Brazil has recorded more than 4,000 Covid-related deaths in 24 hours for the first time, as a more contagious variant fuels a huge surge in cases.
Hospitals are overcrowded, with people dying as they wait for treatment in some cities, and the health system is on the brink of collapse in many areas.
The country's total death toll is now almost 337,000, second only to the US.
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I have a mate who is in the Border Force at London Heathrow Airport. There are hundreds arriving in Britain from Brazil & other hotpots daily. The Brazilians are travelling with Italian passports. What is the point of lock down if the government is bringing people into the UK from badly infected countries? At this rate we're going to be in this pandemic for years. Keep ducking 🙉
The UK and Biden are using the same logic. Lock everyone down but allow hordes of infected people in.
I'm beginning to consider this a multi year situation with many more to pass on.
Fred Lapides, you commented so eloquently at 11:29. Do you want to expound on why you believe it is a totally awesome idea to allow in by commission or omission aliens. who have a nearly 1 in 10 infection rate?
The acting chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said Tuesday that under 6 percent of immigrants at the southern border have tested positive for the coronavirus amid growing alarm among Republicans over a spike in crossings.
"There's testing happening, What we're seeing is less than 6 percent positive right now, coming across the border." -acting FEMA Administrator Robert Fenton
This is a repeat of the Obama years, where Obama has nurses and doctors sign on disclosure agreements to not tell the American public what diseases and how often illegals were carrying.
Let us hear some of that good old English professor logic.
“We are expelling most single adults and families. We are not expelling unaccompanied children. We are securing our border, executing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) public health authority to safeguard the American public and the migrants themselves, and protecting the children. We have more work to do,” Mayorkas said.
Republicans have seized on the swell of migrants looking to cross the border, accusing President Biden of adopting lax immigration policies that could fuel coronavirus outbreaks.
get honest. don't listen to what your parents taught you
In passing, I would note that these arguments about immigration, refugees, etc miss an important fact:
In Hondudras and in some other areas in Central America there is climate change disaster, and Climate Refugees will increasingly become a global issue
1:22 & 1:24 i.e. Fred
You cannot do science without measurement and it has been established that you have to have some minimum competency with mathematics to be able to measure. You have none.
Maybe a person with a lot time and money could vacation in Central America. You could see for yourself if it is a climate disaster. While you are the could visit historical sites like Cozumel, Tikal or others.
What did Fred do at 1:20?
i Gave a quote from Mayorkus.
ii Gave a sentence blurb denouncing Republicans
iii Typed two sentence fragments as an ad hominem attack.
You realize when wind turbines operate at 10% or less of rated power, your wind energy myth is not going to save us.
Now:
1. tell about lack of math skills
2. say something bad about former GOP Speaker
3. badmouth NY Times
4. continue your stalking, your looking a pics at a site that you then denounce as porn.
John Boehner, the Republican former House speaker, issues a stinging denunciation in his new book of Donald J. Trump, saying that the former president “incited that bloody insurrection” by his supporters at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and that the Republican Party has been taken over by “whack jobs.”
The criticism from Mr. Boehner in his book, “On the House: A Washington Memoir,” represents an extraordinary public rebuke by a former speaker of the House toward a former president from his own party and shows how much the Republican Party has shifted since Mr. Boehner left Congress in 2015. And his remarks came as Mr. Trump has sought to retain his grip on Republican lawmakers’ loyalty from his new political base in South Florida.
The Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, sharply criticized Mr. Trump at the end of the Senate trial for the former president’s second impeachment, pointing to his role in the Capitol riot. Others, like Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the No. 3 in the House Republican leadership, have also excoriated him.
But Mr. Boehner’s remarks went a step further, serving as a rejection of what the party he once helped lead has morphed into over the last several years. While he has criticized Mr. Trump in the past, it’s his comments about the events of Jan. 6 that have the most resonance.
In the book, an excerpt from which was obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Boehner writes that Mr. Trump’s “refusal to accept the result of the election not only cost Republicans the Senate but led to mob violence,” adding, “It was painful to watch.”
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Democrats led Republicans by nine points in party ID and leaning in Q1
Largest advantage in a quarter since the fourth quarter of 2012
Republican Party ID down to 25% as independent identification surges
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In Gallup polling throughout the first quarter of 2021, an average of 49% of U.S. adults identified with the Democratic Party or said they are independents who lean toward the Democratic Party. That compares with 40% who identified as Republicans or Republican leaners. The nine-percentage-point Democratic advantage is the largest Gallup has measured since the fourth quarter of 2012. In recent years, Democratic advantages have typically been between four and six percentage points.
Line graph. Trend in U.S. adults' party identification and leaning since 1991. Democrats have held an advantage in party identification and leaning for most of the past 30 years, with larger advantages in 1992 and 1993, the mid-to-late 1990s, and from 2006 through 2009.
Gallup routinely measures U.S. adults' party identification and the political leanings of independents. In the first quarter, 30% of Americans identified as Democrats and 19% were Democratic-leaning independents, while 25% were Republican identifiers and 15% Republican-leaning independents. The vast majority of the remaining 11% were independents with no partisan leanings.
The latest figures were measured as President Joe Biden was inaugurated despite rioters' attempts on Jan. 6 to disrupt the certification of his victory in the 2020 election. The first quarter also saw a steady decline in U.S. coronavirus deaths and infections from its early January peak, a great expansion of COVID-19 vaccinations, and the passage of a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package.
Democrats have had larger advantages in the past than they currently hold, including double-digit advantages throughout most of 2006 through early 2009. That period encompassed the end of the George W. Bush administration, when he was unpopular, and the election of Barack Obama as his successor. The party also had double-digit advantages around the time of Bill Clinton's election as president in late 1992 and early 1993. The prior nine-point Democratic edge in the fourth quarter of 2012 coincided with Obama's reelection.
Republican advantages have generally been rare and short-lived, but occurred when Americans rallied around incumbent Republican presidents George H.W. Bush after the 1991 U.S. victory in the Gulf War and George W. Bush after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The GOP also had brief leads in party affiliation in the periods surrounding Republican electoral successes in the 1994, 2010 and 2014 midterm elections.
Independent Identification Back Up; GOP Identification Down
There is that tell. You know the one. It is the title of "former, retired". Weird.
The title is not "professor emeritus" but "former, retired". As in you are a former prof, but will never, ever be one again for reasons ...
No, it's impossible to get tired pointing out what you're really are, actually it's fun, you're so easy.
Th comment is not childish and if you are, who you claim to be, I have reason to believe it is true. It was a very perspicacious and pointed comment and will make readers think.
There are no former marines. Once a marine, always a marine. There are retired marines. There definitely no former retired marines. What the heck is a former, retired anyway?
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Trump officials celebrated efforts to change CDC reports on coronavirus, emails show
Dan Diamond
9-11 minutes
Then-science adviser Paul Alexander wrote to then-HHS public affairs chief Michael Caputo on Sept. 9, 2020, touting two examples of where he said officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had bowed to his pressure and changed language in their reports, according to an email obtained by the House’s select subcommittee on the coronavirus outbreak.
Pointing to one change — where CDC leaders allegedly changed the opening sentence of a report about spread of the virus among younger people after Alexander pressured them — Alexander wrote to Caputo, calling it a “small victory but a victory nonetheless and yippee!!!”
In the same email, Alexander touted another example of a change to a weekly report from the CDC that he said the agency made in response to his demands. The weekly Morbidity and Mortality reports, which offer public updates on scientists’ findings, had been considered sacrosanct for decades and untouchable by political appointees in the past.
Two days later, Alexander appealed to then-White House adviser Scott Atlas to help him dispute an upcoming CDC report on coronavirus-related deaths among young Americans.
“Can you help me craft an op-ed,” Alexander wrote to Atlas on Sept. 11, alleging the CDC report was “timed for the election” and an attempt to keep schools closed even as Trump pushed to reopen them. “Let us advise the President and get permission to preempt this please for it will run for the weekend so we need to blunt the edge as it is misleading.”
Alexander and other officials also strategized on how to help Trump argue to reopen the economy in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, despite scientists’ warnings about the potential risks.
“I know the President wants us to enumerate the economic cost of not reopening. We need solid estimates to be able to say something like: 50,000 more cancer deaths! 40,000 more heart attacks! 25,000 more suicides!” Caputo wrote to Alexander on May 16, 2020, in an email obtained by the subcommittee.
“You need to take ownership of these numbers. This is singularly important to what you and I want to achieve,” Caputo added in a follow-up email, urging Alexander to compile additional data on the consequences of virus-related shutdowns.
Atlas, Alexander and Caputo did not immediately respond to request for comment.
Parrot posted at 9:43. He copy and pasted the above to another blog post at WNU site.
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