"Makers of Clorox and Lysol warn against ingesting bleach and disinfectants after President Trump’s remarks" by Christine Hauser and Alan Yuhas New York Times, April 24, 2020
President Trump’s raising of unproven ideas for fighting COVID-19 — musing about injecting disinfectants into people and touting an antimalaria drug to combat the virus — triggered a widespread outcry from doctors, lawmakers, and the makers of cleaning products on Friday.
They issued dire warnings about the dangers of ingesting disinfectants, responding to remarks by Trump the night before about the possible medical benefits of sunlight, ultraviolet light, and household disinfectants on the coronavirus.
The warnings were uniform: The cleaning products are extremely dangerous to ingest — potentially deadly — and no one should do so.
Related: "Of the 84,000 chemicals in commercial use in the United States - from flame retardants in furniture to household cleaners - nearly 20 percent are secret, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, their names and physical properties guarded from consumers and virtually all public officials under a little-known federal provision. The policy was designed 33 years ago to protect trade secrets in a highly competitive industry. The law exempts from public disclosure any information that could harm their bottom line. Some companies have successfully argued that the federal government should not only keep the names of their chemicals secret but also hide from public view the identities and addresses of the manufacturers....."
Ten years later, they have still not done one thing about it.
Separately, the US Food and Drug Administration on Friday warned doctors against prescribing a malaria drug repeatedly suggested by Trump for treating the new coronavirus. In an alert, regulators flagged reports of sometimes fatal heart side effects among coronavirus patients taking hydroxychloroquine or the related drug chloroquine.
They will still label it a COVID-19 death.
The responses to Trump’s statements came as the reported US death toll from the coronavirus topped 50,000. Massachusetts on Friday reported 196 additional deaths, bringing the total of pandemic deaths in the state to 2,556.
Reckitt Benckiser, the British company that makes Lysol and Dettol, said Friday that it was warning customers against using disinfectants as treatment after “recent speculation and social media activity.”
“As a global leader in health and hygiene products, we must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route),” it said in a statement.
The Clorox Co. said Friday that disinfecting surfaces with bleach was one way to help slow the spread of COVID-19, citing recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but it added, “Bleach and other disinfectants are not suitable for consumption or injection under any circumstances.”
It can be used to scrub private email servers.
Accidents with household cleaning products appear to have sharply increased in recent weeks, according to doctors who monitor activity at poison call centers. On Monday, the CDC reported an alarming trend of growing calls to poison control centers, and a significant increase in accidental exposures to household cleaners and disinfectants.
See: "One toddler became dizzy, fell, and hit her head after drinking from a bottle of hand sanitizer. A woman had a scary coughing and wheezing fit while soaking her produce in a sink containing bleach, vinegar, and hot water. Reports of accidental poisonings from cleaners and disinfectants are up this year, and researchers believe it’s related to the coronavirus epidemic. Such poisonings were up about 20 percent in the first three months of this year, compared with the same period in 2018 and 2019, according to a report Monday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The authors said they can’t prove coronavirus drove the increase, but said it seems likely the two are linked, given the number of stay-at-home orders and guidance to clean hands and dirty surfaces. The report was based on more than 45,000 recent calls to 55 poison control centers across the country involving exposures to cleaning chemicals or disinfectants. The same period in 2019 saw 38,000 such calls, while 2018 had 39,000."
That's one way to abort a pregnancy.
Ingesting bleach or disinfectant chemicals is very dangerous, said Dr. Diane P. Calello, medical director of the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System. “When people injected bleach or highly concentrated rubbing alcohol it causes massive organ damage and the blood cells in the body to basically burst,” she said, but although companies and doctors have warned about such chemicals for years, officials around the country on Friday were fielding calls and questions about disinfectants and COVID-19. By the afternoon, Maryland’s hot line had received more than 100 calls on the subject, Mike Ricci, the spokesman for Governor Larry Hogan, said on Twitter.
The calls prompted a response from the Maryland Emergency Management Agency: “Under no circumstances should any disinfectant product be administered into the body through injection, ingestion or any other route.”
Dr. Rachel Levine, Pennsylvania’s health secretary, was even more emphatic, saying that, as a pediatrician, she had seen children with “very, very severe burns of their esophagus, requiring intensive care and operations,” after ingesting cleaning materials. “I can tell you from my clinical experience that it is an extremely dangerous thing to do,” she said at a news conference.
They are beginning to jump the shark, readers.
Trump speculated about the possible medical application of disinfectants at the White House briefing Thursday. William N. Bryan, the head of science at the Department of Homeland Security, told reporters that the government had tested how sunlight and disinfectants — including bleach and alcohol — can kill the coronavirus on surfaces.
Why does DHS have a science department, and why are America's military agencies in the lead on all this?
I mean, he is right about sunlight being a great disinfectant. That's is well-known general knowledge, and begs the question of why are the state its experts telling us to stay inside?
Trump then spoke about disinfectants.
“And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute — one minute — and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning?” Trump asked. “Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that.”
On Friday morning, the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, said that Trump’s comments were taken out of context by the media.
Then, on Friday afternoon, Trump tried to suggest that he had been kidding with his musings the day before. “I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen,” he told journalists in the Oval Office as he signed the latest coronavirus relief bill into law.
That last part is what my pre$$ left me with.
Bryan, whose briefing on Thursday set off the episode, is serving in an acting capacity as the head of the department’s science and technology directorate. He served 17 years in the Army, followed by years-long stints as a civil servant at the Defense and Energy departments. The latter role led to a whistle-blower complaint accusing him, in part, of manipulating government policy to further his personal financial interests, and then lying to Congress about those interests.
If that is true, he's a criminal.
Of course, it's one Deep State asset against another so enjoy the palace intrigue.
The US Office of Special Counsel, a federal agency that investigates whistle-blower complaints, asked the Energy Department last year to investigate the accusations against Bryan. In January, the Senate returned his nomination to the White House.
Bryan was invited by the vice president’s office to the coronavirus task force meetings Wednesday and Thursday to discuss a study that his department had done relating to heat and the conditions in which the coronavirus can thrive or be dampened. On Thursday, Bryan presented a graphic to the room, according to four people briefed on the events, and he later was permitted to brief the news media.
As he listened to Bryan, Trump became increasingly excited, and also felt the need to demonstrate his own understanding of science, according to three of the advisers. So Trump went ahead with his theories about the chemicals, and Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, added his own criticism. “I can’t believe I have to say this,” Biden posted on Twitter Friday afternoon, “but please don’t drink bleach.”
You are more than welcome to a glass, Joe.
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As usual, the New York Times couldn't help but take cheap shots at the president as they read his mind.
Trump may have poisoned the debate of a COVID cure, but the New York Times has been a virus in America since its founding!
Related:
"Former vice president Joe Biden’s presidential campaign installed new administrative leadership at the Democratic National Committee on Friday, as the two organizations moved to forge a new deal that will allow for a dramatic expansion of fund-raising capacity in the coming months. The national party’s chief executive officer, Seema Nanda, adviser to party chairman Tom Perez, will be replaced by Mary Beth Cahill, a senior adviser to the national party who managed John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign. The announcement came as the party and the Biden campaign said they would sign a joint fund-raising agreement Friday, called the ‘‘Biden Victory Fund,’’ that will allow the unofficial nominee to raise $360,600 each from individual donors to help the campaign. Donors to Biden’s effort had been limited to donations of $2,800 for his primary and general election campaigns. The initial joint fund-raising agreement, an interim measure meant to speed money to Biden, will be expanded in the coming weeks to include state parties, raising the maximum donation amounts further for wealthy individuals, a party official said. The decisions mark the first major public moves by Biden’s new campaign manager, Jen O’Malley Dillon. Biden’s move occurred 16 days after Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont became the last Biden rival to suspend his campaign."
I gue$$ Democrats don't under$tand the di$gu$ting optics in $uch a thing, e$pecially with nearly 30 million Americans out of work.
Maybe all the campaign loot should be turned over to us, huh?
"Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers is advising Joe Biden’s presidential campaign on economic policy, including its plans to revive the US economy after the coronavirus pandemic, according to five people familiar with his involvement. The Obama and Clinton administration veteran’s role will likely roil progressives who view his past work on the 2009 recovery as too favorable to big banks. That’s awkward for the Biden campaign at a time when it is trying to win the trust of former supporters of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Summers’ involvement in Biden’s campaign, however, would likely reassure Wall Street that Biden is not moving too far to the left from the centrist positions that earned him his establishment support."
That is the $ame Larry Summers who is of the opinion that electronic signatures are needed to protect our democracy, and who is also one of the architects of all the economic destruction with a hand in it all through the years as he has worked his way through the revolving door before he became a tax reformer and health and labor nut.
As for Liz Warren's endorsement of Joe Biden for president, that article was placed all the way back on page B5. I guess the Globe was too embarrassed by it to place it anywhere else.
"Former vice president Joe Biden said he intends to name the panel of advisers who will help him select a running mate by May 1, offering the nugget early Wednesday morning via an appearance on ‘‘The Late, Late Show with James Corden.’’
I wonder if Annie Linskey of the Washington Compost caught Pelosi's appearance?
The rumors are that he is going to pick Warren for VP, but don’t count on it. Biden needs to show that he can lead America in its time of crisis as a nation turns its lonely eyes to him.
Also see:
"President Trump’s top economic adviser said the administration will look at limiting liability for businesses over the spread of the coronavirus. “I think liability reforms and safeguards are going to be a very important part of this,” Larry Kudlow, director of the White House’s National Economic Council, told CNBC in an interview Wednesday morning. “That’s a very important point here — somebody’s got to defend the businesses.” Trump has indicated the administration is looking to limit liability in cases where workers, or possibly customers, fall ill from the virus."
OMFG, WTF?!!
Somebody has to defend bu$ine$$?
They just got over $6 TRILLION dollars, Larry!
Yeah, never let a good crisis go to waste, huh?
Let's absolve business of all liability for defective products, something they would never even get near were there not a crisis at hand.
What $cum!
That brings us to the next in endle$$ packages of looting:
"Trump and Congress spar over next coronavirus economic package as CBO paints grim picture of what’s to come" by Erica Werner, Seung Min Kim, Josh Dawsey and and Jeff Stein Washington Post, April 24, 2020
WASHINGTON — House Democrats said Friday they plan to strike quickly with their next big coronavirus relief package, but opposition from key Senate Republicans and mixed messages from President Trump left the path forward uncertain as the pandemic thrust the nation into ever deeper economic pain.
While divisions deepened, the Congressional Budget Office painted a stark picture of the economic trauma that will last through next year. It said the budget deficit will widen from $1 trillion to $3.7 trillion this year and that the unemployment rate will jump from 3.5 percent in February to 16 percent at the end of September. It also projected that the economy would go through an extreme contraction between April and June.
The White House and lawmakers had already begun debating a new spending bill on Friday, when Trump signed the latest rescue bill into law. That law directed nearly $500 billion in aid for small businesses, hospitals, and virus testing.
It was the fourth piece of legislation approved in two months as policy makers scramble to arrest the virus’s medical and economic impact. Combined, the laws authorize nearly $3 trillion in new spending, an unprecedented amount of emergency aid.
Democrats said it wasn’t nearly enough. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, said at a news conference Friday that House Democrats would move quickly to advance the next rescue bill, which she said would include a generous financial commitment to cities and states that could match what has already been done to help small businesses — close to $700 billion.
Wall $treet going to $teal that, too?
They haven't helped small business at all. The loot was gone before they got there!
Along with other priorities Democrats have discussed, including an additional extension of unemployment insurance and another round of stimulus checks to individual Americans, the price tag on Democrats’ next bill could rival the $2 trillion Cares Act passed in late March.
‘‘There will be a bill and it will be expensive and we look forward to doing it as soon as possible because jobs are at stake,’’ Pelosi said, but there was scant evidence Senate Republicans would back Pelosi’s approach. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, has said it’s time to stop spending money and assess what’s already been done, and that any additional legislating should wait at least until lawmakers return to the Capitol. That’s currently scheduled to happen May 4, though it’s uncertain if that deadline can be met.
In other words, this is all filler. It's two deplorable and despicable categories of cretins who serve corporate interests over their constituents while living lavishly lifestyles funded by out of work taxpayers. F**king vermin!
Washington is under a stay-at-home order through May 15 with Mayor Muriel Bowser saying the virus is expected to peak in the District of Columbia sometime in May.
Congressional Republicans have also increasingly begun to voice concerns about the rising budget deficit, something that irritates Democrats who counter that Republicans passed a $1.5 trillion tax cut in 2017 that has added to the deficit for several years.
‘‘From the standpoint of the Republican conference, we are ready to push the pause button until we are back in Washington,’’ Senator John Barrasso,. a Wyoming Republican, said. ‘‘No more spending until we assess the money that’s already been spent.’’
Money for cities and states is emerging as a key sticking point in the next round of spending. The Cares Act devoted $150 billion to localities to respond to the coronavirus, but governors have been asking for at least $500 billion more as their budgets get slammed.
McConnell has voiced opposition to bailing out state budgets, suggesting in a radio interview earlier this week that they should have the option of filing for bankruptcy, a comment that drew blowback from governors, but his view is supported by many fellow Senate Republicans who oppose federal help for states they say managed their budgets poorly long before the coronavirus hit.....
You will have to $ell your $oul in$tead.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wore a scarf over her mouth and nose to guard against the coronavirus as she and her deputy chief of staff, Drew Hammill, left a news conference on Tuesday. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Getty Images).
That's what THIEVES look like, and why isn't the person behind her wearing one?
WTF is with the ARROGANCE?!!!!
"Pelosi postpones plans for historic change in House voting after Republicans object" by Mike DeBonis and Paul Kane Washington Post, April 22, 2020
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi abruptly postponed plans Wednesday to change the House rules this week to allow a form of remote voting for the first time in the chamber’s 230-year history after Republicans raised objections even though it was meant to reconcile the need for legislative action with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
I'm sure they will be scorned in the pre$$, but all rise to applaud.
Instead, Pelosi told fellow House Democratic leaders on a Wednesday morning conference call, the issue would be closely studied by a bipartisan group led by majority leader Steny Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, and minority leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican.
Pelosi’s decision, described by two Democratic aides familiar with the call Wednesday, comes as GOP lawmakers in both the House and Senate have increasingly called for Congress to return to Washington and begin plotting a return to business as usual — echoing calls from conservative activists and some Republican governors who have advocated loosening the stay-home guidelines supported by public health officials.
The Republican lawmakers include Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who said in several interviews Tuesday that he would not push another coronavirus-related emergency relief bill until Congress was back in session, and in a radio interview Wednesday, McConnell signaled that he was ready to reconvene the full Senate early next month despite the stay-home order now in effect in Washington through May 15.
I gue$$ they are all done looting for now then. This pha$e of the drill mu$t be winding down.
‘‘Well, the current plan is to go back in session on May 4. I haven’t seen anything that would discourage me from doing that,’’ he told conservative radio show host Hugh Hewitt, ‘‘and as soon as we get back in session, we’ll start confirming judges again. We need to have hearings, and we need to confirm judges.’’
Everything going back to normal for them?
In that same interview, McConnell said he favors allowing states struggling with high public employee pension costs amid the burdens of the pandemic response to declare bankruptcy rather than giving them a federal bailout. “I would certainly be in favor of allowing states to use the bankruptcy route,” he said. “It’s saved some cities, and there’s no good reason for it not to be available.”
Then the federal government will have to take over.
Heading toward the Hunger Games, folks.
The host cited California, Illinois, and Connecticut as states that had given too much to public employee unions, and McConnell said he was reluctant to take on more debt for any rescue.
“You raised yourself the important issue of what states have done, many of them have done to themselves with their pension programs,” he said. “There’s not going to be any desire on the Republican side to bail out state pensions by borrowing money from future generations.”
He was okay with giving TRILLIONS to f**king Wall $treet, though.
What an A$$HOLE!!!!
I'm not for bailing out the bloated state pension systems, especially here in Ma$$achu$etts where state government is nothing but a form of oppression and political patronage, but you can't throw the babies out with the bathwater. Good decent Americans who lived by the rules and paid into those promised contracts are going to get $crewed!
His statements set up a conflict with Pelosi, who said on Bloomberg Television Wednesday a “major package” of aid for state and local government will be in the next stimulus legislation considered by Congress.
She lo$es that one.
House members are expected to return to Washington for the first time in a month Thursday to clear a $484 billion bill beefing up small business aid, hospital funding, and testing capacity. The Senate passed the bill Tuesday on a voice vote.
McConnell may also find himself in conflict with President Trump. The president said Tuesday after meeting with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo that states will need assistance, “and I think most Republicans agree too, and Democrats,” Trump said, “and that’s part of phase four.”
McConnell lo$es that one.
McConnell noted that he blocked additional state and local aid in the latest relief package, which passed the Senate Tuesday and is set for a vote Thursday in the House. “I said yesterday we’re going to push the pause button here, because I think this whole business of additional assistance for state and local governments needs to be thoroughly evaluated,” McConnell added.
As the Giant Pau$e continues and continues.
The idea of allowing states to file for bankruptcy was raised in the wake of the last recession. It drew widespread disdain from Wall Street investors, public employee unions, and both Republican and Democratic governors, who said it would unsettle the bond market and cause even the most fiscally sound states to face higher interest rates because of the risk the debt could be wiped out in court.
That's right. Your $tate government is even more under the thumb of Wall $treet!
Of course, they are doing all this for you, citizen! Destroyed your livelihood and state budgets for you!
It was also criticized by US lawmakers of both parties during a House hearing that was convened to discuss it in 2011 and was swiftly dropped. The National Governors Association has said states and municipalities will need at least $500 billion in aid to deal with the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic as tax revenue falls and demands for resources escalate.
Pelosi said earlier this month that any rules change allowing for remote work would have to be strictly bipartisan, but Democrats over the past week moved forward with a proxy voting arrangement that would allow members to authorize a colleague to cast a floor vote on their behalf.
Looks damn illegal to me!
Democrats hoped to push through the rules change while House members were in Washington on Thursday for the vote on the spending bill. Pelosi said on the call with Democratic leaders that the House would instead move forward this week on a resolution creating a previously announced special committee to conduct oversight of the trillions of taxpayer dollars in federal coronavirus relief money handed out by Congress over the past two months.
The money is gone! It's now in the pockets of the banks and corporations!
Her's is an EMPTY GE$TURE of the MOST DISINGENUOUS SORT!
Republicans have opposed that committee, which is to be led by House majority whip James Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat, calling it duplicative of existing oversight mechanisms, but Democrats have argued that the scale of the federal spending requires a variety of watchdogs — particularly in light of President Trump’s efforts to undermine oversight provisions included in the Cares Act, the $2 trillion centerpiece rescue bill passed last month.
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Related:
Congress must move aggressively on stimulus oversight
The Globe editorial staff says the problem isn’t Harvard, it’s that the largest taxpayer-funded stimulus in history lacks sufficient legislative and public scrutiny -- begging the question of why it wasn't written into the bill in the fir$t place.
"A five-level strategy to make returning to the office safer: “When the time is right," Joseph Allen said, "these are the strategies we’ll need to employ.”" by Martin Finucane Globe Staff, April 24, 2020
An expert on sick buildings says a number of doable steps can be taken to make returning to the office safer once the coronavirus crisis has waned.
It's the toxic environment, and that was around long before COVID-19 arrived on the scene.
Joseph Allen, a professor of exposure assessment science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said Thursday that what is required is a “layered defense” strategy against the possibility that the virus is present in the air or on surfaces in a building.
I'm getting sick of the endless war terminology, although it is useful. The pre$$ and its ma$ters are at war with us, and are making it clear they see it that way.
Occupational safety and health experts have talked for decades about a “hierarchy of controls” for dealing with hazards in the workplace, Allen said. That framework can be applied to the coronavirus pandemic, though the hazard in question is an unseen virus, rather than a vat of chemicals in a factory.
The five components of the hierarchy, in order of effectiveness, are elimination, substitution, engineering controls, administrative controls, and personal protective equipment (PPE).
In the case of the coronavirus, elimination of the hazard could be accomplished by everyone continuing to work at home. “Personnel substitution” could be another option, he said: asking only the core people in the business to go into the office.
Why don't you crawl back under that rock from whence you came?
Under the category of engineering controls would be measures such as improvement of ventilation and filtration in the building, including the possible use of portable air purifiers.
Administrative controls would involve changes to reduce the density of people in a building, including changing work shifts, spreading people out, and limiting use of conference rooms, according to Allen. “You want to de-densify your building,” he said.
Like depopulating, which is where this is all headed. Only e$$ential workers needed.
Finally, PPE such as masks could be used. People could be asked to wear cloth masks in common areas and elevators, for example, he said.
“There’s no silver bullet here,” he said. “We have to put in this full, layered approach across all of these controls."
Don't you mean magic bullet?
He said there was a “bit of a common misperception” that making the changes would be costly.
“Broadly, these are strategies that people can put in and the costs are low or manageable,” he said.
Allen offered his framework as pressure builds to reopen the economy and experts and business leaders are thinking about the safest ways to to do it. The general consensus is that things won’t be the same.
A Kendall Square research institute, the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard, plans to test the hypothesis that it can return to full operation without endangering its employees, by following a rigorous set of steps in a carefully controlled environment, the Globe reported. Some of the steps the institute is planning to take are akin to those suggested by Allen.
F**king control freaks that are part of the simulation!
Allen said he was not arguing for a relaxation of restrictions currently in place, noting that he and many other scientists believe that the United States needs to continue practice social distancing, while at the same time ramping up health care capacity and increasing testing, which will enable contact tracing and isolation of infected people and quarantine of possibly infected people. “I’m definitely on the side that we should be cautious here,” he said.
What does he mean POSSIBLY INFECTED?
He is talking CONCENTRATION CAMPS, and you know what comes after!
Instead, he said, he was “outlining what steps we should be taking to minimize risk in our buildings when we get back to work.”
“When the time is right," he said, "these are the strategies we’ll need to employ.”
F**k you, you $ick f**k!
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Time to GET OUT of the OFFICE:
"No, warm weather will not kill the coronavirus; Experts and studies suggest no one should get their hopes up as temperatures rise and spring turns into summer" by Kay Lazar and Andrew Ryan Globe Staff, April 24, 2020
For months, President Trump has claimed that the novel coronavirus will likely vanish with warmer weather. Massachusetts health officials have leaned on Mother Nature, too, suggesting the state’s high infection rate is linked to our cold winter climate.
What cold winter climate in this age of climate change and year after year of heat records being broken? Every damn year is the hottest ever now!
I mean, Andrew Freedman of the Washington Compost just told us that this year is on track to be Earth’s warmest on record, beating 2016, and that the parallels between the coronavirus and the climate crisis (you could just as easily replace the words ‘climate change’ with ‘COVID-19’) is truly the tale of two pandemics deferred, denied, and distorted -- according to the most gaseous SecofState ever, John F. Kerry (although he is right about the modeling).
Thus, in the wake of the storms that hit Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana and the Supreme Court's rejection of the Trump administration’s view on a key aspect of the Clean Water Act, North Atlantic right whales are now in far worse condition than other right whales as Greta Thunberg urges world leaders to cooperate.
The latest came Thursday at Trump’s daily press briefing when William Bryan of the Department of Homeland Security presented “emerging” evidence from a government lab suggesting that sunlight, heat, and humidity weaken the coronavirus on surfaces and in the air, but disease experts and recent studies suggest no one should get their hopes up as temperatures rise and spring turns to summer. Mounting evidence indicates that COVID-19 is unlike the seasonal flu, which does dissipate as the weather warms. Most studies have found weak evidence that high temperatures and humidity will vanquish the virus.
I'm sick of them and their f**king manipulated data and studies. Damn liars all.
Summer is going to cook this thing away because COVID-19 is a MYTH, but the pre$$ is going to flog this f**king thing until they kill us all or have us vaccinated by genocidal bastards like Bill Gates.
“We all hope that if we can’t do something about it before June, that it all disappears on its own,” said David Walt, a pathology professor at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, “but all indications from other parts of the world suggest otherwise.”
So they say in face of quiet hospitals the world over.
Though much about the virus remains unknown, experts across the globe are racing to understand the roots of the pandemic and what factors might help quell outbreaks.
They killed the global economy over this so they could loot it and leave you impoverished.
DAMN EVIL!!!!!!!
A recent report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine downplayed the impact of warm weather, concluding it “may not lead to a significant reduction” in spread, at least on its own. The report, coauthored by Walt and issued to the White House earlier this month, found that the best defenses are the adoption of major public health actions, such as social distancing, and more widespread immunity to the virus.
That would be the herd immunity we already have and what social distancing denies.
These evil liars are f**king sick, sick, sick!!!
The report acknowledged the limited and, at times, conflicting evidence, based on a review of studies from around the world. but it didn’t give much weight to claims that COVID-19 spreads less efficiently in hotter places.
What more is there to say, really?
Why ANYONE would EVER BELIEVE these DISASSEMBLING and QUALIFYING F**KERS is BEYOND ME!!
“Given that countries currently in ‘summer’ climates, such as Australia and Iran, are experiencing rapid virus spread, a decrease in cases with increases in humidity and temperature elsewhere should not be assumed,” it said.
So while warming temperatures can dampen the flu and other respiratory infections, their impact on the coronavirus remains a bit of a mystery, according to Cindy Prins, a University of Florida associate professor of epidemiology. “We still don’t know whether there is any effect on COVID-19 with warmer and more humid weather,” Prins said.
What do you hacks know, other than mouthing government script and drill spew?
“If it sticks around and keeps coming back as a seasonal virus, then we’ll probably start to understand that a little bit better," Prins said, "but I don’t necessarily expect to see an effect of that at least this year,” but as the virus continues its spread and the death toll grows, the hope of a warm-weather link to fewer infections is hard to shake. Especially for government officials.
This piece of swill from the Globe is sickening!
Asked last week why the infection rate in Massachusetts was so much higher than that of Washington state, which has roughly the same population, the Massachusetts health department pointed in part to New England’s colder climate.
“Though the science is not yet conclusive, many published articles indicate that COVID spreads more easily in colder weather (similar to most strains of influenza),” the department said in a statement to the Globe.
You have been HAD, America.
The statement went on to say, “The climate in Massachusetts in February and March is notably colder than Washington, which likely contributed to greater spread.”
Is it?
The department did not cite the articles on which it based its assumption.
WTF, Globe?
Just rote the propaganda, huh?
Never question official government slop?
Yeah, they are a collaborative conduit and EVIL!
Asked about that thinking again Thursday, the department said its comments still stand, but noted that state health officials are “focused on communicating" that citizens should stay home, wear face coverings, and socially distance from others.
(blog editor salutes them)
Even if weather was a factor, the department’s argument was ill-timed. Typically Boston winters are significantly colder than Seattle’s, but not this year. Boston had an unseasonably warm winter with an average temperature of 37.8 degrees in December, January, and February.
EVEN IF!
That means DESPITE the FACT!
This isn't a "news" paper, readers, it's a lying, agenda-pushing piece of $hit!
“This winter season of 2020 was the second highest in recorded history,” which goes back to 1877, said Bill Simpson of the National Weather Service’s Boston office.
With an average temperature nearly 6 degrees above normal, Boston was not much colder than Seattle, where temperatures averaged 41.8 degrees, according to National Weather Service data, and that trend continued in March.
Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, said such state-to-state comparisons of weather and coronavirus infections are shaky.
“There no evidence for that, from what I know,” he said.
And you wonder why I get hot under the collar?
Still the high heat and humidity theory persists.
Oh, STILL the "theory" persists!
At Trump’s press briefing on Thursday, Bryan of the Department of Homeland Security said new science shows that the coronavirus may be vulnerable to both heat and light.
Back to him again, huh?
“Our most striking observation to date is the powerful effect that solar light appears to have on killing the virus,” Bryan told reporters. "Summerlike conditions are going to create an environment where the transmission can be decreased and that’s an opportunity for us to get ahead.”
LET US OUT NOW!!!!!
BACK to WORK!
BACK to WORK!
BACK to WORK!
A reporter then asked why the virus is still growing in some hot and humid places in the US, such as New Orleans.
Because we are being LIED TO YET AGAIN?
Undeterred, Bryan said the department’s new information could help governors make decisions about how and when to reopen their states.
“This [research] is just another tool in the tool box, another weapon in the fight that we can add,” he said.
More military terminology.
As scientists continue to study what factors may influence transmission of the coronavirus, Walt, the pathology professor from Harvard Medical School, said health officials need to keep in mind one very basic human trait.
“Even if [the coronavirus] were very sensitive to heat, we would have to tell people on 95-degree days, don’t turn your air conditioning on" to get the virus-killing benefit, Walt said. That, he added, could be a hard sell.
I'm sure the richers will still get their climate controlled living quarters and such. It's only the useless eaters that will sweet like pigs.
Hell, without jobs no one will be able to afford air conditioning (won't hurt me any; I have never had it, and never needed it).
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Looks like it the last sunset for Trump and the Republicans, according to the New York Times(!):
"Nervous Republicans see Trump sinking, and taking Senate with him" by Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman New York Times, April 25, 2020
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s erratic handling of the coronavirus outbreak, the worsening economy, and a cascade of ominous public and private polling have Republicans increasingly nervous that they are at risk of losing the presidency and the Senate if Trump does not put the nation on a radically improved course.
So the mailed in ballots have already been calculated, huh?
Every Sunday the Globe runs some New York Times hit job on the president, and I am getting damn sick of it.
The scale of the GOP’s challenge has crystallized in the last week. With 26 million Americans now having filed for unemployment benefits, Trump’s standing in states that he carried in 2016 looks increasingly wobbly: New surveys show him trailing significantly in battleground states like Michigan and Pennsylvania, and he is even narrowly behind in must-win Florida.
So we are told by the same pre$$ that said there was no way Clinton could lose.
Democrats raised substantially more money than Republicans did in the first quarter in the most pivotal congressional races, according to recent campaign finance reports, and while Trump is well ahead in money compared with the presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, Democratic donors are only beginning to focus on the general election, and several super political action committees plan to spend heavily on behalf of him and the party.
No worry as to how that looks to the progre$$ive wing of the party or the independents that they need to win?
The campaign loot vamping during this crisis is most distasteful and outright vomitous!
Perhaps most significantly, Trump’s single best advantage as an incumbent — his access to the bully pulpit — has effectively become a platform for self-sabotage.
I'm going to have to stop responding to the inane absurdities in ever paragraph as the NYT projects its wishful thinking into its slop propaganda.
His daily news briefings on the coronavirus outbreak are inflicting grave damage on his political standing, Republicans believe, and his recent remarks about combating the virus with sunlight and disinfectant were a breaking point for a number of senior party officials.
Which Republicans, NYT?
Please don't tell me I am supposed to accept this steaming pile at face value.
On Friday evening, Trump conducted only a short briefing and took no questions, a format that a senior administration official said was being discussed as the best option for the president going forward.
Maybe he is SICK of them like WE ARE!
Glen Bolger, a longtime Republican pollster, said the landscape for his party had become far grimmer compared with the previrus plan to run almost singularly around the country’s prosperity.
“With the economy in free-fall, Republicans face a very challenging environment, and it’s a total shift from where we were a few months ago,” Bolger said. “Democrats are angry, and now we have the foundation of the campaign yanked out from underneath us.”
So this Deep State-induced panic that has been pushed by the pre$$ has benefited who?
Yeah, I always thought it was strange that corona only became an issue after Trump cleared impeachment.
Trump’s advisers and allies have often blamed external events for his most self-destructive acts, such as his repeated outbursts during the two-year investigation into his campaign’s dealings with Russia. Now there is no such explanation — and, so far, there have been exceedingly few successful interventions regarding Trump’s behavior at the podium.
You can f**king shove it where the sun doesn't shine, New York Times!
Representative Tom Cole, an Oklahoma Republican, said the president had to change his tone and offer more than a campaign of grievance.
“You got to have some hope to sell people,” Cole said, “but Trump usually sells anger, division, and ‘We’re the victim.’ ”
Yeah, where is Obama when you need him?
See:
"In 2009, the United States declared a public health emergency as more possible cases of swine flu surfaced from Canada to New Zealand; officials in Mexico City closed everything from concerts to sports matches to churches in an effort to stem the spread of the virus."
Also see:
"In 2010, a Haitian judge dismissed kidnapping and criminal association charges against 10 American missionaries who’d been detained for trying to take a busload of children out of the country after the January 2010 earthquake, but said that Laura Silsby, the last of the 10 still in jail, would face a lesser charge. (Silsby was freed in May 2010 after being convicted of arranging illegal travel and sentenced to time served.)"
"In 2018, Bill Cosby was convicted of drugging and molesting Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in 2004; it was the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era and completed the spectacular downfall of a comedian who broke racial barriers on his way to TV superstardom. (Cosby was later sentenced to three to 10 years in prison.)"
He was once the face of evil.
There are still more than six months until the election, and many Republicans are hoping that the dynamics of the race will shift once Biden is thrust back into the campaign spotlight. At that point, they believe, the race will not simply be the up-or-down referendum on the president it is now, and Trump will be able to more effectively sell himself as the person to rebuild the economy.
“We built the greatest economy in the world; I’ll do it a second time,” Trump said earlier this month, road-testing a theme he will deploy in the coming weeks.
Ooooooooh!
He is becoming too much to take, and were he not running against a demented dead man he would be dead in the water.
You won't be rebuilding anything, sir, not with social distancing and all the other garbage that came along with this "live exercise" and drill.
Still, a recent wave of polling has fueled Republican anxieties, as Biden leads in virtually every competitive state.
The surveys also showed Republican senators in Arizona, Colorado, North Carolina, and Maine trailing or locked in a dead heat with potential Democratic rivals — in part because their fate is linked to Trump’s job performance. If incumbents in those states lose and Republicans pick up only the seat in Alabama, Democrats would take control of the Senate should Biden win the presidency.
“He’s got to run very close for us to keep the Senate,” Charles Black, a veteran Republican consultant, said of Trump. “I’ve always thought we were favored to, but I can’t say that now with all these cards up in the air.”
I'll see you in the re-ejewkhazion camp!
Republicans were taken aback this past week by the results of a 17-state survey commissioned by the Republican National Committee. It found the president struggling in the Electoral College battlegrounds and likely to lose without signs of an economic rebound this fall, according to a party strategist outside the RNC who is familiar with the poll’s results.
Bye-bye!
The Trump campaign’s own surveys have also shown an erosion of support, according to four people familiar with the data, as the coronavirus remains the No. 1 issue worrying voters.
They must be reading my blog.
The private data of the two parties is largely mirrored by public surveys. Last week, three Pennsylvania polls and two Michigan surveys were released showing Trump losing outside the margin of error, and a pair of Florida polls were released that showed Biden with a slim advantage in a state that is all but essential for Republicans to retain the presidency.
To some in the party, this feels all too similar to the last time they held the White House.
In 2006, anger at President George W. Bush and unease with the Iraq War propelled Democrats to reclaim Congress; two years later they captured the presidency thanks to the same anti-incumbent themes and an unexpected crisis that accelerated their advantage: the economic collapse of 2008. The two elections were effectively a single continuous rejection of Republican rule — as some in the GOP fear 2018 and 2020 could become in a worst-case scenario.
Obama was rejected within two years, and 2016 was a complete rejection of the entire Obama regime. All those jobs are GONE NOW!
As for Bush, the takeover was engineered by Rahm Emanuel, and what did Democrats under Pelosi do back then?
She TOOK IMPEACHMENT OFF the TABLE for the WAR CRIMINAL BUSH and then APPROVED a SURGE into IRAQ!
So much for the "antiwar" oppo$$ition!
“It already feels very similar to the 2008 cycle,” said Billy Piper, a Republican lobbyist and former chief of staff to Senator Mitch McConnell.
Then God help us all.
Significant questions remain that could tilt the outcome of this election: whether Americans experience a second wave of the virus in the fall, the condition of the economy and how well Biden performs after he emerges from his Wilmington, Del., basement, which many in his party are privately happy to keep him in so long as Trump is fumbling as he governs amid a crisis, but if Republicans are comforted by the uncertainties that remain, they are alarmed by one element of this election that is already abundantly clear: The small-dollar fund-raising energy Democrats enjoyed in the midterms has not abated.
They are happy to have Biden self-isolated because he is demented!
Most of the incumbent House Democrats facing competitive races enjoy a vast financial advantage over Republican challengers, who are struggling to garner attention as the virus overwhelms news coverage.
Still, few officials in either party believed the House was in play this year. There was also similar skepticism about the Senate. Then the virus struck, and fund-raising reports covering the first three months of this year were released in mid-April.
Republican senators facing difficult races were not only all outraised by Democrats, they were also overwhelmed.
Asked about concerns over Trump’s briefings, the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, said, “Millions and millions of Americans tune in each day to hear directly from President Trump and appreciate his leadership, unprecedented coronavirus response, and confident outlook for America’s future.”
Trump’s thrashing about partly reflects his frustration with the virus and his inability to slow Biden’s rise in the polls. It’s also an illustration of his broader inability to shift the public conversation to another topic, something he has almost always been able to do when confronted with negative story lines ranging from impeachment proceedings to payouts to adult film stars.
Trump is also restless. Administration officials said they were looking to resume his travel in as soon as a week, although campaign rallies remain distant for now.
As they look for ways to regain the advantage, some Republicans believe the party must mount an immediate ad campaign blitzing Biden, identifying him to their advantage and framing the election as a clear choice.
All the campaign spending as Americans are out of work and shut down.
F**K YOU BOTH!
“If Trump is the issue, he probably loses,” said Black, the consultant. “If he makes it about Biden and the economy is getting better, he has a chance.”
The Republican Senate woes come as anger toward Trump is rising from some of the party’s most influential figures on Capitol Hill.
Back to being Never-Trumpers are they?
After working closely with Senate Republicans at the start of the year, some of the party’s top congressional strategists say the handful of political advisers Trump retains have communicated little with them since the health crisis began.
Then his administration is no different than Obama's because that was a common complaint back then!
In a campaign steered by Trump, whose rallies drove fund-raising and data harvesting, the center of gravity has of late shifted to the White House. His campaign headquarters will remain closed for another few weeks, and West Wing officials say the president’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, hasn’t been to the White House since last month, though he is in touch by phone.
Then there is the president’s conduct.
In just the last week, he has undercut the efforts of his campaign and his allies to attack Biden on China; suddenly proposed a halt on immigration; and said governors should not move too soon to reopen their economies — a week after calling on protesters to “liberate” their states, and that was all before his digression into the potential healing powers of disinfectants.
Republican lawmakers have gone from watching his lengthy daily briefings with a tight-lipped grimace to looking upon them with horror.
“Any of us can be onstage too much,” said longtime Representative Greg Walden of Oregon, noting that “there’s a burnout factor no matter who you are; you’ve got to think about that.”
Yeah, and I passed mine long ago when it came to watching network or cable news.
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I'm also reaching the limit when it comes to my $tink pre$$, too:
"The paramedics couldn’t find Lysol. They turned to their Congress person" by Catie Edmondson New York Times, April 25, 2020
There they are again.
Globe, if I wanted a New York Times I would buy a New York Times.
WASHINGTON — The messages clog their offices’ phone lines and inboxes by the thousands, each a snapshot of someone’s lived nightmare: the wife whose husband is on a ventilator and getting worse by the day, the small-business owner who desperately needs a loan, the paramedic who wants disinfectant to clean his ambulance between shuttling the ill to the hospital.
They are all punctuated by a flickering hope of a question: Could the member of Congress help?
(Blog editor simply shakes head at the level of Deep State propaganda the New York Times trowels out. Yeah, call your Congre$$man for help after they botched the PPP!)
Assisting constituents in need has always been a critical part of that job, but it has perhaps never been as important or in demand as it is now. As the coronavirus pandemic rips across the country, lawmakers have been inundated by messages from panicked and suffering Americans searching for a lifeline.
A DROWNING MAN will reach for an ANCHOR!
That's what they are throwing us!
Sidelined from their usual tasks on Capitol Hill, where Congress has been on an extended recess with only brief interruptions to approve huge infusions of federal funding to confront the public health and economic catastrophe, lawmakers are watching their jobs transform before their eyes. There is little for them to do in Washington — no hearings to attend, legislation to debate, or flesh-pressing at fund-raisers — but back home in their districts, they have become de facto case workers, and the needs are more than they can meet.
Oh, our heroes!
This is the WORST KIND of SELF-PROMOTING SLOP I HAVE EVER SEEN!!
“The last couple of weeks have fundamentally redefined what my job is, what it means to be a representative,” said Representative Andy Kim, Democrat of New Jersey, whose district, stretching across the eastern suburbs of Philadelphia to the Jersey Shore, has been hit hard by the virus.
Kim has been so inundated — “literally hundreds of calls a day and hundreds more e-mails,” he said — that he has directed every aide in his office to pitch in, reorganizing them into teams dedicated to responding to specific categories of questions.
In the past few weeks, Kim said, more and more constituents have called in driven by fear and despair, often on the verge of tears.
“You can tell they’re calling because they don’t know who else to come to,” he said. “When someone is calling our office about being scared to go outside because they don’t have a mask and they don’t know how to get one, they’re calling because they’re really worried.”
Yeah, because you guys are the last people we should look to solve the problems you have helped create and which you now benefit from!
What a bunch of $cum f**ks!
Paul Daley, the director of emergency management in Toms River, N.J., said he contacted Kim’s office “more out of frustration than anything” when he reached out to say that his paramedics were out of the Lysol spray they urgently needed to sanitize their ambulances after transporting patients to the hospital. He was not expecting anything, but could the congressman help?
I'm glad his expectations weren't shattered.
Two days later, Kim’s office called back. They had located 78 cans of Lysol in a Walmart an hour and a half away in Pennsylvania — and had arranged for a team to hand-deliver the supplies to the fleet, based in Ocean County.
“It’s like gold,” Daley said, but if the pandemic has exposed the vast array of needs that can land on lawmakers’ doorsteps, it has also made glaringly clear the limitations of their power. They cannot tell their constituents who are on the verge of closing a business when they can expect to receive an emergency loan. When one man who identified himself as Harvey called in to a telephone town-hall-style event hosted by Representative Antonio Delgado, Democrat of New York, the congressman offered his assistance, but there was little advice that Delgado could give to address the fact that the state’s unemployment website was crashing. “I have almost no faith it’s ever actually going to work,” Harvey told him.
They can get TRILLIONS to Wall $treet though!
The sheer crush of requests that offices have received has been overwhelming. Representative Kim Schrier, Democrat of Washington, a medical doctor whose district covers Seattle’s suburbs to the eastern side of the Cascade Mountains, said that her office had fielded more than 13,000 e-mails and letters since the pandemic reached the United States, 8,000 of which her office has responded to in writing. Hundreds of others have required personal follow-up calls from Schrier and her staff.
Good campaign P.R. is all it is!
Schrier, a pediatrician, received “a lot of very detailed medical calls” from constituents seeking advice for how to navigate the crisis, like apple growers asking how to best protect their workers or grandparents wondering how to best protect the children in their charge.
“My constituents are getting their news from a variety of sources — from some less scientifically based than others,” she said. “I really try to be a voice in the middle that can balance both the needs of the economy and public health, and how it shouldn’t be an either-or proposition.”
I'm sorry, but the First Amendment, Bill of Rights, and the Constitution of the United States is non-negotiable.
Representative Rodney Davis, Republican of Illinois, who spent 16 years working in a district office before being elected to Congress, said many of his constituents had his cellphone number and were calling and texting him daily looking for answers about the relief programs created in the $2.2 trillion stimulus bill.
“They’ve never worked through a government application process. They just need to know that their questions can be answered,” Davis said. “I think it just comes out of desperation. Most people don’t call their congressman even outside of a pandemic unless they’ve already really tried to get their case solved,” he added. “We’re really kind of a last resort.”
Actually, when I have called I have called in ANGER!
I know they are not going to do anything for a non-e$$ential.
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Still on hold, huh?
