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May 16, 2021

Why I think a lot of the blame for pandemic in America and Worldwide rests on Trump's head.

Why I think a lot of the blame for pandemic in America and Worldwide rests on Trump's head. This off
the top of my head so I might be wrong on some of my facts and figures.

> In 2017 he disbanded our Pandemic Task Force.

> In 2018 he fired the CDC's epidemiologist who was on the ground in Wuhan, China
looking for potential dangerous viruses in particular the sars corona viruses.

> In 2019 he pulled us out of international group (I think they were in China too) called
PREDICT that was looking for potential dangerous viruses.

> In November of 2019 our intelligence people told Israel of the C-19 virus and Trump
should have been told about that or in his PDBs (which would mean he would have had to
read it ). Supposedly it wasn't long after that Trump and Kushner invested into
Hydroxycholoroquine and their own C-19 test kit (instead of the one produced by the W.H.O.)
both of which turned out to be useless.

> In Feb. of 2020 Kushner and Pompeo sent 18 tons of our PPE to China .... supposedly Trump
and Kushner owed them money .... which left the medical personal and 1st responders on the
east coast w/out the needed PPE so they had to make their own masks, wear garbage bags,
and make their own face shields. Many of them got the disease some died and 1 E.R. doctor
got the disease, became depressed and took her own life.

> Trump pretty much refused to work with the W.H.O. on the international pandemic and
left it up to individual states in America to respond to the disease instead of having a unified
national response and a plan of action.

> Trump continuously lied to America and the world about the disease.

* The White House told the University of Washington & Seattle's health department not to talk about it.

But in good news Joe Biden put together a truly great team to take on this nightmare. Dr. Fauci, Dr.
Walensky, Dr. Mike of the University of Minnesota, David Kessler, and so on are the best of the best.

sorry to

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1392974702658863115

Biden and Harris leaving the White House Rose Garden 5/13 after announcing a major win in our war against the C-19 pandemic.

May 15, 2021

Anybody here been having post vaccine problems?

Because my iMac and Apple Phone have been crashing because of the
"Bill Gates Microchip" that is now inside of me.

May 12, 2021

Miller lied to congress this AM

Miller lied to congress this AM in trying to blame the media and how it would look bad if the D.C. National Guard responded to the coup/riot.

Prior to Miller’s stand down order on 1/4/21 the DC National Guard had the power to act autonomously to protect people, property, and the federal and local government if they saw a threat. If Miller hadn’t given the stand down order the DC National Guard would have been there PDQ. I believe Mike Flynn's brother was at the Pentagon on 1/6/21 and he too was blocking and or slowing up a National Guard response to the Trump Riot/Coup.



BTW How did he know that there was going to be a riot on 1/4/21? "To employ any riot control agents."

This memorandum responds directly to your January 4, 2021 memorandum regarding the District of Columbia request for District of Columbia National Guard (DCNG) support in response to planned demonstrations from January 5-6, 2021. You are authorized to approve the requested support, subject to my guidance below and subject to consultation with the Attorney General, as required by Executive Order 11485.

Without my subsequent, personal authorization, the DCNG is not authorized the following:

* To be issued weapons, ammunition, bayonets, batons, riot control agents or ballistic protection equipment such as helmets and body armor.

* To employ any riot control agents.

* To interact physically with protesters, except when necessary in self-defense or defense of others.

* Prohibited from sharing “equipment with law enforcement agencies” or seeking support from any non-DC National Guard units.

* Forbidden from conducting “searches, seizures, arrests, or other similar direct law enforcement activity.”

* Forbidden from using “Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance assets” or to conduct “Incident, Awareness and Assessment activities.”

* No helicopters or “any other air assets.”

https://www.nationalmemo.com/miller-disarmed-national-guard

May 7, 2021

Good News Friday: Coronavirus task force update

110 million Americans have had both vaccines or the one and done J.J. shot. 33% of all Americans are now covered.

165 million Americans have had at least 1 shot. 50% of Americans have at least some coverage.

Joe is getting the job done and despite the republicans, Fox News, and other right wing talkers trying to
keep the virus going because of a political calculus that "they" would rather see people sick, dying, and the C-19
virus still spreading because they don't want Biden to get a win but still the tide is turning. And very soon
if you want to go to an Ohio State football game you will need to show proof that you have been vaccinated,
go to a restaurant show some proof, go to school show some proof, go to your job show some proof, and so
on.

Those governors, Tucker Carlson, and Fox News will soon be in the dustbin of history. Go Joe!

Grown ups are back.

The CDC's Rachel Wilensky.




May 7, 2021

Trump and Cruz @ Merde Log Oh ... when you have absolutely no taste and your designer thinks ...

... Tom Kinkade was a great artist, who likes a breakfast of vodka and meth, he/she shops @ hobby lobby,
Lowes' Garden Center, and HSN you get this. I kind of do design for my work. Having stuff that matches
and repeats materials and colors is rule #1.

Bar to wood floor to a marble (I think) step, curtains, an aggregate (beach stones in mortar) walkway
w/brick edging, random plantings (tall in the back shorter in the front is the way it should be done), a
center piece that doesn't match anything, although the table cloth kind of matches the walkway.



https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1389759331470659586/photo/1

May 4, 2021

The "wisdom" of Rudy. Lawyer par excellence.

"The biggest burden a lawyer can have is to represent an innocent man," he (Giuliani) added.

*****

https://www.newsweek.com/rudy-giuliani-says-hes-biggest-anti-communist-not-russian-agent-1588378

May 3, 2021

Thanx Joe! Over 40% of U.S. adults are fully vaccinated. 150 million Americans @ least one dose.

The United States is now averaging fewer than 50,000 new coronavirus cases per day, a level not seen since early October and a sign that the nation's mass vaccination program is having an impact on the pandemic.

In the week ending Sunday, the United States reported 344,463 cases. The daily average is down about 22,000 cases each day from a small peak seen three weeks ago. It's down much further from the records set in January; the United States is now reporting as many cases in a week as it was getting every two days then.

Helping the cause: Almost 150 million Americans have received at least one dose of a vaccine, and over 40% of U.S. adults are fully vaccinated.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/05/03/covid-cdc-vaccine-variant-mask-cases-india/4916967001/

May 3, 2021

The dumb is back into Freedumb / Reaching 'Herd Immunity' Is Unlikely, Experts Now Believe*





@ one time we had an educated population that understood stopping polio and not having people
in iron lungs was a needed goal for the country. I remember in the 1960s on a weekend "us kids"
went to our elementary school and got our polio vaccine on sugar cubes.

* https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142737690

DUer for the Freedumb smack.
May 2, 2021

Today was a very good day for me. I am rich.

I got to hug and hold my granddaughter, along with my daughter in law, and my son too.
1st time in almost a year. My D i L made a birthday dinner for my Mom's 90th birthday
@ her house not too far from where I live. I watched my mom and her great granddaughter
sit on the couch as they read, "Barnyard Dance" together.

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