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Covid-19 miscellany

Biden backs $900B compromise coronavirus stimulus bill | TheHill

Progressives push for direct payments to be included in COVID-19 relief deal | TheHill
Progressives see this omission as a shortcoming and are calling for additional direct payments, saying that they could help people cover basic expenses.

"The millions of people who are most desperately impacted need a check," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) told reporters Friday.

She said that other types of assistance, such as aid to state and local governments, are important, but that people also need relief that will help them solve their immediate issues.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "COVID relief needs to directly help everyday people.

People need stimulus checks & UI." / Twitter
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said in a statement Friday that he can't support the moderates' proposal in its current form, citing the lack of direct payments.

"Tens of millions of Americans living in desperation today would receive absolutely no financial help from this proposal," he said. "That is not acceptable."
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Rashida Tlaib on Twitter: "A vaccine can hopefully save lives, but there's no vaccine to save bank accounts, late housing payments, deteriorated health, or holes in local & state governments. The people were left behind by the current admin in a pandemic.Let's not repeat the same mistake. #DirectCashRelief" / Twitter
 
In Pandemic Aid Negotiations, the Winds Have Shifted - The New York Times - "Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, spoke on Thursday as Joe Biden’s victory and vaccine breakthroughs added momentum to a push for a stimulus deal."


Olivia Solon on Twitter: "👀👀👀👀 https://t.co/W8sHn88zWZ" / Twitter
Showing Project Veritas getting $558,900 from COVID-relief PPP.

PROJECT VERITAS | Search PPP - a right-wing entrapment operation, hoping to catch its opponents in compromising situations.


Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Black-owned small businesses were widely shut out from accessing PPP loans, yet right-wing disinfo org PV took half a million in public money while decrying direct federal assistance as “radical socialism.”

Republicanism in a nutshell.

(Also they’re based in Mamaroneck?! 👀)" / Twitter

Rep. Eric Swalwell on Twitter: "This is batty. ..." / Twitter
This is batty. Americans are in dire need of food and paychecks. More people died yesterday from #COVID19 than any day since. We have work to do. Yet, @HouseGOP just motioned to adjourn Congress. What the hell are they doing?

Isn’t this a procedural stunt you ask? Sure. What makes it outrageous is a single vote now takes well over an hour to occur with #COVID19 restrictions in place. Then Chamber must be sanitized. These are final days of Congress. It’s like pulling the fire alarm during a final exam.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "We’re trying to get COVID relief and stimulus checks out to people and right now Republicans are trying to prematurely adjourn Congress.

People are going hungry and they’re treating this like a game. Leaders don’t abandon people in their time of greatest need." / Twitter
 
 
 
TSwizzle said:
krypton iodine sulfur said:
Good you are in high spirits. US was in 9th place for covid deaths per million, but even posting record high daily deaths recently, y'all have slipped to number eleven. The haters just can't appreciate all your efforts to make America #1!!!!!!!

USA!
USA!
USA!
USA!
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LOL, more of the same finger wagging, scolding and attempted shaming to make people conform.
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I much prefer finger-wagging to trying to blindfold people to megadeaths.
 
TSwizzle said:
ideologyhunter said:
Feh. In a time of real plague -- can you even imagine 260,000+ dead in this country in 9 months?? -- let alone what the total will be when we bring this thing to a close --
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It's on a par with a particularly bad flu season. The vast, VAST majority of people that contract this virus recover largely unscathed, in fact most people never knew they had it.
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Repeating this ad nauseum doesn't make it true.

Flu doesn't kill 1% of the population. We've seen that in Italy.

North Dakota has now seen 1 in 800 dying from it.
 
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "These COVID negotiations should be public.

The public should be able to see who is holding stimulus checks hostage & demanding immunity for big corporations exposing workers to COVID.

The secrecy protects them. It’s harder to do these things without the closed door." / Twitter


Norma C Machado on Twitter: "@jslowe1949 @AOC This is why she’s fighting because what Republicans don’t want to give so get your facts straight https://t.co/phZVCCXdAQ" / Twitter
OCRed picture text:
  • THE HEROES ACT / THE HEALS ACT
  • (House Democrats) / (Senate Republicans)
  • Repeals the $135 billion Millionaires Giveaway / Keeps the huge tax break for 43,000 millionaires
  • Extends unemployment insurance, $600 per week / Reduces unemployment insurance to $200 per week
  • Provides $900 billion for state and local public services / No general support for state and local and public services
  • $117 billion in additional support to Medicaid / No additional support to Medicaid
  • $13/hour hazard pay for essential workers / Corporate immunity from coronavirus lawsuits
  • 12 month moratorium on evictions & foreclosures / No extension of the federal eviction moratorium
  • $3.6 billion for election assistance grants / No funding or protections for elections
  • No threats to Social Security or Medicare / Includes the TRUST Act to gut Social Security & Medicare
Source: Americans for Tax Fairness
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Cori Bush on Twitter: "When I had COVID-19, I could barely breathe. My friend @DrDooleyMD called to check on me, heard me struggling to speak, and said she was calling an ambulance.

I begged her not to because I couldn’t afford it. Nobody should have to make that decision. We need Medicare for All." / Twitter

Natalie Rose on Twitter: "@CoriBush @DrDooleyMD A lot of people don't know that we are charged for ambulance services here in Ontario. I don't think we should be as I think all healthcare should be free, but it is what it is.

I had to call an ambulance for myself twice last weekend. They charged me $45 for each trip." / Twitter

Cori Bush referred to her:
Dr. Victoria Dooley on Twitter: "@CoriBush That was one of those times when I wish I had wings b/c I would’ve flown straight to you!

Nobody deserves to die from an illness (or ambulance ride) that is too expensive.

Congresswoman Nurse Cori Bush is going to help us get health care, not just wealth care!

💯 😘♥️" / Twitter

ETA: I couldn't resist noting this that I found in another context.

John Zagata on Twitter: "@murshedz Just to recap:
1. The Fed pumped an extra $3.2 trillion into the stock market
2. As a result, stocks soared to a record high
3. So execs essentially got stock-based bonuses paid by the government

But giving money to regular people would be "too socialist"" / Twitter
 
krypton iodine sulfur said:
TSwizzle said:
ideologyhunter said:
Feh. In a time of real plague -- can you even imagine 260,000+ dead in this country in 9 months?? -- let alone what the total will be when we bring this thing to a close --
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It's on a par with a particularly bad flu season. The vast, VAST majority of people that contract this virus recover largely unscathed, in fact most people never knew they had it.
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The CDC estimates between 12,000 and 64,000 flu deaths annually since 2010, so no, not on par with a particularly bad flu season.
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Could have been posted by TSwizzle.
 
The Bay Area despots just couldn’t wait to put their foot down;

Six San Francisco Bay Area regions issued a new stay-at-home order on Friday as the number of virus cases surge and hospitals fill. Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, said on Thursday that the area was exempt from his regional lockdown. But the local health officials overrode him and decided to pre-emptively enforce a lockdown, to stem what they see as a tsunami of new cases coming their way. 'We cannot wait until after we have driven off the cliff to pull the emergency [brake],' said Santa Clara County Health Officer Sara Cody.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ay-Area-stay-home-Monday.html#article-9020093

Obviously driven by “science and data”.
 
TSwizzle said:
The Bay Area despots just couldn’t wait to put their foot down;

Six San Francisco Bay Area regions issued a new stay-at-home order on Friday as the number of virus cases surge and hospitals fill. Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, said on Thursday that the area was exempt from his regional lockdown. But the local health officials overrode him and decided to pre-emptively enforce a lockdown, to stem what they see as a tsunami of new cases coming their way. 'We cannot wait until after we have driven off the cliff to pull the emergency [brake],' said Santa Clara County Health Officer Sara Cody.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ay-Area-stay-home-Monday.html#article-9020093

Obviously driven by “science and data”.
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"Good" "point".
 
Wyoming health official decries COVID-19 pandemic as communist plot | TheHill
An official with the Wyoming Department of Health who is working on the state’s coronavirus response said last month that the pandemic and vaccine candidates were part of communist plots to hurt the U.S.

Igor Shepherd, the manager of the department’s readiness and countermeasures, referred to the coronavirus as the “so-called pandemic” and said the illness and efforts to bring a vaccine to market are part of a scheme by Russia and China to spread communism around the globe.
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Russia is no longer Communist, and China is an officially-Communist capitalist-roader country.
 
San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconor tears into Newsom;

The latest coronavirus lockdown restrictions announced by California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti are getting a strong push back from business owners, mayors, lawmakers, and sheriffs who say banning outdoor dining and closing children’s playgrounds are unnecessary and not supported by science. One bar owner, Angela Marsden, posted a viral video online slamming Garcetti and Newsom for forcing her business, the Pineapple Hill Saloon & Grill in the Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles, to shut down outdoor dining while allowing a movie company to set up its own eating section in a nearby parking lot. San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer said the governor’s moves are stoking ‘anger and frustration. We get new executive orders with no science behind it, and so when you see this new order that says, for example, we're going to shut down outdoor dining, which has been working very successfully, when it says we're going to shut down playgrounds for families and kids, [/b]once again there’s no science behind it, and that’s why you see this growing anger
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...rnor-Newsoms-statewide-COVID-19-lockdown.html
 
lpetrich said:
Igor Shepherd, the manager of the department’s readiness and countermeasures, referred to the coronavirus as the “so-called pandemic”
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How many times do I have to tell you?
NEVER TRUST ANYONE NAMED IGOR!
 
TSwizzle said:
The Bay Area despots just couldn’t wait to put their foot down;

Six San Francisco Bay Area regions issued a new stay-at-home order on Friday as the number of virus cases surge and hospitals fill. Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, said on Thursday that the area was exempt from his regional lockdown. But the local health officials overrode him and decided to pre-emptively enforce a lockdown, to stem what they see as a tsunami of new cases coming their way. 'We cannot wait until after we have driven off the cliff to pull the emergency [brake],' said Santa Clara County Health Officer Sara Cody.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ay-Area-stay-home-Monday.html#article-9020093

Obviously driven by “science and data”.
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You realize the hospitals are overloading now? Patients that really should be in the hospital are being sent home with oxygen tanks because the hospital beds are being reserved for the worse off.
 
Angela Marsden who runs a bar restaurant in Sherman Oaks in California shows the stupidity of California and Los Angeles Covid restrictions re outdoor dining;

“And I come in today because I’m organizing a protest and I came in to get stuff for that. And I walk into my parking lot -- and obviously Mayor Garcetti has approved … this,” she continues, pointing to the tent setup. “Has approved this being set up for … this being set up for … for a movie company.
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-ange...newsom-over-double-standard-on-outdoor-dining

Her outdoor dining is forced to close because it’s “dangerous”. 50 feet away a studio Warner Bros I think, has set up outdoor catering for the substantial crew of people working on the movie shoot.
 
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