"(I Wish I Was In) Dixie Land" (1859)
Lyrics by: Daniel Decatur Emmett (click here for "Songwriters Hall of Fame")
I wish I was in the land of cotton,
Old times dar am not forgotten,
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
In Dixie Land whar’ I was born in,
Early on one frosty mornin’,
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hoo-ray! Hoo-ray!
In Dixie land, I’ll take my stand to live and die in Dixie;
Away, away, away down south in Dixie,
Away, away, away down south in Dixie.
Old Missus marry Will-de-weaber,
Willium was a gay deceaber; Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
But when he put his arm around ‘er
Smiled as fierce as a forty-pounder,
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hoo-ray! Hoo-ray!
In Dixie land, I’ll take my stand to live and die in Dixie;
Away, away, away down south in Dixie,
Away, away, away down south in Dixie.
His face was sharp as a butcher’s cleaver,
But dat did not seem to greab ‘er;
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Old Missus acted the foolish part,
And died for a man dat broke her heart,
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hoo-ray! Hoo-ray!
In Dixie land, I’ll take my stand to live and die in Dixie;
Away, away, away down south in Dixie,
Away, away, away down south in Dixie.
Now here’s a health to the next old Missus,
And all the gals dat want to kiss us;
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
But if you want to drive ‘way sorrow,
Come and hear dis song to-morrow,
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hoo-ray! Hoo-ray!
In Dixie land, I’ll take my stand to live and die in Dixie;
Away, away, away down south in Dixie,
Away, away, away down south in Dixie.
Dar’s buckwheat cakes an’ Injun batter,
Makes you fat or a little fatter;
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Den hoe it down and scratch your grabble,
To Dixie’s land I’m bound to trabble,
Look away!
Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hoo-ray! Hoo-ray!
In Dixie land, I’ll take my stand to live and die in Dixie;
Away, away, away down south in Dixie,
Away, away, away down south in Dixie
Sunday, June 28, 2020
Keep marching.
It is needless to say that an American civil war would fit nicely into the communist plans of Russia and China. HOWEVER, a peaceful movement to end violence in the USA has a strong place in a strong America.
The "Black Lives Matter" movement has a strong place in the struggle for civil rights in the USA. The blessing of civil rights in the USA has made and will continue to make it a strong nation valued by all it's citizens.
The "Black Lives Matter" movement has a strong place in the struggle for civil rights in the USA. The blessing of civil rights in the USA has made and will continue to make it a strong nation valued by all it's citizens.
The strongman countries are afraid of Joe Biden.
The WWIII alliance of communist powers is taking shape. China and Pakistan are seeking to end India's sovereignty, while Russia is pushing toward the USA. There is no written pact, the countries moving against democracy are doing so to measure each other's ability to carry out successful war fronts.
June 27, 2020
A Russian fighter jet (click here) intercepted two U.S. reconnaissance aircraft and a refueling tanker as they flew in “neutral” airspace over the Black Sea, the Russian defense ministry said in a statement.
The intercept was at least the 12th this year involving U.S. and Russian aircraft worldwide, according to a tally by Stars and Stripes. Most have occurred in the past month....
They are moving now to try to find a way to carry out more than incursions before there is a change in leadership in Washington DC.
Putin has been giving verbal cues to the Russian people to provide the propaganda that a Russian war with the USA is based on internal unrest in the USA. In other words, Putin is stating Russia has a mission to liberate the American people from a tyranny that kills African Americans. Putin has not stated the word "war" to the Russian people, but, Putin's campaign of discrediting the USA to the Russian people has picked up momentum in the past six months. The propaganda is in place now to tell the Russian people that a war with the USA is on the way.
June 27, 2020
U.S. fighter jets intercepted four Russian aircraft (click here) that entered the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on Saturday, the latest in a series of incidents off the Alaskan coast.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said in a statement that F-22 jets intercepted four Russian Tu-142 reconnaissance aircraft entering the ADIZ. The Russian aircraft came within 65 nautical miles of the Alaskan Aleutian Islands and remained in the ADIZ for nearly eight hours, though they did not enter United States or Canadian sovereign airspace.
Saturday’s interception was at least the fourth such incident this month, with the most recent one occurring Wednesday when U.S. F-22 fighter jets intercepted two Russian IL-38 maritime patrol aircraft entering the ADIZ....
This is a charade by China. It is amassing aggressive forces along the Indian border while marching in a parade in Moscow to pretend all is well and peace has a great potential than war. It is a lie. India needs to prepare it's war infrastructure now. A Chinese peace is not likely with all the muscle-flexing it has exhibited over the past half-decade. China is currently engaged in border expansion. The attack on the people of Hong Kong is to ensure it has no internal strife when going up against The West. Taiwan is the same way. The "One China Policy" suits it's ambitions, not its governance.
June 25, 2020
Moscow - Indian and Chinese troops (click here) participated in Russia's Victory Day military parade in Moscow on Wednesday, a rare display at a time of rising tensions between the two Asian neighbors over a decades-old border dispute.
With Russian President Vladimir Putin watching from just outside the Kremlin walls, a Tri-Service contingent of the Indian Armed Forces marched through Red Square. Minutes later, a unit of the Chinese People Liberation Army's honor guard paraded by.
The sight of Indian and Chinese soldiers marching in the same parade together came just over a week after a deadly border clash between the two countries in the Himalayan region of Ladakh....
Trump has exposed the USA and it's allies to the ambitions of communists and they are moving on it. The legitimate president of Venezuela is up for debate according to Russia. At any rate the divided nation has both leaders arguing over gold.
8 February 2020
Russia (click here) has pledged to boost military and economic co-operation with Venezuela to help the South American nation deal with growing US pressure.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's comments came after his meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas.
Mr Lavrov said any attempts to remove Mr Maduro's government by force were unacceptable.
The US accuses Mr Maduro of leading a corrupt and brutal regime....
And let's not forget the nuclear capacity Russian jets in Venezuela.
July 21, 2019
By Devan Cole and Ryan Browne
Washington, DC - A Venezuelan fighter aircraft (click here) recently made an "unsafe approach" to a US Navy aircraft flying in international airspace, "endangering the safety of the crew and jeopardizing" the aircraft's mission, the US military said Sunday.
The incident, which occurred on Friday, involved a "Russian-made" SU-30 Flanker Venezuelan fighter aircraft and a US Navy EP-3 Aries II aircraft conducting a "detection and monitoring" mission, US Southern Command said in a statement. In a Sunday tweet, the Southern Command said the incident happened in international airspace over the Caribbean Sea.
"After reviewing video documentation, we have determined the Russian-made fighter aggressively shadowed the EP-3 at an unsafe distance in international airspace for a prolonged period of time, endangering the safety of the crew and jeopardizing the EP-3 mission," the statement read....
June 27, 2020
A Russian fighter jet (click here) intercepted two U.S. reconnaissance aircraft and a refueling tanker as they flew in “neutral” airspace over the Black Sea, the Russian defense ministry said in a statement.
The intercept was at least the 12th this year involving U.S. and Russian aircraft worldwide, according to a tally by Stars and Stripes. Most have occurred in the past month....
They are moving now to try to find a way to carry out more than incursions before there is a change in leadership in Washington DC.
Putin has been giving verbal cues to the Russian people to provide the propaganda that a Russian war with the USA is based on internal unrest in the USA. In other words, Putin is stating Russia has a mission to liberate the American people from a tyranny that kills African Americans. Putin has not stated the word "war" to the Russian people, but, Putin's campaign of discrediting the USA to the Russian people has picked up momentum in the past six months. The propaganda is in place now to tell the Russian people that a war with the USA is on the way.
June 27, 2020
U.S. fighter jets intercepted four Russian aircraft (click here) that entered the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on Saturday, the latest in a series of incidents off the Alaskan coast.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said in a statement that F-22 jets intercepted four Russian Tu-142 reconnaissance aircraft entering the ADIZ. The Russian aircraft came within 65 nautical miles of the Alaskan Aleutian Islands and remained in the ADIZ for nearly eight hours, though they did not enter United States or Canadian sovereign airspace.
Saturday’s interception was at least the fourth such incident this month, with the most recent one occurring Wednesday when U.S. F-22 fighter jets intercepted two Russian IL-38 maritime patrol aircraft entering the ADIZ....
This is a charade by China. It is amassing aggressive forces along the Indian border while marching in a parade in Moscow to pretend all is well and peace has a great potential than war. It is a lie. India needs to prepare it's war infrastructure now. A Chinese peace is not likely with all the muscle-flexing it has exhibited over the past half-decade. China is currently engaged in border expansion. The attack on the people of Hong Kong is to ensure it has no internal strife when going up against The West. Taiwan is the same way. The "One China Policy" suits it's ambitions, not its governance.
June 25, 2020
Moscow - Indian and Chinese troops (click here) participated in Russia's Victory Day military parade in Moscow on Wednesday, a rare display at a time of rising tensions between the two Asian neighbors over a decades-old border dispute.
With Russian President Vladimir Putin watching from just outside the Kremlin walls, a Tri-Service contingent of the Indian Armed Forces marched through Red Square. Minutes later, a unit of the Chinese People Liberation Army's honor guard paraded by.
The sight of Indian and Chinese soldiers marching in the same parade together came just over a week after a deadly border clash between the two countries in the Himalayan region of Ladakh....
Trump has exposed the USA and it's allies to the ambitions of communists and they are moving on it. The legitimate president of Venezuela is up for debate according to Russia. At any rate the divided nation has both leaders arguing over gold.
Russia (click here) has pledged to boost military and economic co-operation with Venezuela to help the South American nation deal with growing US pressure.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's comments came after his meeting with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas.
Mr Lavrov said any attempts to remove Mr Maduro's government by force were unacceptable.
The US accuses Mr Maduro of leading a corrupt and brutal regime....
And let's not forget the nuclear capacity Russian jets in Venezuela.
By Devan Cole and Ryan Browne
Washington, DC - A Venezuelan fighter aircraft (click here) recently made an "unsafe approach" to a US Navy aircraft flying in international airspace, "endangering the safety of the crew and jeopardizing" the aircraft's mission, the US military said Sunday.
The incident, which occurred on Friday, involved a "Russian-made" SU-30 Flanker Venezuelan fighter aircraft and a US Navy EP-3 Aries II aircraft conducting a "detection and monitoring" mission, US Southern Command said in a statement. In a Sunday tweet, the Southern Command said the incident happened in international airspace over the Caribbean Sea.
"After reviewing video documentation, we have determined the Russian-made fighter aggressively shadowed the EP-3 at an unsafe distance in international airspace for a prolonged period of time, endangering the safety of the crew and jeopardizing the EP-3 mission," the statement read....
Saturday, June 27, 2020
Donald J. Trump has plotted against the American people in achieving "Herd Immunity."
Measles, mumps, polio, and chickenpox (click here) are examples of infectious diseases that were once very common but are now rare in the U.S. because vaccines helped to establish herd immunity. We sometimes see outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in communities with lower vaccine coverage because they don’t have herd protection.
Herd Immunity is a goal, not a methodology. That is especially true with SARS-CoV-2. The infection from that virus kills, maims and is unknown to its effect on the future of those who suffered from it.
Recently, in a talk with a friend she stated her husband's uncle contracted the disease. He is the first in their family to contract it and suffer from it. It has been weeks since he was supposed to have recovered from COVID-19, but, he continues to complain about unexpected bleeding. The bloods ability to coagulate is effected by SARS-CoV-2. He will have to go on being treated for what seems to be an anti-coagulation disorder after surviving the virus. First time I heard of it.
If that is herd immunity then I don't want it.
Twice this past week I read that if there are 6 percent of Americans that have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 that the CDC knows of then there are ten others already exposed and recovered. That statement, whether accurate or not can only be stated as true if the testing backs it up.
But, for the sake of understanding Trump's delusional world where "The Truth" is imagined and made to be fact; then Trump has achieved HERD EXPOSURE, but, not necessarily herd immunity.
66 percent of a population could easily be declared herd immunity if the science proves it to be true. For the life of me I don't know why anyone would make such a broad sweeping statement, UNLESS, a re-election was important and the testing was proving to cause a fall in popularity polls.
From the MAYO Clinic:
There are two paths (click here) to herd immunity for COVID-19 — vaccines and infection.
Vaccines
A vaccine for the virus that causes COVID-19 would be an ideal approach to achieving herd immunity. Vaccines create immunity without causing illness or resulting complications. Herd immunity makes it possible to protect the population from a disease, including those who can't be vaccinated, such as newborns or those who have compromised immune systems. Using the concept of herd immunity, vaccines have successfully controlled deadly contagious diseases such as smallpox, polio, diphtheria, rubella and many others.
Natural infection
Herd immunity can also be reached when a sufficient number of people in the population have recovered from a disease and have developed antibodies against future infection. For example, those who survived the 1918 flu (influenza) pandemic were later immune to infection with the H1N1 flu, a subtype of influenza A. During the 2009-10 flu season, H1N1 caused the respiratory infection in humans that was commonly referred to as swine flu.
However, there are some major problems with relying on community infection to create herd immunity to the virus that causes COVID-19. First, it isn't yet clear if infection with the COVID-19 virus makes a person immune to future infection....
Additionally, exposing large numbers of Americans to SARS-CoV-2 in HOPES of achieving herd immunity is reckless and feckless. We already know this virus is a larger virus and it causes cell lysis (cell destruction) once the virus has used the cells DNA to replicate. That cell lysis causes the immune and clotting cascades to initiate causing blood clots and inflammation. Inflammation of cells is a very damaging symptom that results to some degree in organ damage. In the long view that organ damage there can ultimately be organ failure.
Realizing all this can occur in feckless leadership, the country is nothing more than guinea pigs to realize the the effect of a deadly virus on a population. Excuse me, but, there are computer models for that and not live unsuspecting American citizens.
So, we all know President Trump has been destroying the message of Dr. Fauci and the CDC in regard to precautions to insure Americans can eradicate the disease and never have the horrible effects of it. In that lies "the truth" about the motives of President Trump. It is obvious Trump decided long ago that herd immunity was the only path forward for a Western economic engine like the USA and enough people would survive herd immunity to continue to grow the USA's economy. I believe it is obvious and for UNSUBSTANTIATED statements to be stated and restated that "for every one confirmed case in the USA there are ten others unconfirmed" only lends itself to Trump's agenda and why he wants no more testing.
Every American needs to be tested and the real casualties of this virus MUST be known. As a matter of fact an extensive record should be presented to the American people as to the virus, it's damaging effects, how the future may be effected by the virus and full accountability of the monies the AMERICAN PEOPLE SPENT to stem the economic effects while fighting the existence of the virus.
I demand a full and comprehensive report from every government agency dealing with this virus and it's economic impacts, including the US Treasury Secretary and a full accounting of the monies AMERICANS authorized through their elected representative.
This is not about politics, it is about NEVER MAKING ALL THESE MISTAKES AGAIN!
Herd Immunity at the cost of American lives, wellness and unimpaired future is a huge human rights violation. Trump not only was feckless, his EXAMPLE of an unmasked man destroyed and is destroying lives. The latest nonsensical statements I am hearing is that "cloth masks don't stop the virus." No clue Sherlock. BUT, masks do stop the SPREAD OF THE VIRUS because it prevents droplet transmission in coughing and talking.
EVERY HEALTH OFFICIAL NOT HANGING THEIR HATS ON POLITICS, KNOWS THE MASKS WORK TO PREVENT SPREAD OF COVID-19.
Hand washing, social distancing, testing, contract tracing, meeting only in small groups of five and wearing masks to prevent the spread of the virus is all part of a strategy to end this virus. It must end. It must be eradicated. Follow the directions of Dr. Fauci and end the spread of COVID-19.
It is not safe to forget about the potential for spreading the infection.
June 27, 2020
All it took was one packed bar. An infected patron. And a wild party afterward. (click here)
This is the toxic combination that has led to a new wave of COVID-19 cases in the Grosse Pointe community, where at least 30 new cases in recent days have been tied to an outbreak at a popular East Lansing bar almost 100 miles away.
Harper's Restaurant & Brew Pub saw shoulder-to-shoulder crowds after reopening earlier this month, including some college students from the affluent Grosse Pointes who unknowingly got infected and brought the virus back home. According to multiple families that are now in quarantine, one of those students who visited Harper's came into contact with a friend who held a huge house party in Grosse Pointe Woods, where dozens of friends partied without masks and social distancing, they said....
Herd Immunity is a goal, not a methodology. That is especially true with SARS-CoV-2. The infection from that virus kills, maims and is unknown to its effect on the future of those who suffered from it.
Recently, in a talk with a friend she stated her husband's uncle contracted the disease. He is the first in their family to contract it and suffer from it. It has been weeks since he was supposed to have recovered from COVID-19, but, he continues to complain about unexpected bleeding. The bloods ability to coagulate is effected by SARS-CoV-2. He will have to go on being treated for what seems to be an anti-coagulation disorder after surviving the virus. First time I heard of it.
If that is herd immunity then I don't want it.
Twice this past week I read that if there are 6 percent of Americans that have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 that the CDC knows of then there are ten others already exposed and recovered. That statement, whether accurate or not can only be stated as true if the testing backs it up.
But, for the sake of understanding Trump's delusional world where "The Truth" is imagined and made to be fact; then Trump has achieved HERD EXPOSURE, but, not necessarily herd immunity.
66 percent of a population could easily be declared herd immunity if the science proves it to be true. For the life of me I don't know why anyone would make such a broad sweeping statement, UNLESS, a re-election was important and the testing was proving to cause a fall in popularity polls.
From the MAYO Clinic:
There are two paths (click here) to herd immunity for COVID-19 — vaccines and infection.
Vaccines
A vaccine for the virus that causes COVID-19 would be an ideal approach to achieving herd immunity. Vaccines create immunity without causing illness or resulting complications. Herd immunity makes it possible to protect the population from a disease, including those who can't be vaccinated, such as newborns or those who have compromised immune systems. Using the concept of herd immunity, vaccines have successfully controlled deadly contagious diseases such as smallpox, polio, diphtheria, rubella and many others.
Natural infection
Herd immunity can also be reached when a sufficient number of people in the population have recovered from a disease and have developed antibodies against future infection. For example, those who survived the 1918 flu (influenza) pandemic were later immune to infection with the H1N1 flu, a subtype of influenza A. During the 2009-10 flu season, H1N1 caused the respiratory infection in humans that was commonly referred to as swine flu.
However, there are some major problems with relying on community infection to create herd immunity to the virus that causes COVID-19. First, it isn't yet clear if infection with the COVID-19 virus makes a person immune to future infection....
Additionally, exposing large numbers of Americans to SARS-CoV-2 in HOPES of achieving herd immunity is reckless and feckless. We already know this virus is a larger virus and it causes cell lysis (cell destruction) once the virus has used the cells DNA to replicate. That cell lysis causes the immune and clotting cascades to initiate causing blood clots and inflammation. Inflammation of cells is a very damaging symptom that results to some degree in organ damage. In the long view that organ damage there can ultimately be organ failure.
Realizing all this can occur in feckless leadership, the country is nothing more than guinea pigs to realize the the effect of a deadly virus on a population. Excuse me, but, there are computer models for that and not live unsuspecting American citizens.
So, we all know President Trump has been destroying the message of Dr. Fauci and the CDC in regard to precautions to insure Americans can eradicate the disease and never have the horrible effects of it. In that lies "the truth" about the motives of President Trump. It is obvious Trump decided long ago that herd immunity was the only path forward for a Western economic engine like the USA and enough people would survive herd immunity to continue to grow the USA's economy. I believe it is obvious and for UNSUBSTANTIATED statements to be stated and restated that "for every one confirmed case in the USA there are ten others unconfirmed" only lends itself to Trump's agenda and why he wants no more testing.
Every American needs to be tested and the real casualties of this virus MUST be known. As a matter of fact an extensive record should be presented to the American people as to the virus, it's damaging effects, how the future may be effected by the virus and full accountability of the monies the AMERICAN PEOPLE SPENT to stem the economic effects while fighting the existence of the virus.
I demand a full and comprehensive report from every government agency dealing with this virus and it's economic impacts, including the US Treasury Secretary and a full accounting of the monies AMERICANS authorized through their elected representative.
This is not about politics, it is about NEVER MAKING ALL THESE MISTAKES AGAIN!
Herd Immunity at the cost of American lives, wellness and unimpaired future is a huge human rights violation. Trump not only was feckless, his EXAMPLE of an unmasked man destroyed and is destroying lives. The latest nonsensical statements I am hearing is that "cloth masks don't stop the virus." No clue Sherlock. BUT, masks do stop the SPREAD OF THE VIRUS because it prevents droplet transmission in coughing and talking.
EVERY HEALTH OFFICIAL NOT HANGING THEIR HATS ON POLITICS, KNOWS THE MASKS WORK TO PREVENT SPREAD OF COVID-19.
Hand washing, social distancing, testing, contract tracing, meeting only in small groups of five and wearing masks to prevent the spread of the virus is all part of a strategy to end this virus. It must end. It must be eradicated. Follow the directions of Dr. Fauci and end the spread of COVID-19.
It is not safe to forget about the potential for spreading the infection.
June 27, 2020
All it took was one packed bar. An infected patron. And a wild party afterward. (click here)
This is the toxic combination that has led to a new wave of COVID-19 cases in the Grosse Pointe community, where at least 30 new cases in recent days have been tied to an outbreak at a popular East Lansing bar almost 100 miles away.
Harper's Restaurant & Brew Pub saw shoulder-to-shoulder crowds after reopening earlier this month, including some college students from the affluent Grosse Pointes who unknowingly got infected and brought the virus back home. According to multiple families that are now in quarantine, one of those students who visited Harper's came into contact with a friend who held a huge house party in Grosse Pointe Woods, where dozens of friends partied without masks and social distancing, they said....
Friday, June 26, 2020
In case there are Americans that defend Trump, he is protecting the image of slavers.
History didn’t make up a story of slavery and the civil war. Juneteenth celebrated the end of slavery. The war is over and defending statues of human rights abusers and those that fought to continue slavery is racism. Robert E. Lee was a slaver, sent thousands of men to their deaths to maintain the slave trade. Robert E. Lee was a racist. His statue comes down.
Trump’s executive order to stop the removal of racist statues must be met with an injunction due to racism because of what they mean to the African American community and the danger they present because of White Supremacists; ie: Charlottesville. Additionally, that executive order does not have power over private property or states rights. This definitely brands Trump as a racist that admires men who want to kill Black people like the three in Wilmington.
Trump’s executive order to stop the removal of racist statues must be met with an injunction due to racism because of what they mean to the African American community and the danger they present because of White Supremacists; ie: Charlottesville. Additionally, that executive order does not have power over private property or states rights. This definitely brands Trump as a racist that admires men who want to kill Black people like the three in Wilmington.
China has expansionist plans into India.
India needs to stop hoping this is simply poor judgment of a Chinese general. China is preparing for strong actions along the border. India needs to build their war infrastructure. Now, not when the invasion actually begins. The first Chinese salvo already took place with the death of two high ranking India commanders and 18 other soldiers. The Chinese skirmish was the first actionable assault on India.
Pakistan could take advantage of China's new priority and bring a two-front war to India.
China (click here) has built new structures near the site of a Himalayan border clash that left 20 Indian troops dead earlier this month, fresh satellite images suggest.
Bunkers, tents and storage units for military hardware are visible in an area where last month there were none.
Fighting between the nuclear-armed powers over their disputed frontier has prompted alarm. Chinese casualties were also reported but not confirmed.
The latest images were published as the sides hold talks to defuse tensions.
The fresh satellite images, dated 22 June, are from space technology company Maxar. The structures which appear to have been built by China overlooking the Galwan River were not visible in aerial photographs earlier in June, Reuters reported.
Neither India nor China has commented....
Thursday, June 25, 2020
The USA needs federal legislation requiring face masks in public otherwise there will be fines. Additionally, there needs to be mandatory testing of all Americans for a proper understanding of the extent of the infection of the virus. Contact tracing can follow a positive COVID-19 result and the USA can finally end this hideous virus from destroying lives and our democracy.
Governor Abbot from Texas stated the current methods being used don't work and strongly believe masks in public is mandatory with fines for not wearing them. If every American wore masks in public and practiced social distancing the virus would end by the simple fact there are no available victims.
The federal legislation must be veto-proof. The governors could say if any funding would be necessary. I might not need a great deal of funding. Most Americans can afford masks.
This virus, no different SARS, has to end. It has to be eradicated. There can be no more casual approach to this and certainly NO DENIAL OF THE SERIOUS OF COVID-19.
May 5, 2020
Disposable masks should be disposed of in separate contains, no different than recycle has it's own disposal.
To slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (click here) that causes COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public places where social distancing is difficult to maintain, such as grocery stores. And on June 23, Gov. Jay Inslee made face coverings mandatory statewide for most people in public....
Governor Abbot from Texas stated the current methods being used don't work and strongly believe masks in public is mandatory with fines for not wearing them. If every American wore masks in public and practiced social distancing the virus would end by the simple fact there are no available victims.
The federal legislation must be veto-proof. The governors could say if any funding would be necessary. I might not need a great deal of funding. Most Americans can afford masks.
This virus, no different SARS, has to end. It has to be eradicated. There can be no more casual approach to this and certainly NO DENIAL OF THE SERIOUS OF COVID-19.
May 5, 2020
Disposable masks should be disposed of in separate contains, no different than recycle has it's own disposal.
To slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (click here) that causes COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public places where social distancing is difficult to maintain, such as grocery stores. And on June 23, Gov. Jay Inslee made face coverings mandatory statewide for most people in public....
COVID-2 serves the purpose of government spending on business.
Glenn Hubbard (click here) wrote trump tax change. The longer Trump prolongs exposure of the American people to SARS-CoV-2, the longer the money will flow from the Trump White House.
The original plan by Dr. Faucie was to close the USA down for three weeks to shut down the virus. That was met with Trump's lies and deceptions about the virus and expanded and continues to expand the spread of the virus. The only reason to contradict Dr. Fauci is to spend a great deal of money to support the American economy of trillion of dollars.
I am concerned there is a side effect of Trump's "herd immunity" goal other than profound illness, handicapped outcomes to the virus of survivors and deaths. The side effect is enormous spending on Wall Street. Trump is scaling back on funding to defeat the virus making facial masks the latest bubble and bust item.
Glenn Hubbard is an advisor the president and is recommending $1.5 to $2 trillion spendings on business to so call "recover" from the ongoing tragedy in the USA. I know this is not a popular thought, but, Trump has no clue what is good for the economy AND the protections of enough debt for future generations of Americans. I think future spending has to be realistic and prioritizing the END OF THIS VIRUS, not the propagation of it.
I am worried about the very vicious priorities of Trump and the spread of the virus. The latest Trump staff infections included two Secret Service members. The longer this tragedy plays out in the USA the more and more money being spent on business. PPP was supposed to end the collapse of the economy FOR A BRIEF PERIOD OF USA HISTORY, not be a model for the future which would bring about tremendous debt for generations to come.
The plans Trump has for THE ECONOMY TO DEFEAT THE VIRUS doesn't make sense. He is taking advice from economists like Hubbard that may be expecting to be the next Fed Chair. Everyone in the circle of advisers to Trump has their own agendas. (REWARD FRIENDS AND PENALIZE ENEMIES!) At no point in time does Hubbard speak to the highest priority of the American people, FUNDING TO END THE VIRUS, not propagate new spending for Wall Street.
Trump is asking for advice without a clear long term goal and costs. This is all electioneering for 2020. Trump has no real plans to end the spending so much as continue his chances to stay in office.
HUBBARD NEEDS TO WORK WITH DR. FAUCI TO END THE VIRUS AND NOT BE FAUCI'S OPPOSITION TO RESOLVING TO END THE VIRUS. Trump's plans are dangerous and need to be tempered with THE FINAL END OF THE VIRUS in a FEW WEEKS, not years into the future. The casualties from Trump's COVID-2 approach are adding up and it is a very sad outcome.
I WANT TO SEE SPENDING TO END THE VIRUS, NOT BUILD A WALL STREET THAT HAS NO REAL PURPOSE BUT TO SPEND MONEY AND WIN ALLIES.
Hubbard was Bush's economic advisor. He is a supply-side economist. His advice builds warehouses without end to store goods that, in this case, has no real demand. Supply-side economics is exploitive of the Federal Treasury in a time when people should be sheltering at home. The USA doesn't need more warehouses that only stand empty in the long view.
END THE VIRUS, WITHOUT BLOWING UP THE USA TREASURY AND THE USA DEBT.
Herd Immunity should not be a goal. This is a very dangerous virus that has COSTS beyond an economic recovering. Trump has no economy except spending the USA Treasury.
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Ready for really incredible and fantastic news?
By Rob Stein
Victoria Gray, who underwent a landmark treatment for sickle cell disease last year, has been at home in Forest, Miss., with her three kids, Jadasia Wash (left), Jamarius Wash (second from left) and Jaden Wash.
Like millions of other Americans, (click here) Victoria Gray has been sheltering at home with her children as the U.S. struggles through a deadly pandemic, and as protests over police violence have erupted across the country.
But Gray is not like any other American. She's the first person with a genetic disorder to get treated in the United States with the revolutionary gene-editing technique called CRISPR.
And as the one-year anniversary of her landmark treatment approaches, Gray has just received good news: The billions of genetically modified cells doctors infused into her body clearly appear to be alleviating virtually all the complications of her disorder, sickle cell disease.
"It's wonderful. It's the change I've been waiting on my whole life," Gray told NPR, which has had exclusive access to chronicle her experience over the past year.
Sickle cell disease, a rare blood disorder that disproportionately affects African Americans in the U.S., can be difficult to treat effectively....
CRISPR - Gene Editing
The first genome (click here) editing technologies were developed in the late 1900s. More recently, a new genome editing tool called CRISPR, invented in 2009, has made it easier than ever to edit DNA. CRISPR is simpler, faster, cheaper, and more accurate than older genome editing methods. Many scientists who perform genome editing now use CRISPR.
It is okay to smile. This is for real.
Sickle cell disease (click here) is a group of disorders that affects hemoglobin, the molecule in red blood cells that delivers oxygen to cells throughout the body. People with this disorder have atypical hemoglobin molecules called hemoglobin S, which can distort red blood cells into a sickle, or crescent, shape....
...Sickle cell disease is the most common inherited blood disorder in the United States, affecting 70,000 to 80,000 Americans. The disease is estimated to occur in 1 in 500 African Americans and 1 in 1,000 to 1,400 Hispanic Americans....
I have been listening.
Where do you begin? How about the capital C for corruption. And it isn’t even ONE little corruption or even ONE big corruption it is everything. Absolutely everything about Trump and his gang is corrupt.
Trump goes off on Kushner and company for screwing up a campaign rally. Kushner is an assistant to the president with own office and staff and he is also running campaign rallies? Really? Why didn’t Trump become angry with Kushner for the failed Middle East Peace Treaty? Kushner left the world MBS and his acid baths for ANYONE that disagrees with him. I lost count of the people that has disappeared due to MBS temper tantrums. No policy simply dictator anger.
Kushner also left the world with an Israel that has carte blanc for expansionism.
So, when the Middle East peace effort coughed up some money for Kushner it is on to overseeing the border wall. The $10 million a mile border wall. Overseeing it happens from Washington, DC so he is home everyday for dinner.
Amazing. So the border wall went to the contractors responsibility and Jarrod went on to hoard the national stockpile of hospital supplies for “US.” Never bothered to describe who is us but we know it isn’t the people of the USA.
I don’t know where to begin with Barr. I think his zeal for corruption started with Reagan’s Iran Contra coverup. Why not continue his long held affection for corruption. Barr panders to Trump. It makes me wonder what Trump has on him.
Everything COVID is out of control except the Tri-State area demanding quarantine for new arrivals. That is exactly what New Zealand does. Any new arrivals into the country are brought to the COVID hotel after testing positive. A few weeks there and they leave to mingle with the virus free citizens.
The list keeps getting longer. The prosecution of 21 Russia people KNOWN to play footsie with the Trump campaign ends while the prosecution of a former American marine begins and ends in prosecution for espionage. Now the marine is to be part of a prisoner exchange. A wedding invitation turned into a trial so Russia could swap out an honest American for convicted Russians in the USA.
Then there is the Flynn and Roger Stone circus.
This is not my country. This is not the Great USA. Trump never made the USA great, he cast it into turmoil and racketeering.
The USA is in bad condition and Europe won’t open borders to USA travelers because the virus is out of control here. It would cast the EU into bankruptcy for the number of Americans they would have to test.
My, my, my.
Trump goes off on Kushner and company for screwing up a campaign rally. Kushner is an assistant to the president with own office and staff and he is also running campaign rallies? Really? Why didn’t Trump become angry with Kushner for the failed Middle East Peace Treaty? Kushner left the world MBS and his acid baths for ANYONE that disagrees with him. I lost count of the people that has disappeared due to MBS temper tantrums. No policy simply dictator anger.
Kushner also left the world with an Israel that has carte blanc for expansionism.
So, when the Middle East peace effort coughed up some money for Kushner it is on to overseeing the border wall. The $10 million a mile border wall. Overseeing it happens from Washington, DC so he is home everyday for dinner.
Amazing. So the border wall went to the contractors responsibility and Jarrod went on to hoard the national stockpile of hospital supplies for “US.” Never bothered to describe who is us but we know it isn’t the people of the USA.
I don’t know where to begin with Barr. I think his zeal for corruption started with Reagan’s Iran Contra coverup. Why not continue his long held affection for corruption. Barr panders to Trump. It makes me wonder what Trump has on him.
Everything COVID is out of control except the Tri-State area demanding quarantine for new arrivals. That is exactly what New Zealand does. Any new arrivals into the country are brought to the COVID hotel after testing positive. A few weeks there and they leave to mingle with the virus free citizens.
The list keeps getting longer. The prosecution of 21 Russia people KNOWN to play footsie with the Trump campaign ends while the prosecution of a former American marine begins and ends in prosecution for espionage. Now the marine is to be part of a prisoner exchange. A wedding invitation turned into a trial so Russia could swap out an honest American for convicted Russians in the USA.
Then there is the Flynn and Roger Stone circus.
This is not my country. This is not the Great USA. Trump never made the USA great, he cast it into turmoil and racketeering.
The USA is in bad condition and Europe won’t open borders to USA travelers because the virus is out of control here. It would cast the EU into bankruptcy for the number of Americans they would have to test.
My, my, my.
Monday, June 22, 2020
I am voting by mail for the first time ever.
I received an e-mail from the county clerk stating it was no problem. Ballots are being mailed to me for the primary and the general. The only worry I have is what is Trump doing to undermine my mail-in vote. Most folks normally mail the ballot back without cost. I intend to mail my ballots by Priority Mail with a signature requirement.
I think the voters should be allowed to send them back by e-mail, too. There are tons of problems with a cyber link (ie: Russia) because it is untried, but, so long as it is signed and a picture of an ID accompanies the ballot, there is no reason to prevent that balloting. The e-mail between me and my county clerk is sound and quick. I would love to be able to take a picture of the ballot with each page signed and send it back by e-mail with a picture of my ID.
So, assuming Trump is UP TO SOMETHING with the US Postal Service, a cyber alternative should be offered.
I would like to see all package handling companies offer SAFE AND DEPENDABLE delivery for this year's ballots in primaries and the general. Maybe offer free or low cost to each and every mail-in ballot. It would be nice.
Think of it as a tax deduction and overcoming corruption to ensure the USA Democracy. Be a hero.
January 27, 2020
by Rachel Glickhouse
Mail boxes (click here) taped up near a post office during the coronavirus outbreak in Virginia on April 12.
We’re 10 months away from the 2020 election. (click here) While the stakes are incredibly high and the electorate is more polarized than it has been in decades, Americans’ faith in the legitimacy of the outcome is low — and not without reason. There’s evidence that the forces that sought to influence the electorate in 2016 are at it again, and attempts to shore up the cyber defenses of local election systems have had uneven results.
Crucially, in a vacuum of trustworthy facts, questions about election integrity, fraud and security can be answered by dishonest players with a stake in the outcome. Local newsrooms, reeling from new rounds of belt-tightening and layoffs, are less able to sustain the effort necessary to cover a fast-moving, complex, technical and data-rich story by themselves.
That’s why we announced Monday that we’re running our Electionland project again, to bring together journalists around the country to report on voting barriers and electoral integrity....
I think the voters should be allowed to send them back by e-mail, too. There are tons of problems with a cyber link (ie: Russia) because it is untried, but, so long as it is signed and a picture of an ID accompanies the ballot, there is no reason to prevent that balloting. The e-mail between me and my county clerk is sound and quick. I would love to be able to take a picture of the ballot with each page signed and send it back by e-mail with a picture of my ID.
So, assuming Trump is UP TO SOMETHING with the US Postal Service, a cyber alternative should be offered.
I would like to see all package handling companies offer SAFE AND DEPENDABLE delivery for this year's ballots in primaries and the general. Maybe offer free or low cost to each and every mail-in ballot. It would be nice.
Think of it as a tax deduction and overcoming corruption to ensure the USA Democracy. Be a hero.
by Rachel Glickhouse
Mail boxes (click here) taped up near a post office during the coronavirus outbreak in Virginia on April 12.
We’re 10 months away from the 2020 election. (click here) While the stakes are incredibly high and the electorate is more polarized than it has been in decades, Americans’ faith in the legitimacy of the outcome is low — and not without reason. There’s evidence that the forces that sought to influence the electorate in 2016 are at it again, and attempts to shore up the cyber defenses of local election systems have had uneven results.
Crucially, in a vacuum of trustworthy facts, questions about election integrity, fraud and security can be answered by dishonest players with a stake in the outcome. Local newsrooms, reeling from new rounds of belt-tightening and layoffs, are less able to sustain the effort necessary to cover a fast-moving, complex, technical and data-rich story by themselves.
That’s why we announced Monday that we’re running our Electionland project again, to bring together journalists around the country to report on voting barriers and electoral integrity....
This is all about Giuliani and his lawlessness. He demanded Trump to remove a Ukraine Ambassador.
This is all corruption because Trump's administration does not have control. They sought to control through the corruption of the USA's relationship with Ukraine. Guiliani is at the center of this lawless activity. Guiliani was also doing Russia's bidding. Guiliani wanted to make Ukraine weaker so both Trump and Russia had control and they could exploit that control to defeat Vice President Biden in the November elections.
Trump first tried to demoralize the office to understand the power they had over their activity. Trump wanted to impose a corruption paradigm in SDNY and when all that didn't work, he simply told Barr to get rid of the prosecutors.
June 22, 2020
Adam Klasfeld
When Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman (click here) pushed back against Attorney General Bill Barr’s attempt to oust him late on Friday night, the standoff between a top prosecutor and the Trump administration had a startling sense of déjà vu.
Three years apart, two Manhattan U.S. attorneys refused requests from Washington to quietly step down from their posts in extraordinary flare-ups of rebellion. Both involved whispers of political interference with cases of interest to the president. Both resulted in the prosecutors being fired, and both men wound up replaced by their trusted deputies.
Berman’s crusading predecessor Preet Bharara had lived through this sequence of events in 2017.
Jaimie Nawaday, a former federal prosecutor who witnessed Bharara’s firing, remembers what happened vividly.
“I was in the office when Preet was fired, and that was a very demoralizing, disheartening moment,” Nawaday recalled in a phone interview on Sunday. “And [Berman’s ouster] seemed even worse because of the way it went down.”...
Trump first tried to demoralize the office to understand the power they had over their activity. Trump wanted to impose a corruption paradigm in SDNY and when all that didn't work, he simply told Barr to get rid of the prosecutors.
June 22, 2020
Adam Klasfeld
When Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman (click here) pushed back against Attorney General Bill Barr’s attempt to oust him late on Friday night, the standoff between a top prosecutor and the Trump administration had a startling sense of déjà vu.
Three years apart, two Manhattan U.S. attorneys refused requests from Washington to quietly step down from their posts in extraordinary flare-ups of rebellion. Both involved whispers of political interference with cases of interest to the president. Both resulted in the prosecutors being fired, and both men wound up replaced by their trusted deputies.
Berman’s crusading predecessor Preet Bharara had lived through this sequence of events in 2017.
Jaimie Nawaday, a former federal prosecutor who witnessed Bharara’s firing, remembers what happened vividly.
“I was in the office when Preet was fired, and that was a very demoralizing, disheartening moment,” Nawaday recalled in a phone interview on Sunday. “And [Berman’s ouster] seemed even worse because of the way it went down.”...
Pollution is a co-morbidity
Every environmentalist knows that is the case. Rachel Carson of "Silent Spring" died of breast cancer due to her exposure of pollution in our national parks and forests.
So, here we are in the year 2020 and there is a resurgence of pollution that kills, this time it is African Americans carrying the co-morbidity burden of pollution.
...Health care increasingly needs (click here) to address the management of individuals with multiple coexisting diseases, who are now the norm rather the exception. In the United States, about 80% of Medicare spending is devoted to patients with 4 or more chronic conditions, with costs increasing exponentially as the number of chronic conditions increases. This realization is responsible for a growing interest on the part of practitioners and researchers in the impact of comorbidity on a range of outcomes, such as mortality, health-related quality of life, functioning, and quality of health care....
This is a professional article about co-morbidities and the cost of such them. Co-morbidities are a negative spiral. The more chronic health conditions an individual has the more likely they will have others especially when the cause is within their living, working, and home environments. This is the problem the poor and working poor face all the time. Segregation adds to the danger because of the African American ability to move their lives out of their work and home environments are nearly impossible.
I know an African American couple that lives in a neighborhood where primarily the wealthy reside. She stated she would never move no matter how much she and her husband have to work due to the schools affiliated with this neighborhood and the cleaner air and water. The couple has children. These successful couples are too few and far between when it comes to Zip Codes with dangerous pollution.
This is also a very sad sorry by this couple, because, they may be displaced from their home towns. Robert Taylor in the reporting below have lived in the same hometown all his life, regardless of the cruelty of reality. The statistics bear out that African Americans are exposed to far more environmental danger than others.
June 21, 2020
By Luke Denne
Robert Taylor (click here) has lived on the banks of the Mississippi River in Reserve, Louisiana, his entire life. Both of his parents worked in the local sugar refinery when plantations made up this stretch of the river between New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
But where sugar cane once grew, chemicals now spew from smoke stacks.
When the petrochemical industry moved in, the predominantly Black community’s health began to suffer.
“We didn't know why. We were just ignorant plantation hands, you know, the descendants of slaves," he said.
A higher risk of cancer in these communities — surrounded by the densest concentration of petrochemical plants in the country — have led to the area gaining the unwelcome title of “Cancer Alley.” Similar situations have played out in communities across the U.S. in which Black communities have had to endure more pollution than their white neighbors....
It isn't as though the government doesn't know. (click here)
So, here we are in the year 2020 and there is a resurgence of pollution that kills, this time it is African Americans carrying the co-morbidity burden of pollution.
...Health care increasingly needs (click here) to address the management of individuals with multiple coexisting diseases, who are now the norm rather the exception. In the United States, about 80% of Medicare spending is devoted to patients with 4 or more chronic conditions, with costs increasing exponentially as the number of chronic conditions increases. This realization is responsible for a growing interest on the part of practitioners and researchers in the impact of comorbidity on a range of outcomes, such as mortality, health-related quality of life, functioning, and quality of health care....
This is a professional article about co-morbidities and the cost of such them. Co-morbidities are a negative spiral. The more chronic health conditions an individual has the more likely they will have others especially when the cause is within their living, working, and home environments. This is the problem the poor and working poor face all the time. Segregation adds to the danger because of the African American ability to move their lives out of their work and home environments are nearly impossible.
I know an African American couple that lives in a neighborhood where primarily the wealthy reside. She stated she would never move no matter how much she and her husband have to work due to the schools affiliated with this neighborhood and the cleaner air and water. The couple has children. These successful couples are too few and far between when it comes to Zip Codes with dangerous pollution.
This is also a very sad sorry by this couple, because, they may be displaced from their home towns. Robert Taylor in the reporting below have lived in the same hometown all his life, regardless of the cruelty of reality. The statistics bear out that African Americans are exposed to far more environmental danger than others.
June 21, 2020
By Luke Denne
Robert Taylor (click here) has lived on the banks of the Mississippi River in Reserve, Louisiana, his entire life. Both of his parents worked in the local sugar refinery when plantations made up this stretch of the river between New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
But where sugar cane once grew, chemicals now spew from smoke stacks.
When the petrochemical industry moved in, the predominantly Black community’s health began to suffer.
“We didn't know why. We were just ignorant plantation hands, you know, the descendants of slaves," he said.
A higher risk of cancer in these communities — surrounded by the densest concentration of petrochemical plants in the country — have led to the area gaining the unwelcome title of “Cancer Alley.” Similar situations have played out in communities across the U.S. in which Black communities have had to endure more pollution than their white neighbors....
It isn't as though the government doesn't know. (click here)
More problems for India while the Chinese are being bad neighbors.
This could be a deliberate escalation of tensions between Pakistan and India with the presence of China on the eastern Indian border.
June 22, 2020
Edited by Meenakshi Ray
An Indian Army jawan patrolling at the Line of Control (LOC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.
An Indian Army soldier (click here) was killed as Pakistan violated the ceasefire in several sectors along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch and Rajouri districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, initiating a “befitting reply” from the Indian Army, officials said.
A defence spokesperson said Pakistan army violated the ceasefire in Poonch’s Krishna Ghati at around 3:30am on Monday.
“Pakistan initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation by firing with small arms and shelling with mortars along LoC in Krishna Ghati Sector… Indian Army retaliated befittingly,” the spokesperson said.
The ceasefire agreement was violated again by Pakistan in Nowshera sector of Rajouri at about 5:30am, the spokesperson added....
June 22, 2020Edited by Meenakshi Ray
An Indian Army jawan patrolling at the Line of Control (LOC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.
An Indian Army soldier (click here) was killed as Pakistan violated the ceasefire in several sectors along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch and Rajouri districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, initiating a “befitting reply” from the Indian Army, officials said.
A defence spokesperson said Pakistan army violated the ceasefire in Poonch’s Krishna Ghati at around 3:30am on Monday.
“Pakistan initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation by firing with small arms and shelling with mortars along LoC in Krishna Ghati Sector… Indian Army retaliated befittingly,” the spokesperson said.
The ceasefire agreement was violated again by Pakistan in Nowshera sector of Rajouri at about 5:30am, the spokesperson added....
Trump's pathology is very troubling.
In his rally, Trump stated the fittest children should be the country's soldiers. The USA is now interested in the "breed" of a person. What makes them fit for service where other Americans do not? What are these "fit children/persons" going to be named, the American Aryans? And the USA renamed into the United States of American Aryan Nation?
26 February 2018
The exchange happened during a congress of Mr Erdogan's AK Party
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (click here) has been criticised after telling a girl in military uniform that she would be honoured if killed while fighting.
"If she's martyred, they'll lay a flag on her," he told the sobbing girl at a televised congress of his AK Party.
His supporters cheered "Chief! Take us to Afrin!", in reference to Turkey's operations against Kurdish fighters in Syria's northern Afrin region.
The speech has been described as "child abuse" and a glorification of death.
In the event, broadcast live on state television, the young girl dressed as a soldier seems to catch the attention of Mr Erdogan, who then invites her to the stage....
Donald Trump enjoys the idea of having the power that can cause death. He does not care about the lives of Americans or anyone else for that matter. In case the Trump speechwriters haven't noticed there is a global spike in cases because the USA is setting such a lousy example and calling the World Health Organization "Fake News."
From the beginning of the global pandemic, Trump's agenda was to eliminate the influence of medical professionals. These tactics have existed throughout this administration in most agencies of the federal government. Trump needs to admit his strategy to reclaim the USA from the clutches of SARS-CoV-2 to date has not worked and opening the country will only prove more bad decision making.
22.06.20
The World Health Organization (click here) has reported its highest single-day rise in new cases, as global testing efforts are ramped up. In Germany, the R-rate has spiked 60% to 2.88. Follow DW for the latest....
The R-rate is also known as "R naught" and has yet to enter the dialogue of COVID-19 in the USA.
...Three possibilities (click here) exist for the potential transmission or decline of a disease, depending on its R0 value:
- If R0 is less than 1, each existing infection causes less than one new infection. In this case, the disease will decline and eventually die out.
- If R0 equals 1, each existing infection causes one new infection. The disease will stay alive and stable, but there won’t be an outbreak or an epidemic.
- If R0 is more than 1, each existing infection causes more than one new infection. The disease will be transmitted between people, and there may be an outbreak or epidemic....
While the WHO is alarmed at the one day increase globally, it is not happening globally so much as "certain" countries and the USA tops that list. Spain has made the leap of faith to open it's borders again after their daily cases are nearing single digits.
Graph (click here)
Below are USA daily cases (click here for graph):
Trump's pathology has denied the very poor performance of the administration since the early cases of COVID-19 were exposed. Trump put a false face on this from the beginning in hoping to hide this virus in the statistics of the flu and only focusing on the jet from China as the only known case of Americans. Trump's "strategy of denial" has failed.
If this was a sincere war, the US Congress would be asking for his resignation and begin hearings to the lack of an exit strategy to end the war. Instead of having rock-solid reasons to open the USA, Trump demands the testing to end because that is the only reason there is a growing number of cases reported as if all the new cases were benign and absent of symptoms.
Trump is wrong and the possibility of opening schools is nearly upon us. Children must be protected. Children do not have magical immunity to the virus.
19 June 2020
...Swiss health officials (click here) have insisted that young kids are not vectors of infection or transmission.
“Based on the current knowledge, few children get infected with the Covid-19 virus”, Daniel Koch, former head of the infectious diseases unit at the Federal Office of Public Health said in April.
But there have been cases in Switzerland and elsewhere of children dying of Covid-19.
The exchange happened during a congress of Mr Erdogan's AK Party
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (click here) has been criticised after telling a girl in military uniform that she would be honoured if killed while fighting.
"If she's martyred, they'll lay a flag on her," he told the sobbing girl at a televised congress of his AK Party.
His supporters cheered "Chief! Take us to Afrin!", in reference to Turkey's operations against Kurdish fighters in Syria's northern Afrin region.
The speech has been described as "child abuse" and a glorification of death.
In the event, broadcast live on state television, the young girl dressed as a soldier seems to catch the attention of Mr Erdogan, who then invites her to the stage....
Donald Trump enjoys the idea of having the power that can cause death. He does not care about the lives of Americans or anyone else for that matter. In case the Trump speechwriters haven't noticed there is a global spike in cases because the USA is setting such a lousy example and calling the World Health Organization "Fake News."
From the beginning of the global pandemic, Trump's agenda was to eliminate the influence of medical professionals. These tactics have existed throughout this administration in most agencies of the federal government. Trump needs to admit his strategy to reclaim the USA from the clutches of SARS-CoV-2 to date has not worked and opening the country will only prove more bad decision making.
22.06.20
The World Health Organization (click here) has reported its highest single-day rise in new cases, as global testing efforts are ramped up. In Germany, the R-rate has spiked 60% to 2.88. Follow DW for the latest....
The R-rate is also known as "R naught" and has yet to enter the dialogue of COVID-19 in the USA.
...Three possibilities (click here) exist for the potential transmission or decline of a disease, depending on its R0 value:
- If R0 is less than 1, each existing infection causes less than one new infection. In this case, the disease will decline and eventually die out.
- If R0 equals 1, each existing infection causes one new infection. The disease will stay alive and stable, but there won’t be an outbreak or an epidemic.
- If R0 is more than 1, each existing infection causes more than one new infection. The disease will be transmitted between people, and there may be an outbreak or epidemic....
While the WHO is alarmed at the one day increase globally, it is not happening globally so much as "certain" countries and the USA tops that list. Spain has made the leap of faith to open it's borders again after their daily cases are nearing single digits.
Graph (click here)
Trump's pathology has denied the very poor performance of the administration since the early cases of COVID-19 were exposed. Trump put a false face on this from the beginning in hoping to hide this virus in the statistics of the flu and only focusing on the jet from China as the only known case of Americans. Trump's "strategy of denial" has failed.If this was a sincere war, the US Congress would be asking for his resignation and begin hearings to the lack of an exit strategy to end the war. Instead of having rock-solid reasons to open the USA, Trump demands the testing to end because that is the only reason there is a growing number of cases reported as if all the new cases were benign and absent of symptoms.
Trump is wrong and the possibility of opening schools is nearly upon us. Children must be protected. Children do not have magical immunity to the virus.
19 June 2020
...Swiss health officials (click here) have insisted that young kids are not vectors of infection or transmission.
“Based on the current knowledge, few children get infected with the Covid-19 virus”, Daniel Koch, former head of the infectious diseases unit at the Federal Office of Public Health said in April.
But there have been cases in Switzerland and elsewhere of children dying of Covid-19.
At the end of May, an infant died in a Zurich hospital, after contracting the virus while in Macedonia.
Also in May, a nine-year-old boy, with an underlying health condition, died in France from the Kawasaki-like disease believed to be linked to coronavirus....
June 20, 2020
In a shocking admission (click here) during his Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally on Saturday night, President Donald Trump said he had told officials in his administration to slow down coronavirus testing because of the rising number of cases in America, and used a racist term to describe the coronavirus.
“You know testing is a double-edged sword,” Trump said while complaining about media coverage of his handling of the virus. He said that the US has now tested some 25 million people. “Here’s the bad part… when you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people; you’re going to find more cases. So I said to my people, slow the testing down please.”
At another point during the rally, he said Covid-19 has more names than any other disease: “I can name Kung Flu,” he said using the racist term, “I can name 19 different versions of them.”...
Racism and blaming the media when he should be blaming himself for the failure of his strategy. Everything he says is propaganda and endangers American quality of life and life itself. If that is not pathological, don't ask me what is?
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