This article linked below is a
very good comparison between two failed presidents, how they are
similar and how they are different.Herbert Hoover neither knew nor does
Donald Trump know what to do nor how to marshal federal power. I thank
god for my hero Franklin Roosevelt every day, cried at his grave site
in Hyde Park and wish fervently then and now for a return of that
wonderful kind of humane inspiring leadership that ushered in a new way
of thinking about the federal government's power to help its people and
save a nation from hard times. It is about not treating government like
the enemy but treating it as the only thing of power that can save a
huge nation from a humanitarian and economic disaster. Call it socialism
or call it the road to communism it was neither of those dog whistles.
Call it chicken soup I do not care what one calls it it was a way of
saving a nation and thinking humanely about the people living in it who
are suffering and in trouble. It was a way of innovating thought about a
nation that is a collection of beings who need help. A nation is not a
rock. It is an assembly of humanity that sometimes needs prescient
leadership to come to its rescue. The Roosevelt New Deal restored our
nation to economic viability and brought back a nation from Great
Depression disaster. We are in those times now but are burdened with a
leader who does not think of us at all, who does not care about us and
who cares mostly about his polls and winning the next election damn the
fact that this nation is on the edge of a pandemic abyss where death is
our constant companion.
This president simply will
not act as science tells him to act for the entire nation in a way to
stem the greatest pandemic ever to hit the global scene in one hundred
years. If he does not act it will send this nation into economic free
fall. The Carona virus is a national problem. It needs a national
collective solution with strong executive leadership and not a states'
rights individualistic one depending on this governor or that for
individual answers one state bargaining against another for PPE
(personal protective equipment.)
No matter how
much he bloviates and looks like a powerful Mussolini fascistic populist
Trump is not a strong man but a weak one who does not know the first
thing about governing a nation through the strongest storm. Neither he
nor his son-in-law of zero experience, Jared Kusner, know what to do.
Trump is a man who could not save from bankruptcy even his own casinos
much less save a nation of 325 million people from a pandemic economic
collapse. It is our bad luck to have elected a puerile know nothing
narcissist driving the ship of state into ruin. Rescue it and save our
nation by voting blue up and down the ticket in November.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-herbert-hoover_n_5e879fb4c5b6cbaf2828e7c0
Sunday, April 05, 2020
Saturday, April 04, 2020
Coordinate all Disaster Relief--If you want to know how to handle a pandemic listen. Magnificent instruction all should hear
I believe the
link below is yesterday's show that was magnificent as only Rachel can
do it. Listen and marvel at her professional analysis of how our so
called "president" should be dealing with Covid-19. She compares it
with Bush's handling or non handling of
Katrina and how a military man General Honore managed the Katrina
disaster when Bush did one right thing and appointed him. That is who
should be handling this Corona pandemic--our excellent military who have
disaster experience! A general who knows what he is doing should take
charge!!! It is amazing that the most inept human on earth is in the
oval office. What is more amazing than that are those who voted for
him!
Wednesday, April 01, 2020
The lesson of the coronavirus pandemic? Competence matters by Michael Cohen--My Comment LEARN WELL WHY ELECTIONS MATTER
My Comment: No, Democrats are not perfect
but as one observes history, modern Republican administrations have
proven murderous. See the link below. From Reagan and Gingrich's
negative view of government desirous of reducing it to the "size of a
postage stamp" to Bush's 9/11 horrific mistake-saturated Iraq War and
the massive hurricane Katrina "heck of a job Brownie's" dastardly
incompetent response the failures of Republican leadership are legion.
Thousands die at the direction of inefficacious even unintelligent
Republican government hating leaders.
The massive incompetence, illegalities and crimes against humanity of Trump are too voluminous to state here. Please read the link below and observe the carnage.
The difference between Republican and Democrat is the former hates government and wants to reduce it and the latter wants government to work for the governed. In times
The massive incompetence, illegalities and crimes against humanity of Trump are too voluminous to state here. Please read the link below and observe the carnage.
The difference between Republican and Democrat is the former hates government and wants to reduce it and the latter wants government to work for the governed. In times
of national catastrophe I believe government is the only answer that can work for all the people.
The
summary I am left with is elections matter. I urge you to remove the
criminal in the oval office and vote blue up and down the ticket if
there is an election in November to be had. Rescue our lives and that
of our nation! Pass this on to anyone you choose.
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Monday, March 30, 2020
OBAMA PANDEMIC PLAYBOOK REJECTED BY TRUMP WHITE HOUSE--DASTARDLY
Andrea
Mitchell interviewed Christina Mulligan former Director for Preparedness
and response from the Department of Justice now Managing Director for
National Security and International policy of the American Enterprise
Institute. She said the Trump Administration opted NOT to use a
pandemic playbook created by the National Security staff which was
written to help officials confront a range of biological threats.
Mitchell asked how could this have helped an early pandemic response? Mulligan said the Trump administration was given a gift by the previous administration which would have allowed them not to start from ground zero. They would have been given a head start in figuring out what the decision points were and what actions needed to be taken to get ahead of this pandemic. It is hard to tell, Mulligan said, whether they just did not realize what they had or choose to ignore it because there was a bias against everything to do with the prior administration and they would not leverage any information or expertise from it. Mulligan said she worked with Admiral Ziemer from the Global Health Initiative and said he was like a quarterback with respect to a response to Ebola and global health issues like pandemics.
Mitchell asked how could this have helped an early pandemic response? Mulligan said the Trump administration was given a gift by the previous administration which would have allowed them not to start from ground zero. They would have been given a head start in figuring out what the decision points were and what actions needed to be taken to get ahead of this pandemic. It is hard to tell, Mulligan said, whether they just did not realize what they had or choose to ignore it because there was a bias against everything to do with the prior administration and they would not leverage any information or expertise from it. Mulligan said she worked with Admiral Ziemer from the Global Health Initiative and said he was like a quarterback with respect to a response to Ebola and global health issues like pandemics.
Mulligan said there was a groundswell within the career civil servant
community in 2017 and 2018 to create a national level exercise conducted
every two years to build muscle memory across departments and agencies
on how to respond to various types of threats and incidents including
pandemics. There was a lot of arguing that the US was under prepared
for a pandemic but those ideas were overruled by the White House and the
global exercise never took place. -- Dastardly
The President is Trapped
An excellent article in The Atlantic: "The President is Trapped"
"Trump is utterly unsuited to deal with this crisis, either intellectually or temperamentally." ...
I suggest you read this wonderful article from a variety of academically excellent contributors at the link below!
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/presidents-character-unequal-task/608743/?fbclid=IwAR0gmvcBJ_b8p8k7zZBYez-pjll7Okf-JzsWW5U8PcuTXHFSDFx9JvRszn0
Science Rules
"Falwell partially reopened the school, and now nearly a dozen students reportedly have symptoms."
My Comment: Science Rules: What a great Dickensian name in our era--Fallwell. The name rather should be Fallsick.
Science rules and it always has despite the religious fanatics throughout history who have tried to impede its march. Science saves lives and religious fanaticism which is anti science destroys them. Millions historically have suffered and died at the alter of one religion or another that claims to know truth but only knows made up fabrications, myths, stories, and lies.
Science rules and it always has despite the religious fanatics throughout history who have tried to impede its march. Science saves lives and religious fanaticism which is anti science destroys them. Millions historically have suffered and died at the alter of one religion or another that claims to know truth but only knows made up fabrications, myths, stories, and lies.
Now in our time science is bringing that true truth home
to all who will listen; whether it's through the Carona virus or through climate change
science shows the way. It is up to our big brained species to finally
realize that and ditch fantasy religious or otherwise that steals man's brain and/or his
wallet from him. How much money did Jerry Falwell, his heirs
and his cohorts rake in from their suffering faithful including from Liberty University? Probably
the take is millions upon millions. Do not send your hard earned cash to them. They
probably laugh all the way to the bank rejoicing because it is so easy to rope the
sick, the tired of life's travails, and the frightened into believing myths that make them
feel better and endure a life that is as Hobbs said nasty, brutish and
short.
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Sunday, March 29, 2020
Tantamount to Murder
No, it is not the
Carona virus but the link below (the history of vaccines) does show how
difficult it was to land on an
effective vaccine and how long it took to perfect it. The disease was
polio which showed up here in 1894. Early vaccine trials did
not begin until 1935. This shows one how long it took to develop the
correct vaccine for a disease as it went through a number of trials and
tribulations. Polio cases surged in 1952 and early vaccine tests began
then. I remember the epidemic of 1954 and remember well iron lungs and
rocking beds lined up in hospital corridors there to help those who
suffered the bulbar form of polio making breathing on one's own
impossible. Vaccine tests began then and the first vaccine trial emerged
in 1955. It suffered a set back, though, as some children had suffered
paralysis and even died after receiving the vaccine. In 1957 the oral
polio vaccine was tested to mitigate IPV (inactive polio vaccine)
transmission of the disease. Today the CDC recommends that children
get four doses of IPV polio vaccine at 2 months old, at 4 months old,
6-18 months old and at 4-6 years old. It took many years and experience
with the poliomyelitis virus to arrive at an efficacious protocol.
The goal of eradicating polio from the face of the earth
still lives as primitive fear, religious superstition, war and other social upheavals prevent the complete
eradication of the disease. Even now if
there are pockets of world wide failure to vaccinate a nation's populace it will mean the virus will return.
No
one should expect and Dr. Fauci has said a Carona vaccine is a year or a
year and a half away from human testing. A vaccine would not be made
available to the public unless it is deemed safe through vigorous
testing protocols. The first ethical rule of medical doctors is first
do no harm. As seen with polio much can go wrong if there is further
proliferation of the disease by the very vaccine that is supposed to
protect against it. In the mean time the public should follow the
advice of seasoned medical experts in the field of immunology and
epidemiology who have vast experience all over the world in the
phenomena of viral disease transmission. One should dismiss in no
uncertain terms the advice given out by laymen, charlatans looking to
make a fast illegal buck or an unethical mendacious president looking to
win the next election.
To
put the American and, indeed, the world population at risk of
escalating the numbers of dead into the hundreds of thousands or even
millions by ordering the nation back to work too soon risking the spread
of this tenacious virus even more. The only advice the public should
accept is that of Dr. Fauci and other experienced infectious disease
specialists and experts. To advocate for anything else would be
unconscionable and even tantamount to murder!
Saturday, March 28, 2020
Unstable and No Genius--"How the Pandemic Will End" The Atlantic by Ed Young + My Comment
"In
recent days,Trump has signaled that he is prepared to backtrack on
social-distancing policies in a bid to protect the economy. Pundits and
business leaders have used similar rhetoric, arguing that high-risk
people, such as the elderly, could be protected while lower-risk people
are allowed to go back to work. Such thinking is seductive, but flawed.
It overestimates our ability to assess a person’s risk, and to somehow wall
off the ‘high-risk’ people from the rest of society. It underestimates
how badly the virus can hit ‘low-risk’ groups, and how thoroughly
hospitals will be overwhelmed if even just younger demographics are
falling sick.
A recent analysis from the University of Pennsylvania estimated that even if social-distancing measures can reduce infection rates by 95 percent, 960,000 Americans will still need intensive care. There are only about 180,000 ventilators in the U.S. and, more pertinently, only enough respiratory therapists and critical-care staff to safely look after 100,000 ventilated patients. Abandoning social distancing would be foolish. Abandoning it now, when tests and protective equipment are still scarce, would be catastrophic."
My Comment: Trump is the absolute WORST president to be in office when this catastrophic pandemic event requires smart prescient leadership and advice taken from scientists. Instead we have an unstable far-from-genius president who is leading us up to and potentially over the abyss crowing that he has an instinct for what is medically right during this pandemic. He cares about two things only -- himself and his money!
https://www.theatlantic.com/
A recent analysis from the University of Pennsylvania estimated that even if social-distancing measures can reduce infection rates by 95 percent, 960,000 Americans will still need intensive care. There are only about 180,000 ventilators in the U.S. and, more pertinently, only enough respiratory therapists and critical-care staff to safely look after 100,000 ventilated patients. Abandoning social distancing would be foolish. Abandoning it now, when tests and protective equipment are still scarce, would be catastrophic."
My Comment: Trump is the absolute WORST president to be in office when this catastrophic pandemic event requires smart prescient leadership and advice taken from scientists. Instead we have an unstable far-from-genius president who is leading us up to and potentially over the abyss crowing that he has an instinct for what is medically right during this pandemic. He cares about two things only -- himself and his money!
https://www.theatlantic.com/
Friday, March 27, 2020
Trump Rejects New York’s Plea For Ventilators: ‘I Don’t Believe You Need’ That Many--My Comment: Unstable stupid
Trump's 'back-to-work' plan and his refusal to supply the New York
epicenter of Carona virus with more ventilators it so desperately needs
is murderous. It will make things worse, experts say.
If president Unstable
Stupid issues back to work orders even for just specific areas of the
nation that have low viral numbers he will be responsible for the murder
of thousands more because the virus does not care about state or county
boundaries. It will invade by eminent domain any human it can thereby
in Darwinian fashion increasing its numbers no matter which state is
back to work. Those back to work will infect others. Those states with
low viral load will not stay that way if a back to work order is
manifested. Isolation and limiting human to human contact is still the
best method that is now available to the nation and the world to lower
the curve as China and S. Korea can attest. Otherwise, the numbers of
sick and dying will rise exponentially and then what? He will ensure
more will die who need not die and be responsible for untold suffering
that's what.
The
unfit-for-the-presidency Trump needs to be removed from office and fast
before he
annihilates the nation with his unbridled narcissism allowing for the
stupidest of his sociopathic murderous policies to prevail. He cares
about
one thing -- his own survival -- while damning the nation to untold
suffering
and attendant death. It is ironic that a back to work order will, I
surely hope, ensure his November electoral defeat. The nation must not
take any chances though. He could unthinkably win another term. This
gargoyle must be stopped now by any legal means necessary before he
condemns true Trump death panels to so many who need not die!
VOTE
BLUE IN NOVEMBER AND REMOVE THIS PATHOLOGICAL SOCIOPATH AND ALL THOSE
WHO ENABLE HIM FROM OFFICE. CONDEMN HIM TO THE SAME ASH BIN OF HISTORY
TO WHICH THE AXIS POWERS OF WWII
WERE SENT!
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Thursday, March 26, 2020
WHAT MAKES CORONA VIRUS SO DANGEROUS
A fellow blogger sent this to me. It is an FYI.
"This is the best description of the danger of virus mutation that I have seen lately and why this virus is so dangerous.
“Feeling confused as to why Coronavirus is a bigger deal than Seasonal flu?
Here it is in a nutshell. I hope this helps. Feel free to share this with others who don’t understand ... It has to do with RNA sequencing ... i.e. genetics."
Seasonal flu is an “all human virus”. The DNA/RNA chains that make up the virus are recognized by the human immune system. This means that your body has some immunity to it before it comes around each year. You get immunity two ways = through exposure to a virus or by getting a flu shot.
Novel viruses come from animals ... the W.H.O. tracks novel viruses in animals, (sometimes for years watching for mutations). Usually, these viruses only transfer from animal to animal (pigs in the case of H1N1 and birds in the case of the Spanish flu). But once one of these animal viruses mutates and starts to transfer from animals to humans, then it’s a problem. Why? Because we have no natural or acquired immunity … the RNA sequencing of the genes inside the virus isn’t human and the human immune system doesn’t recognize it, so we can’t fight it off.
Now ... sometimes the mutation only allows transfer from animal to human. For years it’s the only transmission -- from an infected animal to a human -- before it finally mutates so that it can now transfer human to human. Once that happens we have a new contagion phase. And depending on the fashion of this new mutation, that’s what decides how contagious or how deadly it’s gonna be. H1N1 was deadly but it did not mutate in a way that was as deadly as the Spanish flu. Its RNA was slower to mutate and it attacked its host differently, too. Fast forward …
Now, here comes this Corona virus ... it existed in animals only for nobody knows how long.
But one day at an animal market in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, it mutated and made the jump from animal to people. At first, only animals could give it to a person. But here is the scary part ... in just TWO WEEKS it mutated again and gained the ability to jump from human to human. Scientists call this quick ability “slippery”. This Coronavirus, not being in any form a “human” virus (whereas we would all have some natural or acquired immunity), took off like a rocket. And this was because Humans have no known immunity ... doctors have no known medicines for it.
And it just so happens that this particular mutated animal virus changed itself in such a way that it causes great damage to human lungs. That’s why Coronavirus is different from seasonal flu, or H1N1, or any other type of influenza ... this one is slippery as hell. And it’s a lung eater. And, it’s already mutated AGAIN, so that we now have two strains to deal with, strain S and strain L ... which makes it twice as hard to develop a vaccine.
We really have no tools in our shed with this. History has shown that fast and immediate closings of public places have helped in the past pandemics. Philadelphia and Baltimore were reluctant to close events in 1918 and they were the hardest hit in the US during the Spanish Flu.
And let me end by saying right now it’s hitting older folks harder. But this genome is so slippery -- if it mutates again … who is to say what it will do next. Be smart folks ... acting like you’re unafraid is so not sexy right now: #flattenthecurve.
Let's pray that we can develop a vaccine for the S and L strains before the virus mutates again!
Stay home folks and share this with those that just are not catching on.”
Share as if your life depends upon it because now you can see it truly does and then vote blue up and down the ticket. The life you save may be your own and/or that of your family!
"This is the best description of the danger of virus mutation that I have seen lately and why this virus is so dangerous.
“Feeling confused as to why Coronavirus is a bigger deal than Seasonal flu?
Here it is in a nutshell. I hope this helps. Feel free to share this with others who don’t understand ... It has to do with RNA sequencing ... i.e. genetics."
Seasonal flu is an “all human virus”. The DNA/RNA chains that make up the virus are recognized by the human immune system. This means that your body has some immunity to it before it comes around each year. You get immunity two ways = through exposure to a virus or by getting a flu shot.
Novel viruses come from animals ... the W.H.O. tracks novel viruses in animals, (sometimes for years watching for mutations). Usually, these viruses only transfer from animal to animal (pigs in the case of H1N1 and birds in the case of the Spanish flu). But once one of these animal viruses mutates and starts to transfer from animals to humans, then it’s a problem. Why? Because we have no natural or acquired immunity … the RNA sequencing of the genes inside the virus isn’t human and the human immune system doesn’t recognize it, so we can’t fight it off.
Now ... sometimes the mutation only allows transfer from animal to human. For years it’s the only transmission -- from an infected animal to a human -- before it finally mutates so that it can now transfer human to human. Once that happens we have a new contagion phase. And depending on the fashion of this new mutation, that’s what decides how contagious or how deadly it’s gonna be. H1N1 was deadly but it did not mutate in a way that was as deadly as the Spanish flu. Its RNA was slower to mutate and it attacked its host differently, too. Fast forward …
Now, here comes this Corona virus ... it existed in animals only for nobody knows how long.
But one day at an animal market in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, it mutated and made the jump from animal to people. At first, only animals could give it to a person. But here is the scary part ... in just TWO WEEKS it mutated again and gained the ability to jump from human to human. Scientists call this quick ability “slippery”. This Coronavirus, not being in any form a “human” virus (whereas we would all have some natural or acquired immunity), took off like a rocket. And this was because Humans have no known immunity ... doctors have no known medicines for it.
And it just so happens that this particular mutated animal virus changed itself in such a way that it causes great damage to human lungs. That’s why Coronavirus is different from seasonal flu, or H1N1, or any other type of influenza ... this one is slippery as hell. And it’s a lung eater. And, it’s already mutated AGAIN, so that we now have two strains to deal with, strain S and strain L ... which makes it twice as hard to develop a vaccine.
We really have no tools in our shed with this. History has shown that fast and immediate closings of public places have helped in the past pandemics. Philadelphia and Baltimore were reluctant to close events in 1918 and they were the hardest hit in the US during the Spanish Flu.
And let me end by saying right now it’s hitting older folks harder. But this genome is so slippery -- if it mutates again … who is to say what it will do next. Be smart folks ... acting like you’re unafraid is so not sexy right now: #flattenthecurve.
Let's pray that we can develop a vaccine for the S and L strains before the virus mutates again!
Stay home folks and share this with those that just are not catching on.”
Share as if your life depends upon it because now you can see it truly does and then vote blue up and down the ticket. The life you save may be your own and/or that of your family!
Monday, March 23, 2020
By Any Constitutional Means Necessary
Our
nation is in serious life and death jeopardy dealing with Corona virus
containment. Little has been received that Trump said would be sent
because he lies, as we know, all the time. I cannot
repeat all the criticism of the Cretan president I have said and printed
in opinion over and
over and over again. All should be held accountable for
leaving this very sick man in office. We are all at contagion risk and
we do not have to be.
He
will not put into play the National Defense
Authorization Act he allegedly signed allowing him to harness from
private enterprise all this nation so desperately needs such as hospital
masks, ventilators, gloves and other personal protective equipment to
name but a few things needed. Trump says it is because he does not
want to nationalize business. In a pandemic he holds us hostage to
ideological belief but has time to tell us how rich he is and how the
presidency has cost him so much especially in legal fees? Perhaps if
he did not commit so many illegal and unconstitutional acts it would not
cost him so much. It has cost the American people, too, in millions of
tax dollars used by Trump to profit off the presidency.
The president is
sadly sick and we must have empathy for one who has a mental illness but
no one thinks the American people signed up for a suicide pact enduring
Trump's insanity which could kill us. No presidency is worth that.
Surely the Congress including the Senate must see that their own lives
as witnessed by Rand Paul, and three Congressional others either quarantining themselves or
testing positive for the virus and it will keep spreading unless the hospitals have enough protective equipment to curtail it.
This president must be removed from office and fast by any
Constitutional means necessary!
Sunday, March 22, 2020
A Bed of Thorns
Trump and his dastardly minions will never admit fault as his base will
gladly accept all the lies he can dish out never questioning the
veracity of a thing.
That is sad because the fate of all of us, including those like I, who
loathe the core of this mendacious man, hangs in the balance.
Taking
a cocktail of his "good feeling" drugs
like chloroquine, a drug designed for use in malaria and remdesivir, he
"feels" are sound even if they can initiate heart attacks and death.
Children or young adults who might take these drugs may suffer an early
unpleasant death also when otherwise they may have survived the virus.
Shame
on this unethical, immoral and cruel man who thinks about his own
reelection bid and not the fact that there is death all around never
asking what the federal government and he can do as the world's most
powerful man to ameliorate the condition of the suffering masses. He
hands what should be a unified federal response back to the 50
individual states saying the federal government is not a "shipping
clerk." Really, Trump, really?
Telling
lies about this pandemic whether it be that the duration will be short
when it will not, masks are on the way when they are not, Navy medical
ships are being groomed into service when they clearly are not or, in
the beginning, telling the nation that there is nothing to fear as the
virus will run its course and wash over us as soon as the warmer weather
ensues when it will last long after is tantamount to murder since many
can and will die expecting the bed of roses that Trump dishes out so his
polls will go up and while we receive nothing but a bed of thorns.
Pets --do NOT dump your pets -- Please read
From the animal shelter:
DO NOT DUMP YOUR PETS!!!!
You cannot, I repeat you CANNOT get Corona virus from your pets. People are dumping their animals at shelters out of ignorance and fear-please please post this on your page or send it to whomever your choose.
It is staggering to think that some would not know your animals do not get Corona nor pass Corona on. Then again this whole saga is staggering to think we are not living in the Twilight Zone nor have leadership that knows what it is doing.
Get your information on this virus from reputable sources and if you watch daily leadership advice be wary of everything you hear from them as dangerous exaggerations and lies are put forth every day. Check your questions or information out at the National Institute of Health or even a hospital like MGH or other trustworthy medical sites. Listen to TV stations that offer academic excellence and facts checked out by experts in the field of immunology and science like MSNBC, NBC, CNN, ABC or CBS. Do NOT NOT NOT listen to Fox!
Post this on your FB page or send it to anyone you like!
DO NOT DUMP YOUR PETS!!!!
You cannot, I repeat you CANNOT get Corona virus from your pets. People are dumping their animals at shelters out of ignorance and fear-please please post this on your page or send it to whomever your choose.
It is staggering to think that some would not know your animals do not get Corona nor pass Corona on. Then again this whole saga is staggering to think we are not living in the Twilight Zone nor have leadership that knows what it is doing.
Get your information on this virus from reputable sources and if you watch daily leadership advice be wary of everything you hear from them as dangerous exaggerations and lies are put forth every day. Check your questions or information out at the National Institute of Health or even a hospital like MGH or other trustworthy medical sites. Listen to TV stations that offer academic excellence and facts checked out by experts in the field of immunology and science like MSNBC, NBC, CNN, ABC or CBS. Do NOT NOT NOT listen to Fox!
Post this on your FB page or send it to anyone you like!
Friday, March 20, 2020
God Help Us
What is there to say about
this disgusting excuse for a so called "president" as he maligns
PBS journalist
Yamiche
Alcindor's and NBC journalist Peter
Alexander both of whom lobbed rational questions for Trump to answer
(see links below.) Alexander asked about the Carona virus what do you
say to the
American people who are scared. Trump insulted both reporters and
he insulted the American people's intelligence to see that the questions
of both reporters were perfectly appropriate and he could have, if he
had
an intellect, answered both of them with finesse and dignity.
He handed
the reporters, instead, a hammer that public opinion and the media they represent would use to make
him look like the dull 3 year old that he is. What happened to this man that
he finds it so difficult under the easiest circumstances to answer the
easiest of questions from the press with clarity and intelligence. This
"president" finds it impossible to reflect either. God help us!
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
The WHO test kits: This is how Trump lies and even his expert gets it wrong!
This is how Trump lies and the bobble
heads so called experts try to make Trump look good by nodding and having faulty
information. Dr. Birk said the WHO test kits were not tested and
reliable, did not meet the guidelines so Trump rejected them to which Trump concurred.
FACT: Per MSNBC infectious disease
expert: The WHO test kits were reliable but were given free to impoverished
nations. The US not being an impoverished nation would have had to pay
for them. Trump rejected that but WHO test kits were reliable. The test
kits that were NOT reliable and tried at first were the ones from Trump's CDC!!!!!
Sunday, March 15, 2020
Herd immunity -- my Comment
My
comment: Since the attempt of vaccinating the entire world against
polio it has shown that so called "herd immunity" allows those few who
have not been vaccinated to not become infected. I attempted to
research just what herd immunity is. In essence as you can read below
it seems to mean that if a large number of people are vaccinated i.e.
the majority 60% against the disease in essence simply the virus will
peter out and not infect the few who resist vaccination. Vaccination
still remains the gold standard to individual immunity by the body
creating antibodies to the disease. I offer the article below as a
definition of herd immunity.
Better analysis of herd immunity:
The Independent
What is herd immunity?
When enough people in a community are vaccinated against a disease, this can make it more difficult for the disease to spread to susceptible individuals who have not yet been or cannot be vaccinated. This, the NHS outlines, is called “herd immunity”.
The Vaccine Knowledge Project at Oxford University explains in greater detail, using the analogy of a person being infected by measles.
Better analysis of herd immunity:
The Independent
What is herd immunity?
When enough people in a community are vaccinated against a disease, this can make it more difficult for the disease to spread to susceptible individuals who have not yet been or cannot be vaccinated. This, the NHS outlines, is called “herd immunity”.
The Vaccine Knowledge Project at Oxford University explains in greater detail, using the analogy of a person being infected by measles.
“If someone with measles is surrounded by people who are vaccinated
against measles, the disease cannot easily be passed on to anyone, and
it will quickly disappear again,” the organization states.
“This is called ‘herd immunity’, ‘community immunity’ or ‘herd protection’, and it gives protection to vulnerable people such as newborn babies, elderly people and those who are too sick to be vaccinated”.
However, the organization stresses that herd immunity “only works” if the majority of a population have been vaccinated against a condition, adding that it “does not protect against all vaccine-preventable diseases”.
“Unlike vaccination, herd immunity does not give a high level of individual protection, and so it is not a good alternative to getting vaccinated,” the Vaccine Knowledge Project says.
Professor Mark Woolhouse, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, tells The Independent that the concept of herd immunity is “the basis of all vaccination programs”.
However, it can also occur naturally, he explains, stating: “If you’ve been exposed to any infection, enough people have already been exposed to it, have developed antibodies and they’re immune to it, you can have natural herd immunity, and that particular virus will not be able to cause an epidemic in the population.
“It doesn’t mean it won’t be able to spread as there’ll still be some susceptible people, but it won’t take off and cause an epidemic,” he says.
“This is called ‘herd immunity’, ‘community immunity’ or ‘herd protection’, and it gives protection to vulnerable people such as newborn babies, elderly people and those who are too sick to be vaccinated”.
However, the organization stresses that herd immunity “only works” if the majority of a population have been vaccinated against a condition, adding that it “does not protect against all vaccine-preventable diseases”.
“Unlike vaccination, herd immunity does not give a high level of individual protection, and so it is not a good alternative to getting vaccinated,” the Vaccine Knowledge Project says.
Professor Mark Woolhouse, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, tells The Independent that the concept of herd immunity is “the basis of all vaccination programs”.
However, it can also occur naturally, he explains, stating: “If you’ve been exposed to any infection, enough people have already been exposed to it, have developed antibodies and they’re immune to it, you can have natural herd immunity, and that particular virus will not be able to cause an epidemic in the population.
“It doesn’t mean it won’t be able to spread as there’ll still be some susceptible people, but it won’t take off and cause an epidemic,” he says.
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Friday, March 13, 2020
THERE IS NO TEST; the life you save may be your loved one's or your own
Trump tells lies and he tells them all the time. We know this to be true as sources, reputable ones, keep track of them. The number of lies he has told since this mendacious man has occupied the sacred spaces of the oval office is probably nearing 10,000 or more. Trump lied again saying that everyone who wants a test for the Corona virus can get a test. That is a bold face lie as admitted to by numerous infectious disease experts inside and outside the administration. If one comes down with Corona symptoms, calls their doctor and says that he/she needs a test the doctor in all probability will not be able to give them one or not even point the way in the direction for them to get tested. The risk to our hospital system to appropriately deal with virus sufferers and normal illnesses it treats is huge.
THE FAILURE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO DO ANYTHING IS APOCALYPTIC. There have been no millions of tests distributed. The question becomes why is the Republican Party so afraid to call out Trump for the lies he has promulgated which are going to mean sickness and death for ultimately millions if it keeps on going the way of Trump rosy picture painting and just plain lying? There is zero trust in this administration for anything except surety that this malignant liar will fudge numbers and promote untrue analysis in a way that can best suit his re-election campaign and/or the stock market. This virus is not going to peter out magically, it is not going to evaporate, it is not going to seasonally die out but it is going to infect those of us who are vulnerable to its poison irrespective of whether one is a Democrat, a Republican, an Independent or a Boy Scout. It matters not to a biological entity who it infects as long as it does to keep itself alive. It is Darwinian survival at its finest. Humans do not have the immune system response to this virus because no human body has encountered it before in order to develop an immune response to it.
The irony is without a test and a plan based on testing which the administration it seems deliberately has impeded so Trump will not see the higher numbers that infect the electorate making him worry first and foremost about his campaign and stock numbers, he is reinforcing that more numbers ultimately in the millions will come out to vote against him (I pray.) Meanwhile, every day wasted without a uniform test and plan to respond to the virus throughout the nation will mean millions more ultimately will be infected and many will die who should not.
Send this to anyone you choose because we are in an emergency. Lives are at stake and more into the millions perhaps could be infected and die especially those at risk but not limited to those at risk. Then in November, if Trump has not been given the hook by his supporters turning against him (I can hope) VOTE BLUE UP AND DOWN THE TICKET. The life you save may be your loved one's life or, in fact, your own!
Monday, March 09, 2020
In U.S., Cases of Coronavirus Cross 500, and Deaths Rise
Deny it if you will but science will do what science will do. China, where the epidemic began, and as an authoritarian nation, mandated the strictest control shutting down so many public venues and testing everyone by force if necessary has today reported cases going down. It is the only nation to report that tells us something about effective control. The US is NOT in that category by a long shot. Today Republican senator Ted Cruz who attended the uber conservative CPAC Corona denial conference where one came down with the disease, is now in 14 day quarantine. There is one more Republican in the House that attended the same conference now is in quarantine. There will be more of that I am sure.
The thing that makes this different from the ordinary flu is that there is no vaccine. It takes at least a year or more to develop one. People here who contract the flu often have not gotten the vaccine. In 1917 the flu outbreak took world wide 100 million deaths and 675, 000 here in the US. My grandmother nearly died of it. There was no vaccine.
The Corona virus is new so no one has immunity. Had a discussion with a veterinarian about it. He said at some point everyone will get it but on a genetic front it is easier to map the virus's DNA now and that is furiously being done so maybe a vaccine can expeditiously happen but we must first know who has it by testing and that here rolled out with big problems due to incompetent leadership such as the unfit for office Trump and his minions who are in denial mode so the stock market can recover and Trump be reelected. So the testing kits had to be recalled. Now many more are going out but who and how many get tested remains a sticking point.
Best defense now is hand washing and keeping hands away from one's face, eyes, mouth, nose and even ears and stay tuned to those news outlets which do not deny anything. Richard Engel had a documentary he reported on last night. You can Google it if you like. It is excellent. As one who suffered the effects of a virus it is no joke and the vaccine for polio took years to develop. It first came out with a glitch that gave paralytic polio to people who were experimented on which is why a vaccine is so difficult to create. It must be thoroughly tested. Deny this new virus at your and everyone's peril.
Friday, March 06, 2020
A narcissistic imbecile and a vindictive ignoramus -- By Boston Globe Blogger John Pop
Stay away from people who wear these
MAGA hats. They are being given misinformation about the coronavirus
from their Dear Leader.
They could be spreading more than lies.
They could be spreading more than lies.
1. Denies WHO's coronavirus death rate based on “hunch"
2. Calls coronavirus "corona flu"
3. Suggests it's fine for people w/ Covid-19 to go to work
4. Compares coronavirus to "the regular flu," indicating he doesn't get the difference
This is what happens when you put a narcissistic imbecile in the White House.
Keep in mind that he has been schooled over and over and over again the last couple of weeks about this virus and the danger involved and he just can’t get it. All he cares about is downplaying the danger so it doesn’t affect the stock market and his re-election.
And the result is that he has failed miserably to deal with this crisis and has let it spread unabated despite having weeks of lead time to get prepared.
And he’s still doing it. Because he’s a vindictive ignoramus and will punish anyone who doesn’t lick his boots, everyone in the public health apparatus of the United States government is having to downplay the risk in ways that go beyond simply telling people not to panic. They have to say that everything’s going great and fluff the president for his “great leadership.”
Trump appears to have let the window for containing coronavirus in the U.S. close on purpose, because he thought that might buoy the stock market and thus his re-election odds. I lack the words. From an honoring-the-oath perspective, it’s probably the worst thing he’s done.
2. Calls coronavirus "corona flu"
3. Suggests it's fine for people w/ Covid-19 to go to work
4. Compares coronavirus to "the regular flu," indicating he doesn't get the difference
This is what happens when you put a narcissistic imbecile in the White House.
Keep in mind that he has been schooled over and over and over again the last couple of weeks about this virus and the danger involved and he just can’t get it. All he cares about is downplaying the danger so it doesn’t affect the stock market and his re-election.
And the result is that he has failed miserably to deal with this crisis and has let it spread unabated despite having weeks of lead time to get prepared.
And he’s still doing it. Because he’s a vindictive ignoramus and will punish anyone who doesn’t lick his boots, everyone in the public health apparatus of the United States government is having to downplay the risk in ways that go beyond simply telling people not to panic. They have to say that everything’s going great and fluff the president for his “great leadership.”
Trump appears to have let the window for containing coronavirus in the U.S. close on purpose, because he thought that might buoy the stock market and thus his re-election odds. I lack the words. From an honoring-the-oath perspective, it’s probably the worst thing he’s done.
Wednesday, March 04, 2020
If I believed
I am so elated by what
happened in the primaries last night. I love this nation. I will
especially love it if the low life in chief is electorally crushed. We
must as Democrats and all people of humane proclivities rally around
that which is possible. Joe Biden is possible.
If I were a believer and thought providence intervened in the history of this nation to rescue those who are in trouble I would say that something divine saw the evil among us that is Donald Trump who has wrought horror and brought shame upon us, has brought the corruptness of his being, has turned his back on the poor, the sick and the dispossessed. I would see a power that came to save us. I would say, if I believed, that divine providence has brought to us this miracle of Joe Biden, a good and decent man who has suffered the harsh vicissitudes of life, losing a wife and a young son, then later losing his pride and joy Beau Biden to brain cancer. All these things have made Joe Biden who he is so that he may help us rid ourselves of the heavy albatross of destruction and hate that is Trump.
Like the GI's who liberated the concentration camps in WWII, I would say if I believed, that the man Joe Biden is here to take this awful burden of Trump off from around our necks. I would say if I believed, that things like that can happen. That is how I feel today. I have hope I did not have before. Joe Biden, make this miracle come true. Crush the evil in our midst that is Trump and make me believe. Make me believe so that we may never hear from the spiritually ugly, corrupt and profane man named Trump or anyone like him ever again.
If I were a believer and thought providence intervened in the history of this nation to rescue those who are in trouble I would say that something divine saw the evil among us that is Donald Trump who has wrought horror and brought shame upon us, has brought the corruptness of his being, has turned his back on the poor, the sick and the dispossessed. I would see a power that came to save us. I would say, if I believed, that divine providence has brought to us this miracle of Joe Biden, a good and decent man who has suffered the harsh vicissitudes of life, losing a wife and a young son, then later losing his pride and joy Beau Biden to brain cancer. All these things have made Joe Biden who he is so that he may help us rid ourselves of the heavy albatross of destruction and hate that is Trump.
Like the GI's who liberated the concentration camps in WWII, I would say if I believed, that the man Joe Biden is here to take this awful burden of Trump off from around our necks. I would say if I believed, that things like that can happen. That is how I feel today. I have hope I did not have before. Joe Biden, make this miracle come true. Crush the evil in our midst that is Trump and make me believe. Make me believe so that we may never hear from the spiritually ugly, corrupt and profane man named Trump or anyone like him ever again.
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