Republicans are still starving America by refusing to pass a stimulus bill, killing us too

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The lack of a new stimulus bill may have contributed to surging virus cases amid reopening pressures, experts say

___A summer wave of virus infections followed after states lifted restrictions and businesses reopened. The latest surge of cases comes as winter weather starts moving people indoors where the virus is easily transmissible and pandemic fatigue weighs on many Americans.

All the while, Congress remains gridlocked on a coronavirus relief package and both parties are fiercely disagree on the size and scope of another government rescue effort. Democrats are assailing Republicans for insisting on a slimmer $500 billion relief plan. Instead, they are pressing for at least $2 trillion in additional spending. President Donald Trump has tuned out of the negotiations so far while he attempts to fight the election results...

"A stimulus package would have included funds for public health and for testing and tracing. It would have provided funds for schools to reopen," Ernie Tedeschi, a policy economist at Evercore ISI, told Business Insider. "I think there has been some public health consequence from a lack of a stimulus bill."

___Some experts said a nationwide lockdown may be needed to keep the virus's spread in check. Dr. Michael Osterholm, a public health advisor to President-elect Joe Biden, suggested in a recent Yahoo Finance interview a large stimulus package subsidizing every part of the economy could help stave off severe losses among individuals and businesses.

"We could pay for a package right now to cover all of the wages, lost wages for individual workers, for losses to small companies, to medium-sized companies or city, state, county governments. We could do all of that," he said. "If we did that, then we could lock down for four to six weeks."

read: https://www.businessinsider.com/no-new-stimulus-may-have-worsened-the-coronavirus-pandemic-2020-11

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1. Thanks Donald

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2. Thanks, anti-American, anti-democracy, anti-President! One against all.

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3. If this continues

it is Crimes against Humanity. Genocide on the American People.

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4. It already is crimes against humanity. ...nt

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5. kick

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6. THIS is what the media should be talking about right now.

Over and over, every day, Mitch McConnell's role in everyone's suffering should be a top story, right after COVID and how high the body count is because of trump' refusal to take it seriously.