brandonBowser10
I work at 2 hospitals in Minneapolis MN and both have been ghost towns for the past couple weeks.
Bill Pearlman@BillPRealtorPRO -20h
Replying to @brandonBowser10
I live in NY and this stuff is REAL. I hope and pray it doesn’t come your way but don’t bet on it and don’t let down your guards. follow all guidance quickly.
Davidpingree101@davidpingree101 -18h
CA is not bad. I’m a firefighter here and hospitals are cleaner and emptier than I’ve ever seen them. Our call volume is down 60% also.
Randomness@Random2012756 -14h
Replying to @brandonBowser10
My sister in law’s hospital she works in is empty too - Jacksonville FL.
Josh Gondeiro@GondeiroJosh -22h
Replying to @brandonBowser10
My sister works at a hospital in fort worth, she said its slow there as well. In fact they were sending nurses home due to lack of patients. Dont believe every thing you hear from the msm.