Oso planning to go pro
All of these things can be traced back to one mad king.
For anyone who buys into the fiction that Trump cares about the American people....President Trump makes brief appearance at Group of 20, but skips pandemic meeting.https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/21/us/joe-biden-trump?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage#president-trump-makes-brief-appearance-at-group-of-20-but-skips-pandemic-meetingOn Saturday, Mr. Trump briefly participated in a virtual Group of 20 summit from the Situation Room. But he was not listed as a participant at a sideline event at the conference on “Pandemic Preparedness and Response.” Speakers at the event included Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, and Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany.Instead, Mr. Trump continued the postelection weekend routine he has settled into. He sends out a tweet with a new, empty promise of “fraud” revelations and then heads to his Virginia golf course. It was the third weekend in a row that he has done so.--------------I would call this 'shocking'...but it isn't.
Do COVID restrictions make a difference in rural states? Let's look at some numbers:Two rural states with GOP governors and very different COVID-19 resultshttps://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/11/20/npr-two-rural-states-with-gop-governors-and-very-different-covid-19-resultsOne of America's governors most skeptical about COVID-19 has been South Dakota's Kristi Noem. She's loudly refused to impose any shutdowns or a statewide mask mandate.Noem's devotion to keeping her state open has made her a celebrity in the Republican Party. She campaigned for President Donald Trump in 17 states, and touted her own record along the way. "What I did in South Dakota is what we say Republicans always believe," Noem says. "We just did it. We just did it, and look at what is happening in our state." One of the things happening in South Dakota is an infection rate that's among the worst in the nation, at about 8,000 cases per 100,000 people.In Vermont, another small, rural state with a Republican governor, Gov. Phil Scott has embraced safety measures, and the differences are pretty stark. Like South Dakota, Vermont has fewer than 1 million residents, most of whom don't live in cities. It has about 500 cases per 100,000 people. That's the lowest rate in the nation. Scott has embraced statewide shutdowns and mandated masks. When he reopened the state's economy, he did it slowly.
If there was only some sort of professional field that could advise us on epidemiological issues. Then again burn through sounds so attractive. https://thehill.com/policy/international/europe/527478-top-epidemiologist-says-sweden-has-no-signs-of-herd-immunity-curbing-coronavirus
If you want to know why South Dakota is one of the hottest of the hotspots right now:Sanford Health CEO says he had virus, won't wear maskhttps://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/11/20/sanford-health-ceo-says-he-had-virus-wont-wear-maskThe head of one of the largest regional health systems in the Midwest has told his employees that he has recovered from COVID-19 and is back in the office — without a mask.Sanford Health's president and chief executive, Kelby Krabbenhoft, said in an email Wednesday that he believes he’s now immune to the disease for “at least seven months and perhaps years to come” and that he isn’t a threat to transmit it to anyone, so wearing a mask would be merely for show.The email from Krabbenhoft, who is not a physician, comes as hospitals throughout the region, including in his own network, are struggling to keep up with some of the country’s worst surges of coronavirus patients. And it comes at a time when mask wearing remains a politicized issue in many states.—————Of course there is no data to back up his claims of immunity and inability to transmit the virus, but then again data doesn’t seem to matter anymore…
I predict a lot of very unhappy Christmases and New Years for a lot of families. Thanksgiving is not worth it.... But alas, "you can't tell me what to do.". A lot of Americans truly are ugly....
Kelby Krabbenhoft and Sanford Health have agreed to part ways, Sanford announced in a news release at about 5:45 p.m. yesterday.In other words, he was fired!
Supreme Court votes 5-4 against New York's imposed COVID-19 restrictions for religious services Justice Amy Coney Barrett was a decisive vote:https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1331837982433812480?s=19
And so it begins.
Gorsuch has a point though. “It is time — past time — to make plain that, while the pandemic poses many grave challenges, there is no world in which the Constitution tolerates color-coded executive edicts that reopen liquor stores and bike shops but shutter churches, synagogues and mosques,” Justice Gorsuch wrote.
The thing is, a bike shop or a liquor store might have 2 employees and a half-dozen customers, and hopefully all are wearing masks. When they talk, they can do so from a safe distance, at relatively low volume.A full church service can have hundreds upon hundreds of parishioners. They are singing and chanting, often quite loudly, and there are handshakes and hugs and other personal interactions. I grew up going to a conservative synagogue, and that's the kind of stuff that every service included. Now, talk about a Christmas service, which like Jewish High Holiday services usually draw big crowds, and you're talking about a super-spreader event.I want to trust that churches will be responsible, will enforce social distancing and mask-wearing, but here in NC there has been evidence that the opposite has been true. Several churches here have housed deadly super-spreader events. And, of course, those events don't just affect the church-goers. Parishioners leave church and go into the community. they go to their workplaces. Their kids go to school. Maybe I missed it, but I'm not sure I've heard of a deadly super-spreader event taking place at the local Schwinn shop.I'm gonna agree with Chief Justice Roberts on this one.
Last I checked, bike shops weren’t protected by the Constitution so the scrutiny cannot be the same. Ultimately I fall to Kagans reasoning.