Sunday, June 14, 2020

Politics and Coronavirus related links 061420



Trump announces U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization: Alarmed health experts said the move will set back global efforts to fight the pandemic.

State Rep. Goes on Profanity-Laced Tirade After GOP Colleague Hid Positive COVID-19 Test: “I’ve spent so much of my time here trying to see beyond the blind, disgusting partisanship, and now that partisanship has grown deadly,” state Rep. Brian Sims said

White House: US sends 2M doses of hydroxychloroquine, 1K ventilators to Brazil

Opinion: Trump is handing anti-vaxxers an invitation to smear coronavirus vaccines

A Coronavirus Vaccine: Faster, Please.  Developing an inoculation is a slow and uncertain process. There are ways to make it more efficient.

Who gets the vaccine first?

Covid testing is about saving lives.  Trump thinks it’s just about numbers

WHO Director-General promises review of global pandemic response

WHO to agree deal over future coronavirus inquiry: World Health Assembly review will have scope to examine role of China

Mary Sanchez: U.S. lawsuits against China point to greater divides ahead

World Health Assembly slaps US hooliganism: Global Times editorial

Putin Withdraws From the Coronavirus Crisis in a Political Abdication: Putin is clearly eager to avoid being identified with the pandemic and the difficult measures being adopted to fight it.

Fact check: McConnell claims Obama didn't leave Trump a pandemic 'game plan.' Obama left a 69-page playbook

Rick Bright's testimony confirms our worst fears

From His Opening Statement, Dr. Rick Bright Blew the Whistle Loudly and Clearly: This is what a great portion of our sad, bunkered population has been waiting to hear from someone for three months.

Is Rick Bright's apocalyptic warning right?

Fauci says Trump no longer talks much to him or the rest of the coronavirus task force

Can Britain Survive Boris Johnson?  After Corbyn, after Covid, the Labour Party struggles to break through.

Police chief to Trump: Please, if you can't be constructive, keep your mouth shut: Houston police chief Art Acevedo responds to President Trump telling governors to "dominate" protesters.

We Made Trump and COVID Pandemic Possible

How to Wage War, FDR-Style, on Our Pandemic: Our rich today and the corporations they run don’t seem, sadly, to be exactly rushing to give up any of their contemporary comforts.

Live and let die: Was this Trump's "Mission accomplished" moment?  Trump has actually decided that thousands more must die for "the American way." Will this finally finish him?

Robert B. Reich: Trump's reopening strategy will be lethal

The Travel Ban That Wasn't

Trump Can’t Mask His Message to Indian Country: 'Live and Let Die'

Connie Schultz: After three years, who are we now?

Trump calls the pandemic 'worse than Pearl Harbor' — and declares a cease-fire

White House Officials Asked If They Could Take Over D.C.’s Local Police

Let's talk about a campfire analogy....

Let's talk about that designation Trump wants to make....

A Special Forces Sgm Thoughts On George Floyd

Let's talk about how Trump can create immediate reform....

‘The wrong answer’: Norway’s prime minister rebukes Trump on leaving WHO.  Prime Minister Erna Solberg is the first foreign leader to speak out on the U.S. withdrawal.

H.R.748 - CARES Act enacted into law.  This bill responds to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) outbreak and its impact on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and businesses.

S.3503 - A bill to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to treat certain programs of education converted to distance learning by reason of emergencies and health-related situations in the same manner as programs of education pursued at educational institutions, and for other purposes.  03/21/2020 Became Public Law No: 116-128.

Second shipment of US ventilators heading to Russia amid continuing questions

Trump Destroys Factory's Entire Daily Batch of Coronavirus Swabs By Refusing to Wear a Mask

Maine COVID-19 test swab factory destroys all swabs that were made during Trump's maskless visit

Unemployment Insurance Is a Vital Part of Economic Freedom: Finding a way to provide economic security to our fractured labor force is one of the central goals of our time.

SARS Lessons Lost: What the United States should have learned from SARS—and blatantly ignored.

The GOP’s Hollow War on ‘Tyranny’: The GOP attacked the “tyranny” of Democratic officeholders who are trying to manage the public-health response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Comment: Trump's Pandemic of Ignorance: The United States is in the midst of a full-blown health care crisis, headed by a man who is not just monumentally unfit to lead, but actually deranged.

Smoking Gun: Crisis? What Crisis?  A timeline of the pandemic warning signs ignored by the Trump Administration.

White House Defends Trump's Conspiracy Theory Tweet on Buffalo Protester

White House says Trump was merely 'raising questions' with baseless claim about Buffalo protester

White House defends Donald Trump's tweet about elderly protester shoved to ground

Trump rally-goers must agree they won't sue if they contract coronavirus

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