Laura PourMeADrink

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May 23, 2020

Jeff Sessions kind of pushes back against Trump?.

https://twitter.com/jeffsessions/status/1264028159965528065?s=20

May 18, 2020

Immeasurable Travesty. Trump blocking FEMA funeral assistance for CV victims

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/02/fema-m02.html

Demonstrating that there is no expense the criminal oligarchy will not foist onto the back of the working class, President Donald Trump has barred the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from using any of the $45 billion Congress appropriated to the agency through the CARES Act to help families and relatives pay for funerals costs incurred due to COVID-19.

While an ocean of new funds have been made available to the agency, an April 28 White House memorandum directed to the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Administrator of FEMA, sharply curtailed how the funds could be appropriated. Language within the memo prohibits “individual assistance,” that is funds provided to the states and then distributed to individuals through FEMA assistance programs, except for “crisis counseling services.”

From FEMA website:

https://www.fema.gov/disaster-funeral-assistance

FEMA Funeral Assistance is provided to help with the cost of unexpected and uninsured expenses associated with the death of an immediate family member when attributed to an event that is declared to be a major disaster or emergency

May 11, 2020

My dad is near death with COVID. He is on oxygen & morphine

And the priest has been there. He has dementia but physically well and then went to hospital for a back problem on May 1st, he tested negative and on May 2, he was sent to a CT nursing home. He tested positive yesterday May 10 and they said death was now imminent.

I am 1500 miles away. CT has a 14 day self quarantine policy. Trying to figure out how to get up there.

My dad is a WW2 vet - South Pacific. He raised us 4 kids. My 94 yo mom has taken care of him but he fell and she couldn't lift him. Tremendous guilt like we all sent him into danger to his death.

Please takeaway, as Democrats, please, that these people in nursing homes are being literally exterminated in a different way. If you ever have any say so to help stop the slaughter by any means...asking for military medical help, state and local funding, an emergency revamp of facilities ASAP, PLEASE keep it in mind.

These great people don't deserve this horrible end. And when you have to hear your own mother cry, a good wife of 72 years, because she can't be there to hold his hand, you will never experience anything more heartbreaking in your entire life.

On edit: thank you so much. There are so many kind and loving people here. If you find yourself in a situation like ours, and you are lucky enough to be able to somehow afford it, store the dining room table, or bed and rent a hospital bed. Medicare may cover a visiting nurse. Don't do what we did. See if there's anyway they can stay home for a while. ❤️ to all

May 10, 2020

Breaking: 31 Secret Service members positive!

https://twitter.com/JoeBarri/status/1259321829279387648?s=20

May 10, 2020

The utter irony... CDC'sRedfield, Fauci, and FDA head all under quarantine!

Trump couldn't even keep them safe? Or they dumbed down to please him? Either way, if Dems don't use this every day, starting tomorrow morning on every show, shame on us.

May 9, 2020

Roy of Siegfried & Roy dead to CV

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/roy-horn-siegfried-roy-dies-012700645.html

Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy Dies of Coronavirus at 75

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May 9, 2020