James Hohmann reports that Guiliani received the same special treatment as Trump and was released from the hospital. Since he recovered so easily, he still opposes mask mandates.
Wednesday was one of the deadliest days in American history, as the coronavirus killed 3,140 people. This is 673 more Americans than the Japanese massacred in their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. It is more than twice the number of souls as perished aboard the Titanic.
In another record, 106,000 Americans are currently hospitalized with covid-19. President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is no longer among them. He flashed reporters a thumbs-up as he was driven away from MedStar Georgetown University Hospital at around 5 p.m. on Wednesday.
“Back 100% and lost little time,” Giuliani tweeted this morning.
The former New York mayor said he received remdesivir, dexamethasone and “exactly the same” treatment that Trump got in October when he was hospitalized, which the president has often credited for his speedy recovery.
“The minute I took the cocktail yesterday, I felt 100 percent better,” Giuliani said in a Tuesday afternoon interview with WABC, a New York talk radio station. “It works very quickly. Wow! … By the next morning, I felt like I was 10 years younger.”
As beds fill up, patients who need hospital care — for the virus or for something else — cannot get it. Many intensive care units are overwhelmed. More and more places face looming, life-and-death decisions about rationing care.
Giuliani himself acknowledged that he got “celebrity” treatment. He said the president’s doctor, apparently referring to White House physician Sean Conley, talked him into being admitted. “I didn’t really want to go to the hospital, and he said, ‘Don’t be stupid,’” Giuliani recounted. “We can get it over with in three days if we send you to the hospital.”…
But the VIP treatment for Trump and his crew, including access to the best cocktails of experimental drugs, seems like an important part of the explanation for why the president and his inner-circle continue to speak so flippantly about the dangers of the virus that has now killed at least 288,000 Americans.
Just like Trump after he got out of Walter Reed in October, Giuliani emphasized during his talk-radio appearance that his four-day stay in the hospital has not changed his perspective about the virus or lessened his opposition to mask mandates. He expressed no contrition for his pattern of reckless behavior that forced the Arizona legislature to close for this week and public health officials in Michigan to encourage people who attended a state legislative hearing at which Giuliani spoke to self-quarantine. Giuliani even claimed that covid-19 is “a curable disease at this point.”
“I have exactly the same view,” he said. “I have also been through cancer. … Things happen in life. You have to go with them. You can’t overreact to them. Otherwise you let the fear of illness drive your entire life. … I’d rather face risk than live in a basement all my life.”
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I think this is outrageous. It is absolutely disgustingly corrupt that these political celebrities are getting special, reserved medical care that is unavailable to the vast, vast majority of people.
And they’re bragging about it!
I had to get tested for covid because my son was exposed in school. It took me half a day off work to find and secure testing and almost 4 days to get the results back.
No other advanced country treats their citizens this poorly. This country simply doesn’t function anymore. It works well for a tiny group of very rich people and celebrities- everyone else gets treated like garbage. The problem is the corruption. Our leaders are wildly corrupt. Until that’s addressed the country will continue to decline.
The United States can’t even manage to test their citizens in a pandemic, let alone treat them. Every other advanced country managed it except this one.
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To the tune of “Que Sera, Sera,” with lots of apologies to the glorious Doris Day
GHOULIAN [does his little demon dance
as flowers fall from heaven]:
When I was just a little ghoul
I asked my mother, what will I be?
Will I be pretty (no).
Be someone’s b—ch? (yes)
Here’s what she said to me:
Que sera, sera
Whatever will be, will be.
You’re a great ghoul, Rudy.
Que sera, sera.
What will be, will be.
When I grew up and fell in cahoots,
I told my Master, your will is mine to do.
I’ll dig up that dirt for you.
Go quid pro quo, you know
Your will is done through me.
This is my specialty (I can’t even spell unseemly)
When Master lost, “Fear not,” I said.
I’ve got this covered. I’ve got this thing.
I’ve booked Total Landscaping
for a total freakshow:
crematorium . . . me . . . dildos.
When I went maskless and caught the disease,
I asked my master, what lies ahead?
Will I be sickly? Will I be dead?
Here’s what he said to me:
Que sera, sera,
But you’ll get special treatment here.
You’ll get the Remdesivir.
It’s all ours, you see?
Que sera, sera.
What will be, will be.
Now that I’ve gotten better
I say to others, it’s great to be me.
No, I’m not pretty.
Yes, I’m Trump’s b—ch.
But listen now carefully:
Que sera, sera.
Whatever will be, will be.
Don’t take this so seriously.
Your health’s no concern to me.
Que sera, sera.
What will be, will be.
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The NYT buried a story about how Trump and his pals are getting access to medicines that are being heavily rationed by doctors. There was an interview with an anonymous rich man who used his connections to get access to those treatments and even with his connections, it wasn’t easy. But Rudy G. apparently got those drugs, too.
That should be a huge story, not buried, and it should be headlines day after day, with every Republican having to go on record to answer the question “should Trump’s friends and family get the drugs that the people dying in your state cannot, and what are you doing to stop that medicine going to people who have connections instead of all the people in your state sick and dying right now?”
I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but I’m wondering if this treatment is similar to the use of masks. When there was a shortage of masks at the beginning, the need to wear masks was played down. Now there is a shortage of these drugs given to Trump and Rudy G and Ben Carson, and I wonder if the results are much more helpful than is being reported.
This isn’t like that false hydroxychloroquine claims, where Trump was pushing something that people in power weren’t taking. I notice that Trump has been quite silent on pushing the medicines he did take (a huge contrast from his pushing hydroxychloroquine over and over). There is clearly a huge shortage of that experimental cocktail of medicines, and while they have yet to be proven via a gold standard study, it does appear that the cocktail may be very effective. And if you have the connections to Trump, apparently it is available. To other folks, not so much.
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You realize why the people in and around the Trump Administration are so reckless about covid- they know their corrupt cronies will make sure they get special treatment should their reckless behavior result in illness.
The lack of basic decency in our “elites” is just appalling. They’re terrible people. Reckless, thoughtless, greedy and privileged. A bunch of spoiled children dressed in expensive suits.
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I think the issue should be with the FDA who will ok the drugs or the drug manufactures producing them. If medical folks want Hydrochloroquin in some states the governors will not allow the pharmacists to dispense it. Where I live, the hospital refuses to RX people early–sends them home and tells them to return when they are very ill. A small clinic run by nurse practitioners are successful at giving it (without insurance payment) along with the zpac and zinc which we know is effective early on.There are other treatments too,. but Fauci will not go along. Trump is staying out of it…he has seen what the pollicization has done. I am surprised that someone even reported that Rudy was doing well..but had to stick it to the president somehow. Pathetic!
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April Reiners Featherkile: Medical folks who want to give hydroxychloroquine should be more knowledgeable on what it can and can’t do.
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Hydroxychloroquine does not benefit adults hospitalized with COVID-19
November 9, 2020, 11:00 AM EST
A National Institutes of Health clinical trial evaluating the safety and effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of adults with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has formally concluded that the drug provides no clinical benefit to hospitalized patients. Though found not to cause harm, early findings in June when the trial was stopped indicated that the drug was not improving outcomes in COVID-19 patients. Final data and analyses of the trial, which was funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of NIH, will appear online Nov. 9 in the Journal of the American Medical Association external link…
NIH officials said the careful design, implementation, and oversight of the study was key to its results, as well as the recommendation by a data and safety monitoring board (DSMB) to stop the trial early.
“Having a rigorously designed clinical trial that captured patient-centered, clinically meaningful outcomes was critical to reaching the unequivocal conclusions about the use of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19. ORCHID shows that hydroxychloroquine does not improve clinical outcomes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients,” said James P. Kiley, Ph.D., director, Division of Lung Diseases at NHLBI. “We hope this clear result will help practitioners make informed treatment decisions and researchers continue their efforts pursuing other possible safe and effective treatments for patients suffering with this disease.”…
https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/news/2020/hydroxychloroquine-does-not-benefit-adults-hospitalized-covid-19
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Giuliani-” I’d rather face risk than live in a basement all my life.” Face Risk–the problem is we are not all on a level RISK playing field. We all have different health issues that affect our Risks. People that refuse to wear mask may be causing the rest of us to become sick or worse die. Most of us will not have access to the special cocktail treatment Giuliani received. 288,000 Americans deceased. Where are the pro-life activist urging everyone to wear masks. Where are the church leaders using media to urge people to proactively wear mask to help save lives. Where are ALL our representatives in Congress urging everyone to do their civic duty and wear masks.
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” I’d rather face risk than live in a basement all my life.”
I thought that Ghouliani (Thanks Bob!) lived in a coffin ⚰️
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In the attic?
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“The minute I took the cocktail yesterday, I felt 100 percent better,” Giuliani said in a Tuesday afternoon interview with WABC, a New York talk radio station. “It works very quickly. Wow! … By the next morning, I felt like I was 10 years younger.”
Sounds like an advertisement to me.
Makes you wonder whether Giuliani or one of his relatives has stock in the companies making remdecivir and dexamethasone
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I’m just waiting to hear “Let them eat cake” any minute. CBK
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Oh, just so wonderful to hear. In March, I get a call while I was teaching my Adult Ed Saturday morning class, “You need to get home; there is something wrong with your son.” It turns out my healthy 26-year-old son had a heart attack and stroke and was rushed to the Regional Cardiac Hospital. For the next week, no one could really find out what caused it. We kept wondering, “How are we going to pay for this?” Didn’t matter we would figure it out. Thank God we got him an ICU bed before COVID really hit. He had just turned 26 (so no longer on our insurance), but we found out that MediCal would cover. Once he got back home, the real work started. Where to find a doctor in our area that took MediCal. It took many hours on the phone to finally find a doctor, get him to see a neurologist and cardiologist. We are still getting bills that are to be paid by the insurance. He did recover, but no one really knows. It could have been Covid, but he did not have the antibodies in his system. So yeah, so nice to know, “I don’t have to worry. I get whatever I want. I get the best treatment. La dee dee laddee dah.”
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Horrific. We are the only advanced industrialized country where getting treatment if you aren’t rich is a freaking nightmare.
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Instead of universal healthcare, we get an inefficient patchwork of for profit providers whose main interest is the financial health of the company, not your health. I am talking about the companies, not the doctors and nurses that are exhausted from laboring on the front lines of the virus. I am glad your son survived his ordeal, and you don’t have to sell your house to pay for it. We are the only industrialized nation in which illness can drive people into dire poverty.
It is insulting that Guiliani and Trump make light of deadly disease after so many Americans have lost their lives. This administration is a disgrace. Trump and his smug, dismissive cronies are a blight on our country,
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I got over my covid without any treatment. I sure am glad we do not have tht socicalism like all those other places. Can you imagine what it would be like if the government told G he had to wait in line with all the other chumps. Death Squads, I say.
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Ghouliani looks bad enough as it is.
We would not want him looking even worse, would we?
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I wonder if the doctors in the hospital were able to fix his leaky hair as well.
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I see your categories: Health, Inequity, Trump. These are spot on.
But there are big-time efforts to market herd immunity as the “solution” to the explosion of Covid-19 deaths.
“Herd immunity”–the endpoint of this virus– is being pushed as if that is the natural fate of this and other viruses. Who is pushing this? Over 43,000 people who signed the Great Barrington Declaration. One of the co-authors of that declaration called “herd immunity the anti-COVID sensible strategy” in a speech delivered October 9, 2020 in Omaha at the Hillsdale Free Market Forum. The speech came to my attention because I subscribe to the extreme right wing “Imprimis” publication from Hillsdale that reaches over 5.6 million readers a month.
The credentials of this free-market salesperson for herd immunity, Dr. Jay Bhattachraya, are impressive. He has is an MD and has a Ph.D. in economics. He is Director of the Stanford Center on Demography and Economics of Health and Aging.
I read his presentation with a clear understanding that I may or may not be the subject of his idea of being in “focussed protection,” that is, a person at the highest risk of infection, but who is not (yet) in assisted living or a nursing home. For me, focussed protection would be nothing short of a permanent lockdown, food delivered to me, possibly an occasional visit from another person outside…weather permitting.
According to Dr. Bhattachraya everyone who is not in “focussed protection” should IMMEDIATELY be allowed to resume life as normal with everyone complying with simple hygiene measures like washing hands and staying at home while sick. These measures alone would “reduce the herd immunity threshold.” Masks do not need to be required.There is no need for remote instruction, closedowns of restaurants, bars, no limits on sports, and so on.
Dr. Jay Bhattachraya believes that everyone not in his categories for low-risk groups should resume normal activities and “enjoy the protection conferred upon the vulnerable by those who have built up herd immunity.”
Herd immunity, claims the double doctor, is “a biological fact that applies to most infectious diseases,” it is not a “strategy of letting people die.” We are now some distance from his presentation in early October. He is less interested in reports of COVID cases, COVID infections, and COVID case fatality rates than the fact that “the majority of people who are infected with COVIS have very mild symptoms or no symptoms at all.”
Nowhere is this MD concerned about the health care workers, many MDs, who are exhausted from this non-stop peddling of the idea that herd immunity is a great idea.
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Thank you, this is very important information. However, I can see how powerful the right wing propaganda can be when I read this:
“The credentials of this free-market salesperson for herd immunity, Dr. Jay Bhattachraya, are impressive. He has is an MD and has a Ph.D. in economics. He is Director of the Stanford Center on Demography and Economics of Health and Aging.”
This guy has all kinds of problems, including the fact that he ran a terribly flawed Santa Clara County covid-19 antibody study in which his wife was improperly soliciting participants from her kid’s affluent school, and this guy hyped early results that were not true in order to push the false right wing Trump narrative that huge percentages of people already had COVID-19 antibodies and it was no big deal. This doctor was investigated by Stanford University because of his improper actions with that study and his using his wife to solicit participants although that investigation’s results don’t seem to have been released yet.
Furthermore, this guy – Dr. Jay Bhattahraya – has gone out of his way to attack the reporter who truthfully reported that his wife was improperly soliciting participants in his antibody study. What makes Jay Bhattahraya truly reprehensible in a way only a Trump sycophant can be is that I heard him blatantly deceiving the public with a completely dishonest statement that the reporter “went after his family” (with no detail) which was clearly designed to imply the reporter went after his children to garner hatred and punishment toward a reporter who had the integrity that Dr. Bhattahraya lacks.
This man lacks any moral or ethical compass,as he proved by lying about a reporter and trying to get Trump’s violent followers to believe the reporter did something wrong, instead of apologizing for his wrongdoings. The fact that the news media still treats him like something other than a political hack is disturbing. He is like Trump in which he would rather harm innocent people than admit he was wrong. That is truly scary.
The only surprise about this man without any moral or ethical compass who lied in order to foment hate against an innocent reporter being one of the 3 lead scientists in the Great Barrington Declaration is that he didn’t do that back in May or June. No doubt he was waiting until the amnesia-prone news media forgot about what a moral and ethical sycophant he was.
It isn’t a surprise that he gets away with it, as all right wingers without moral compasses always do.
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NYC Parent Am I the only one who is sensing a resonance between this guy (Dr. Jay Bhattachraya) with his absence of morality, and Bill Gates with his reducing the education of children to the principles of manufacturing and marketing?
And they both claim that those who oppose their cultural-gutter view just don’t understand? CBK
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I suppose we should be grateful that Scientific American was one of the few publications to correct some of the awful reporting that has been done that legitimizes these science hacks. But that was only after they first published a hugely problematic article.
If you want to see how badly the media has been co-opted with “amnesia”, see what happened with a Scientific American article published 11/30/20. “The Ioannidis Affair: A Tale of Major Scientific Overreaction, By Shannon Brownlee, Jeanne Lenzer on November 30, 2020”
But especially read the CORRECTION that Scientific American had to publish (which comes before the first paragraph of the article):
“Editor’s note: This article was originally published on November 30, 2020 with a number of errors and misleading claims. First, it should have been labeled “Opinion,” but was not. Second, the authors’ bylines were omitted. Third, the authors failed to note that they have collaborated in the past with both John Ioannidis and Vinay Prasad, who are discussed in this essay, and also in this accompanying story. This, we now understand, was also the case with a similar opinion piece by the same authors in Undark magazine in June. Fourth, the authors did not disclose that there were other problematic issues raised about the design of a study co-authored by John Ioannidis, most notably how the study authors recruited study participants and how independent faculty at Stanford said that they were unable to verify the accuracy of their test.
Other specific errors or omissions are noted with asterisks in the text below. Scientific American sincerely regrets all of these errors.”
Here are some of the ***asterisk corrections:
****BuzzFeed points out that “what the many critics of the study actually said was that, due to the low prevalence of COVID-19 at the time the study was conducted, the small number of individuals included in the study, and what was known about the specificity of the test, the researchers could not rule out the possibility that the positive test results they got could have all been false positives. In other words, they couldn’t disprove the null hypothesis that all the positive results were false. This is not an “absurd” statistical argument; this is a basic principle underlying such testing
******The authors of this piece failed to mention that the BuzzFeed story was based on a whistleblower complaint filed to Stanford by someone involved in the research. This complaint spurred the investigation cited later in the piece. The whistleblower complaint clearly stated, “Concern that the authors were affected by a severe conflict of interest is unavoidable.”
For the record, Stephanie M. Lee is the outstanding science reporter for Buzzfeed who was personally trashed and demonized by Dr. Jay Bhattachraya. The good doctor is just like Trump — he would rather harm someone and doesn’t care what his lies cause rather than to admit he was wrong. He is the perfect man to promote the right wing Trump view of the pandemic — someone with no integrity who would rather demonize and sow hatred against an innocent person than admit he was wrong. Just like Trump. That these dishonest people have any power is a sign that our news media is complicit in the failure of democracy.
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Or as Our Stable Genius President calls it, “herd mentality.”
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Giuliani: “Things happen in life.. You have to go with them. You can’t overreact to them.”
How about the people who get no treatments and are in the hallways in hospitals where no ICU beds are available? What about the millions who have no health insurance or have co-pays they can’t afford? What about the lack of PPE for medical workers or nurses who have no health insurance?
This is a lame-brained way of thinking. “I got the best care so screw all of you who won’t.” No wonder he is Trump’s $20,000 a day lawyer. They think alike.
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Well, it’s a bit of an exaggeration to call what Jabba the Trump and Ghouliani do “thinking.”
What a couple disgusting PesOS.
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They would be lucky if they could cobble together a single thought between them — and even then it would not be coherent.
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That is the individualistic mantra of this maladministration. “I’ve got mine so I don’t care about you.”
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Curious about that treatment that’s allegedly is only for the rich and/or powerful (Does Trump really count in that group?), I Googled it and found this:
“Experiments in both golden hamsters and rhesus macaques that were intentionally infected with SARS-CoV-2 showed the cocktail could reduce viral levels and disease pathology.” NOTE: There’s a lot more info through the link.
Now they can add the Kremlin’s Agent Orange and Irrational Batty Rudy to the list of creatures that were experimented on with this drug.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/heres-what-known-about-president-donald-trump-s-covid-19-treatment
We can also add this to the list of reasons why Trump doesn’t want to stop being president. As president for life, he will get the best medical care and drugs in the world and also never have to answer for any crimes or pay off the billion dollars in loans coming due in the next few years.
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Obscene
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The central question that was obviously never asked is ” Is Giuliani worth saving?”
For what?
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All that money spent on nothing.
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FYI, do people know that Joe Biden’s choice for Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Xavier Becerra, has a long history of supporting Medicare for All?
Just saying, Biden seems to be doing a very good job of balancing his cabinet. Having a moderate in defense or agriculture is a pretty decent compromise for having a progressive in healthcare and in education.
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^^correction: Becerra is the nominee for Health and Human Services. I’m still stuck in the 1970s!! Becerra for healthcare policy and hopefully someone pro-public education for Secy of education. Sounds okay to me.
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And Trump says and does NOTHING. He is only concerned about telling his followers that he won the election. [No need to wear a mask. COVID-19 is nothing to be concerned about. Giuliani says it is a curable disease.]
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‘Numb’ and ‘Heartbroken,’ the U.S. Confronts Record Virus Deaths
For the first time, the United States reported more than 3,000 coronavirus deaths in a day. But with cases still rising, experts warn “the worst is yet to come.”
Published Dec. 10, 2020
Updated Dec. 11, 2020, 12:05 a.m. ET
…The new daily death record — 3,055 individuals who blew out birthday candles, made mistakes, laughed and cried before succumbing to the virus — far surpassed the spring peak of 2,752 deaths on April 15 and amounted to a stunning embodiment of the pandemic’s toll. In a single day, the country, numbed and divided, lost more Americans to the coronavirus than were killed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks or the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Catherine Troisi, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at the UTHealth School of Public Health in Houston, said she had cried watching the faces of coronavirus victims on “PBS NewsHour” and expected the death toll to accelerate, in part because current numbers likely do not reflect infections from Thanksgiving gatherings.
“The worst is yet to come in the next week or two or three,” she said. “What happens after that is going to depend on our behavior today.”
The United States recorded a new weekly death record for the seven-day period ending Thursday, and is reporting more new cases and hospitalizations than ever before. More than 290,000 people have died nationwide during the pandemic.
With a current average of more than 2,200 deaths per day, Covid-19 is, for at least this moment, surpassing heart disease and cancer as the leading killer in the United States. About 1,800 people on average die from heart disease each day, and 1,640 from cancer, according to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 2018, the latest full data available.
During yet another week, the virus took the lives of the young and the old, the healthy and the sick, the prominent and the ordinary people known best by those who loved them…
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He is the perfect man to promote the right wing Trump view of the pandemic — someone with no integrity who would rather demonize and sow hatred against an innocent person than admit he was wrong.
for any query or support go here
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McConnell has all the money he needs so why care about anyone else? Why do the Republicans keep insisting on a liability shield for corporations that mistreat their workers?
I don’t understand why anyone in Kentucky voted to keep this monstrous Turtle in office.
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New stalemate in Congress as $900billion Covid aid package collapses after McConnell blocks plan for $160billion in state and local funds
McConnell’s staff told top negotiators that he saw no path to agreeing the deal
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED: 06:05 EST, 11 December 2020 | UPDATED: 06:05 EST, 11 December 2020
In exchange for the $160billion package, US lawmakers had offered McConnell a slimmed-down version of the liability shield he wants for companies facing potential virus-related lawsuits.
A $900billion Covid-19 aid package has all but collapsed in Congress after Mitch McConnell said the GOP would not support $160billion in state and local funds as part of a potential trade-off in the deal.
McConnell’s staff told top negotiators last night that the Senate majority leader sees no path to an agreement on a key aspect of the proposal.
In exchange for the $160billion package supported by Democrats, lawmakers had offered McConnell a slimmed-down version of the liability shield he wants for companies facing potential pandemic-related lawsuits.
McConnell criticized ‘controversial state bailouts’ during a speech in the Senate, as he insists on a more targeted aid package.
The hardened stance from McConnell, who does not appear to have enough votes from his Republican majority for a far-reaching compromise, creates a new stalemate over the $900-billion-plus package.
Other legislative pile-ups now threaten Friday’s related business – a must-pass government funding bill.
If it does not clear Congress, that would trigger a federal government shutdown on Saturday.
The looming deadlines have not been sufficient to force an agreement despite the US breaking a record-high 3,000 daily deaths from Covid-19…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9042993/McConnell-blocks-Covid-aid-proposal-160billion-state-local-funds.html?ito=email_share_article-top
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Mary Trump: “He hasn’t transformed the GOP as much as he’s revealed its true nature.”
Question: “Is be crazy?!”
Answer: “He has psychological disorders…”
Mary Trump Says Trump’s Legal Battles Could Prevent a 2024 Presidential Run
Dec 3, 2020
The View
Mary Trump, Pres. Trump’s niece, calls the idea of a Trump 2024 presidential run “preposterous.”
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NY AG Letitia James Says “Trump cannot avoid justice in the great state of New York”
The View
Dec 8, 2020
James updates the “The View” on where the ongoing investigation into the Trump organization currently stands.
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Counting on State AG Tish James-in NY -to keep Trump too busy defending himself to make trouble for Biden.
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Biden and Harris are on the cover of TIME as Person of the Year. That has to make Trump angry.
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Diane: It has to make Trump furious. He had a fake one of his greatness hanging in his clubs.
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A Time magazine with Trump on the cover hangs in his golf clubs. It’s fake.
June 27, 2017
The framed copy of Time magazine was hung up in at least five of President Trump’s clubs, from South Florida to Scotland. Filling the entire cover was a photo of Donald Trump.
“Donald Trump: The ‘Apprentice’ is a television smash!” the big headline said. Above the Time nameplate, there was another headline in all caps: “TRUMP IS HITTING ON ALL FRONTS . . . EVEN TV!”
This cover — dated March 1, 2009 — looks like an impressive memento from Trump’s pre-presidential career. To club members eating lunch, or golfers waiting for a pro-shop purchase, it seemed to be a signal that Trump had always been a man who mattered. Even when he was just a reality TV star, Trump was the kind of star who got a cover story in Time.
But that wasn’t true.
The Time cover is a fake.
There was no March 1, 2009, issue of Time magazine. And there was no issue at all in 2009 that had Trump on the cover…
http://wapo.st/2sO8Uq3?tid=ss_mail
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The New York Times
BREAKING NEWS
The Manhattan D.A.’s investigation of President Trump ramped up as prosecutors interviewed workers at Deutsche Bank and Mr. Trump’s insurance broker.
Friday, December 11, 2020 8:57 AM EST
The interviews are the latest indication that once Mr. Trump leaves office, he still faces the potential threat of criminal charges that would be beyond the reach of federal pardons.
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Trump is the “Persona Non-greata of the Year”
Persona Non-greata
Persona Non-greata
Is Donald J. Trump
There’s nothing that’s greater
Except for the dump
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The number of infections is rising rapidly in many U.S. states and nothing like this is being done. Trump won’t even tell people that wearing a mask will help prevent the spread.
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Germany Locks Down Ahead of Christmas as Coronavirus Deaths Rise
Stores and schools will be closed, and public and private meetings will be restricted over the holidays, in an effort to bring down coronavirus infections and deaths.
BERLIN — Germans will be forced into a strict lockdown over Christmas, after weeks of milder restrictions on public life failed to slow the spread of the coronavirus, leading to record numbers of new infections and deaths, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on Sunday.
Starting on Wednesday, nonessential stores, schools and hairdressers will be required to close, and companies will be encouraged to offer employees an extended holiday break or allow them to work from home. The number of people allowed to meet privately — including over Christmas — will also be further tightened. New Year’s celebrations outdoors will be all but prohibited, with the sale of fireworks and gatherings in public both banned.
“All of this will impact the holidays, we know that, but we have been forced to take action and that is what we are doing now,” Ms. Merkel said at a news conference announcing the measures, which are to remain in place through Jan. 10.
Germany earned widespread recognition for its success in halting the spread of the virus in the spring through an aggressive approach informed by science and carried out through contact tracing, early and aggressive testing and coordinated nationwide restrictions. But since then, the country has stumbled badly, allowing a false sense of complacency to set in. Leaders of Germany’s 16 states — responsible for implementing public health policy — have also been resistant to following calls from the chancellor and medical experts for another lockdown this fall.
In late September, Ms. Merkel warned that if Germany did not take more radical action, the numbers of new infections could rise to 19,000 per day. Roughly one month later, the chancellor’s warning came to pass as the country experienced more than 21,500 new infections within a 24-hour period…
New infections and fatalities from the coronavirus have continued to climb in recent weeks, with outbreaks concentrated among older people, especially those living in nursing homes and other care facilities. Germany recorded 20,200 new infections on Sunday, an increase of more than 2,000 compared with the same day last week, according to data gathered by the Robert Koch Institute, Germany’s public health authority.
The country has lost 21,787 people to the virus, and the number of people being treated in intensive care is increasing, the institute said in a brief published Saturday that warned that the rate of new infections remained dangerously high and posed a strain to the country’s health system if not brought under control…
Starting Wednesday, Germans will be allowed to celebrate only with people from two separate households, in groups of no more than than five people over the age of 14, in addition to children. From Dec. 24-26, people from up to four households, plus children, will be allowed to meet, although no exceptions will be made over the New Year’s holiday.
Businesses and freelancers affected by the restrictions will receive compensation from the government for up to 90 percent of fixed costs, or up to 500,000 euros, equivalent to $605,000, the country’s finance minister, Olaf Scholz, said on Sunday. “There will be a very comprehensive package of economic and interim aid,” estimated at 11 billion euros a month, he said.
Forcing stores to shut their doors in the final weeks of the Christmas shopping season is a blow to many of the country’s smaller and midsize businesses that have already struggled to recover from the more strict lockdown imposed earlier this year.
“The faster we bring down the numbers of new infections, the faster our economy will be able to recover,” said Peter Altmaier, Germany’s economy minister, who called the new restrictions “tough, but necessary.”…
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