Kolek planning to go pro
Lindsey graham refuses to get tested before his next debate.Pretty obvious that any senate republican, but especially on the judiciary committee, will not get tested or admit to positive test before confirmation.
To be fair they were wearing masks... but yeah get tested
Mitch McConnell says he hasn't visited the White House due to their lax policy on the coronavirus.https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mcconnell-hasnt-been-white-house-early-august-lax-covid-rules
I'm assuming the article says he's pushing hard for all the senators to be repeatedly tested with public results?
Uh ..... no. But I see there are more questions regarding Barret's refusal to wear a mask. She appeared in multiple places where masks were required and did not wear one. Same for her entire family, including the kids. Flaunts the rules, eh?
Could be a result of having had it already she probably feels invincible and that it'd be pointless. For example I have an uncle who tested positive for antibodies after he thought he had it in March and on 4th of July he was almost making a point to invade everyone's space and hug people against their will etc.
She didn't think the founders intended it
No I don't think you are infectious if you have had the disease already. The virus won't replicate enough for that.
Fomites.
None of them were wearing masks for the 90 minute Senate Judiciary Committee meeting immediately following this photo. Lee, who had symptoms, tested positive the next day.
Harris County Texas, (Houston) population 4.7 million, over half of which are registered to vote, has one drop off location for early voting.
The New England Journal of Medicine delivers a scathing rebuke of American leadership in regards to the pandemic:https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2029812I'll let folks read the article and draw their own conclusions, but a few of the "highlights" (or lowlights):Covid-19 has created a crisis throughout the world. This crisis has produced a test of leadership. With no good options to combat a novel pathogen, countries were forced to make hard choices about how to respond. Here in the United States, our leaders have failed that test. They have taken a crisis and turned it into a tragedy.The magnitude of this failure is astonishing. ... Why has the United States handled this pandemic so badly? We have failed at almost every step.Although we tend to focus on technology, most of the interventions that have large effects are not complicated. The United States instituted quarantine and isolation measures late and inconsistently, often without any effort to enforce them, after the disease had spread substantially in many communities. Our rules on social distancing have in many places been lackadaisical at best, with loosening of restrictions long before adequate disease control had been achieved. And in much of the country, people simply don’t wear masks, largely because our leaders have stated outright that masks are political tools rather than effective infection control measures. The United States came into this crisis with enormous advantages. ... Yet our leaders have largely chosen to ignore and even denigrate experts. ...The response of our nation’s leaders has been consistently inadequate. The federal government has largely abandoned disease control to the states. Governors have varied in their responses, not so much by party as by competence. But whatever their competence, governors do not have the tools that Washington controls. Instead of using those tools, the federal government has undermined them. ... The Food and Drug Administration has been shamefully politicized, appearing to respond to pressure from the administration rather than scientific evidence. Our current leaders have undercut trust in science and in government, causing damage that will certainly outlast them. Instead of relying on expertise, the administration has turned to uninformed “opinion leaders” and charlatans who obscure the truth and facilitate the promulgation of outright lies. ...When it comes to the response to the largest public health crisis of our time, our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent.
Extra Pounds May Raise Risk of Severe Covid-19https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/10/health/coronavirus-obesity-weight.htmlObese Americans are more likely to become dangerously ill if they are infected with the new coronavirus. Now public health officials are warning that a much broader segment of the population also may be at risk: even moderately excess weight may increase the odds of severe disease.The warning, reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week, may have serious implications for Americans. While about 40 percent of U.S. adults are obese, another 32 percent are simply overweight, among the highest rates of obesity and overweight in the world.By the new calculus, nearly three-quarters of Americans may be at increased risk of severe Covid-19 if infected with the coronavirus.