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March 7, 2020
Trump is golfing today..not a care in the world
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8086293/Donald-Trump-heads-golf-course-Mar-Lago-visit.html
March 7, 2020
About 70 people were trapped after a hotel being used as a coronavirus quarantine facility in the Chinese city of Quanzhou collapsed.
About 35 people have been pulled from the rubble of the five-storey Xinjia Hotel, officials say.
Videos posted online show emergency workers combing through the building's wreckage in the southern province of Fujian.
It is not clear what caused the collapse or if anyone has died.
Coronavirus: Dozens trapped as China quarantine hotel collapses
https://news.yahoo.com/china-hotel-collapse-dozens-trapped-143109712.html?ncid=facebook_yahoonewsf_akfmevaatcaAbout 70 people were trapped after a hotel being used as a coronavirus quarantine facility in the Chinese city of Quanzhou collapsed.
About 35 people have been pulled from the rubble of the five-storey Xinjia Hotel, officials say.
Videos posted online show emergency workers combing through the building's wreckage in the southern province of Fujian.
It is not clear what caused the collapse or if anyone has died.
March 7, 2020
"I can't stop watching CDC Director Robert Redfield, who was graduated with a BS and an MD..
I can't stop watching CDC Director Robert Redfield, who was graduated with a BS and an MD from Georgetown, completed fellowships in infectious diseases and tropical medicine, founded the Institute of Human Virology, and did pioneering work on HIV and AIDS
https://twitter.com/davidgura/status/1236074596580933634
https://twitter.com/LarryBoorstein/status/1236076196556943367
March 7, 2020
Trump was in Atlanta to visit headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control
President was asked about efforts to curb spread of coronavirus
During rambling comments, Trump mentioned his late uncle, John G. Trump
The president said his uncle was a 'super genius' who taught at MIT
Trump mused about becoming a doctor, saying: 'I like this stuff, I really get it'
On social media, Twitter users mocked 'malignant narcissist' president
President Trump on Friday baffled observers while touring the Centers for Disease Control headquarters in Atlanta, where he bragged that he had a predisposition toward science because of his ‘super genius’ uncle.
‘You know my Uncle was a great — he was at MIT,’ the president said while standing next to health officials who are working to contain the outbreak of coronavirus.
‘He taught at MIT for a record number of years. He was a great super genius, Dr. John Trump.’
John G. Trump was an accomplished electrical engineer who went on to become a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Trump says his 'natural talent' for science is thanks to his late 'super genius' uncle, John G. Trump (seen in the above undated file photo), who was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
His nephew, the president, spoke of his purported grasp of science on Friday, saying: ‘I like this stuff. I really get it.
‘People are surprised that I understand it.
'Every one of these doctors said: "How do you know so much about this?"
Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.'
On social media, the reaction to Trump’s comments was harsh.
One Twitter user wrote: ‘The guy who looked into the sun during a solar eclipse thinks he could have been a research scientist?’
That was a reference to the president looking up at the total eclipse of the sun - the first time in more than 40 years that Americans could see one - in August 2017.
Another Twitter user posted a meme showing Abraham Lincoln, the nation’s 16th president, putting his head in his hand.
Another Twitter user commented: ‘Each clip is worse than the previous one. I can’t take it anymore.’
One Twitter user urged the president to follow his passion for science and pursue a new career, writing: ‘It's not too late Donnie. Resign right now and apply to MIT!
'Maybe I should have been a doctor': Trump brags about his 'natural ability' for science
'Maybe I should have been a doctor': Trump brags about his 'natural ability' for science because of his 'super genius uncle' who was an MIT professor and claims CDC officials ask him how he knows so much about the coronavirusTrump was in Atlanta to visit headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control
President was asked about efforts to curb spread of coronavirus
During rambling comments, Trump mentioned his late uncle, John G. Trump
The president said his uncle was a 'super genius' who taught at MIT
Trump mused about becoming a doctor, saying: 'I like this stuff, I really get it'
On social media, Twitter users mocked 'malignant narcissist' president
President Trump on Friday baffled observers while touring the Centers for Disease Control headquarters in Atlanta, where he bragged that he had a predisposition toward science because of his ‘super genius’ uncle.
‘You know my Uncle was a great — he was at MIT,’ the president said while standing next to health officials who are working to contain the outbreak of coronavirus.
‘He taught at MIT for a record number of years. He was a great super genius, Dr. John Trump.’
John G. Trump was an accomplished electrical engineer who went on to become a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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+6
Trump says his 'natural talent' for science is thanks to his late 'super genius' uncle, John G. Trump (seen in the above undated file photo), who was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
His nephew, the president, spoke of his purported grasp of science on Friday, saying: ‘I like this stuff. I really get it.
‘People are surprised that I understand it.
'Every one of these doctors said: "How do you know so much about this?"
Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.'
On social media, the reaction to Trump’s comments was harsh.
One Twitter user wrote: ‘The guy who looked into the sun during a solar eclipse thinks he could have been a research scientist?’
That was a reference to the president looking up at the total eclipse of the sun - the first time in more than 40 years that Americans could see one - in August 2017.
Another Twitter user posted a meme showing Abraham Lincoln, the nation’s 16th president, putting his head in his hand.
Another Twitter user commented: ‘Each clip is worse than the previous one. I can’t take it anymore.’
One Twitter user urged the president to follow his passion for science and pursue a new career, writing: ‘It's not too late Donnie. Resign right now and apply to MIT!
March 7, 2020
guy on the right dies inside when trump mentions the "perfect letter" at the cdc
at 27:40 mark
truly crazy talk starts at 29:00
March 6, 2020
MIAMI, FLORIDA: Some customers shopped with friends as they stocked up together at a Miami customer. This woman pushes a pallet laden down with bottled water for her and her pals
TARZANA, CALIFORNIA: Rations were also put in place at a CVS in Tarzana, California. Several residents in the area have tested positive to coronavirus after returning from a ski trip in Italy
Pics from around the country of friday panic shopping
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8084011/Panic-shoppers-line-block-hours-amid-coronavirus-fears.htmlMIAMI, FLORIDA: Some customers shopped with friends as they stocked up together at a Miami customer. This woman pushes a pallet laden down with bottled water for her and her pals
TARZANA, CALIFORNIA: Rations were also put in place at a CVS in Tarzana, California. Several residents in the area have tested positive to coronavirus after returning from a ski trip in Italy
March 6, 2020
Dow down 3% friday morning
Its should be way positive based on the see saw pattern of the last 1 weeks
March 5, 2020
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By the time the paramedics got there, Jamie Britt was on his stomach, his hands cuffed behind his back, his legs shackled. Four Mount Pleasant cops had him pinned to the ground.
“We’re going to ketamine him,’’ one paramedic announced just as he arrived.
Within minutes of getting a shot of the powerful tranquilizer, Britt, 50, was effectively dead — though it would be 16 long, agonizing days and nights before his wife decided to take her husband off a ventilator. He was pronounced dead at 3:28 p.m. on Oct. 16.
Watching this play out on the police videos months later is a horror show. It started with a guy with a simple flat tire and ended in tragedy. The Charleston County Coroner has ruled it a homicide, and what happened at the entrance of Snee Farm on that hot Monday evening in September should raise alarms about when and how ketamine is used to subdue suspects.
Ketamine’s use by paramedics has more than doubled in South Carolina since it was first authorized three years ago, and nowhere is it used more than in Charleston County.
“This is wrong,” Britt, handcuffed hand to foot, pleads on the tape.
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Twenty-seven minutes into the video, Britt is well restrained and calmer by the time the paramedics arrive. One of them, holding up a syringe, walks out of the ambulance and gives Britt a shot of ketamine. Only afterward does he ask: “Mr. Britt, hey, hey. Are you allergic to anything? Do you take any medications?”
Woozily, Britt says he takes Lisinopril for high blood pressure. Then he goes silent, never to speak again.
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Across South Carolina, paramedics used ketamine almost 2,000 times in the last three years, DHEC reports. Charleston, the state’s third-largest county, is by far the leader: 458 people were given injections over three years, about 1 in 4 of all given in the state. Greenville, the largest county, reported 279; Richland County, the second-largest, only 17, the data show.
“It’s for everybody’s safety,” the paramedic responds. But Britt’s three words — “this is wrong” — were among the last he would ever speak.d-fdd0cfc34c-174354037
https://www.postandcourier.com/opinion/commentary/bailey-handcuffed-and-shackled-he-died-after-getting-a-shot/article_bf30b3a8-5a2c-11ea-8016-e30b4054f145.html?utm_source=The%20Marshall%20Project%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=fdd0cfc34c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_04_12_49&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5e02cdad9d-fdd0cfc34c-174354037
Handcuffed and shackled, he died after getting a shot of ketamine
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By the time the paramedics got there, Jamie Britt was on his stomach, his hands cuffed behind his back, his legs shackled. Four Mount Pleasant cops had him pinned to the ground.
“We’re going to ketamine him,’’ one paramedic announced just as he arrived.
Within minutes of getting a shot of the powerful tranquilizer, Britt, 50, was effectively dead — though it would be 16 long, agonizing days and nights before his wife decided to take her husband off a ventilator. He was pronounced dead at 3:28 p.m. on Oct. 16.
Watching this play out on the police videos months later is a horror show. It started with a guy with a simple flat tire and ended in tragedy. The Charleston County Coroner has ruled it a homicide, and what happened at the entrance of Snee Farm on that hot Monday evening in September should raise alarms about when and how ketamine is used to subdue suspects.
Ketamine’s use by paramedics has more than doubled in South Carolina since it was first authorized three years ago, and nowhere is it used more than in Charleston County.
“This is wrong,” Britt, handcuffed hand to foot, pleads on the tape.
-----
Twenty-seven minutes into the video, Britt is well restrained and calmer by the time the paramedics arrive. One of them, holding up a syringe, walks out of the ambulance and gives Britt a shot of ketamine. Only afterward does he ask: “Mr. Britt, hey, hey. Are you allergic to anything? Do you take any medications?”
Woozily, Britt says he takes Lisinopril for high blood pressure. Then he goes silent, never to speak again.
---
Across South Carolina, paramedics used ketamine almost 2,000 times in the last three years, DHEC reports. Charleston, the state’s third-largest county, is by far the leader: 458 people were given injections over three years, about 1 in 4 of all given in the state. Greenville, the largest county, reported 279; Richland County, the second-largest, only 17, the data show.
“It’s for everybody’s safety,” the paramedic responds. But Britt’s three words — “this is wrong” — were among the last he would ever speak.d-fdd0cfc34c-174354037
https://www.postandcourier.com/opinion/commentary/bailey-handcuffed-and-shackled-he-died-after-getting-a-shot/article_bf30b3a8-5a2c-11ea-8016-e30b4054f145.html?utm_source=The%20Marshall%20Project%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=fdd0cfc34c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_04_12_49&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5e02cdad9d-fdd0cfc34c-174354037
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