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March 27, 2020
Ronald Reagan must be rolling over in his grave.
Letter from locked-down Italy: the Cuban, Russian and Chinese efforts to assist Lombardy
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/letter-from-locked-down-italy-the-cuban-russian-and-chinese-efforts-to-assist-lombardy-2020-03-25?mod=article_inlineThe Chinese arrived first. A China Eastern Airbus A-350 from Shanghai touched down at Rome’s semideserted international airport. It was March 12.
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The Americans, on the other hand, have been more discreet with their aid. In fact, the U.S. intervention has been almost invisible to most of the public. Washington did send a makeshift hospital with eight intensive-care units to Cremona, in the north of Italy, as well as resources and supplies to boost a specialist center at one of the most important hospitals in Rome.
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President Vladimir Putin went all-in, with great fanfare, and “no strings attached,” as his spokesperson put it. Russia sent 14 Ilyushin military aircraft filled with doctors and resources to fight the epidemic. That included 100 virologists and other specialists in infectious diseases, as well as mobile units to deep clean public transport and other open spaces.
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In the game of Risk sparked by the coronavirus, Cuba couldn't be excluded, given that regime’s long-held strategy of making health care a priority — and using it as an effective diplomatic tool.
The Cuban team left Havana’s airport bathed in the clapping of tourists and flanked by Cuban and Italian flags: 37 doctors and 15 nurses. They arrived on Sunday at Milan’s Malpensa Airport and will be based in one of the temporary hospitals set up by the Italian army in Crema, one of the areas that has suffered the most from COVID-19.
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The Americans, on the other hand, have been more discreet with their aid. In fact, the U.S. intervention has been almost invisible to most of the public. Washington did send a makeshift hospital with eight intensive-care units to Cremona, in the north of Italy, as well as resources and supplies to boost a specialist center at one of the most important hospitals in Rome.
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President Vladimir Putin went all-in, with great fanfare, and “no strings attached,” as his spokesperson put it. Russia sent 14 Ilyushin military aircraft filled with doctors and resources to fight the epidemic. That included 100 virologists and other specialists in infectious diseases, as well as mobile units to deep clean public transport and other open spaces.
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In the game of Risk sparked by the coronavirus, Cuba couldn't be excluded, given that regime’s long-held strategy of making health care a priority — and using it as an effective diplomatic tool.
The Cuban team left Havana’s airport bathed in the clapping of tourists and flanked by Cuban and Italian flags: 37 doctors and 15 nurses. They arrived on Sunday at Milan’s Malpensa Airport and will be based in one of the temporary hospitals set up by the Italian army in Crema, one of the areas that has suffered the most from COVID-19.
Ronald Reagan must be rolling over in his grave.
March 27, 2020
The online Google document (a form to be filled in, no content visible):
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScqX7mNJv4cZtJTAsyb9ZEf-9VOxlXk9xwVehO8sy0h5XKbbg/viewform
Nurses Share Coronavirus Stories Anonymously in an Online Document
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/business/media/coronavirus-nurses-stories-anonymous.htmlA health care worker in New Jersey created a digital venue for people in the field to chronicle poor working conditions that may put patients at risk. “It is disgusting,” one nurse wrote.
More than 1,200 health care workers have used a private online document to share their stories of fighting the coronavirus pandemic on the front lines.
In their accounts, they say the outbreak has turned American hospitals into “war zones.” They talk about being scared to go to work and anxious that they will become infected. They describe managers who seem to not care about their plight.
“But we show up and have to keep showing up,” one nurse wrote, “and we have to test ourselves.”
The document was created on March 19 by Sonja Schwartzbach, a nurse in New Jersey who is studying as a doctoral student. She said she had started compiling the accounts after she determined that hospital conditions were “far worse” than most people realized and that her fellow health care workers needed a place to share what they were seeing.
More than 1,200 health care workers have used a private online document to share their stories of fighting the coronavirus pandemic on the front lines.
In their accounts, they say the outbreak has turned American hospitals into “war zones.” They talk about being scared to go to work and anxious that they will become infected. They describe managers who seem to not care about their plight.
“But we show up and have to keep showing up,” one nurse wrote, “and we have to test ourselves.”
The document was created on March 19 by Sonja Schwartzbach, a nurse in New Jersey who is studying as a doctoral student. She said she had started compiling the accounts after she determined that hospital conditions were “far worse” than most people realized and that her fellow health care workers needed a place to share what they were seeing.
The online Google document (a form to be filled in, no content visible):
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScqX7mNJv4cZtJTAsyb9ZEf-9VOxlXk9xwVehO8sy0h5XKbbg/viewform
March 27, 2020
The President’s mendacious nightly press briefings on the coronavirus will go down in history for their monumental flimflammery.
During the Vietnam War, the United States had the Five O’Clock Follies, nightly briefings at which American military leaders claimed, citing a variety of bogus statistics, half-truths, and misleading reports from the front, to be winning a war that they were, in fact, losing. Richard Pyle, the Associated Press’s Saigon bureau chief, called the press conferences “the longest-playing tragicomedy in Southeast Asia’s theater of the absurd,” which, minus the “Southeast Asia” part, is not a bad description of the scene currently playing out each evening in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, in the White House. We now have the Trump Follies, the nightly briefings at which President Trump has lied and bragged, lamented and equivocated, about the global pandemic that poses an existential threat to his Presidency. Just as the Vietnam briefings became a standard by which the erosion of government credibility could be measured then, historians of the future will consult the record of Trump’s mendacious, misleading press conferences as an example of a tragic failure of leadership at such a critical moment. There will be much material for them; the transcripts from just the first three days of this week runs to more than forty thousand words.
Since Trump began making the press conferences a daily ritual a couple of weeks ago—an eternity in the pandemic era—his more memorable lines are already featuring in political attacks against him. “I don’t take responsibility at all,” Trump insisted, two weeks ago. When asked to assess his own performance, he said, “I’d rate it a ten.” This Wednesday, with members of his coronavirus task force joining him onstage, he added, “We’ve done one hell of a job. Nobody has done the job that we’ve done. And it’s lucky that you have this group here right now for this problem or you wouldn’t even have a country left.”
The disconnect between Trumpian reality and actual reality has never been on starker display than in the past few days, as the true face of the horror we are facing in the United States has shown itself, in New York City, with overwhelmed morgues and emergency rooms, a governor pleading for ventilators and face masks from the federal government, and heartbreaking first-person accounts reminiscent of the open letters sent from Italy a few weeks back, which warned Americans: this is what is coming for you—don’t make our mistakes. On Tuesday, the World Health Organization said that the United States was emerging as the “epicenter” of the global pandemic, which makes the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room the emerging epicenter of the failure to respond to it.
A couple of weeks ago, it seemed as if maybe that would not be the case. Although the Trump Administration had faltered and delayed and denied through the initial stages of the virus, when it raged outside our borders, it looked like it might finally get its act together and take this public-health menace seriously, now that it was hitting in force inside the U.S. Trump declared a “national emergency,” stepped up testing, and, on March 16th, agreed to his crisis committee’s plan for a fifteen-day countrywide slowdown, in order to “flatten the curve” of the disease’s trajectory. Barely a week into the fifteen days, however, Trump began signalling an abrupt change of course—at just the moment when the disease was accelerating its deadly progress through a wealthy nation that turned out to be surprisingly ill-prepared for it.
The Trump O'Clock Follies
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/the-trump-oclock-folliesThe President’s mendacious nightly press briefings on the coronavirus will go down in history for their monumental flimflammery.
During the Vietnam War, the United States had the Five O’Clock Follies, nightly briefings at which American military leaders claimed, citing a variety of bogus statistics, half-truths, and misleading reports from the front, to be winning a war that they were, in fact, losing. Richard Pyle, the Associated Press’s Saigon bureau chief, called the press conferences “the longest-playing tragicomedy in Southeast Asia’s theater of the absurd,” which, minus the “Southeast Asia” part, is not a bad description of the scene currently playing out each evening in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, in the White House. We now have the Trump Follies, the nightly briefings at which President Trump has lied and bragged, lamented and equivocated, about the global pandemic that poses an existential threat to his Presidency. Just as the Vietnam briefings became a standard by which the erosion of government credibility could be measured then, historians of the future will consult the record of Trump’s mendacious, misleading press conferences as an example of a tragic failure of leadership at such a critical moment. There will be much material for them; the transcripts from just the first three days of this week runs to more than forty thousand words.
Since Trump began making the press conferences a daily ritual a couple of weeks ago—an eternity in the pandemic era—his more memorable lines are already featuring in political attacks against him. “I don’t take responsibility at all,” Trump insisted, two weeks ago. When asked to assess his own performance, he said, “I’d rate it a ten.” This Wednesday, with members of his coronavirus task force joining him onstage, he added, “We’ve done one hell of a job. Nobody has done the job that we’ve done. And it’s lucky that you have this group here right now for this problem or you wouldn’t even have a country left.”
The disconnect between Trumpian reality and actual reality has never been on starker display than in the past few days, as the true face of the horror we are facing in the United States has shown itself, in New York City, with overwhelmed morgues and emergency rooms, a governor pleading for ventilators and face masks from the federal government, and heartbreaking first-person accounts reminiscent of the open letters sent from Italy a few weeks back, which warned Americans: this is what is coming for you—don’t make our mistakes. On Tuesday, the World Health Organization said that the United States was emerging as the “epicenter” of the global pandemic, which makes the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room the emerging epicenter of the failure to respond to it.
A couple of weeks ago, it seemed as if maybe that would not be the case. Although the Trump Administration had faltered and delayed and denied through the initial stages of the virus, when it raged outside our borders, it looked like it might finally get its act together and take this public-health menace seriously, now that it was hitting in force inside the U.S. Trump declared a “national emergency,” stepped up testing, and, on March 16th, agreed to his crisis committee’s plan for a fifteen-day countrywide slowdown, in order to “flatten the curve” of the disease’s trajectory. Barely a week into the fifteen days, however, Trump began signalling an abrupt change of course—at just the moment when the disease was accelerating its deadly progress through a wealthy nation that turned out to be surprisingly ill-prepared for it.
March 26, 2020
First numbers column is reported cases
Second numbers column is reported fatalities
Florida Alachua 49 0
Florida Baker 5 0
Florida Bay 3 0
Florida Bradford 1 0
Florida Brevard 13 0
Florida Broward 504 3
Florida Charlotte 3 0
Florida Citrus 11 1
Florida Clay 19 4
Florida Collier 65 0
Florida Columbia 3 0
Florida DeSoto 5 0
Florida Duval 74 3
Florida Escambia 19 0
Florida Flagler 7 0
Florida Hernando 9 0
Florida Highlands 5 0
Florida Hillsborough 142 cases with 1 fatality
Florida Indian River 13 cases with 0 fatalities
Florida Jackson 1 0
Florida Lake 25 0
Florida Lee 56 3
Florida Leon 8 0
Florida Manatee 24 1
Florida Marion 5 0
Florida Martin 8 0
Florida Miami-Dade 615 cases with 0 reported fatalities
Florida Monroe 12 0
Florida Nassau 5 0
Florida Okaloosa 20 0
Florida Orange 109 3
Florida Osceola 42 0
Florida Palm Beach 168 cases with 3 reported fatalities
Florida Pasco 19 1
Florida Pinellas 64 1
Florida Polk 17 0
Florida Putnam 12 0
Florida Santa Rosa 9 reported cases with 1 reported fatality
Florida Sarasota 34 1
Florida Seminole 37 0
Florida St. Johns 33 1
Florida St. Lucie 10 0
Florida Sumter 24 0
Florida Volusia 29 0
Florida Walton 13 0
eta: Also, use this website
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/96dd742462124fa0b38ddedb9b25e429
from: https://floridahealthcovid19.gov/
COVID-19 case counts and fatalities in all Florida counties as of 03-26-2020
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article#g-cases-by-countyFirst numbers column is reported cases
Second numbers column is reported fatalities
Florida Alachua 49 0
Florida Baker 5 0
Florida Bay 3 0
Florida Bradford 1 0
Florida Brevard 13 0
Florida Broward 504 3
Florida Charlotte 3 0
Florida Citrus 11 1
Florida Clay 19 4
Florida Collier 65 0
Florida Columbia 3 0
Florida DeSoto 5 0
Florida Duval 74 3
Florida Escambia 19 0
Florida Flagler 7 0
Florida Hernando 9 0
Florida Highlands 5 0
Florida Hillsborough 142 cases with 1 fatality
Florida Indian River 13 cases with 0 fatalities
Florida Jackson 1 0
Florida Lake 25 0
Florida Lee 56 3
Florida Leon 8 0
Florida Manatee 24 1
Florida Marion 5 0
Florida Martin 8 0
Florida Miami-Dade 615 cases with 0 reported fatalities
Florida Monroe 12 0
Florida Nassau 5 0
Florida Okaloosa 20 0
Florida Orange 109 3
Florida Osceola 42 0
Florida Palm Beach 168 cases with 3 reported fatalities
Florida Pasco 19 1
Florida Pinellas 64 1
Florida Polk 17 0
Florida Putnam 12 0
Florida Santa Rosa 9 reported cases with 1 reported fatality
Florida Sarasota 34 1
Florida Seminole 37 0
Florida St. Johns 33 1
Florida St. Lucie 10 0
Florida Sumter 24 0
Florida Volusia 29 0
Florida Walton 13 0
eta: Also, use this website
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/96dd742462124fa0b38ddedb9b25e429
from: https://floridahealthcovid19.gov/
March 26, 2020
March 26, 2020 at 5:25 p.m. EDT
Nearly 1.5 million N95 respirator masks are sitting in a U.S. government warehouse in Indiana and authorities have not shipped them because they are past their expiration date, despite Centers for Disease Control guidelines that have been issued for their safe use during the coronavirus outbreak, according to five people with knowledge of the stockpile.
Department of Homeland Security officials had a conference call Wednesday to figure out what to do with the masks, which are part of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s emergency supplies. DHS officials decided to offer the respirators to the Transportation Security Administration, whose workforce has been clamoring for protective equipment, according to three of the people who described the plans on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.
CBP has no plans to offer the masks to hard-hit hospitals, or hand them over to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, three of the people said.
The N95 masks, which provide essential protection to medical personnel treating infected patients, are one of the items that have gone lacking in New York City hospitals and across the country in recent days as demand for equipment soars. Manufacturers have said the masks remain effective if stored properly, and the main risk with age is that the masks’ elastic bands can weaken and prevent a proper seal against a user’s face.
U.S. government has 1.5 million expired N95 masks sitting in an Indiana warehouse
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coronavirus-government-mask-stockpile/2020/03/26/89d729c8-6f5b-11ea-96a0-df4c5d9284af_story.htmlMarch 26, 2020 at 5:25 p.m. EDT
Nearly 1.5 million N95 respirator masks are sitting in a U.S. government warehouse in Indiana and authorities have not shipped them because they are past their expiration date, despite Centers for Disease Control guidelines that have been issued for their safe use during the coronavirus outbreak, according to five people with knowledge of the stockpile.
Department of Homeland Security officials had a conference call Wednesday to figure out what to do with the masks, which are part of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s emergency supplies. DHS officials decided to offer the respirators to the Transportation Security Administration, whose workforce has been clamoring for protective equipment, according to three of the people who described the plans on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.
CBP has no plans to offer the masks to hard-hit hospitals, or hand them over to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, three of the people said.
The N95 masks, which provide essential protection to medical personnel treating infected patients, are one of the items that have gone lacking in New York City hospitals and across the country in recent days as demand for equipment soars. Manufacturers have said the masks remain effective if stored properly, and the main risk with age is that the masks’ elastic bands can weaken and prevent a proper seal against a user’s face.
March 25, 2020
President Donald Trump on Wednesday declared there is a “major disaster” in Florida, two days after Gov. Ron DeSantis requested that designation because of impacts from the new coronavirus.
The action clears the way for federal funding to help all areas in the state that have been hit by the public health emergency.
“The State has currently allocated all available resources to the effort to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and is in direct support of response efforts, while experiencing significant impact to the economy of Florida," DeSantis wrote in a letter to Trump on Monday.
Despite pressure from federal lawmakers, the governor said Wednesday he won’t issue a statewide stay-home order.
Florida coronavirus updates: President declares 'major disaster' in state
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/fl-ne-florida-coronavirus-stay-at-home-order-20200325-we2ls7dcx5atnpswqyequsveqa-story.htmlPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday declared there is a “major disaster” in Florida, two days after Gov. Ron DeSantis requested that designation because of impacts from the new coronavirus.
The action clears the way for federal funding to help all areas in the state that have been hit by the public health emergency.
“The State has currently allocated all available resources to the effort to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and is in direct support of response efforts, while experiencing significant impact to the economy of Florida," DeSantis wrote in a letter to Trump on Monday.
Despite pressure from federal lawmakers, the governor said Wednesday he won’t issue a statewide stay-home order.
March 25, 2020
DeSantis and other red state governors, blood will be on your hands and conscience!
Red state governors buck Trump and stick with social distancing
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/25/republican-governors-trump-social-distancing-148428Hogan's frustration burst into the open Tuesday, when he blasted Trump during a CNN interview for sending "pretty confusing" messages on the virus that don't sync up with the experience on the ground.
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West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, who presides over a state Trump won with more than 68 percent of the vote, on Monday ordered residents to stay home after the confirmation of the first case of community transmission, in a nursing home. Justice ordered the state’s National Guard to test everyone at the facility in a bid to control further transmission.
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DeWine on Sunday issued a “shelter in place” order through April 6 for residents to stay in their homes for all but essential outings and closed nonessential businesses. Democratic-led states including California, Connecticut, Illinois, Louisiana, New Jersey and New York have similar orders under effect.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, meanwhile, during a Tuesday press conference, signaled he may be open to issuing a sweeping statewide stay-at- home order, after the largest counties announced their own lockdowns.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, another Trump ally, has steered a more independent course, resisting political pressure to issue a shelter-in-place order but saying he would restrict visitors coming into his state from hot spots including New York.
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West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, who presides over a state Trump won with more than 68 percent of the vote, on Monday ordered residents to stay home after the confirmation of the first case of community transmission, in a nursing home. Justice ordered the state’s National Guard to test everyone at the facility in a bid to control further transmission.
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DeWine on Sunday issued a “shelter in place” order through April 6 for residents to stay in their homes for all but essential outings and closed nonessential businesses. Democratic-led states including California, Connecticut, Illinois, Louisiana, New Jersey and New York have similar orders under effect.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, meanwhile, during a Tuesday press conference, signaled he may be open to issuing a sweeping statewide stay-at- home order, after the largest counties announced their own lockdowns.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, another Trump ally, has steered a more independent course, resisting political pressure to issue a shelter-in-place order but saying he would restrict visitors coming into his state from hot spots including New York.
DeSantis and other red state governors, blood will be on your hands and conscience!
March 25, 2020
Lest we forget: Aktion T4 (Nazi Germany's killing of "less desirable")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktion_T4Aktion T4 (German, pronounced [akˈtsi̯oːn teː fiːɐ]) was a postwar name for mass murder by involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany.[4] The name T4 is an abbreviation of Tiergartenstraße 4, a street address of the Chancellery department set up in early 1940, in the Berlin borough of Tiergarten, which recruited and paid personnel associated with T4.[5][c] Certain German physicians were authorised to select patients "deemed incurably sick, after most critical medical examination" and then administer to them a "mercy death" (Gnadentod).[7] In October 1939, Adolf Hitler signed a "euthanasia note", backdated to 1 September 1939, which authorised his physician Karl Brandt and Reichsleiter Philipp Bouhler to implement the programme.
The killings took place from September 1939 until the end of the war in 1945; from 275,000 to 300,000 people were killed in psychiatric hospitals in Germany and Austria, occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now the Czech Republic).[8] The number of victims was originally recorded as 70,273 but this number has been increased by the discovery of victims listed in the archives of the former East Germany.[9][d] About half of those killed were taken from church-run asylums, often with the approval of the Protestant or Catholic authorities of the institutions.[10] The Holy See announced on 2 December 1940 that the policy was contrary to the natural and positive Divine law and that "the direct killing of an innocent person because of mental or physical defects is not allowed" but the declaration was not upheld by some Catholic authorities in Germany. In the summer of 1941, protests were led in Germany by the Bishop of Münster, Clemens von Galen, whose intervention led to "the strongest, most explicit and most widespread protest movement against any policy since the beginning of the Third Reich", according to Richard J. Evans.[11]
Several reasons have been suggested for the killings, including eugenics, racial hygiene and saving money.[12] Physicians in German and Austrian asylums continued many of the practices of Aktion T4 until the defeat of Germany in 1945, in spite of its official cessation in August 1941. The informal continuation of the policy led to 93,521 "beds emptied" by the end of 1941.[13][e] Technology developed under Aktion T4 was taken over by the medical division of the Reich Interior Ministry, particularly the use of lethal gas to kill large numbers of people, along with the personnel of Aktion T4, who participated in Operation Reinhard.[17] The programme was authorised by Hitler but the killings have since come to be viewed as murders in Germany. The number of people killed was about 200,000 in Germany and Austria, with about 100,000 victims in other European countries.[18]
The killings took place from September 1939 until the end of the war in 1945; from 275,000 to 300,000 people were killed in psychiatric hospitals in Germany and Austria, occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now the Czech Republic).[8] The number of victims was originally recorded as 70,273 but this number has been increased by the discovery of victims listed in the archives of the former East Germany.[9][d] About half of those killed were taken from church-run asylums, often with the approval of the Protestant or Catholic authorities of the institutions.[10] The Holy See announced on 2 December 1940 that the policy was contrary to the natural and positive Divine law and that "the direct killing of an innocent person because of mental or physical defects is not allowed" but the declaration was not upheld by some Catholic authorities in Germany. In the summer of 1941, protests were led in Germany by the Bishop of Münster, Clemens von Galen, whose intervention led to "the strongest, most explicit and most widespread protest movement against any policy since the beginning of the Third Reich", according to Richard J. Evans.[11]
Several reasons have been suggested for the killings, including eugenics, racial hygiene and saving money.[12] Physicians in German and Austrian asylums continued many of the practices of Aktion T4 until the defeat of Germany in 1945, in spite of its official cessation in August 1941. The informal continuation of the policy led to 93,521 "beds emptied" by the end of 1941.[13][e] Technology developed under Aktion T4 was taken over by the medical division of the Reich Interior Ministry, particularly the use of lethal gas to kill large numbers of people, along with the personnel of Aktion T4, who participated in Operation Reinhard.[17] The programme was authorised by Hitler but the killings have since come to be viewed as murders in Germany. The number of people killed was about 200,000 in Germany and Austria, with about 100,000 victims in other European countries.[18]
March 25, 2020
https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1242245135129346050
In all my years of observing politics and being an American citizen, this is THE MOST MORALLY HEINOUS thing I've ever seen a public official say.
Granted, I may be forgetting some idiot mayor saying some neo-Nazi thing, but this fool is LT. GOVERNOR OF TEXAS.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: I really hope this fool got severe blowback for his comments
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/im-all-in-texas-republican-urges-fox-news-viewers-to-risk-their-lives-so-coronavirus-closures-end/Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, 69, suggested on Fox News that grandparents should be willing to risk their lives to end COVID-19 coronavirus closures.
Patrick, a Baby Boomer grandfather himself, made his comments while being interviewed by Tucker Carlson on Fox News.
Patrick, a Baby Boomer grandfather himself, made his comments while being interviewed by Tucker Carlson on Fox News.
https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1242245135129346050
In all my years of observing politics and being an American citizen, this is THE MOST MORALLY HEINOUS thing I've ever seen a public official say.
Granted, I may be forgetting some idiot mayor saying some neo-Nazi thing, but this fool is LT. GOVERNOR OF TEXAS.
March 25, 2020
There's a lot of exceptions.
Text of 2 week Orange County stay at home order
https://www.scribd.com/document/453108566/Emergency-Executive-Order-No-2020-04-03-24-20There's a lot of exceptions.
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