Congratulations on having the first person vaccinated in the free world. I am pleased other countries are receiving the vaccine at the same time the USA is preparing their approach.
Magnificent.
I am looking forward to Moderna’s vaccine as well as others in the pipeline. They are all needed and should be praised for their efforts.
President Biden needs to speak with Governors after they have spoken with the state hospitals in regard to front line workers.
If I may be so bold as to suggest a method of distribution:
Most states are populated with “Healthcare Systems.” Each system is usually an umbrella organization for an entire region of a state. Each healthcare system will know how many patients are within their system, including front line workers. Each system will know the COVID-19 population, the spread and the ability of the system to stem the spread. There have been nurses speaking to the public through local media appearances about the spread and asking them to curtail their activities to prevent greater spread of the virus.
The vaccines priority distribution is up to those at the lead of this effort namely the panel of experts with President Biden.
The point is the USA healthcare system has structure. There are competent people within that structure and that structure is organized within every state. The healthcare structure is also organized by the acuity of patients as well. There are state trauma centers organized as Level 1 to Level 3 and there are rural hospitals and tribal areas.
The Governors and the state HHS secretary will have organized within the current healthcare system structure as to where and when vaccinations will be utilized. If that hasn’t happened, each HHS state Secretary needs to do that now.
One other thing. There are also independent facilities such as Ford Motor Company planning distribution as well. Each state needs to have them involved if they hadn’t already organized privately.
This is not as monumental a task as it seems.
Nursing homes are rarely a lone enterprise. They are usually corporate entities. The single proprietorship will have to be listed with the state as well.
What job can be safer under normal circumstances? There are volunteers to consider and many times it is our older citizens volunteering for these important jobs. The level of hatred by Trumpism is not only scary but, very dangerous.
Evidently, there are some very decent people in government in the State of Georgia. They have every reason to be proud of the integrity with which elections in Georgia are carried out. I am impressed.
The threats must stop. The government officials are doing the right thing.
I don't know what you would call an office of the President-Elect, except "Office of the President-Elect."
As the President-Elect Joe Biden speaks to the county to prepare for the initiative to end the COVID-19 crisis, he should consider the importance of multi-language communication. He can't write Executive Orders yet, but, the law does require any and all healthcare information to be made available through any language currently used in the USA. His HHS Secretary needs to prepare the speeches available in multiple languages.
This initiative of providing information in multi-languages began with the HIV/AIDS crisis. There were entire communities left out of the information to prevent that virus and subsequent illness cue to language barriers. So, as the President-Elect prepares to lead to end the spread of SARS-CoV-2 his speeches should be made available in different languages to help stem the spread. Often those translations, if even on paper, are read by people of other countries and helps them carry out vital policies as well.
Public Law 88-277 (click here)
Eighty-eighth Congress of the United States of America
AT THE SECTION SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, the seventh day of January, on one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four
An Act
To promote the orderly transfer of the executive power in connection with the expiration of the term of office of a President and the Inauguration of a new President.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the “President Transition Act of 1963”
Sec. 3 (a) The Administrator of General Services, referred to hereafter in this Act as “the Administrator,” is authorized to provide, upon request, to each President-elect and each Vice President-elect, for use in connection with his preparations for the assumption of official duties as President or Vice President necessary services and facilities, including-
(1) Suitable office space appropriately equipped with furniture, furnishings, office machines and equipment, and office supplies as determined by the Administrator, after consultation with the President-elect, the Vice-President elect, or their designee provided for in subsection (e) of this section, at such place or places within the United States as the President-elect or Vice-President-elect shall designate; ...
The only rule changes that were noted by the Trump Campaign were in Michigan and the courts ruled on that in favor of Trump.
The monies received by states to SECURE their POLLING PLACES are NOT rule changes. The monies were to secure a safe environment for citizens while voting and the staff while working. THAT IS OSHA and POSHA issues. It has nothing to do with local election procedures.
There is a national health emergency.
There were more than key battleground states that received these monies. Heck, Texas received the money, too.
There is a law!
If any State shall have provided, by laws enacted prior to the day fixed for the appointment of the electors, for its final determination of any controversy or contest concerning the appointment of all or any of the electors of such State, by judicial or other methods or procedures, and such determination shall have been made at least six days before the time fixed for the meeting of the electors, such determination made pursuant to such law so existing on said day, and made at least six days prior to said time of meeting of the electors, shall be conclusive, and shall govern in the counting of the electoral votes as provided in the Constitution, and as hereinafter regulated, so far as the ascertainment of the electors appointed by such State is concerned.
Reverend Barber has stated with great patience there are millions and millions of voters poor and oppressed with little self-will to rise up and vote. The first step to ending oppression and economic disadvantage is to vote for representation that will lift all Americans to a better quality of life.
If Georgia ever needed those dear people it is now. There is great fear about the virus. It isn't easy to move forward to vote for perhaps the first time at a time of great fear. Hopefully, the appeals of those with a vision for Georgia can be heard to those that need trustworthy leadership the most.
Offer masks, instruction, and guidance to voting. Ask people to plan their vote. Their time is now when faced with the greatest oppressor of all, "The Trump Virus."
It is about 90 minutes until "Safe Harbor Day" arrives. President-Elect Biden has the 270 electorates to move into the President's office.
It is safe to say at this point the illegitimate politics of the extremists will be relegated to tabloid papers.
This needs to be a turning point whereby legitimacy ONLY exists in the political spectrum of the USA. Anything else is unethical.
I understand the current president is refusing to let military intelligence have the right to speak to the new president. I have to wonder how much of the current president's intelligence is legitimate. Russia has polluted this country. I believe at the highest levels. Russia probably is still mentoring Trump for another Venezuela in the Western Hemisphere.
President Biden may very well need to rebuild his own military intelligence. I couldn't be more serious. There is NATO and the intelligence of The West. I am confident they didn't trust Trump either.
Reality check: Ukraine
Ukraine's alarming reality with Trump wasn't happening in a vacuum. It just had a great American whistleblower. Former Ambassadors' knowledge will recreate that great military intelligence once again.
Everyone worries too much.
Duke University Hospital Nurses came close to having a union not long ago. The effort should be revitalized.
The Labor Secretary of North Carolina prides herself with her name in every elevator in the state. Lately, there have been some reports that her inspections of those elevators have fallen off. Her retirement is more than welcome. Let's hope the new Labor Secretary of NC cares about people like Rose Liberto.
The issue of a depressed isn't the overriding factor to her death. Immunity can be infused like a blood transfusion if she needed Immunoglobulin G (IgG). Rose died because of an infection of SARS-CoV-2.
My sincerest sympathy to her family, friends, and colleagues. It is unjust for dedicated, valued, and needed health care professionals anywhere in the USA to become ill, let alone die because they were not cared about enough to be certain they were safe.
The USA had a nurse shortage before this pandemic. How is the country going to replace them with the worst of the winter still ahead?
When the coronavirus (click here) outbreak first began to spike in March, Rose Liberto’s family urged her to take a break from her job as a critical care nurse at Atrium’s Cabarrus County hospital
.They knew her immune system had been compromised years ago by intensive chemo treatments.
“We were actually begging her to quit work or retire but she wanted to (go back),” her daughter Jennifer Liberto, told the Observer Friday. “She felt so morally obligated. She kind of wanted to see all this through.”
Rose Liberto, 64, died Thursday at Atrium Health Cabarrus, the hospital where she’d worked for over a decade.
Liberto, who lived in Charlotte, is the area’s first reported health care worker to die from the virus that as of Friday had killed 527 people in North Carolina and 60 in Mecklenburg County....
The current politics of the Trump Republicans assault democracy, authority, and the well being of the American people. No one can deny that. This country has never been in this condition. The economy is failing and so is the health of the people.
Trump is attempting to dissolve the results of free and fair elections. The guy is a wacko and his politics are anti-American.
There are protesters at the Michigan Secretary of State home after she did the right thing (click here). This isn't politics anymore, it is a confrontation of our own USA Constitution.
The Trump influence in the Republican party has to end. The Republicans need to return to benevolent policies for the people and have the backbone to stand up to the pressure to do differently.
Both parties need to reassess their strength and weaknesses and move into the 21st century. This past election saved democracy. Now what?
December 7, 2020
Atlanta - Georgia’s governor (click here) is again telling lawmakers that he won’t call a special session to overturn Georgia’s election results and appoint 16 presidential electors who would support Republican President Donald Trump instead of Democratic president-elect Joe Biden.
Republican Brian Kemp issued a joint statement Sunday with Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, saying it would violate state law for the General Assembly to name electors instead of following the current state law that calls for the governor to certify electors after results are certified.
“Any attempt by the legislature to retroactively change that process for the Nov. 3rd election would be unconstitutional and immediately enjoined by the courts, resulting in a long legal dispute and no short-term resolution,” the two said in their statement....
2030 and no later to stem the climate crisis. Seriously.
...the Horn of Africa was under the influence of Russia and Cuba before the USA became involved. They didn't do well with it. They ran a war between Ethiopia and Somalia that established Somalia's borders, but, there was no government established and terrorists took over the country and hijacked ships.
Does anyone really want to revisit this mess?
