Mink and coronavirus: what's happened and should we be worried?
Sars-CoV-2 has jumped from humans, mutated and crossed back to cause new infections
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Record didn't last long.US confirms over 126,000 Covid cases on Friday, third daily record in a row
Multiple states also announce record high numbers as White House chief of staff tests positivewww.theguardian.com
So, we agree that they won't be mandatory. But, rest assured, the govt has the legal right to mandate vaccination. Compulsory vaccination for small pox was challenged and upheld by the supreme court. But this a case where you attract more flies with honey than vinegar. Vaccination will likely be incentivized in some way. I would give people money to get one.
If parents want to utilize public schools, they should consider the societal responsibility first and foremost. Same with intl travel as yaco noted. Freedom comes with tradeoffs sometimes. You can't be employed in health care without Hep B vaccination for instance.
Dear Mr.Gadsden, I have listened to Kayleigh McEnany almost daily since she assumed her spokesperson role. She has posted a few things today about telling people to go home and stop participating in super events. This is strangely consistent..campaign TV ads showing Trump walking shoulder to shoulder with pristine uniformed military service officers..what stands out..like the old Sesame Street..one of these things doesn't belong, one of these things is different from the others..Trump wearing a mask. You have been consistent also, often talking of Antifa, and Black Lives Matter as non mask wearing criminal hooligans..that is cool. The messages today are tough for all..but the oscillations are dizziness defined..for the record, both sides have had far too many mass events held during moments of hysteria.. BLM marching screaming,sometimes maskless over issues like murder..you know little things like having your guts splattered on your apartment walls while you are in bed..the other side removing their masks to bellow Lee Greenwood lyrics or to sing along with an illegally used Stones or Bruce Springsteen song..
Have not seen any schedule for press conference times for the team elect..but consistent with the season and consistent with the utter disarray, collapse of government organisation..at a text book level..
I will get it down to a W.Virginia freshman terminology..Biden is not i in charge of anything. He has no health care plan,doesn't have a pandemic response team..those are still the job,the responsibilities of the sitting elected President.
The citizens marching in the streets under whatever silly sub-flag..maskless or not are the charges of the sitting elected President of the United States..if the President doesn't like what he sees it is his responsibility alone to demand or encourage people to act Covid appropriate. All these other unelected,unofficial,unknown,unorganized, militia multivitamin ,are not the President of anything..
Official press conferences are to be held by...officials..what Rev Al thinks about mask wearing or social distancing may have great value on Trumps scale but that is not how the government works..
If you see someone doing something,say something..Top down not bottom up.
Biden will probably have to chime in on turning it down,tone it down,because the guy who should be giving the message has a full diaper and is out cheating at golf..
The way people should and shouldn't act during the pandemic could have most effectively been disseminated from the top..not from the bottom or a bathrobe..tweeted in the middle of the night..
Day late dollar short..
but if you insist,Biden will probably still beat Don to the punch and air a national press conference encouraging people to act using best practices
No, I don't approve, which is why I was not out there with them. Masks, outdoors, and low prevalence should limit the damage. But there is little sense in having mass gatherings at this time for any reason. And the epi people that I follow on social media were saying that too. I think we should all follow the same guidelines.I guess then it was a bad day to be out with thousands of your close friends celebrating, singing, dancing, screaming in joyous rapture today in DC.
Absolutely zero condemnation from the hyper-concerned. Which of course is tacit approval.
So now we can get on with our lives.. finally.
Covid is an issue of politics as developments are occurring across the nation.There is zero political about. Covid-19..yes the person telling Americans that it was under control,fake,not serious, not to wear masks,indeed that person does have a particular party affiliation,but the advice,the direction given to collectively combat Covid is crazy.
No matter what sex, race,ect a person is saying it is a good idea to conspicuously contaminate one another..is completely crazy.
The idea that ideology is a form of immunity to this virus is insane, those ideologues certifying it as fact are certified lunatics.
I am being careful to say it in a digestible way..the thought,and possibly the science that a sex,race or other group are much more susceptible and that those affected are unimportant or collateral damage is both disturbing and disgusting.
On face it would look like the American direction for Corona Virus is..
We know who gets sick, we should all get back to acting normal,lesson any personal discomfort economic disruption and a government sponsored garbage truck will pick up the dead waste.
There was never anything political about Covid in the US, there is an enormous ethical burden that has been entirely ignored.
We should cars about each other.
We as a nation are arguing about that primarily.
there are discussions world wide about Covid ethics, in the US it looks like we will get to let the world see our compass,if we have one ,when we get access to a vaccine. Who gets it first? Who has been determined to get head of the line privilege. All we can do is wait..and why is that? Because the government has done nothing it has promised,not sufficient PPE, lack of promised testing or tracing,
pretending,saying that everyday Americans have a health insurance plan where a helicopter picks them up on their front yard,flies them to a hospital were a team of doctors with an unlimited treatment budget,and first dibs on everything including experimental and stem cell drugs is preposterous not political.
Telling people to do the right,thing is prudent,not political.
No other country,no other leader has treated the citizens of their country with such contempt and disconnection,utter disregard.
Take these last ten days..the cases are soaring\ spiking \ rising \ increasing..any word you pick for more is fine..the response to increased hospitalization,death and diagnosis is golf? Again ,golf is not political,golf is also not medical and shows an obvious disconnect from reality.
Covid 19 is an issue of science, not political science..
Just about everything that that was implemented in April and May to limit the spread of the virus was also un-enforceable. But that greatly mitigated the first wave because people followed them because they were scared to get the disease, or because they thought it was the right thing to do, or a combination there-of. I have some sympathy for the notion of treating people like adults and giving them the best medical information possible and then giving them the choice to voluntarily do what is right. But the problem is that people are not consistently getting the best information. People in places where they don't want to mandate masks are being told that masks don't really work. And they are definitely not being told the true state of COVID across the country. It is getting dire and the time to act is running out. El Paso is calling for a total of 10 mobile morgues to accommodate the overflow. Look at their per capita numbers. Back in the spring, we could surge some health care workers to the worst hit places. We can't do that this winter because every where is going to be slammed at once.Virtually all measures being implemented ..... are ....... un-enforceable.