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Or child safety seats in cars... we allow judgement or discretion to be utilized in society, but only to a certain extent. For example, not forcing those in the back seats of a vehicle to be belted.

Oblivious...intentional...motivated to incite hatred/fear, does it matter? https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/opinions/nathan-bedford-forrest-connor-towne-oneill-carr/index.html One thing I found quite fascinating what that even Pulaski, Tennessee, birthplace of the KKK...turned the historical marker denoting that event backwards and reaffixed it to the building where the first meeting was held. So now its just blank. Of course, those are fighting words (“That’s racist!”) when cast in the direction of Trumpists, but every bit of evidence collected would suggest it’s around 20-25% of the current GOP base who would test in one dimension or another of this category with a scientifically constructed “blind” survey instrument.

In Trump’s mind, giving up power to Pence would 1) demonstrate personal weakness, when his entire brand is the opposite, and 2) undermine world financial markets and unsettle foreign leaders (not sure how much more he can do on that front.) I doubt anyone has the ability, other than Ivanka, to reason with him in this regard. He just runs roughshod over everyone in his orbit. That said, if he was to decide in this state to launch an attack against the Venezuelan presidential palace, I’d love to think there are rational people left to stand in his way...it’s not like he can just commandeer the nuclear football and launch an ICBM attack.

Until now, staffers had gotten no word about whether to come into work or to remain home given several of their colleagues tested positive for coronavirus. Stunningly, the email states they should not contact the White House testing office if they have symptoms. "As a reminder, if you are experiencing any symptoms such as sore throat, cough, fever, headache, new loss of taste or small, muscle aches, chills, diarrhea, or difficulty breathing, please stay home and do not come to work until you are free of symptoms," the email, viewed by CNN, read. "Affected staff should inform their supervisors and seek care from their primary care provider." The email instructed staff to go home if they develop symptoms and contact their primary care provider about getting tested. "Staff should not go to the White House Medical Unit clinic for any Covid-19 testing inquiries," the email read. Officials with possible exposure to someone who has Covid-19 were told to notify the management office and "ONLY return to work when you have been cleared by the White House Medical Unit." www.cnn.com “That Presidential SUV is not only bulletproof, but hermetically sealed against chemical attack. The risk of COVID19 transmission inside is as high as it gets outside of medical procedures. The irresponsibility is astounding. My thoughts are with the Secret Service forced to play,” Phillips tweeted.

The whole problem with this “by the city....by the county, by the area” isolation idea....there’s not one single area to my knowledge completely locked down in the entire United States, so everyone can go back and forth and keep passing the virus forward. Enforcement has been spotty, at best. Too many confrontations with non-mask wearers have ended up in serious consequences or even death for those doing their best to self police various establishments without law enforcement presence. Since, according to Trump, the police are “All on my side,” why would anyone expect policies to be consistently carried out at Federal, state and local levels? There’s a pretty direct correlation over the last 4-5 months (after the initial NYC spread caused by European travelers) between Trump 2016 states, is there not? And why would we expect that to change, going forward? Hence, the spread will continue unabated.

Of course, now he will still act like nothing happened...refuse to be open to any policy changes and attempt to force the debate to go ahead late next week. He’s either going to have the greatest desperation political comeback in history or crash and burn so completely that even our staunchest allies will be taken aback by the foolhardiness of the US in 2020. Even a serious illness is being turned into a reality show prop to boost the ratings...perfectly timed for the evening news and to calm world stock markets before reopening Monday (China is closed through Thursday for National Holidays.)

If even 15% of people are irresponsible, we’re only left with herd immunity to fall back on. And 15% is probably being generous... Even with that, does “responsible” mean giving a risky/rushed vaccine to family members before all the Phase 3 trials are even completed and side effects fully studied? The whole situation has become so muddied and politicized that there’s simply no way forward with somewhere between 40-60% now opting to wait on a proven vaccine instead of being sacrificial guinea pigs for multibillion dollar pharmaceutical companies.

See Clinton, Bill...second point. To hear a certain someone talk, Obama cut it to practically zero, lol.

Exactly what the Chinese do. Five to ten years in prison and massive fines for spitting or coughing on someone if you knowingly have the virus. This was all the way back on January 28/29. Coronavirus infected are trying to spread the disease by deliberately SPITTING at health care workers in Wuhan, claims South African teacher trapped in the city Jessika Bailing, a teacher trapped Wuhan, made the shocking claims She said she had heard of patients spitting at doctors to contaminate them Ms Bailing, 23, said a viral video showed a patient spitting on elevator buttons Coronavirus can be spread from person to person via a simple sneeze or cough (something a certain Georgia governor wouldn’t realize until months and months later) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7942647/Coronavirus-infected-trying-spread-disease-SPITTING-health-care-workers.html Current finable offenses in Melbourne, AUST 8 p.m. curfew: $1,652 fine, repeat offenders can be fined up to $10,000 Mandatory mask-wearing: $200 fine Breaching isolation orders after testing positive for COVID-19: $4,957, up to $20,000 for repeat offenders Being with more than one other person One visit to the grocery store per household per day. Must be by yourself. Spending more than one hour outside for exercise purposes only Traveling more than 5 kilometers (3.1 miles for you Americans) away from your home. This is enforced with vehicle checkpoints for cars and bicycles.

I honestly don’t think he sees it as racist. To him, China and Russia and I guess North Korea and Iran are our enemies, so why wouldn’t they be plotting to destroy the US, or manufacturing a virus and unleashing it on their own people first since their must be a secret antidote to keep the death numbers around 4,500. For example, Russian or Ukrainian internet troll farms are still working to subvert the election (again). But that’s far too nuanced for Fox News to get into WHY Russia and China desperately want Trump to remain as US president.

Those approaching retirement can now buy a type of “insurance” to guard against reduced Social Security benefits. The product — a rider on an annuity — is the first of its kind, but some experts expect similar offerings to follow as worries over the future of the entitlement program grow due to the pandemic. “The largest unaddressed fear is the Social Security reduction,” said David Duley, founder and CEO of PlanGap, which has received regulatory approval for the new product in 44 states. The surplus in the fund that pays out Social Security benefits will be depleted by 2031 — a year earlier than previously forecast — largely due to mass layoffs during the pandemic, according to the Congressional Budget Office. After that, the fund could pay about three-quarters of benefits for retirees, a major hit to the largest source of retirement income for most Americans. “People are in this stage of their lives where they’re 45 and 50 and are questioning what will happen if Social Security [cuts] take place,” Duley said. https://www.yahoo.com/money/social-security-insurance-company-offers-product-to-protect-against-surplus-running-out-135159461.html

Imagine Biden was ill. Trump and attack ads would be mocking him 24 hours per day. Imagine Fox News and the Trump family’s Twitter glee. Once again, imagine this was reversed and Biden had to pull out of a debate? It would be no different at all from the time when HRC came down four years ago with pneumonia and stumbled into the limo. She was eviscerated by the GOP. He‘s already accused Biden of diminished mental capacity, being heavily medicated, being fed speeches, using a mystery ear microphone during the debate...

Assuming the Dems win, we’re right back to Tea Party and austerity/Federal debt clock politics the next 2-4 years. Without the Senate, any more trillion plus bailouts are pretty much dead in the water. Joe Manchin and Doug Jones’ votes (Tuberville) will be blocking things unless the Dems run the table in all the closely contested seats. ObamaCare barely passed, let’s not forget, and the appetite for more Federal bailouts will be almost completely curtailed since nearly everyone will have their hands out...

You could have written this in 2008-09. Romney wanted to let all of Detroit go under. Market forces. Survival of the fittest. In the end, Obama punished exactly nobody. All those who lost their houses...who ended up benefitting greatly, besides Treasury Secretary Mnuchin? They weren’t made whole, any more than truly small and medium sized business owners who are not politically connected are not going to be protected by either Dems or Republicans (because they don’t matter unless they can donate $100,000+ to a party or candidate or simple soft money contribution) this time around. It’s going to end up as everyone having to act in their own best interests, it’s basic human instinct.

That will definitely be the case two years from now if governors order states open (see Florida)...but where restaurants and bars and airlines and theatres and baseball teams are still only at 15-35% of capacity and previous profit levels because we are still in Stage 2/3/4/5 since we’ve never even successfully conquered the first wave. It’s just going to be death by 1,000 cuts. Only the massive restaurant franchises will survive. It’s the exact same thing that will happen if the Supreme Court outlaws Obamacare and Covid-19 is not protected as a pre-existing condition any longer in the middle of the worst health care crisis in American history. We will suffer millions of medical bankruptcies. Taxes will continue to increase on the top 20% of Americans who can actually afford to pay them without going into debt themselves. Social Security and Medicare will be slashed. The top 1% will be fine, the 538 Senators and representatives will also be fine, and K Street lobbyists will never be in bigger demand. Eventually, massive tech oligarchs and Wal-Mart will own pretty much everything in America, just like Potter in “It’s a Wonderful Life.” There will be no Jimmy Stewart to save the remaining 99%.

Don’t forget much of Reagan’s second term, as well.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/10/03/trump-covid-1918-flu-struck-woodrow-wilson-pandemic/3607579001/ Woodrow Wilson downplayed the 1918 flu pandemic. Then, he got violently sick. If they were smart, they would invoke the 25th Amendment and let Pence go ahead and debate Kamala Harris this upcoming week as acting president...but Trump’s ego is simply too big to allow it.

Now, the trend has become just to assume pretty much any abridgment of freedom (we prefer not to surrender) is unconstitutional. Incorrect. Let’s not forget what President Lincoln did with writs of habeas corpus during the Civil War. With over 205,000 dead and counting, it would be quite easy to argue these are the equivalent of wartime conditions in terms of preventable deaths suffered already with simple but effective policies already enacted by well over 125 countries to contain Covid-19, many of them third world/developing or least industrialized nations lacking in modern medical equipment or access to every therapeutic drug in the world. A Compelling Governmental Purpose Charles "Rocky" Rhodes, a professor at South Texas College of Law Houston, told Houston Matters host Craig Cohen that the First Amendment can sometimes be overcome in situations where there is what’s known in the judicial circles as a “compelling governmental purpose.” “And this is the highest order — the apex — of things the government does, things like winning a war, or preventing an imminent attack, protecting children,” Rhodes said. “And, of course, another one of these is protecting the public health from a pandemic." Pandemics Aren’t New — Just New To Us While this global situation is new to most Americans, pandemics used to be much more commonplace. The last one was the Spanish Flu outbreak in 1918, which resulted in our Constitution being tested by local and state regulations. And throughout our nation’s history the court has issued multiple rulings that have established legal precedent when it comes to distancing and quarantine methods. One such case was Jacobson v. Massachusetts in 1905. A man named Henning Jacobson wanted to refuse a smallpox vaccine and maintained he had the legal right to do so. However, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the state, stating that “a community has the right to protect itself against an epidemic of disease which threatens the safety of its members.” https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2020/04/10/366511/how-the-constitution-gets-tested-in-times-of-crisis-like-a-pandemic/

The planes can be used to send ballistic missile commands and are a key part of the US defence system in the event of a crisis - earning them their ominous nickname. But officials were quick to dismiss any speculation that the two planes were a show of strength and a warning to enemies not try to take advantage of the political turmoil brought about by Mr Trump's illness. “These flights were pre-planned missions. Any timing to the president’s announcement is purely coincidental,” a US Strategic Command (Stratcom) spokesman, which oversees America’s nuclear arsenal, told the Sunday Telegraph. https://www.yahoo.com/news/pentagon-seeks-dampen-speculation-doomsday-135852335.html

Danielle Breed Long was the victim’s name...owner of a pandemic-closed bar and grill called the Tipsy Coyote in Scottsdale.

If someone in the US blamed Africans for weaponizing HIV/AIDs, Mexicans for trying to destroy the Obama admin. with the swine flu or claimed the US was responsible for all the drug and crime problems in US inner cities because of CIA collusion with Colombian and Sinaloan drug cartels...would we go along with it if we simply heard it on t.v.?

Here's the thing. I'm on the Chinese version of Hawaii, 4-5 months after the most recent active symptoms of ANYONE in Wuhan...2+ hour flight away to the south at Sanya/Hainan. Every single Chinese person under 40 is wearing a mask at the luxury shopping mall. Everyone still wearing to enter. Even in Wuhan, you still can't board a bus or subway or enter the best malls without mask. Part of it's cultural, part of it is previous experience with SARs and the other aspect is government control. While that wouldn't work in the US, nobody on the freedom/protection of business side has ever explained why the approaches in South Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand were impossible to implement in the US.

Florida Senator Rick Scott claimed he tested positive, then his staff walked it back. Weird how you can misspeak on that. They’re in danger of losing majority in Senate with so many out...

In January, he was named pitching coach of the Chicago Cubs' Double-A affiliate, the Tennessee Smokies, though the season was later canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Michigan native previously served as the assistant pitching coordinator for the Tampa Bay Rays. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2911913-former-mlb-pitcher-charles-haeger-wanted-by-police-on-suspicion-of-murder

Are the Marlins willing to pay $12.5 million for a veteran in his final contract year for a full season? Without fans?