Pence is speaking to the US Air Force Academy because it is the closest thing to the US Space Force.
Trump might need those graduating Air Force cadets to fly planes all over the country to ensure the health of the cadets at West Point. Unfortunately such flights don’t include family.
There is a 3 mile runway in Cornwall that accommodates C5 cargo planes so the cadets can avoid landing in New York City. Most commercial airlines are not running a full compliment of routes nor should they be unless every passenger tests negative at the gate at time of boarding. It is a very sealed and pressurized environment.
Monday, April 27, 2020
I don’t watch the president anymore. He has nothing to say that is helpful. As a matter of fact I find him hurtful and ultimately on a spectrum of hurt he can physically hurt Americans to the point of poisoning leading to possible death. What is he still doing there?
It can be said the media is irresponsible in indulging his flight of thought. It is nothing but sensationalism.
Where is OSHA at the JBS plant? Who is going to be charged with negligent homicide for the violations of law and continued operations where five employees have died because of occupational exposure to COVID-19? The union needs to support a job action with its members due to unsafe working conditions.
The Board of Diectors and the CEO need to be arrested. Compare JBS to the new working conditions at FORD automotive and tell me there is no crime at JBS!
The USDA should be at the JBS meat packing plant to condemn the plant and confiscate the meat. SARS-CoV-2 is a viable virus up to several days on fomite and probably longer on food products. The meat is most likely unsafe for consumption. I wouldn’t feed it to animals either.
It can be said the media is irresponsible in indulging his flight of thought. It is nothing but sensationalism.
Where is OSHA at the JBS plant? Who is going to be charged with negligent homicide for the violations of law and continued operations where five employees have died because of occupational exposure to COVID-19? The union needs to support a job action with its members due to unsafe working conditions.
The Board of Diectors and the CEO need to be arrested. Compare JBS to the new working conditions at FORD automotive and tell me there is no crime at JBS!
The USDA should be at the JBS meat packing plant to condemn the plant and confiscate the meat. SARS-CoV-2 is a viable virus up to several days on fomite and probably longer on food products. The meat is most likely unsafe for consumption. I wouldn’t feed it to animals either.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been brilliant.
28 April 2020
New Zealand has moved today (click here) to a slightly less-restrictive way of living with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declaring the coronavirus "currently eliminated" - and the country's efforts now the focus of international attention.
The country moved to level 3 at 11.59pm on Monday, easing some of the restrictions of the level-4 living of the past four-and-a-half weeks - including another 400,000 Kiwis returning to work and the lifting of fast-food restrictions. People were already lining up at McDonald's drive-thrus early on Tuesday.
New Zealand's main centres are buzzing for the first time in almost five weeks. Timesaver Traffic's Rebecca Apolosi says it's clearly visible on Auckland roads....
New Zealand has moved today (click here) to a slightly less-restrictive way of living with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declaring the coronavirus "currently eliminated" - and the country's efforts now the focus of international attention.
The country moved to level 3 at 11.59pm on Monday, easing some of the restrictions of the level-4 living of the past four-and-a-half weeks - including another 400,000 Kiwis returning to work and the lifting of fast-food restrictions. People were already lining up at McDonald's drive-thrus early on Tuesday.
New Zealand's main centres are buzzing for the first time in almost five weeks. Timesaver Traffic's Rebecca Apolosi says it's clearly visible on Auckland roads....
Did your health care rates increase after the Affordable Care Act began? There is a reason and it is the Republicans under McConnell.
There is a very good chance the health care insurance increases may have resulted from the refusal of Republicans to appropriate and pay the "risk corridor" program. Consumer groups need to investigate the reason their premiums skyrocketed after the Affordable Care Act went into effect.
By Ian Milhiser
On Monday, (click here) the Supreme Court voted 8-1 to reject a Republican effort to sabotage parts of the Affordable Care Act. The upshot of this decision is that health insurers will receive payments owed to them under Obamacare’s “risk corridor” program.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s majority opinion in Maine Community Health Options v. United States, relies on “a principle as old as the Nation itself,” according to the opinion. That principle: “The Government should honor its obligations.”
The vote in Maine Community was not close. Eight justices joined all or nearly all of Sotomayor’s opinion, leaving Justice Samuel Alito in a lonely dissent. That’s a bit of a surprising outcome given what was at stake in the case, which involved a $12 billion Republican scheme to sabotage Obamacare.
And yet, after years of litigation seeking to destroy the Affordable Care Act, and after many more years of partisan rancor bitterly dividing the two major political parties on whether Obamacare should continue to exist, only Justice Alito was willing to endorse this particular effort to undercut President Obama’s primary legislative accomplishment.
The other eight justices all agreed that the risk corridors program should be preserved....
...Much of Sotomayor’s opinion focuses on prior precedents establishing that courts should be very reluctant to read one federal law as implicitly eliminating an obligation laid out by another law. “Repeals by implication are not favored,” Sotomayor writes, quoting from a 1974 Supreme Court decision. When confronted with two laws that seem to pull in different directions, courts should “‘regard each as effective’—unless Congress’ intention to repeal is ‘clear and manifest.’”...
SARS-CoV-2 is a very invasive virus. It is dangerous.
The reason people are hospitalized is that their lives hang in the balance. They need oxygen and/or a ventilator to help them breathe. That doesn't mean that is the only place the virus finds success. The respiratory system is delicate and people will not survive if their oxygen is depleted without replenishment in 5 mins. That is why the virus is receiving attention.
August 27, 2020
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (click here) has added several new symptoms to its existing list of symptoms for COVID-19.
The CDC has long said said that fever, cough and shortness of breath are indications that someone might have the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. It has now added six more conditions that may come with the disease: chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat and new loss of taste or smell.The expanded symptoms list could prove important because with a limited number of test kits available, typically those seeking a test must first show symptoms.
There is anecdotal evidence for some of those newly listed symptoms. NPR and other news outlets reported last month that loss of smell and taste were reported by some people with COVID-19. Patients with the disease caused by the coronavirus have also reported muscle pain, chills and headache....
Realize today there are patients experiencing far different symptoms than others and if there are deaths they may not be counted. That was the case in the past.
The Washington Post has done some very interesting work. They found average death rates at the beginning of the pandemic were significantly higher than only a year earlier. Should these deaths be considered part of the pandemic statistics? The researchers should ask other foreign scientists if this phenomenon was discovered in their countries as well. The case numbers and numbers dead may change dramatically if that is the case.
April 27, 2020
By Emma Brown, Andrew Ba Tran, Beth Reinhard and Monica Ulmanu
In the early weeks of the coronavirus epidemic, (click here) the United States recorded an estimated 15,400 excess deaths, nearly two times as many as were publicly attributed to covid-19 at the time, according to an analysis of federal data conducted for The Washington Post by a research team led by the Yale School of Public Health.
The excess deaths — the number beyond what would normally be expected for that time of year — occurred during March and through April 4, a time when 8,128 coronavirus deaths were reported.
The excess deaths are not necessarily attributable directly to covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. They could include people who died because of the epidemic but not from the disease, such as those who were afraid to seek medical treatment for unrelated illnesses, as well as some number of deaths that are part of the ordinary variation in the death rate. The count is also affected by increases or decreases in other categories of deaths, such as suicides, homicides and motor vehicle accidents....
August 27, 2020
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (click here) has added several new symptoms to its existing list of symptoms for COVID-19.
The CDC has long said said that fever, cough and shortness of breath are indications that someone might have the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. It has now added six more conditions that may come with the disease: chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat and new loss of taste or smell.The expanded symptoms list could prove important because with a limited number of test kits available, typically those seeking a test must first show symptoms.
There is anecdotal evidence for some of those newly listed symptoms. NPR and other news outlets reported last month that loss of smell and taste were reported by some people with COVID-19. Patients with the disease caused by the coronavirus have also reported muscle pain, chills and headache....
Realize today there are patients experiencing far different symptoms than others and if there are deaths they may not be counted. That was the case in the past.
The Washington Post has done some very interesting work. They found average death rates at the beginning of the pandemic were significantly higher than only a year earlier. Should these deaths be considered part of the pandemic statistics? The researchers should ask other foreign scientists if this phenomenon was discovered in their countries as well. The case numbers and numbers dead may change dramatically if that is the case.
April 27, 2020
By Emma Brown, Andrew Ba Tran, Beth Reinhard and Monica Ulmanu
In the early weeks of the coronavirus epidemic, (click here) the United States recorded an estimated 15,400 excess deaths, nearly two times as many as were publicly attributed to covid-19 at the time, according to an analysis of federal data conducted for The Washington Post by a research team led by the Yale School of Public Health.
The excess deaths — the number beyond what would normally be expected for that time of year — occurred during March and through April 4, a time when 8,128 coronavirus deaths were reported.
The excess deaths are not necessarily attributable directly to covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. They could include people who died because of the epidemic but not from the disease, such as those who were afraid to seek medical treatment for unrelated illnesses, as well as some number of deaths that are part of the ordinary variation in the death rate. The count is also affected by increases or decreases in other categories of deaths, such as suicides, homicides and motor vehicle accidents....
Isn't this similar to the adult patients? There is inflammation. Children are known to test negative for the SARS virus.
This more or less indicates children have far less body tissue to invade and the virus moves quicker in children to include other body systems besides the lungs. The viral load needed to cause tissue damage in children is most likely smaller than adults and that may be why the children are testing negative when these symptoms manifest. The tests are not specifically designed to test children. The tests are designed to test adults.
April 27, 2020
By Michelle Roberts
The alert, which was issued to GPs in North London (click here) by their clinical commissioning group, said there was "a growing concern" that a coronavirus-related inflammatory syndrome is emerging in children in the UK or that there may be another, as yet unidentified, infection linked to these cases.
April 27, 2020
By Michelle Roberts
The alert, which was issued to GPs in North London (click here) by their clinical commissioning group, said there was "a growing concern" that a coronavirus-related inflammatory syndrome is emerging in children in the UK or that there may be another, as yet unidentified, infection linked to these cases.
These young patients of varying ages were extremely ill. They had similar features to toxic shock syndrome, which can include a high temperature, low blood pressure, a rash and difficulty breathing.
Some also had gastrointestinal symptoms - tummy pain, vomiting or diarrhoea - and inflammation of the heart, as well as abnormal blood test results.
Experts say these are the signs you can see when the body is becomes overwhelmed as it tries to fight off an infection.
The alert, which has now been shared more widely, advises these cases need urgent treatment.
But experts stress that very few children become severely ill with coronavirus - evidence from around the world suggests they are the population least affected by the disease....
How old are the parents of the children developing illness? Younger people show up far less in the demographics of COVID-2. Are the parents being tested after their child became ill? Age 45 or older is where the demographics show more victims. Age 75 or older is when infestations kill nearly 50 percent of the victims. I still think an infusion of White Blood cells would help this group.
How old are the parents of the children developing illness? Younger people show up far less in the demographics of COVID-2. Are the parents being tested after their child became ill? Age 45 or older is where the demographics show more victims. Age 75 or older is when infestations kill nearly 50 percent of the victims. I still think an infusion of White Blood cells would help this group.
While Trump advises Americans to drink bleach and other caustic substances, he is allowing Netanyahu to proceed with expansion plans into the West Bank.
The Rooster
"Okeydoke"
April 26, 2020
Jerusalem - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (click here) voiced confidence on Sunday that Washington would give Israel the nod within two months to move ahead with de facto annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank....
Trump not only misinforms Americans about facts, but he is also going forward with other extreme measures in foreign policy.
The idea that 30 percent of the West Bank will be annexed by Israel came to the forefront of Trump's continuing rage against Palestine as the SARS-Cov-2 was beginning it's spread in November of last year.
November 19, 2019
By David Ignasius
One more timber of the United States’ bipartisan (click here) foreign policy collapsed this week when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reversed a 41-year State Department legal judgment that Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank were “inconsistent with international law.”
Pompeo promoted this change in policy as a pragmatic acceptance of fact. “What we’ve done today is we have recognized the reality on the ground,” he said Monday. He argued that the United States could help solve the Palestinian problem by “taking away this impediment, this idea that somehow there was going to be a legal resolution.”...
This is the beginning of the end of the two-state solution. Unless there has been a large shift in the American Jewish Community, a year ago Jewish Americans had not abandoned the two-state solution for Israel.
There is an occasional poll that will state the American Jewish community accepts the decision to annex Palestine.
When it comes to the two-state solution (click here) and the American Jewish community, the old joke about “two Jews, three synagogues” simply doesn’t apply.
The alphabet soup of organizations comprising the so-called American Jewish establishment – from the muscular pro-Israel AIPAC to the “pro-Israel, pro-peace” J Street, through the Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee, the policy arms of the Reform and Conservative movements, the Jewish Federations of North America and the rest – are all in lockstep agreement that a two-state solution is a declared goal to securing a Jewish and democratic state....
Opinions in the USA can be seen as shifting with resignation as noted by J-Street.
...The contours of a two-state solution are well known. (click here) President Clinton outlined the parameters in 2000, and progress on this basis was made in Taba in 2001 and under Israeli Prime Minister Olmert in 2008. Various initiatives have spelled out the principles and even the details.
Unfortunately, time and political-will in the region are in short supply and it appears to many observers that the window of opportunity for achieving a two-state solution is rapidly closing. While majorities of both the Israeli and Palestinian populations continue to support a two-state solution, ongoing developments, entrenched and expanding settlements, and a growing movement in some Palestinian and international circles for a one-state outcome suggest that the trajectory is trending against the two-state option, thereby threatening Israel’s future.
Lastly, growing radicalization in the region makes achieving a two-state solution evermore challenging. We no longer have the luxury of waiting for a riper time to pursue peace; now is that time.
It has been a long-held belief that a two-state solution was vital to maintaining Israel as a sovereign state. Since the rise of radical groups like Daesh, Israel is seeing expansion as a solution to any threat. This move to take 30 percent of the West Bank is due to the recently formed government in Israel under Prime Minister Netanyahu in response to SARS-CoV-2. The move against Palestine will come by July 1st. The movement of this extremist agenda in Israel began when the USA built a new embassy in Jerusalem. Since then, Israel has kissed the Trump ring by naming a street and an unbuilt community after the American President.
I think it is unclear to the extent Russia will seek to prevent such steps by Israel as it continues the support of an Assad government in Syria. That is escalated by Hezbollah in Lebanon. I don't believe those that support a free Palestine will accept the new extremism by Israel. There is not wide-ranging support for Israel's aggression regarding the West Bank and until that occurs Israel may be surprised when confronting the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. Israel expects no resistance from the PA in the West Bank, but, I doubt it will be easy and without military escalation.
I have no doubt Israel will be experiencing increased terrorism within it's borders with such views of Palestine. With outside and inside violence to these measures regarding the West Bank, will Israel survive it's extremism under this newly formed government?
“Good Night, Moon”
3.7 day old moon
14.9 percent lit
April 21, 2020
By Mike Watt
Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin (click here) is leveraging his famous Apollo 11 quarantine experience of five decades ago to help society deal with the coronavirus pandemic, which has much of the world under a stay-at-home order.
Aldrin and Apollo 11 crewmates Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins endured a three-week quarantine inside a modified Airstream trailer after their historic moon mission ended in July 1969, to ensure that they didn't spread any potential "space germs" to the rest of us here on Earth....
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