Saturday, December 18, 2021

Politics and Coronavirus related links 121821

 

Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Isn’t Really a Vaccine Mandate: The new OSHA pandemic regulations that just dropped are a work of semantic art with a conservative Supreme Court in mind.

https://newrepublic.com/article/164282/biden-vaccine-mandate-osha-covid?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Biden’s Fear of Vaccine Mandates Screwed Terry McAuliffe: The White House worried about backlash from the anti-vaxxer minority. As Virginia’s gubernatorial election shows, it should have worried about the Covid-weary majority.

https://newrepublic.com/article/164285/bidens-fear-vaccine-mandates-screwed-terry-mcauliffe?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

U.S. Sets Jan. 4 Vaccination Deadline for Big Private Employers: The new guidance will cover 84 million workers, who will be required to be fully vaccinated or be tested weekly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/business/biden-vaccine-mandate-osha.html

 

As rules ease, travelers head to US for emotional reunions

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-lifestyle-health-canada-75b91e1770dc99c3a9d682129e2e006c

 

U.S. Covid Deaths Get Even Redder: The partisan gap in Covid’s death toll has grown faster over the past month than at any previous point.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/briefing/covid-death-toll-red-america.html

 

Vaccine politics only worsened the partisan divide in covid-19 deaths

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/08/vaccine-politics-only-worsened-partisan-divide-covid-19-deaths/

 

Why Do American Businesses Want Their Employees to Get Covid-19?  Nobody stands to gain more from vaccine mandates. Their opposition demonstrates their subservience to partisan Republicans.

https://newrepublic.com/article/164331/american-businesses-want-employees-get-covid?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss the impact Aaron Rodgers is having on professional athletes and the league by claiming he was immunized despite being unvaccinated. “What Aaron has done really creates doubt in the minds of the public, and the people who hire athletes as spokespersons, all of the sudden now they have to worry about somebody that might be lying about something as crucial as vaccination, and it could destroy the market for athletes,” says Adbul-Jabbar. “He does not have the right to endanger people around him.”

https://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-reports/watch/kareem-abdul-jabbar-aaron-rodgers-does-not-have-the-right-to-endanger-people-around-him-125792837974?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

 

House committee releases new evidence from investigation into Trump administration interference with CDC during Covid-19 pandemic

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/12/politics/house-committee-cdc-covid-trump-administration-response/index.html

 

New emails shed light on meat CEOs’ lobbying in beginning of pandemic

https://investigatemidwest.org/2021/11/09/new-emails-shed-light-on-meat-ceos-lobbying-in-beginning-of-pandemic/?fbclid=IwAR3t9WvXFQKw8xciT3FVw0I534PHjgeeTW72EQYQviHSuVClJzeL1r-zMdQ

 

Requiem for an Anti-Vax Evangelist

http://www.populist.com/27.18.Young.html

 

Gene Lyons: What's next? Leeches?

https://lompocrecord.com/opinion/columnists/gene-lyons-whats-next-leeches/article_29ab6506-4633-52fc-a81e-b36800136302.html

 

Spreading Vaccine Misinformation Is Dangerous and Wrong: People can disagree about vaccine mandates, but the science on vaccines is clear: They’re safe and effective.

http://www.populist.com/27.18.Richardson.html

 

Vaccines: Beyond Mandates

http://www.populist.com/27.18.Retsinas.html

 

Wonder Drugs for COVID Leave Scientists Wondering

http://www.populist.com/27.18.Uretsky.html

 

Prepare for the Next Pandemic Today: A small investment now could mean more protective equipment and faster vaccine development before the next plague hits.

http://www.populist.com/27.18.Bankman.html

 

Secrecy’s Deadly Toll

http://www.populist.com/27.18.Buell.html

 

Being “Pro NBA Player” Means Being Pro-Vaccine: For NBA players, like everyone else, getting vaccinated is about solidarity.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/vaccine-mandate-lebron-nba/

 

Just Tell Everybody to Go Get a Covid Booster: Convoluted U.S. guidelines are undermining public health as vaccine immunity wanes and infections rise. Simplicity is the best medicine.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-11-16/covid-vaccine-booster-shots-should-be-available-to-everybody?fbclid=IwAR2MkCKHEx-Ri7ahxKLA9XFtRV2JNTL7Z9lE3GH9RqKUJYQSEY3RPO6yt6o

 

Texas hospital suspends doctor for spreading 'dangerous' COVID-19 misinformation

https://theweek.com/science/health/1007155/texas-hospital-suspends-doctor-for-spreading-dangerous-covid-19

 

COP26 Glasgow – Internationalism and Resistance

https://imhojournal.org/articles/cop26-glasgow-internationalism-and-resistance/

 

Bolsonaro’s Violence Against Indigenous Amazonians Is Also an Environmental Catastrophe: The Brazilian president is fomenting violence against native populations that are defending their land from mining and deforestation.

https://newrepublic.com/article/164385/brazil-bolsonaro-violence-indigenous-amazon?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Important Message By LAKOTA Elder Dave Swallow Jr. | Mitakuye Oyasin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnZ856K0T64

 

U.S. Covid Deaths Get Even Redder: The partisan gap in Covid’s death toll has grown faster over the past month than at any previous point.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/briefing/covid-death-toll-red-america.html?fbclid=IwAR1CTiMRVVyHbeh-baVQ0idqpt6yiq5GgPRrIaY0v4IgJ5K6qfZONY1rxqA

 

Trump tested positive for COVID-19 before the first debate with Biden, then lied about it

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/1/2066971/-Trump-tested-positive-for-COVID-19-before-the-first-debate-with-Biden-then-lied-about-it

 

We Still Aren’t Treating the Pandemic as a Global Problem: As omicron spreads around the world, countries are adopting ineffective and divisive strategies. What’s really needed is cooperation.

https://newrepublic.com/article/164568/still-arent-treating-pandemic-global-problem?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

50 percent of people who survive covid-19 face lingering symptoms, study finds

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/long-covid-50-percent-lingering-symptoms/2021/11/12/e6655236-4313-11ec-9ea7-3eb2406a2e24_story.html

 

Can At-Home Covid Tests Detect The Omicron Variant?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB5C7SzX68I

 

From AIDS to Omicron, Pharmaceutical Apartheid Hurts Us All: People over profit must be the guiding mantra as we soon enter the third year of the Covid-19 pandemic. Without immediate action, we could well be dealing with Covid, just as we still battle AIDS, for the next forty years.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/12/04/aids-omicron-pharmaceutical-apartheid-hurts-us-all?utm_term=AO&utm_campaign=Weekly%20Newsletter&utm_content=email&utm_source=Weekly%20Newsletter&utm_medium=Email

 

Dr. Fauci finally WRECKS Republican Senator live on air

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jnYwvGbZsU

 

Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828993/data-vaccine-misinformation-trump-counties-covid-death-rate?fbclid=IwAR0VVAKb00xoQOVwMz-gq3nSkjNIMerzHJH52JEXuttP7Sqe0I2wKOWVbD8

 

America’s Covid Rapid Test Plan Is Appallingly Inadequate: By not getting these useful tools into everybody’s hands, we’re allowing the pandemic to flourish.

https://newrepublic.com/article/164623/biden-covid-rapid-test-plan?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Two years into this pandemic, the world is dangerously unprepared for the next one, report says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/08/next-pandemic-global-health-security-index/

 

Senate passes resolution to overturn Biden vaccine mandate

https://www.axios.com/senate-resolution-overturn-biden-vaccine-mandate-71619fd8-d0a7-4b13-a4c7-c800b2ed4a74.html?fbclid=IwAR21mUUC4hNOpSMnKBn9S9l0GNohxs99rbaXf4eWU5xwRgiNMXzDMeip8Kc

 

The Stupid Right-Wing Law Behind the Senate’s Anti–Vaccine Mandate Vote: It’s called the Congressional Review Act, and it helps the party that has no legislative agenda and just wants to undo stuff. It has to go.

https://newrepublic.com/article/164685/vaccine-mandate-congressional-review-act?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Woman FREAKS OUT When Forced To Wear A Mask On Plane | Fasten Your Seatbelt | A&E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OFGsbSB06c

 

Republicans Are Dying From COVID At An Alarming Rate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BEeHFqX_yM

 

This Terrible Book Shows Why the Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory Won’t Die: New research has undermined many of the narratives in Alina Chan and Matt Ridley’s book, “Viral.” But there’s always an idea around the corner.

https://newrepublic.com/article/164688/viral-lab-leak-theory-covid-19?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

How Philadelphia Achieved High Vaccination Rate for Health Workers: Federal officials point to the city’s mandate as a success story and a shield against new Covid outbreaks at hospitals and nursing homes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/10/health/philadelphia-vaccine-mandate.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nythealth

 

Europe sent Nigeria up to 1 million near-expired doses of covid-19 vaccine

https://qz.com/africa/2100629/europe-donated-near-expired-doses-of-vaccine-to-african-countries/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=daily-brief&utm_content=5526a6d4-5bf8-11ec-9869-de1ce73e8ded

 

The wrong Americans don't care about COVID

https://theweek.com/us/1008066/the-wrong-americans-dont-care-about-covid

 

The Next Normal: Emerging stronger from the coronavirus pandemic

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/coronavirus-leading-through-the-crisis

 

COVID Policy Equity: Guidance for federal, state, and local policymakers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nhQLuSuyk4

 

Man whose wife won legal ruling dies one week after receiving ivermectin

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/585780-man-whose-wife-won-legal-ruling-dies-one-week-after-receiving-ivermectin?fbclid=IwAR1heb1HYOU4YfSgWleGmArhXMDB2JF0-rSN-3LzU26sAbgLS9XJ7JkEg4s

 

Explosive Report: Trump Admin 'Criminally Negligent' In 'Undermining' COVID Response

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH4GyWzBNGw

 

Travel Bans and Boosters Alone Won’t Protect Us From Covid: The fantasy that we can erect a Fortress America and leave the rest of the world to fend for itself is a deadly delusion.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/travel-ban-covid-booster/

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