It is a darn shame the way Trump carried on with Putin.

See that guy, there. He has been Chairman of the KGB. I don't know if he still is, but, he was for a long time. He has more USA computer codes than the USA does. You want to know why? Because Trump gave them to him and then he went about not only using USA codes but, installing his own codes on USA agency files.

I have no doubt there are break-ins all the time, but, it isn't because the GRU is clever so much as good students of a captured American called Edward Snowden and also the Russian's good friend Donald John Trump. It is a mess and now the Democrats will come into office and clean it up.

December 13, 2020
By David E. Sanger

Vladimir Kryuchkov during session of the USSR Supreme Soviet

Chairman of the Committee for State Security KGB Vladimir Kryuchkov (1924 - 2007) during session of the USSR Supreme Soviet of XII convocation in Moscow, Soviet Union, July 1989. 

The Trump administration (click here) acknowledged on Sunday that hackers acting on behalf of a foreign government — almost certainly a Russian intelligence agency, according to federal and private experts — broke into a range of key government networks, including in the Treasury and Commerce Departments, and had free access to their email systems.

Officials said a hunt was on to determine if other parts of the government had been affected by what looked to be one of the most sophisticated, and perhaps among the largest, attacks on federal systems in the past five years. Several said national security-related agencies were also targeted, though it was not clear whether the systems contained highly classified material.

The Trump administration said little in public about the hack, which suggested that while the government was worried about Russian intervention in the 2020 election, key agencies working for the administration — and unrelated to the election — were actually the subject of a sophisticated attack that they were unaware of until recent weeks....

Scientists studying the climate do pick up significant changes with world events, ie: September 11, 2001 grounded planes

This is what can happen if civilization ended it's use of carbon in ways that produce greenhouse gases.

IT IS POSSIBLE. THERE IS PROOF.                                  

The kids know what they are talking about, "Shame on you; How dare you."

December 13, 2020
By Doyle Rice

Global CO₂ (click here) emmissions MtCO₂ per day to December 2020

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, (click here) the leading cause of global warming, fell by 7%, according to the report from the Global Carbon Project (click here), a group of international scientists who track emissions.

That's the biggest yearly drop on record, the group said.

Transportation accounted for the largest share of the global decrease, researchers said. Emissions from surface transport, such as car journeys, fell by approximately half at the peak of the COVID-19 lockdowns.

“Of course, lockdown is absolutely not the way to tackle climate change,” said report co-author

Corinne Le Quere, a climate scientist at the University of East Anglia in the U.K.

The report estimated that the world will have put 37 billion tons of carbon dioxide in the air by the end of 2020. That’s down from 40.1 billion tons in 2019.

Emissions dropped 12% in the USA and 11% in Europe but only 1.7% in China. China had an earlier lockdown and less of a second wave of coronavirus infections. China’s emissions are more industrial-based than other countries', and its industry was less affected than transportation, Le Quere said....

Do you believe this mess? This guy is supposed to be such a great lawyer and listen to him. He has to know the Supreme Court is going to do the same thing as the rest of the judicial branch. 

DISMISSED! Yet he rants on and on about how great it all is when he knows full well it isn't. This is the type of nonsense that is dividing this country. I realize the right-wing likes it that way, but, it is simply wrong to deceive people. Did anyone actually believe the Supreme Court was going to throw out an entire election because Trump had loyalists on the court? Really? That is treason. 

The Supreme Court is not going to side with the president that nominated them for the sake of loyalty. Their OATH is to the USA Constitution, not some carved out loyalty to a president that creates his own reality. 

Knock it off!

I want a full retraction of all the lies stated within this program. Someone needs to send it to review of a state bar. This is highly unethical.

Just stuff tonight.

This is my pet peeve. I think the study is genius if one is looking for patterns within mass extinctions of the past. It is an important study.

However.

The study of the past in trying to predict the current climate crisis and how it will spin out is highly inaccurate. I probably haven't said this enough, but, this warming of Earth is only the second warming that can result in mass extinction. There were no humans on the planet when most of the creatures in the oceans died off and living on land was not easy. Please understand there is nothing wrong with understanding Earth's past. It is important. An understanding of how Earth reacts in such glaciation and melting periods is important, but, never before in Earth's history has there been nearly 8 billion people on Earth that carry with them consumerism that is adverse to Earth's climate.

December 13, 2020

...Creative destruction (click here) is central to classic concepts of evolution. It seems clear that there are periods in which suddenly many species suddenly disappear, and many new species suddenly appear. However, radiations of a comparable scale to the mass extinctions, which this study, therefore, calls the mass radiations, have received far less analysis than extinction events.

This study compared the impacts of both extinction and radiation across the period for which fossils are available, the so-called Phanerozoic Eon. The Phanerozoic (from the Greek meaning “apparent life”), represents the most recent ~ 550-million-year period of Earth’s total ~4.5 billion-year history, and is significant to paleontologists: before this period most of the organisms that existed were microbes that didn’t easily form fossils, so the prior evolutionary record is hard to observe.

The new study suggests creative destruction isn’t a good description of how species originated or went extinct during the Phanerozoic, and suggests that many of the most remarkable times of evolutionary radiation occurred when life entered new evolutionary and ecological arenas, such as during the Cambrian explosion of animal diversity and the Carboniferous expansion of forest biomes. Whether this is true for the previous ~ 3 billion years dominated by microbes is not known, as the scarcity of recorded information on such ancient diversity did not allow a similar analysis.

Paleontologists have identified a handful of the most severe, mass extinction events in the Phanerozoic fossil record. These principally include the big five mass extinctions, such as the end-Permian mass extinction in which more than 70% of species are estimated to have gone extinct. Biologists have now suggested that we may now be entering a “Sixth Mass Extinction,” which they think is mainly caused by human activity including hunting and land-use changes caused by the expansion of agriculture. A commonly noted example of the previous “Big Five” mass extinctions is the Cretaceous-Tertiary one (usually abbreviated as “K-T,” using the German spelling of Cretaceous) which appears to have been caused when a meteor hit Earth ~65 million years ago, wiping out the non-avian dinosaurs....

It is Sunday NIght 

It is time for the spirit of Christmas to come alive.

Do you know there are no more big Christmas pageant shows? It is easy to find Charlie Brown's Christmas and Frosty. They are cartoons. But, there aren't that many new Christmas songs or Christmas programs. 

That is just being Scrooge. It cost money to make programs that air once a year.

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year by Andy Williams (click here for memorial at his arts center)

It's the most wonderful time of the year
With the kids jingle belling
And everyone telling you be of good cheer
It's the most wonderful time of the year

It's the hap-happiest season of all
With those holiday greetings and gay happy meetings
When friends come to call
It's the hap-happiest season of all

There'll be parties for hosting
Marshmallows for toasting
And caroling out in the snow
There'll be scary ghost stories (The Christmas Carol)
And tales of the glories of
Christmases long, long ago

It's the most wonderful time of the year
There'll be much mistltoeing
And hearts will be glowing
When loved ones are near
It's the most wonderful time of the year

There'll be parties for hosting
Marshmallows for toasting
And caroling out in the snow
There'll be scary ghost stories
And tales of the glories of
Christmases long, long ago

It's the most wonderful time of the year
There'll be much mistltoeing
And hearts will be glowing
When loved ones are near
It's the most wonderful time
Yes the most wonderful time
Oh the most wonderful time
Of the year

I will be starting a little late this evening.

Thank you.

Can these drugs cure mental health issues, including PTSD?

They are used in the presence of a therapist that directs thought processes to remove trauma and replace it with feelings of benevolence. The scourge of depression is a good way to start.

December 11, 2020
By Clea Skopeliti

DMT is a white crystalline powder (click here) found in certain plants in Mexico, South America, and parts of Asia. Its street names are Dmitri, Fantasia, Businessman’s Trip, Businessman’s Special, and 45-Minute Psychosis.

In the first study of its kind, (click here) UK regulators have given the drug dimethyltriptamine (DMT) the green light for a clinical trial into its effectiveness in treating patients with depression.

The hallucinogenic compound, which has been called the “spirit molecule," is known for inducing powerful trips. It is one of the main active ingredients in ayahuasca, a South American brew used in shamanistic rites, and can be found in several plants.

The drug produces hallucinations and distortions of time, space, sound and colour in the user, but these effects are are short-lived compared to those of other psychedelics like LSD and magic mushrooms, which tend to last for several hours.

The trial will be run by the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London in collaboration with a neuropharmaceutical company called Small Pharma, who described the approval as a “truly ground-breaking moment” in the treatment of depression....

It is a shame how Trump's selects laws that serve his purpose while deciving the people.

Alito and Thomas are political in their decision making. 

Trump poisoned the well in the USA with all his half-truths and complete lies. It is easy to pretend to be an authority when only using parts of the law that fits the political puzzle. It is another thing to actually obey the law in its entirety. There is no constitutional basis for the EXACT date an elected president has to be chosen. The only codified aspect of the election is the structure that guarantees the counting of the electoral college.

There must be an Amendment to the USA Consitution begun as soon as possible that eliminates the US Electoral College. It is being manipulated to overthrow the government, ie: Alito and Thomas and their breathtaking allowance for a hearing.

December 11, 2020

By Nina Totenberg

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday night (click here) rejected an eleventh hour challenge to Joe Biden's election as president.

The court's action came in a one-page order, which said the complaint was denied "for lack of standing."

Texas, supported by President Trump, tried to sue Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Michigan, claiming fraud, without evidence. But in order for a state to bring a case in court, especially the Supreme Court, a state must show it has been injured. In essence, the court said Texas could not show that it was injured by the way other states conducted their elections.

"Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections," the court wrote.

Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, wrote that in their view the court does "not have discretion to deny the filing of a bill of complaint in a case that falls within our original jurisdiction."...

ELECTION OF PRESIDENT (click here)
TWELFTH AMENDMENT

The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate;— The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;—The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President.—The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

2 U.S. Code § 7.Time of election (click here)

The Tuesday next after the 1st Monday in November, in every even numbered year, is established as the day for the election, in each of the States and Territories of the United States, of Representatives and Delegates to the Congress commencing on the 3d day of January next thereafter.

(R.S. § 25; Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 130, § 6, 18 Stat. 400; June 5, 1934, ch. 390, § 2, 48 Stat. 879.)

3 U.S. Code § 2.Failure to make choice on prescribed day (click here)

Whenever any State has held an election for the purpose of choosing electors, and has failed to make a choice on the day prescribed by law, the electors may be appointed on a subsequent day in such a manner as the legislature of such State may direct.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 672.)

Flint is divided over the $600 million settlement regarding poisoned water.

This is me about this entire mess. What bothers me about all this is the callous neglect and prescribed victimization of the people of Flint, Michigan.

The people of Flint already had enormous problems. Their city was not all that different from all the other cities in Michigan that fell under the Snyder hammer. And make to doubt about this disaster; it was an assault by Rick Snyder that resulted in human tragedy. Whether Snyder realizes it or not, money is not more important than human life.

There was a callous INTENT by Rick Snyder. He and the Michigan Republicans changed the Emergency Manager Law to assault an entire city and not simply reorganize the finances of a city school system. The Emergency Manager Law was very different and even benevolent before Snyder redirected its INTENT.

The Emergency Manager Law, under Snyder, was to bring about real pain to cities by selling their assets to the highest bidder, or in the case of Snyder, the biggest campaign donor. The reasoning behind the change in the law was to leverage a city's assets against it's debt. Selling waterfront property intended by the donor as a park for families and children, selling off a radio station that provided local access to the airwaves to speak to issues of the day, and in the case of Flint the sale of an entire water pipeline.

Snyder cared about the "balance sheet" not the city and certainly not the people. It was the balance sheet that took priority not the enjoyment of children or the connectedness of a city or the right to clean and safe water. The side benefits are that Snyder's campaign friends would be wealthier than before he was elected due to the callous use of the Emergency Manager Law, even after a voter referendum ended the law.

This settlement does not address the malicious use of power with complete disregard of the people that had no way to protect themselves, their children, their cities, or their water supply. A water supply is a direct human need to survive. Water is not an option. This was not a matter of whether a city could sell its water pipeline to settle a debt, this is about day to day human life. The settlements are preposterous.

Then governor Rick Snyder lowered his hammer on Flint, Michigan, and didn't prepare in any way for the needs of the people. Even after GM was given a proper water supply the people of Flint were left to survive if they could and some didn't and some babies were never born.

When it comes to monetary settlements there is never enough to make the pain go away and the question comes up as to what human life is worth. At some point, people reflect on their pain and allow an amount of money to take the place of their loved one to find some degree of justice. But, this? Flint? The suffering is still not over.

It is my opinion the monies Flint should receive are in the billions and not the millions. I am not certain how many billions either, it sure isn't one or two. People died, children are cast into mental diminishment and disability, babies weren't born because of miscarriage and it wasn't just one. Then there is the blatant racism that was leveled against the people and the pain from that is enormous. It is really hard to set aside any form of racism, but, this racism with Flint is like Snyder prefers they simply ingest the poison and die.

Rick Snyder consciously knew the water in Flint was poisoned with lead. The US EPA told him more than once to mitigate the problem OF THE PEOPLE. GM received potable water and the PEOPLE of Flint were allowed to SUFFER from poisoned water month after month until the entire country finally heard about the plight of the people of Flint, Michigan.

$600 million ain't nothing compared to the death, illness, and mental anguish that existed and continues to exist when Flint's water turned brown.

If all that is going to happen here is a civil settlement without criminal trials then make the STATE OF MICHIGAN pay! A former governor is getting away with callous intent leading to murder. MAKE THEM PAY!

December 11, 2020
By Ron Fonger

Flint - Some Flint City Council members (click here) are vowing to fight a proposed historic settlement of Flint water crisis lawsuits and about 30 residents rallied to urge them to do just that on Friday. Dec. 11.

Council members questioned attorneys for more than five hours in a special meeting Thursday, in advance of a scheduled vote on Flint’s portion of the $641-million settlement next week.

Mayor Sheldon Neeley is asking the council to approve the city’s contribution of $20 million from an insurance policy toward the settlement, a move attorneys say would end the bulk of lawsuits filed by thousands of residents in more than 100 cases against the city, its former employees and emergency managers.

While some council members want to settle the cases to protect Flint from future liability, others say the overall deal would shortchange residents who suffered from exposure to elevated levels of lead, bacteria and chlorination byproducts in their water....

The city council: 

December 11, 2020

By Michael Nafco

Flint - The clock is ticking to make a decision: (click here for a very interesting video) will the city of Flint join in on the $640 million water settlement?

On Thursday night, Flint City Council spoke directly to the attorneys, asking questions and addressing their concerns during a special meeting.

Concerns included that by the time the settlement is divided up between Flint’s children, those with health conditions, and the attorneys, they fear adult property owners without personal injury documentation won’t get their fair share.

“This is not enough! I’m looking at these percentages, and see, I was a math teacher. I know percentages, and I know that the residents here in the city of Flint will not get anything. They will not be compensated,” Councilwoman Jerri Winfrey-Carter said during the meeting....

The work yet to be done:

December 7, 2020
By John Flesher

Flint has taken important steps (click here) toward resolving the lead contamination crisis that made the impoverished Michigan city a symbol of the drinking water problems that plague many U.S. communities, officials said Monday.

A total of $120 million in federal and state funding has helped Flint replace more than 9,700 lead service lines, which carry water from main pipes into homes, said Kurt Thiede, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 5, which includes Michigan.

Fewer than 500 service lines remain to be checked — a task the city hopes to complete this month, he said. The search-and-replace operation, involving more than 26,000 digs, was required under a 2017 settlement of a lawsuit filed by Flint residents and nonprofit groups against the city and state.

Flint also has finished most actions required under an emergency order the EPA issued in 2016, including the completion of a study on proper treatments to prevent water pipe corrosion and the regular sampling of water from homes that still have lead service lines, Thiede said.

The remaining steps should be completed soon, “marking the end of what has been a rather dark and challenging time,” he said during an online news conference....

The State:

December 9, 2020
By David Eggert

Lansing - Michigan lawmakers on Wednesday (click here) planned to begin swiftly passing a plan to borrow $600 million to fund the state's proposed settlement with the residents of Flint, who sued after their municipal water supply was contaminated with elevated levels of lead for 18 months.

Under the bipartisan legislation, the loan from a state economic development fund would cost more than $1 billion to repay over 30 years — $35 million annually. It is believed to be the state government's largest-ever legal settlement, pending approval from a federal judge.

Other defendants contributing to the $641 million deal include the city of Flint and McLaren Flint Hospital, which each will pay $20 million, and Rowe Professional Services Co., an environmental consulting company that will pay $1.25 million.

"We all determined together that that was the quickest way to get the money to be available for the families and to fulfill the settlement requirements," said Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich, a Flint Democrat who is sponsoring one bill. The mechanism, he said, will avoid a large drawdown from Michigan's savings account, known as the "rainy day" fund....

The Unanswered Questions:

December 10, 2020
By Ron Fonger

The Flint City Council (click here) still has questions about its proposed $20 million settlement of Flint water-related lawsuits brought by residents and is scheduled to meet Thursday, Dec. 10, to address them.

Council members Eric Mays and Jerri Winfrey-Carter requested the special session in advance of an expected Dec. 14 vote on whether Flint will join the state of Michigan and two private companies in settling more than 100 cases involving thousands of children and adults who have filed lawsuits in state and federal courts.

The city, state, McLaren Regional Medical Center and Rowe Professional Services are among defendants seeking to settle those cases but council approval is required before Flint can participate.

Council President Kate Fields said Thursday that she’s requesting attorneys involved in the proposed settlement and other Flint water litigation appear during the virtual meeting, scheduled to be broadcast at 5:30 p.m. on the council’s YouTube channel.

The meeting comes just two days after council met to hear Mayor Sheldon Neeley deliver the State of the City address, a session in which Mays was removed from the meeting for being disruptive for at least the 10th time over several years....

Joe Biden is making very good choices for his administration.

This is not a third Obama term and kindly don’t go down that path. Term limits apply and should apply.

Joe has chosen, and as I knew he would, highly experienced people to line his cabinet. There are no surprises to his administration. He does not know the sincere damage done to the USA over the past four years. This MISSION is to return function to the Executive Branch and vital services to the American people.

I feel reassured the Biden/Harris administration will recognize the problems and immediately correct them. The entire incoming administration is ready on day one and we all have a lot be grateful for realizing what needs to be done.

Just a mention about a NY Times article covering the effects people are feeling after their fight for survival against COVID-19; it could be cardiac even though they never had chest pain. 

There are cardiac conditions caused by viruses. The case of SARS-CoV-2 can be damage on steroids. Remember this is an unusually large virus. Cell damage occurs, sometimes as the first sign of contracting the virus. It has an affinity for nervous tissue be it cardiac or CNS  (central nervous system). Cardiac muscle is unique only to the heart. It is a fairly good guess that fatigue and/or weakness is a cardiac dysfunction including poor cardiac muscle tone/fitness.

There is a physical therapy called cardiac rehab, but, no one should exercise alone or engage in physical stress without a physician after the initial recovery from COVziD-19. A sudden drop in blood pressure can be dangerous. Until a person knows exactly the problem exercise can be adverse to their outcome.

It can be more than one body system involved as well. So, patients and their family need to be persistent to find the cause the fatigue exists. Support groups must form and meet regularly to share experiences, treatments, and hopefully cures.

No matter how Speaker Pelosi tries to find a compromise with the Majority Leader McConnell, it won't happen.

The original bill passed what seems like a lifetime ago, originated in the US House, made it through the US Senate and then Trump danced on the bill as if he wrote it himself. The fact of the matter is the people were demanding help, Trump was sabotaging the USA economy by stating there was no danger to the virus and McConnell was up for re-election.

McConnell won reelection, Trump has lost reelection and there is a promise of a vaccine. McConnell does not care about the people, he cares about his own wealth and his own priorities. He sees the struggle of the people as character building, including hunger.

McConnell sees the vaccine as the answer to all problems and believes the economy will return to normal regardless of unemployment due to bankruptcy. There will be no new funding for the public, McConnell is still the majority leader and there is an ongoing election in Georgia.

If there is a recovery bill it will occur after President Biden's inauguration. 

Modern Healthcare: Bipartisan COVID-19 Relief Framework (click here) Includes $35 Billion In Provider Grants

A COVID-19 relief framework created by a bipartisan group of centrist lawmakers includes $35 billion in relief grants for healthcare providers. The legislative summary, dated Wednesday, still leaves the thorny issues of liability protections and state and local aid unresolved. Prior slimmed-down COVID-19 relief bills advanced by Senate Republicans had cut out more money for the Provider Relief Fund. HHS has distributed roughly $109 billion of the $175 billion Congress has allocated to the Provider Relief Fund as of mid-November, according to data released by the department. Some prominent health systems, including HCA Healthcare, have returned grant money. (Cohrs, 12/9)...

There needs to be separate tracking of the vaccinated.

Within the medical research community, there is concern the immunity either acquired or acquired through vaccine will be short-lived. There needs to be a detailed record of the vaccinated and their experience after their vaccine. There can be a great deal of hope in that record, but, it could be a window of limitations as well.

December 11, 2020

The F.D.A. (click here) is expected to issue an emergency authorization of Pfizer’s vaccine on Saturday. Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline said their experimental vaccine did not appear to work well in older adults, a significant setback....

...What happens next?

Since the panel’s vote on Thursday was only advisory, the vaccine must now secure the authorization of the federal Food and Drug Administration. That’s ordinarily a long and laborious process.

But that is highly unlikely to be the case this time. Barring last-minute snags, the F.D.A. is expected to issue an emergency authorization on Saturday.

And that means the first Covid-19 vaccinations to be administered in the U.S. outside the confines of an experiment are likely to begin early next week. First in line to get it are health care workers and nursing home residents....

Thank you, Pfizer, for taking the challenge to end SARS-CoV-2 seriously.

Full speed ahead. 

This is from Pfizer and not the FDA.

...The Phase 3 clinical trial of BNT162b2 (click here) began on July 27 and has enrolled 43,661 participants to date, 41,135 of whom have received a second dose of the vaccine candidate as of November 13, 2020. Approximately 42% of global participants and 30% of U.S. participants have racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds, and 41% of global and 45% of U.S. participants are 56-85 years of age. A breakdown of the diversity of clinical trial participants can be found here from approximately 150 clinical trials sites in United States, Germany, Turkey, South Africa, Brazil and Argentina. The trial will continue to collect efficacy and safety data in participants for an additional two years....

There is no placebo group for the Third trials. The small number of actual participants in the previous trials yielded skewed percentages and will record observed side effects from people not injected. The small sample size of the early trials is not reliable to a larger picture of the vaccine. The fact the third trial did not have a placebo group is more indicative of the actual injection. Including higher participation in placebo allowed legitimacy to move forward when discussing the number of participants.

I would rather read the entire report myself.

An emergency status can be approved based on the 3rd trial above, but, there is no placebo statistics. It can be said that placebo in in this case is actually unethical considering the lethality of the virus. If the figures above accurately reflect immunity among those vaccinated an emergency status can be tried, however, the side effects and adverse effects are probably wanting.

I am not impressed with the stats from Pfizer.

The COVID-19 cases vs Placebos is 1 to 20. In one group 1 out of 9 contracted the disease 

Percentages do not tell the story. Not as far as I am concerned. It is why there are allergic reactions among the early recipients in the UK. It is not widely tested and average people are now exposed to basically an untested vaccine.

I don’t know the number of people that will be expected to receive this vaccine on an emergency basis.

No one more than I wanted this to be over. In all honesty the Pfizer trials are wanting.

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I think Loeffler mimicked the style of Coney-Barrett.

Bland, singularly spoken to issues, and basically a blank slate. I think this phenomenon with Loeffler can be seen in Coney Barrett at 42:39 time mark after Graham speaks. They may even have had the same coach. But, I find Loeffler very much using the style of debate as Coney-Barrett did.

By providing a "blank slate" the public is then allowed to make her image as it pleases them. Coney-Barrett's public ratings went up a few points putting her over 51 percent in public opinion polls. It was after those polls that Senator Murkowski changed her vote.

...Amy Coney Barrett: (click here)
The same process would work. In that case, there would be parties would have to sue the state arguing that, that law was unconstitutional. It would wind its way up, and if it got to the Supreme Court and if the Supreme Court decided to take it, a whole decision making process begins. You hear arguments from litigants on both sides. They write briefs. You talk to clerks as a judge. You talk to your colleagues. Then you write an opinion. Opinions circulate, and you get feedback from your colleagues. So it’s an entire process. It’s not something that a judge or justice would wake up and say, “Oh, we’re hearing this case. I know what my vote is going to be.”...

These exact words were repeated over and over in Coney-Barrett answers to Senate questions just like Loeffler's repeated mantra.

Trump has stated openly he expects his nominee to favor him in any decision. Politics.

Everything Trump expects of his nominee is all a matter of public record. All of his statements are based in politics. That is also the basis of the Texas complaint.

Pre-mediatated politics also plays into the Texas complaint.

Beginning at time mark 4:09.