It doesn’t change the present vote count.
Thursday, November 12, 2020
With such drastically different approaches to ending the infections and deaths of COVID-19 by the outgoing and incoming Executive Branch...
...the dangerous reality of the Electoral College in the time of Citizen's United requires a serious approach to removing the constitutional law with an Amendment to the US Constitution. The process of organizing 501(c)3 and 4 at the state level should begin. It will require an enormous effort to pass a federal constitutional amendment, especially this one, now is a good time to begin. The reality of a viral explosion is too dangerous to ignore.
The Georgia Senate election has never been more important.
By Phillip J VanFossen
The delegates in Philadelphia agreed, (click here) in the summer of 1787, that the new country they were creating would not have a king but rather an elected executive. But they did not agree on how to choose that president.
Pennsylvania delegate James Wilson called the problem of picking a president "in truth, one of the most difficult of all we have to decide." Other delegates, when they later recounted the group’s effort, said "this very subject embarrassed them more than any other – that various systems were proposed, discussed, and rejected."
They were at risk of concluding their meetings without finding a way to pick a leader. In fact, this was the very last thing written into the final draft. Had no agreement been reached, the delegates would not have approved the Constitution.
I am a civics educator who has also run Purdue University’s Constitution Day celebration for 15 years, and one lesson I always return to is the degree to which the founders had to compromise in order to ensure ratification. Selecting the president was one of those compromises....
President-elect hasn't announced COVID-19 prevention measures yet...
...but, the best response may be to reset the initial effort. This would be especially important considering the wintertime explosion of cases.
The USA has reached a ridiculous point in time with this virus, in that some hospitals are allowing symptom-free nurses testing positive for the virus to care for positive patients. That is a hideous thought and yet here we are in the USA doing exactly that. This new reality is a very different place the USA was only a short time ago. It is time to make important decisions. The states should be implementing strict measures as soon as possible ahead of January 20, 2021.
A coronavirus adviser to Joe Biden (click here) has encouraged the president-elect to follow a New Zealand and Australia-style lockdown for four to six weeks as he warned of an approaching "Covid hell".
Dr Michael Osterholm said a US national lockdown may be the best way to limit deaths and new coronavirus infections until a vaccine arrives.
Osterholm, the director of the Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, was appointed on Monday to Biden's 12-member Covid "advisory board".
He said such a lockdown would help the country bring the virus under control, "like they did in New Zealand and Australia".
Osterholm claimed that the US economy will not suffer as a result, if enough money is borrowed to pay wages during the shutdowns.
"We could pay for a package right now to cover all of the wages, lost wages for individual workers for losses to small companies to medium-sized companies or city, state, county governments. We could do all of that," Osterholm told Yahoo Finance. "If we did that, then we could lockdown for four-to-six weeks."...
The SARS-CoV-2 virus doesn't discriminate and kills heros.
November 10, 2020
By Aaron Kassraie
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) (click here) is allowing guests to visit some of its 134 nursing homes and 24 spinal cord injury centers depending on local coronavirus restrictions.
Since mid-March, no outsiders had been permitted to see these residents except for “compassionate cases,” when a veteran is in the last stages of life in hospice.
The VA created safety guidelines for admission to its nursing homes, referred to as community living centers (CLCs), to ensure that veterans are not positive for COVID-19. As of Wednesday, the VA had three active coronavirus cases across all of its nursing homes.
For admission to spinal cord injury and disorder centers, veterans should contact their nearest location to see if new patients are being accepted. All staff members are being screened daily.
By Aaron Kassraie
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) (click here) is allowing guests to visit some of its 134 nursing homes and 24 spinal cord injury centers depending on local coronavirus restrictions.
Since mid-March, no outsiders had been permitted to see these residents except for “compassionate cases,” when a veteran is in the last stages of life in hospice.
The VA created safety guidelines for admission to its nursing homes, referred to as community living centers (CLCs), to ensure that veterans are not positive for COVID-19. As of Wednesday, the VA had three active coronavirus cases across all of its nursing homes.
For admission to spinal cord injury and disorder centers, veterans should contact their nearest location to see if new patients are being accepted. All staff members are being screened daily.
As coronavirus deaths nationwide surpassed 238,000 people, the Veterans Affairs medical system — which includes both care homes and health care centers — exceeded 4,200 deaths, an increase of 163 in the past week. Those 4,223 deaths include only veterans diagnosed at VA hospitals and medical centers....
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