THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR SEPTEMBER 15, 2021 AT 8:15 PM
Paul Plante says:
As to why the for-profit healthcare system dropped the ball here and was woefully unprepared despite the warnings from the CDC in January 2020, that answer is quite simple: the bean counters didn’t have a pandemic built into their financial model.
I wonder if people are clued to the fact that in a for-profit healthcare system, there are stockholders, and it is to those stockholders that the corporations running the healthcare system are responsible to, providing them with ROI, or return on investment.
No ROI, they bail, plain and simple.
That’s why Andy issued his February 26, 2020 press release, forty-nine (49) days after the 8 January 2020 CDC Health Network Alert about COVID, this one entitled “Governor Cuomo Announces $40 Million Emergency Appropriation to Support DOH Staffing and Equipment to Respond to Potential Novel Coronavirus Pandemic,” as follows:
“While there are still no confirmed cases of novel coronavirus in New York, these aggressive actions including $40 million in emergency funding will help ensure our healthcare system is equipped with the necessary staff, supplies and equipment needed to respond to any emergency situation that may arise in the future.”
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Except they weren’t and people died as a result, and where did the $40 million in taxpayer money end up going?
Nobody really knows!
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Just musings, is all
Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR SEPTEMBER 16, 2021 AT 5:22 PM
Paul Plante says:
By way of background, U.S. health care spending grew 4.6 percent in 2019, reaching $3.8 trillion or $11,582 per person.
As a share of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product, health spending accounted for 17.7 percent.
According to the Investopedia article “6 Reasons Healthcare Is So Expensive in the U.S. And why we get less bang for our bucks” by THE INVESTOPEDIA TEAM, Reviewed by MICHAEL J BOYLE on April 27, 2021, we have on that subject as follows:
The Bottom Line
The pressure on our sprawling healthcare system in the U.S. has never been greater.
end quotes
Keeping in mind that this is the same sprawling “healthcare” system that failed the nation and its people greatly since January of 2020, when it was put on notice by the CDC that COVID was coming.
Getting back to the article:
There’s an urgent need to expand testing and treatment for COVID-19 to all residents who need it, regardless of health insurance status.
Massive federal cash influxes have sought to shore up hospitals sagging under the weight of the coronavirus burden and the related cessation of elective surgery and regular medical care.
end quotes
Ah yes, privatize profits, socialize losses.
That’s the way you do it, because as Hussein Obama was always fond of saying, in a capitalistic country with a for-profit healthcare system, it’s the right thing to do.
Getting back to it:
Long before this crisis, the U.S. led other industrialized nations in high spending on healthcare and getting a low bang for the buck in terms of health outcomes and the percentage of the population served.
Life expectancy in the U.S., for example, is 78.8 years, while it ranges from 80.7 to 83.9 in 10 other high-income countries, according to an influential study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
And only 90% of the population in the U.S. has health insurance, compared to 99% to 100% of the population in the other industrialized countries examined.
One reason for high costs is administrative waste.
Providers face a huge array of usage and billing requirements from multiple payers, which makes it necessary to hire costly administrative help for billing and reimbursements.
Americans pay almost four times as much for pharmaceutical drugs as citizens of other developed countries.
Hospitals, doctors, and nurses all charge more in the U.S. than in other countries, with hospital costs increasing much faster than professional salaries.
In other countries, prices for drugs and healthcare are at least partially controlled by the government.
In the U.S. prices depend on market forces.
Costly Healthcare Hurts Everyone
The high cost of healthcare affects everyone, sick or well.
It has depressed individual spending power for the past few decades.
Salaries for American workers have risen, but net pay has stayed the same because of increasing charges for health insurance.
1. Multiple Systems Create Waste
“Administrative” costs are frequently cited as a cause for excess medical spending.
The U.S. spends about 8% of its healthcare dollar on administrative costs, compared to 1% to 3% in the 10 other countries the JAMA study looked at.
The U.S. healthcare system is extremely complex, with separate rules, funding, enrollment dates, and out-of-pocket costs for employer-based insurance, private insurance from healthcare.gov, Medicaid, and Medicare, in all its many pieces.
In each of these sectors consumers must choose among several tiers of coverage, high deductible plans, managed care plans (HMOs and PPOs) and fee-for-service systems.
These plans may or may not include pharmaceutical drug insurance which has its own tiers of coverage, deductibles, and copays or coinsurance.
For providers, this means dealing with myriad regulations about usage, coding, and billing.
And, in fact, these activities make up the largest share of administrative costs.
2. Drug Costs Are Rising
On average, Americans shell out almost four times as much for pharmaceutical drugs as citizens of other industrialized countries pay.
High drug prices are the single biggest area of overspending in the U.S. compared to Europe, where drug prices are government regulated, often based on the clinical benefit of the medication.
With little regulation of drug prices, the U.S. spends an average of $1,443 per person, compared to $749, on average, spent by the other prosperous countries studied.
In the U.S. private insurers can negotiate drug prices with manufacturers, often through the services of pharmacy benefit managers.
However, Medicare, which pays for a hefty percentage of the national drug costs, is not permitted to negotiate prices with manufacturers.
3. Doctors (and Nurses) Are Paid More
The average U.S. family doctor earns $218,173 a year, and specialists make $316,000 — way above the the average in other industrialized countries.
American nurses make considerably more than elsewhere, too.
The average salary for a U.S. nurse is about $74,250, compared to $58,041 in Switzerland and $60,253 in the Netherlands.
U.S. managed care plans (HMOs and PPOs) may succeed in lowering healthcare costs by requiring prior authorization for seeing a high-priced specialist.
Use of a nurse practitioner instead of a family doctor can also save money.
4. Hospitals Are Profit Centers
Hospital care accounts for 33% of the nation’s healthcare costs.
Between 2007 and 2014, prices for inpatient and outpatient hospital care rose much faster than physician prices, according to a 2019 study in Health Affairs.
U.S. prices for surgical procedures in hospitals greatly exceed those of other countries.
A typical angioplasty to open a blocked blood vessel, for example, costs $6,390 in the Netherlands, $7,370 in Switzerland, and $32,230 in the United States.
Similarly, a heart bypass operation in the U.S. costs $78,100 compared to $32,010 in Switzerland.
Today, many hospitals are on the brink financially.
What’s more, the cessation of elective surgery and severely declining provider visits because of the coronavirus lockdown account for a big part of the decline in the overall economy.
5. U.S. Healthcare Practices Defensive Medicine
Both physicians and hospitals have an interest in preventing lawsuits, so “just in case” tests and scans may be ordered.
And these tests can be costly!
While a CT scan costs just $97 in Canada and $500 in Australia, the average cost is $896 in the U.S.
A typical MRI scan costs $1,420 in the United States, but around $450 in Britain.
Researchers have concluded that it’s not the sheer number of tests and procedures but their high price that explains why it’s so expensive to be sick in the U.S.
6. U.S. Prices Vary Wildly
Because of the complexity of the system and the lack of any set prices for medical services, providers are free to charge what the market will bear.
The amount paid for the same healthcare service can vary significantly depending on the payer (i.e. private insurance or government programs, such as Medicare or Medicaid) and geographical area.
For COVID-19, for example, the cost of an urgent care visit and lab tests averages $1,696, but can range from a low of $241 to a high of $4,510 depending on the provider.
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Nothing like having a good Pandemic to capitalize on when the taxpayers are guaranteeing your profits!
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Paul Plante says:
By way of background, U.S. health care spending grew 4.6 percent in 2019, reaching $3.8 trillion or $11,582 per person.
As a share of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product, health spending accounted for 17.7 percent.
According to the Investopedia article “6 Reasons Healthcare Is So Expensive in the U.S. And why we get less bang for our bucks” by THE INVESTOPEDIA TEAM, Reviewed by MICHAEL J BOYLE on April 27, 2021, we have on that subject as follows:
The Bottom Line
The pressure on our sprawling healthcare system in the U.S. has never been greater.
end quotes
Keeping in mind that this is the same sprawling “healthcare” system that failed the nation and its people greatly since January of 2020, when it was put on notice by the CDC that COVID was coming.
Getting back to the article:
There’s an urgent need to expand testing and treatment for COVID-19 to all residents who need it, regardless of health insurance status.
Massive federal cash influxes have sought to shore up hospitals sagging under the weight of the coronavirus burden and the related cessation of elective surgery and regular medical care.
end quotes
Ah yes, privatize profits, socialize losses.
That’s the way you do it, because as Hussein Obama was always fond of saying, in a capitalistic country with a for-profit healthcare system, it’s the right thing to do.
Getting back to it:
Long before this crisis, the U.S. led other industrialized nations in high spending on healthcare and getting a low bang for the buck in terms of health outcomes and the percentage of the population served.
Life expectancy in the U.S., for example, is 78.8 years, while it ranges from 80.7 to 83.9 in 10 other high-income countries, according to an influential study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
And only 90% of the population in the U.S. has health insurance, compared to 99% to 100% of the population in the other industrialized countries examined.
One reason for high costs is administrative waste.
Providers face a huge array of usage and billing requirements from multiple payers, which makes it necessary to hire costly administrative help for billing and reimbursements.
Americans pay almost four times as much for pharmaceutical drugs as citizens of other developed countries.
Hospitals, doctors, and nurses all charge more in the U.S. than in other countries, with hospital costs increasing much faster than professional salaries.
In other countries, prices for drugs and healthcare are at least partially controlled by the government.
In the U.S. prices depend on market forces.
Costly Healthcare Hurts Everyone
The high cost of healthcare affects everyone, sick or well.
It has depressed individual spending power for the past few decades.
Salaries for American workers have risen, but net pay has stayed the same because of increasing charges for health insurance.
1. Multiple Systems Create Waste
“Administrative” costs are frequently cited as a cause for excess medical spending.
The U.S. spends about 8% of its healthcare dollar on administrative costs, compared to 1% to 3% in the 10 other countries the JAMA study looked at.
The U.S. healthcare system is extremely complex, with separate rules, funding, enrollment dates, and out-of-pocket costs for employer-based insurance, private insurance from healthcare.gov, Medicaid, and Medicare, in all its many pieces.
In each of these sectors consumers must choose among several tiers of coverage, high deductible plans, managed care plans (HMOs and PPOs) and fee-for-service systems.
These plans may or may not include pharmaceutical drug insurance which has its own tiers of coverage, deductibles, and copays or coinsurance.
For providers, this means dealing with myriad regulations about usage, coding, and billing.
And, in fact, these activities make up the largest share of administrative costs.
2. Drug Costs Are Rising
On average, Americans shell out almost four times as much for pharmaceutical drugs as citizens of other industrialized countries pay.
High drug prices are the single biggest area of overspending in the U.S. compared to Europe, where drug prices are government regulated, often based on the clinical benefit of the medication.
With little regulation of drug prices, the U.S. spends an average of $1,443 per person, compared to $749, on average, spent by the other prosperous countries studied.
In the U.S. private insurers can negotiate drug prices with manufacturers, often through the services of pharmacy benefit managers.
However, Medicare, which pays for a hefty percentage of the national drug costs, is not permitted to negotiate prices with manufacturers.
3. Doctors (and Nurses) Are Paid More
The average U.S. family doctor earns $218,173 a year, and specialists make $316,000 — way above the the average in other industrialized countries.
American nurses make considerably more than elsewhere, too.
The average salary for a U.S. nurse is about $74,250, compared to $58,041 in Switzerland and $60,253 in the Netherlands.
U.S. managed care plans (HMOs and PPOs) may succeed in lowering healthcare costs by requiring prior authorization for seeing a high-priced specialist.
Use of a nurse practitioner instead of a family doctor can also save money.
4. Hospitals Are Profit Centers
Hospital care accounts for 33% of the nation’s healthcare costs.
Between 2007 and 2014, prices for inpatient and outpatient hospital care rose much faster than physician prices, according to a 2019 study in Health Affairs.
U.S. prices for surgical procedures in hospitals greatly exceed those of other countries.
A typical angioplasty to open a blocked blood vessel, for example, costs $6,390 in the Netherlands, $7,370 in Switzerland, and $32,230 in the United States.
Similarly, a heart bypass operation in the U.S. costs $78,100 compared to $32,010 in Switzerland.
Today, many hospitals are on the brink financially.
What’s more, the cessation of elective surgery and severely declining provider visits because of the coronavirus lockdown account for a big part of the decline in the overall economy.
5. U.S. Healthcare Practices Defensive Medicine
Both physicians and hospitals have an interest in preventing lawsuits, so “just in case” tests and scans may be ordered.
And these tests can be costly!
While a CT scan costs just $97 in Canada and $500 in Australia, the average cost is $896 in the U.S.
A typical MRI scan costs $1,420 in the United States, but around $450 in Britain.
Researchers have concluded that it’s not the sheer number of tests and procedures but their high price that explains why it’s so expensive to be sick in the U.S.
6. U.S. Prices Vary Wildly
Because of the complexity of the system and the lack of any set prices for medical services, providers are free to charge what the market will bear.
The amount paid for the same healthcare service can vary significantly depending on the payer (i.e. private insurance or government programs, such as Medicare or Medicaid) and geographical area.
For COVID-19, for example, the cost of an urgent care visit and lab tests averages $1,696, but can range from a low of $241 to a high of $4,510 depending on the provider.
end quotes
Nothing like having a good Pandemic to capitalize on when the taxpayers are guaranteeing your profits!
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Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR SEPTEMBER 16, 2021 AT 7:58 PM
Paul Plante says:
And let us be crystal clear on something here, people – while I have been focusing in on what went on in a state with the third highest number of COVID deaths in the nation, behind California and Texas as of today, because with my limited time on the computer, it was a full time job just keeping up with what was going on in that state, the 8 January 2020 CDC Health Alert Network warning on COVID went out to state and local health officers, state and local epidemiologists, state and local laboratory directors, public information officers, HAN coordinators, and clinician organizations in EVERY state, including Virginia, with its tally as of today of 819K COVID cases and 12,170 COVID deaths, and Mississippi, with 468K COVID cases and 9,100 COVID deaths, putting them all on notice that COVID was on its way and to get prepared for it.
So once again, we have to ask ourselves this question – what went wrong?
With that warning in hand, how could this massive healthcare system
failure have happened all over the United States of America, especially when on March 2, 2020, Democrat Andy Cuomo of New York, with its 54,693 COVID deaths as of today according to Statista, the Talk-Show Pandemic Media Darling of America, told us in a press release on that date that “We have the best health-care system in the world, and we are leveraging that system to help contain any potential spread of the novel coronavirus in New York?”
If we have the best health-care system in the world, and the system was being leveraged to help contain any potential spread of the novel coronavirus, why did so many people end up dying?
What is it that we are missing here?
And for Joe Biden’s highly partisan political answer to that question, let us fast forward one hundred eighty-two (182) days into the future from March 2, 2020, when Democrat Andy Cuomo of New York, the Pandemic Media Darling of America, told us in a press release that “this isn’t our first rodeo – we are fully coordinated, we are fully mobilized, and we are fully prepared to deal with the situation as it develops,” and Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin in another press release on the same day informed people therein that with confirmed cases of coronavirus in the nation and the state, Rensselaer County health officials had taken part in calls with the Centers for Disease Control and the New York State Department of Health regarding the issue, and at that time, there were no confirmed cases of coronavirus in the county, and that Federal and state health officials had termed the spread of the illness nationally and in the state as “isolated” cases so that there was no need for undue concern or worry and that Rensselaer County officials had been informed that New York State remains at a low risk for coronavirus, this just before New York state became the epicenter for the COVID outbreak that killed 54,693 people in the state with 12,913 COVID cases in Rensselaer County alone, to August 31, 2020 and a toxic, poisonous, highly partisan political speech Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden made in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which state as of today according to the New York Times has 1.36M COVID cases and 28,696 COVID deaths, at Carnegie Mellon, where we had this spew of political poison from Joe, as follows:
Joe Biden: I want to thank Carnegie Mellon for providing this space and all the promise it holds for future jobs in the high tech world.
In recent days, we’ve had a lot of talk about who’s going where and how I’ve decided to come to Pittsburgh to talk a little bit about what’s going on right now.
In the early days of World War II, Franklin Roosevelt told the country, and I quote, “The news is going to get worse and worse before it gets better and better.”
“And the American people deserve to have it straight from the shoulder.”
Straight from the shoulder.
The job of a president is to tell it straight from the shoulder, tell the truth, to be candid, to face facts, to lead, not to insight.
end quotes
And let’s stop right there and ask Joe this pertinent question that the main-stream media who fawn on Joe failed to ask him – IF the job of a president is to tell it straight from the shoulder, tell the truth, to be candid, to face facts, to lead, not to insight, why are you “insighting” instead of telling us the truth?
IF the job of a president is to be candid and to face facts, then why aren’t you doing either?
Why are you feeding us poisonous political pig poop, instead?
And in the United States of America, Joe, the job of the president is to “take care that OUR laws are faithfully enforced.”
This America – in America, the president does not lead, and the people, who are as yet a free people, do not follow!
If we go to the “Congressional Oversight Manual” by the Congressional Research Service, https://crsreports.congress.gov , RL30240, updated January 16, 2020, we find the following with respect to the “job” of an American president, to wit:
Summary
Today’s lawmakers and congressional aides, as well as commentators and scholars, recognize that Congress’s lawmaking role does not end when it passes legislation.
Oversight is considered fundamental to making sure that laws work and are being administered in an effective, efficient, and economical manner.
This function is seen as one of Congress’s principal roles as it grapples with the complexities of American government.
Purposes, Authority, and Participants
Throughout its history, Congress has engaged in oversight — broadly defined as reviewing, monitoring, and supervising the implementation of public policy by the executive branch.
end quotes
If you are reading that as saying that the job of Joe Biden as president is the implementation of public policy set by Congress, not by Joe Biden who is not our “leader,” perish that thought, then there is absolutely nothing wrong whatsoever with your reading comprehension.
The CRS Oversight Manual, which one would think Joe Biden would be thoroughly and intimately familiar with, front to back, from all the years he spent in Congress, continues as follows:
Congress’s oversight role is also significant because it shines the spotlight of public attention on many critical issues, which enables lawmakers and the general public to make informed judgments about executive performance.
Woodrow Wilson, in his classic 1885 study Congressional Government, emphasized that the “informing function should be preferred even to its [lawmaking] function.”
He added that unless Congress conducts oversight of administrative activities, the “country must remain in embarrassing, crippling ignorance of the very affairs which it is most important it should understand and direct.”
First, oversight is an implicit constitutional responsibility of Congress.
According to historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the Framers believed “it was not considered necessary to make an explicit grant of such authority.”
“The power to make laws implied the power to see whether they were faithfully executed.”
Purposes
Congressional oversight of the executive is designed to fulfill a variety of purposes, such as those outlined below.
Ensure Executive Compliance with Legislative Intent
Congress, of necessity, must delegate discretionary authority to federal administrators.
To make certain that these officers faithfully execute laws according to the intent of Congress, committees and Members can review the actions taken and regulations formulated by departments and agencies.
Protect Individual Rights and Liberties
Congressional oversight can help safeguard the rights and liberties of citizens and others.
By revealing abuses of authority, oversight hearings and other efforts can halt executive misconduct and help prevent its recurrence through, for example, new legislation or indirectly by heightening public awareness of the issue(s).
Authority to Conduct Oversight
U.S. Constitution
The Constitution grants Congress extensive authority to oversee and investigate executive branch activities.
The constitutional authority for Congress to conduct oversight stems from such explicit and implicit provisions as:
The power to organize the executive branch.
Congress has the authority to create, abolish, reorganize, and fund federal departments and agencies.
It has the authority to assign or reassign functions to departments and agencies and grant new forms of authority and staff to administrators.
Congress, in short, exercises ultimate authority over executive branch organization and generally over policy.
end quotes
So that should make it patently clear that Joe Biden is not “our leader,” which takes us back to his toxic, poisonous political speech on 31 August 2020, where he took great pains to politicize the COVID pandemic for partisan political purposes totally unrelated to protecting the public’s health from COVID, as follows:
That’s why I’m speaking to you today.
The incumbent president (Trump) is incapable of telling us the truth, incapable of facing the facts and incapable of healing.
He doesn’t want to shed light, he wants to generate heat and he’s stroking violence in our cities.
This is a tragic fact of the matter, how he’s dealing with this perilous hour in our nation.
* * * * *
We need justice in America.
We need safety in America.
We’re facing multiple crises.
Crises that under Donald Trump have kept multiplying.
COVID, economic devastation, unwarranted police violence, [inaudible] white nationalists, a reckoning on race, declining faith in the birth of the right American future.
There’s no reason why we can’t just do so much more than we’re doing.
The common threat, the incumbent president who makes things worse, not better, an incumbent president who sows chaos rather than providing order.
An incumbent president who fails in the basic duty of the job, which is to advance the truth that all of us know, that we’re all born with the right to life, Liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
That’s right.
end quotes
Yes, indeed, people – RULE ONE of American politics: DO NOT ever let a crisis go to waste without exploiting it for all it is worth!
Regardless of what really happened, COVID was all Trump’s fault, period!
And that brings us to the present time, to wit:
THE WHITE HOUSE
Remarks by President Biden on Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic
SEPTEMBER 09, 2021
5:02 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: So before I outline the new steps to fight COVID-19 that I’m going to be announcing tonight, let me give you some clear information about where we stand.
First, we have cons- — we have made considerable progress in battling COVID-19.
When I became President, about 2 million Americans were fully vaccinated.
Today, over 175 million Americans have that protection.
Before I took office, we hadn’t ordered enough vaccine for every American.
Just weeks in office, we did.
The week before I took office, on January 20th of this year, over 25,000 Americans died that week from COVID-19.
Last week, that grim weekly toll was down 70 percent.
And in the three months before I took office, our economy was faltering, creating just 50,000 jobs a month.
We’re now averaging 700,000 new jobs a month in the past three months.
This progress is real.
end quotes
Sounds like Joe Biden was sent to us by Heaven, does it not, to save the soul of America in our hour of need!
And there we are seeing what the politicization of a public health matter in the United States of America looks like in real life.
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Paul Plante says:
And let us be crystal clear on something here, people – while I have been focusing in on what went on in a state with the third highest number of COVID deaths in the nation, behind California and Texas as of today, because with my limited time on the computer, it was a full time job just keeping up with what was going on in that state, the 8 January 2020 CDC Health Alert Network warning on COVID went out to state and local health officers, state and local epidemiologists, state and local laboratory directors, public information officers, HAN coordinators, and clinician organizations in EVERY state, including Virginia, with its tally as of today of 819K COVID cases and 12,170 COVID deaths, and Mississippi, with 468K COVID cases and 9,100 COVID deaths, putting them all on notice that COVID was on its way and to get prepared for it.
So once again, we have to ask ourselves this question – what went wrong?
With that warning in hand, how could this massive healthcare system
failure have happened all over the United States of America, especially when on March 2, 2020, Democrat Andy Cuomo of New York, with its 54,693 COVID deaths as of today according to Statista, the Talk-Show Pandemic Media Darling of America, told us in a press release on that date that “We have the best health-care system in the world, and we are leveraging that system to help contain any potential spread of the novel coronavirus in New York?”
If we have the best health-care system in the world, and the system was being leveraged to help contain any potential spread of the novel coronavirus, why did so many people end up dying?
What is it that we are missing here?
And for Joe Biden’s highly partisan political answer to that question, let us fast forward one hundred eighty-two (182) days into the future from March 2, 2020, when Democrat Andy Cuomo of New York, the Pandemic Media Darling of America, told us in a press release that “this isn’t our first rodeo – we are fully coordinated, we are fully mobilized, and we are fully prepared to deal with the situation as it develops,” and Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin in another press release on the same day informed people therein that with confirmed cases of coronavirus in the nation and the state, Rensselaer County health officials had taken part in calls with the Centers for Disease Control and the New York State Department of Health regarding the issue, and at that time, there were no confirmed cases of coronavirus in the county, and that Federal and state health officials had termed the spread of the illness nationally and in the state as “isolated” cases so that there was no need for undue concern or worry and that Rensselaer County officials had been informed that New York State remains at a low risk for coronavirus, this just before New York state became the epicenter for the COVID outbreak that killed 54,693 people in the state with 12,913 COVID cases in Rensselaer County alone, to August 31, 2020 and a toxic, poisonous, highly partisan political speech Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden made in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which state as of today according to the New York Times has 1.36M COVID cases and 28,696 COVID deaths, at Carnegie Mellon, where we had this spew of political poison from Joe, as follows:
Joe Biden: I want to thank Carnegie Mellon for providing this space and all the promise it holds for future jobs in the high tech world.
In recent days, we’ve had a lot of talk about who’s going where and how I’ve decided to come to Pittsburgh to talk a little bit about what’s going on right now.
In the early days of World War II, Franklin Roosevelt told the country, and I quote, “The news is going to get worse and worse before it gets better and better.”
“And the American people deserve to have it straight from the shoulder.”
Straight from the shoulder.
The job of a president is to tell it straight from the shoulder, tell the truth, to be candid, to face facts, to lead, not to insight.
end quotes
And let’s stop right there and ask Joe this pertinent question that the main-stream media who fawn on Joe failed to ask him – IF the job of a president is to tell it straight from the shoulder, tell the truth, to be candid, to face facts, to lead, not to insight, why are you “insighting” instead of telling us the truth?
IF the job of a president is to be candid and to face facts, then why aren’t you doing either?
Why are you feeding us poisonous political pig poop, instead?
And in the United States of America, Joe, the job of the president is to “take care that OUR laws are faithfully enforced.”
This America – in America, the president does not lead, and the people, who are as yet a free people, do not follow!
If we go to the “Congressional Oversight Manual” by the Congressional Research Service, https://crsreports.congress.gov , RL30240, updated January 16, 2020, we find the following with respect to the “job” of an American president, to wit:
Summary
Today’s lawmakers and congressional aides, as well as commentators and scholars, recognize that Congress’s lawmaking role does not end when it passes legislation.
Oversight is considered fundamental to making sure that laws work and are being administered in an effective, efficient, and economical manner.
This function is seen as one of Congress’s principal roles as it grapples with the complexities of American government.
Purposes, Authority, and Participants
Throughout its history, Congress has engaged in oversight — broadly defined as reviewing, monitoring, and supervising the implementation of public policy by the executive branch.
end quotes
If you are reading that as saying that the job of Joe Biden as president is the implementation of public policy set by Congress, not by Joe Biden who is not our “leader,” perish that thought, then there is absolutely nothing wrong whatsoever with your reading comprehension.
The CRS Oversight Manual, which one would think Joe Biden would be thoroughly and intimately familiar with, front to back, from all the years he spent in Congress, continues as follows:
Congress’s oversight role is also significant because it shines the spotlight of public attention on many critical issues, which enables lawmakers and the general public to make informed judgments about executive performance.
Woodrow Wilson, in his classic 1885 study Congressional Government, emphasized that the “informing function should be preferred even to its [lawmaking] function.”
He added that unless Congress conducts oversight of administrative activities, the “country must remain in embarrassing, crippling ignorance of the very affairs which it is most important it should understand and direct.”
First, oversight is an implicit constitutional responsibility of Congress.
According to historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the Framers believed “it was not considered necessary to make an explicit grant of such authority.”
“The power to make laws implied the power to see whether they were faithfully executed.”
Purposes
Congressional oversight of the executive is designed to fulfill a variety of purposes, such as those outlined below.
Ensure Executive Compliance with Legislative Intent
Congress, of necessity, must delegate discretionary authority to federal administrators.
To make certain that these officers faithfully execute laws according to the intent of Congress, committees and Members can review the actions taken and regulations formulated by departments and agencies.
Protect Individual Rights and Liberties
Congressional oversight can help safeguard the rights and liberties of citizens and others.
By revealing abuses of authority, oversight hearings and other efforts can halt executive misconduct and help prevent its recurrence through, for example, new legislation or indirectly by heightening public awareness of the issue(s).
Authority to Conduct Oversight
U.S. Constitution
The Constitution grants Congress extensive authority to oversee and investigate executive branch activities.
The constitutional authority for Congress to conduct oversight stems from such explicit and implicit provisions as:
The power to organize the executive branch.
Congress has the authority to create, abolish, reorganize, and fund federal departments and agencies.
It has the authority to assign or reassign functions to departments and agencies and grant new forms of authority and staff to administrators.
Congress, in short, exercises ultimate authority over executive branch organization and generally over policy.
end quotes
So that should make it patently clear that Joe Biden is not “our leader,” which takes us back to his toxic, poisonous political speech on 31 August 2020, where he took great pains to politicize the COVID pandemic for partisan political purposes totally unrelated to protecting the public’s health from COVID, as follows:
That’s why I’m speaking to you today.
The incumbent president (Trump) is incapable of telling us the truth, incapable of facing the facts and incapable of healing.
He doesn’t want to shed light, he wants to generate heat and he’s stroking violence in our cities.
This is a tragic fact of the matter, how he’s dealing with this perilous hour in our nation.
* * * * *
We need justice in America.
We need safety in America.
We’re facing multiple crises.
Crises that under Donald Trump have kept multiplying.
COVID, economic devastation, unwarranted police violence, [inaudible] white nationalists, a reckoning on race, declining faith in the birth of the right American future.
There’s no reason why we can’t just do so much more than we’re doing.
The common threat, the incumbent president who makes things worse, not better, an incumbent president who sows chaos rather than providing order.
An incumbent president who fails in the basic duty of the job, which is to advance the truth that all of us know, that we’re all born with the right to life, Liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
That’s right.
end quotes
Yes, indeed, people – RULE ONE of American politics: DO NOT ever let a crisis go to waste without exploiting it for all it is worth!
Regardless of what really happened, COVID was all Trump’s fault, period!
And that brings us to the present time, to wit:
THE WHITE HOUSE
Remarks by President Biden on Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic
SEPTEMBER 09, 2021
5:02 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: So before I outline the new steps to fight COVID-19 that I’m going to be announcing tonight, let me give you some clear information about where we stand.
First, we have cons- — we have made considerable progress in battling COVID-19.
When I became President, about 2 million Americans were fully vaccinated.
Today, over 175 million Americans have that protection.
Before I took office, we hadn’t ordered enough vaccine for every American.
Just weeks in office, we did.
The week before I took office, on January 20th of this year, over 25,000 Americans died that week from COVID-19.
Last week, that grim weekly toll was down 70 percent.
And in the three months before I took office, our economy was faltering, creating just 50,000 jobs a month.
We’re now averaging 700,000 new jobs a month in the past three months.
This progress is real.
end quotes
Sounds like Joe Biden was sent to us by Heaven, does it not, to save the soul of America in our hour of need!
And there we are seeing what the politicization of a public health matter in the United States of America looks like in real life.
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Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR SEPTEMBER 19, 2021 AT 11:13 AM
Paul Plante says:
The word “science” here in Mhureeka, formerly known in far better times as the United States of America, has become an empty, stupid word that means whatever some greedy, grasping hack politician or their toadies and lickspittles want it to mean, which is pretty much everything under the sun, so long as it serves THEIR purposes.
And there is no such thing as “the science.”
What a stupid expression that is.
SCIENCE: the intellectual and practical ACTIVITY encompassing the SYSTEMATIC STUDY of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
What is the best definition of science?
Science is the STUDY of the nature and behaviour of natural things and the knowledge that we obtain about them.
A science is a particular branch of science such as physics, chemistry, or biology.
Physics is the best example of a science which has developed strong, abstract theories.
What is the true meaning of science?
The AIM of science is to build true and accurate KNOWLEDGE about how the world works.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/w ... ent-426755
Paul Plante says:
The word “science” here in Mhureeka, formerly known in far better times as the United States of America, has become an empty, stupid word that means whatever some greedy, grasping hack politician or their toadies and lickspittles want it to mean, which is pretty much everything under the sun, so long as it serves THEIR purposes.
And there is no such thing as “the science.”
What a stupid expression that is.
SCIENCE: the intellectual and practical ACTIVITY encompassing the SYSTEMATIC STUDY of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
What is the best definition of science?
Science is the STUDY of the nature and behaviour of natural things and the knowledge that we obtain about them.
A science is a particular branch of science such as physics, chemistry, or biology.
Physics is the best example of a science which has developed strong, abstract theories.
What is the true meaning of science?
The AIM of science is to build true and accurate KNOWLEDGE about how the world works.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/w ... ent-426755
Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR SEPTEMBER 20, 2021 AT 6:07 PM
Paul Plante says:
Which takes us to Remarks by President Biden on the Economy on September 16, 2021, East Room, 2:00 P.M. EDT, as follows:
THE PRESIDENT: These policies are what the science tells us we need to do.
They’re going to save lives.
And they’ll protect our economic recovery as well, and allow the economy to continue to grow.
We’re also going after the bad actors and pandemic profiteers in our economy.
There’s a lot of evidence that gas prices should be going down, but they haven’t.
We’ll be taking a close look at that.
Taxpayers in this country also have paid for extraordinary effort to keep our country going over the past year or so.
Unlike the last administration, which resisted oversight and allowed taxpayers to be victimized by fraud, we’re working hard to protect vulnerable Americans from having their identities stolen — as a consequence of their unemployment check stolen as well.
But here’s the truth: Yes, the pandemic has caused a lot of economic problems in the country, but the fact is our economy faced challenges long before this pandemic struck.
Working people were struggling to make it long before the pandemic arrived.
Big corporations and the very wealthy were doing very well before the pandemic.
That’s why I’ve said — starting back in my campaign for president — that it’s not enough just to build back; we have to build back better than before.
And that’s how it all begins.
end quotes
And see what you can make the science say if you are the president of the United State of America?
You, like another self-proclaimed “world leader” back when who was a rug-chewing, froth-at-the-out madman, can use “science” to justify every single thing you do, like removing segments of society from life on the earth because the science says it is not only alright, but the right thing to do, which is obscene.
Reminds me too much of Dr. Mengele, who also used science as a basis for political policy.
And IF science is not what Joe Biden says it is, but instead is truly the intellectual and practical ACTIVITY encompassing the SYSTEMATIC STUDY of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment, then as we clearly see from a CNBC article entitled “FDA panel recommends Pfizer’s Covid booster doses for people 65 and older after rejecting third shots for general population” by Berkeley Lovelace Jr., Robert Towey and Rich Mendez on September 17, 2021, Joe Biden does not have any “science” to rely on to back up or support any of his policies, to wit:
Dr. Hayley Gans, a voting member, said she was “struck” that the FDA was asking the committee to look at the totality of the evidence presented Friday because some data, including on safety, was still insufficient.
end quotes
But hey, people, this is not true “science,” at all.
To the contrary this is POLITICS, using the empty word “science” to justify a pre-determined political course of action, in this case, a decision by Joe Biden to mandate vaccines based on insufficient data.
Don’t look too hard and it is amazing what it is that you won’t see!
As to science that makes it look like both WHO and the political CDC in this country were asleep at the switch and far behind the eight-ball with respect to Joe Biden’s policies today that he says are what the voo-doo science he practices tells him to do, I will leave you with the following:
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY COLLECTION
ACS Nano. 2020 Nov 25 : acsnano.0c08484.
Published online 2020 Nov 25. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.0c08484
PMCID: PMC7724984
PMID: 33236896
Airborne Transmission of COVID-19: Aerosol Dispersion, Lung Deposition, and Virus-Receptor Interactions
Yi Y. Zuo, corresponding author, William E. Uspal, corresponding author and Tao Wei corresponding author
Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), due to infection by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is now causing a global pandemic.
Aerosol transmission of COVID-19, although plausible, has not been confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a general transmission route.
Introduction
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), due to infection of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is currently causing a global pandemic, with more than 53 million confirmed cases and 1 million deaths, as of November 15, 2020, in more than 200 countries, areas, and territories in the world.
Given the current world population of 7.8 billion, approximately 1 out of every 150 humans on earth has or had been infected with COVID-19.
To date, the confirmed modes of SARS-CoV-2 transmission include respiratory droplets, direct (person-to-person) and indirect (fomite) contacts, as well as scarce reports of fecal–oral transmission.
However, the latest research suggests that fomite transmission is unlikely to be a major route of transmission as attempts to culture SARS-CoV-2 from surfaces were largely unsuccessful.
On the other hand, airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2, although plausible, has not been confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a general transmission route.
However, on October 5, 2020, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated their guideline and acknowledged that airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 could occur under special circumstances that include enclosed spaces, inadequate ventilation, and prolonged exposure to events involving heavy breathing, such as singing and exercising.
Given the rapid spread of the coronavirus, especially nosocomial outbreaks and other superspreading events, there is an urgent need to carefully access the possibility of airborne transmission, especially the colloidal and aerodynamic mechanisms of aerosol dispersion and deposition, and the molecular interactions between SARS-CoV-2 and receptors.
An open letter by 239 researchers from 32 countries, published on July 6, 2020, challenged the WHO’s view on aerosol transmission.
Depending on the environmental conditions, virus particles (i.e., virions) may bind to aerosols and thus travel over a significantly longer distance (>2 m) and remain floating in air for a much longer time period (up to hours) than respiratory droplets.
It is now known that air pollution is an associated risk factor of COVID-19.
An increase of 1 μg/m3 in PM2.5 is associated with an 8% increase in the COVID-19 death rate.
In addition, it was found that outside the optimal relative humidity (RH) range of 40–60%, the viability of influenza virus in droplets increased both at higher (>60%) and lower (<40%) RH.
It appears that virus transmission in this outbreak cannot be explained by droplet transmission alone and consequently might involve aerosol transmission.
In fact, although available evidence remains scarce, SARS-CoV-2 has been detected in hospital air.
A recent study suggested that in every hour COVID-19 patients can exhale millions of SARS-CoV-2 RNA copies into air.
Given a study demonstrating that SARS-CoV-2 remained viable in aerosols for at least 3 h with only limited reduction in infectious titer, there is an urgent need to understand the likelihood of SARS-CoV-2 transmission via aerosols.
A similar humidity dependence has been found for the transmission of SARS-CoV-2.
E-cigarette aerosols have also been identified as suspicious anthropogenic aerosols potentially capable of spreading SARS-CoV-2.
Infectious aerosols can also be generated by medical procedures, such as intubation, and even by flushing a toilet containing infectious material.
Indeed, CDC guidelines, including the familiar six-foot rule, are still based on the 1930s-era concept of an isolated respiratory droplet settling under gravity, despite the wealth of contemporary literature reviewed above.
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Paul Plante says:
Which takes us to Remarks by President Biden on the Economy on September 16, 2021, East Room, 2:00 P.M. EDT, as follows:
THE PRESIDENT: These policies are what the science tells us we need to do.
They’re going to save lives.
And they’ll protect our economic recovery as well, and allow the economy to continue to grow.
We’re also going after the bad actors and pandemic profiteers in our economy.
There’s a lot of evidence that gas prices should be going down, but they haven’t.
We’ll be taking a close look at that.
Taxpayers in this country also have paid for extraordinary effort to keep our country going over the past year or so.
Unlike the last administration, which resisted oversight and allowed taxpayers to be victimized by fraud, we’re working hard to protect vulnerable Americans from having their identities stolen — as a consequence of their unemployment check stolen as well.
But here’s the truth: Yes, the pandemic has caused a lot of economic problems in the country, but the fact is our economy faced challenges long before this pandemic struck.
Working people were struggling to make it long before the pandemic arrived.
Big corporations and the very wealthy were doing very well before the pandemic.
That’s why I’ve said — starting back in my campaign for president — that it’s not enough just to build back; we have to build back better than before.
And that’s how it all begins.
end quotes
And see what you can make the science say if you are the president of the United State of America?
You, like another self-proclaimed “world leader” back when who was a rug-chewing, froth-at-the-out madman, can use “science” to justify every single thing you do, like removing segments of society from life on the earth because the science says it is not only alright, but the right thing to do, which is obscene.
Reminds me too much of Dr. Mengele, who also used science as a basis for political policy.
And IF science is not what Joe Biden says it is, but instead is truly the intellectual and practical ACTIVITY encompassing the SYSTEMATIC STUDY of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment, then as we clearly see from a CNBC article entitled “FDA panel recommends Pfizer’s Covid booster doses for people 65 and older after rejecting third shots for general population” by Berkeley Lovelace Jr., Robert Towey and Rich Mendez on September 17, 2021, Joe Biden does not have any “science” to rely on to back up or support any of his policies, to wit:
Dr. Hayley Gans, a voting member, said she was “struck” that the FDA was asking the committee to look at the totality of the evidence presented Friday because some data, including on safety, was still insufficient.
end quotes
But hey, people, this is not true “science,” at all.
To the contrary this is POLITICS, using the empty word “science” to justify a pre-determined political course of action, in this case, a decision by Joe Biden to mandate vaccines based on insufficient data.
Don’t look too hard and it is amazing what it is that you won’t see!
As to science that makes it look like both WHO and the political CDC in this country were asleep at the switch and far behind the eight-ball with respect to Joe Biden’s policies today that he says are what the voo-doo science he practices tells him to do, I will leave you with the following:
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY COLLECTION
ACS Nano. 2020 Nov 25 : acsnano.0c08484.
Published online 2020 Nov 25. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.0c08484
PMCID: PMC7724984
PMID: 33236896
Airborne Transmission of COVID-19: Aerosol Dispersion, Lung Deposition, and Virus-Receptor Interactions
Yi Y. Zuo, corresponding author, William E. Uspal, corresponding author and Tao Wei corresponding author
Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), due to infection by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is now causing a global pandemic.
Aerosol transmission of COVID-19, although plausible, has not been confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a general transmission route.
Introduction
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), due to infection of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is currently causing a global pandemic, with more than 53 million confirmed cases and 1 million deaths, as of November 15, 2020, in more than 200 countries, areas, and territories in the world.
Given the current world population of 7.8 billion, approximately 1 out of every 150 humans on earth has or had been infected with COVID-19.
To date, the confirmed modes of SARS-CoV-2 transmission include respiratory droplets, direct (person-to-person) and indirect (fomite) contacts, as well as scarce reports of fecal–oral transmission.
However, the latest research suggests that fomite transmission is unlikely to be a major route of transmission as attempts to culture SARS-CoV-2 from surfaces were largely unsuccessful.
On the other hand, airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2, although plausible, has not been confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a general transmission route.
However, on October 5, 2020, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated their guideline and acknowledged that airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 could occur under special circumstances that include enclosed spaces, inadequate ventilation, and prolonged exposure to events involving heavy breathing, such as singing and exercising.
Given the rapid spread of the coronavirus, especially nosocomial outbreaks and other superspreading events, there is an urgent need to carefully access the possibility of airborne transmission, especially the colloidal and aerodynamic mechanisms of aerosol dispersion and deposition, and the molecular interactions between SARS-CoV-2 and receptors.
An open letter by 239 researchers from 32 countries, published on July 6, 2020, challenged the WHO’s view on aerosol transmission.
Depending on the environmental conditions, virus particles (i.e., virions) may bind to aerosols and thus travel over a significantly longer distance (>2 m) and remain floating in air for a much longer time period (up to hours) than respiratory droplets.
It is now known that air pollution is an associated risk factor of COVID-19.
An increase of 1 μg/m3 in PM2.5 is associated with an 8% increase in the COVID-19 death rate.
In addition, it was found that outside the optimal relative humidity (RH) range of 40–60%, the viability of influenza virus in droplets increased both at higher (>60%) and lower (<40%) RH.
It appears that virus transmission in this outbreak cannot be explained by droplet transmission alone and consequently might involve aerosol transmission.
In fact, although available evidence remains scarce, SARS-CoV-2 has been detected in hospital air.
A recent study suggested that in every hour COVID-19 patients can exhale millions of SARS-CoV-2 RNA copies into air.
Given a study demonstrating that SARS-CoV-2 remained viable in aerosols for at least 3 h with only limited reduction in infectious titer, there is an urgent need to understand the likelihood of SARS-CoV-2 transmission via aerosols.
A similar humidity dependence has been found for the transmission of SARS-CoV-2.
E-cigarette aerosols have also been identified as suspicious anthropogenic aerosols potentially capable of spreading SARS-CoV-2.
Infectious aerosols can also be generated by medical procedures, such as intubation, and even by flushing a toilet containing infectious material.
Indeed, CDC guidelines, including the familiar six-foot rule, are still based on the 1930s-era concept of an isolated respiratory droplet settling under gravity, despite the wealth of contemporary literature reviewed above.
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Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR SEPTEMBER 21, 2021 AT 5:39 PM
Paul Plante says:
And while we are on the subject of all the wonderful and awesome powers the “science” gives to Joe Biden as president of the United States of America, let’s go back to to Remarks by President Biden on the Economy on September 16, 2021, East Room, 2:00 P.M. EDT, where we have more, as follows:
THE PRESIDENT: These policies are what the science tells us we need to do.
But here’s the truth: Yes, the pandemic has caused a lot of economic problems in the country, but the fact is our economy faced challenges long before this pandemic struck.
Working people were struggling to make it long before the pandemic arrived.
Big corporations and the very wealthy were doing very well before the pandemic.
That’s why I’ve said — starting back in my campaign for president — that it’s not enough just to build back; we have to build back better than before.
And that’s how it all begins.
Big corporations and the super wealthy have to start paying their fair share of taxes.
It’s long overdue.
I’m not out to punish anyone.
I’m a capitalist.
If you can make a million or a billion dollars, that’s great.
God bless you.
All I’m asking is you pay your fair share.
Pay your fair share just like middle-class folks do.
But that isn’t happening now.
Today, in this country, right now, the top 1 percent, for example, evade an estimated $160 billion in taxes that they owe each year.
Not new taxes, taxes that they owe.
And the way it works is this: If you’re a typical American — like I suspect most of the press people sitting in front of me here — you pay your taxes.
Why?
Because you get a W-2 form.
It comes in the mail every year.
The IRS gets that information as well.
Your taxes get deducted from your paycheck, and you pay what is owed beyond that.
That’s why about 99 percent of working people pay the taxes they owe.
But that’s not how it works for people with tens of millions of dollars.
They play by a different set of rules.
And they’re often not employees themselves, so the IRS can’t see what they make and can’t tell if they’re cheating.
That’s how many of the top 1 percent get away with paying virtually nothing.
It’s estimated by serious economists that that number is about $160 billion collectively owed each year that doesn’t get paid.
It’s not an even playing field.
My plan would help solve that.
For example, it would give the IRS the resources it needs to keep up with the lawyers and accountants in the super — of the super-wealthy.
It would ask just for two pieces of information from the banks of these folks: that amounts — the amounts that come into their bank accounts and what amounts go out of their bank accounts, so that the wealthy can no longer hide what they’re making and they can finally begin to pay their fair share of what they owe.
end quotes
Ah, yes, a fishing expedition through the bank records of anybody in the United States of America whose wealth Joe Biden wants to nationalize, because it’s the right thing to do, and we all know that because it is what the science says, and when the science says something to Joe Biden, it is never wrong, so he is always right!
Isn’t science just wonderful?
Joe thinks so, anyway.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/w ... ent-428168
Paul Plante says:
And while we are on the subject of all the wonderful and awesome powers the “science” gives to Joe Biden as president of the United States of America, let’s go back to to Remarks by President Biden on the Economy on September 16, 2021, East Room, 2:00 P.M. EDT, where we have more, as follows:
THE PRESIDENT: These policies are what the science tells us we need to do.
But here’s the truth: Yes, the pandemic has caused a lot of economic problems in the country, but the fact is our economy faced challenges long before this pandemic struck.
Working people were struggling to make it long before the pandemic arrived.
Big corporations and the very wealthy were doing very well before the pandemic.
That’s why I’ve said — starting back in my campaign for president — that it’s not enough just to build back; we have to build back better than before.
And that’s how it all begins.
Big corporations and the super wealthy have to start paying their fair share of taxes.
It’s long overdue.
I’m not out to punish anyone.
I’m a capitalist.
If you can make a million or a billion dollars, that’s great.
God bless you.
All I’m asking is you pay your fair share.
Pay your fair share just like middle-class folks do.
But that isn’t happening now.
Today, in this country, right now, the top 1 percent, for example, evade an estimated $160 billion in taxes that they owe each year.
Not new taxes, taxes that they owe.
And the way it works is this: If you’re a typical American — like I suspect most of the press people sitting in front of me here — you pay your taxes.
Why?
Because you get a W-2 form.
It comes in the mail every year.
The IRS gets that information as well.
Your taxes get deducted from your paycheck, and you pay what is owed beyond that.
That’s why about 99 percent of working people pay the taxes they owe.
But that’s not how it works for people with tens of millions of dollars.
They play by a different set of rules.
And they’re often not employees themselves, so the IRS can’t see what they make and can’t tell if they’re cheating.
That’s how many of the top 1 percent get away with paying virtually nothing.
It’s estimated by serious economists that that number is about $160 billion collectively owed each year that doesn’t get paid.
It’s not an even playing field.
My plan would help solve that.
For example, it would give the IRS the resources it needs to keep up with the lawyers and accountants in the super — of the super-wealthy.
It would ask just for two pieces of information from the banks of these folks: that amounts — the amounts that come into their bank accounts and what amounts go out of their bank accounts, so that the wealthy can no longer hide what they’re making and they can finally begin to pay their fair share of what they owe.
end quotes
Ah, yes, a fishing expedition through the bank records of anybody in the United States of America whose wealth Joe Biden wants to nationalize, because it’s the right thing to do, and we all know that because it is what the science says, and when the science says something to Joe Biden, it is never wrong, so he is always right!
Isn’t science just wonderful?
Joe thinks so, anyway.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/w ... ent-428168
Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR SEPTEMBER 21, 2021 AT 8:27 PM
Paul Plante says:
And staying with the timeline here, because timelines are important to our understanding of Joe Biden’s dangerous COVID lies and distortions, let’s go back to the following, to wit:
THE WHITE HOUSE
Remarks by President Biden on Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic
SEPTEMBER 09, 2021
5:02 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: So before I outline the new steps to fight COVID-19 that I’m going to be announcing tonight, let me give you some clear information about where we stand.
First, we have cons- — we have made considerable progress in battling COVID-19.
The week before I took office, on January 20th of this year, over 25,000 Americans died that week from COVID-19.
Last week, that grim weekly toll was down 70 percent.
end quotes
According to the statistics, on 3 January 2021, the day Nancy Pelosi guaranteed to her fellow Democrats that when the sealed boxes containing the results of the electoral college were all opened three days later on 6 January 2021, Joe Biden would be the president, the total number of deaths in the U.S. on that date was 371,921.
Three (3) days later, on 6 January 2021, when the violence incited by Joe Biden in his toxic and poisonous political partisan Pittsburgh Speech on August 31, 2020 calling for the overthrow of Donald Trump as president was taking place in Washington. D.C. at the Capitol, the number of deaths had risen to 381,901.
On 20 January 2021, the day the peaceful transfer of power from the Trump administration to the Biden administration took place pursuant to OUR Constitution, the number of COVID deaths had increased to 429,080.
On September 9, 2021, the date of Joe’s speech above, the COVID death toll stood at 677,925.
On 3 January 2021, the number of daily deaths that day was 1,523.
January 4, 2021, the count was 2,005.
January 5, 2021, the count was 3863.
On January 6, 2021, the daily death count was 4112.
In the week before the peaceful transfer of power on 20 January 2021, the daily death count according to the COVID tracking project at The Atlantic was as follows:
13 January 2021: 4087
14 January 2021: 3915
15 January 2021: 3679
16 January 2021: 3709
17 January 2021: 2053
18 January 2021: 1395
19 January 2021: 2141
Which equals out to 20,979, not over 25,000.
On 9 September 2021, the date of Joe Biden’s above speech, the daily death count was 2261.
In the week before, it was as follows:
2 September 2021: 2021
3 September 2021: 1876
4 September 2021: 1361
5 September 2021: 1027
6 September 2021: 850
7 September 2021: 1204
8 September 2021: 1987
Which equals out to 10,326.
However, on 9 September 2021, this is what Joe told us: Last week, that grim weekly toll was down 70 percent.
If it was down seventy percent of the total for the week before 20 January 2021, that would be would be 14,685 deaths lower, for a total of 6,294, not the actual 10,326.
So is Joe blowing some smoke there, people?
And of course he is, because he is Joe Biden, and that is what Joe Biden does – blows torrents of smoke!
And let’s look at the week after Joe’s 9 September 2021 speech to see what it is we see:
10 September 2021: 1991
11 September 2021 1460
12 September 2021: 867
13 September 2021: 1014
14 September 2021: 2113
15 September 2021: 2417
16 September 2021: 2065
Which equals out to 11,927, 1601 deaths higher than the 10,326 deaths in the week before!
So what’s up with that, people?
I thought Joe had this whole thing under control!
And from 13 June 2021 to about 18 July 2021 there was a definite trough where the daily deaths were down around 300 per day, so this excuse that this is a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” doesn’t cut it, at all.
But again, this is Joe Biden we are talking about, so should anybody be surprised that he has his own set of numbers to tell us to make himself look good?
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Paul Plante says:
And staying with the timeline here, because timelines are important to our understanding of Joe Biden’s dangerous COVID lies and distortions, let’s go back to the following, to wit:
THE WHITE HOUSE
Remarks by President Biden on Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic
SEPTEMBER 09, 2021
5:02 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: So before I outline the new steps to fight COVID-19 that I’m going to be announcing tonight, let me give you some clear information about where we stand.
First, we have cons- — we have made considerable progress in battling COVID-19.
The week before I took office, on January 20th of this year, over 25,000 Americans died that week from COVID-19.
Last week, that grim weekly toll was down 70 percent.
end quotes
According to the statistics, on 3 January 2021, the day Nancy Pelosi guaranteed to her fellow Democrats that when the sealed boxes containing the results of the electoral college were all opened three days later on 6 January 2021, Joe Biden would be the president, the total number of deaths in the U.S. on that date was 371,921.
Three (3) days later, on 6 January 2021, when the violence incited by Joe Biden in his toxic and poisonous political partisan Pittsburgh Speech on August 31, 2020 calling for the overthrow of Donald Trump as president was taking place in Washington. D.C. at the Capitol, the number of deaths had risen to 381,901.
On 20 January 2021, the day the peaceful transfer of power from the Trump administration to the Biden administration took place pursuant to OUR Constitution, the number of COVID deaths had increased to 429,080.
On September 9, 2021, the date of Joe’s speech above, the COVID death toll stood at 677,925.
On 3 January 2021, the number of daily deaths that day was 1,523.
January 4, 2021, the count was 2,005.
January 5, 2021, the count was 3863.
On January 6, 2021, the daily death count was 4112.
In the week before the peaceful transfer of power on 20 January 2021, the daily death count according to the COVID tracking project at The Atlantic was as follows:
13 January 2021: 4087
14 January 2021: 3915
15 January 2021: 3679
16 January 2021: 3709
17 January 2021: 2053
18 January 2021: 1395
19 January 2021: 2141
Which equals out to 20,979, not over 25,000.
On 9 September 2021, the date of Joe Biden’s above speech, the daily death count was 2261.
In the week before, it was as follows:
2 September 2021: 2021
3 September 2021: 1876
4 September 2021: 1361
5 September 2021: 1027
6 September 2021: 850
7 September 2021: 1204
8 September 2021: 1987
Which equals out to 10,326.
However, on 9 September 2021, this is what Joe told us: Last week, that grim weekly toll was down 70 percent.
If it was down seventy percent of the total for the week before 20 January 2021, that would be would be 14,685 deaths lower, for a total of 6,294, not the actual 10,326.
So is Joe blowing some smoke there, people?
And of course he is, because he is Joe Biden, and that is what Joe Biden does – blows torrents of smoke!
And let’s look at the week after Joe’s 9 September 2021 speech to see what it is we see:
10 September 2021: 1991
11 September 2021 1460
12 September 2021: 867
13 September 2021: 1014
14 September 2021: 2113
15 September 2021: 2417
16 September 2021: 2065
Which equals out to 11,927, 1601 deaths higher than the 10,326 deaths in the week before!
So what’s up with that, people?
I thought Joe had this whole thing under control!
And from 13 June 2021 to about 18 July 2021 there was a definite trough where the daily deaths were down around 300 per day, so this excuse that this is a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” doesn’t cut it, at all.
But again, this is Joe Biden we are talking about, so should anybody be surprised that he has his own set of numbers to tell us to make himself look good?
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Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR SEPTEMBER 23, 2021 AT 5:49 PM
Paul Plante says:
July 27, 2021
January 6 House Select Committee Hearing Investigation Day 1 Full Transcript
Chairman Thompson: Gentleman yields back.
Chair recognizes gentlemen from California, Mr. Aguilar.
Mr. Aguilar: Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee.
Gentlemen, like my colleagues, I want to extend my gratitude and appreciation for your service on January 6th, and since then, what you’ve had to go through.
I was on the house floor, like my colleagues, on the 6th, when I was told that a violent mob had breached the Capitol.
And it’s because of your service, it’s because of you and your colleagues, that we’re here today, because you were literally the last line of physical defense, laying your life on the line for democracy.
* * * * *
Mr. Aguilar: Officer Hodges, you characterize the attack on the capital as a White nationalist insurrection.
Can you describe what you saw that led you to label the attack that way?
Officer Hodges: The crowd was overwhelmingly White males, usually a little bit older, middle-aged older, but some younger.
I think out of entire time I was there, I saw just two women and two Asian males, everyone else was White males.
There are many known organizations with ties to White supremacy who had a presence there, three percenters [inaudible], that kind of thing.
And people who associate with Donald Trump I find more likely to subscribe to that belief system.
Mr. Aguilar: I want to thank the four of you for taking the very difficult step of sharing your stories and your recollections of the threats and violence that you endured.
No one should have to experience what you went through.
And this committee will continue its work to give a complete accounting of what happened to protect for their officers and to amplify the stories that you’ve shared today.
Thank you so much for being here.
Yield back, Mr. Chairman.
end quotes
Are nationalism and patriotism the same?
There is a considerable difference between nationalism and patriotism.
While nationalism emphasizes a unity of cultural past with inclusion of the language and heritage, patriotism is based on love towards people with a greater emphasis on values and beliefs.
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Paul Plante says:
July 27, 2021
January 6 House Select Committee Hearing Investigation Day 1 Full Transcript
Chairman Thompson: Gentleman yields back.
Chair recognizes gentlemen from California, Mr. Aguilar.
Mr. Aguilar: Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee.
Gentlemen, like my colleagues, I want to extend my gratitude and appreciation for your service on January 6th, and since then, what you’ve had to go through.
I was on the house floor, like my colleagues, on the 6th, when I was told that a violent mob had breached the Capitol.
And it’s because of your service, it’s because of you and your colleagues, that we’re here today, because you were literally the last line of physical defense, laying your life on the line for democracy.
* * * * *
Mr. Aguilar: Officer Hodges, you characterize the attack on the capital as a White nationalist insurrection.
Can you describe what you saw that led you to label the attack that way?
Officer Hodges: The crowd was overwhelmingly White males, usually a little bit older, middle-aged older, but some younger.
I think out of entire time I was there, I saw just two women and two Asian males, everyone else was White males.
There are many known organizations with ties to White supremacy who had a presence there, three percenters [inaudible], that kind of thing.
And people who associate with Donald Trump I find more likely to subscribe to that belief system.
Mr. Aguilar: I want to thank the four of you for taking the very difficult step of sharing your stories and your recollections of the threats and violence that you endured.
No one should have to experience what you went through.
And this committee will continue its work to give a complete accounting of what happened to protect for their officers and to amplify the stories that you’ve shared today.
Thank you so much for being here.
Yield back, Mr. Chairman.
end quotes
Are nationalism and patriotism the same?
There is a considerable difference between nationalism and patriotism.
While nationalism emphasizes a unity of cultural past with inclusion of the language and heritage, patriotism is based on love towards people with a greater emphasis on values and beliefs.
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Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR SEPTEMBER 23, 2021 AT 5:26 PM
Paul Plante says:
And here we need to come forward to present times with the following from the speech Joe Biden made at the U.N. on 21 September 2021, to wit:
Remarks by President Biden Before the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
United Nations Headquarters
New York, New York
10:01 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. President, Mr. Secretary-General, my fellow delegates, to all those who dedicate themselves to this noble mission of this institution: It’s my honor to speak to you for the first time as President of the United States.
We meet this year in a moment of — intermingled with great pain and extraordinary possibility.
We’ve lost so much to this devastating — this devastating pandemic that continues to claim lives around the world and impact so much on our existence.
end quotes
And now, people, we need to be frank and candid with each other here – Joe Biden needs this PANDEMIC the same way Adolph Hitler needed the Reichstag Fire, because this PANDEMIC is the source of the literal dictatorial powers Joe Biden has assumed since the peaceful transfer of power took place on 20 January 2021 in Washington, D.C. when Donald Trump peacefully transferred the reins of executive power in America to a TYRANNICAL DESPOT and AUTOCRAT who is now ruling through fear, intimidation, threats and executive orders that continue to amplify his dictatorial powers over our lives.
It's a war, people, against the PANDEMIC, and in a war, it only stands to reason that Constitutional protections have to be suspended for the good of the nation, until Joe Biden should see fit to relinquish those dictatorial powers the PANDEMIC gave him, because the “science” told him it was the right thing to do, which takes us back to Joe at the U.N., as follows:
We’re mourning more than 4.5 million people — people of every nation from every background.
Each death is an individual heartbreak.
end quotes
And if we collectively stop to think about it, without this PANDEMIC, Joe Biden really would not have had anything to say at the U.N., other than having to explain to the world why he made the U.S. a laughing stock, a world-class bungler, with his incompetent rapid exit from Afghanistan while arming the Tenth-Century Taliban with 21st century weaponry, and why he screwed over France with the submarine deal of his, so for Joe, keeping this PANDEMIC alive for partisan political purposes is of great importance to him, which again takes us back for more Joe at the U.N., as follows
But our shared grief is a poignant reminder that our collective future will hinge on our ability to recognize our common humanity and to act together.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the clear and urgent choice that we face here at the dawning of what must be a decisive decade for our world — a decade that will quite literally determine our futures.
As a global community, we’re challenged by urgent and looming crises wherein lie enormous opportunities if — if — we can summon the will and resolve to seize these opportunities.
Will we work together to save lives, defeat COVID-19 everywhere, and take the necessary steps to prepare ourselves for the next pandemic?
For there will be another one.
Or will we fail to harness the tools at our disposal as the more virulent and dangerous variants take hold?
end quotes
And WHOA, MULE, stop the tape right there: Will we work together and take the necessary steps to prepare ourselves for the next pandemic for there will be another one?
HUH?
The next PANDEMIC?
What is it that Joe Biden knows here, that we do not?
Sounds like Joe is really planning ahead here in how to maintain his status as the DICTATOR OF AMERICA with another PANDEMIC in the pipeline even as Joe is making a SUPER HUMAN effort to defeat this one!
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/o ... ent-429477
Paul Plante says:
And here we need to come forward to present times with the following from the speech Joe Biden made at the U.N. on 21 September 2021, to wit:
Remarks by President Biden Before the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
United Nations Headquarters
New York, New York
10:01 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. President, Mr. Secretary-General, my fellow delegates, to all those who dedicate themselves to this noble mission of this institution: It’s my honor to speak to you for the first time as President of the United States.
We meet this year in a moment of — intermingled with great pain and extraordinary possibility.
We’ve lost so much to this devastating — this devastating pandemic that continues to claim lives around the world and impact so much on our existence.
end quotes
And now, people, we need to be frank and candid with each other here – Joe Biden needs this PANDEMIC the same way Adolph Hitler needed the Reichstag Fire, because this PANDEMIC is the source of the literal dictatorial powers Joe Biden has assumed since the peaceful transfer of power took place on 20 January 2021 in Washington, D.C. when Donald Trump peacefully transferred the reins of executive power in America to a TYRANNICAL DESPOT and AUTOCRAT who is now ruling through fear, intimidation, threats and executive orders that continue to amplify his dictatorial powers over our lives.
It's a war, people, against the PANDEMIC, and in a war, it only stands to reason that Constitutional protections have to be suspended for the good of the nation, until Joe Biden should see fit to relinquish those dictatorial powers the PANDEMIC gave him, because the “science” told him it was the right thing to do, which takes us back to Joe at the U.N., as follows:
We’re mourning more than 4.5 million people — people of every nation from every background.
Each death is an individual heartbreak.
end quotes
And if we collectively stop to think about it, without this PANDEMIC, Joe Biden really would not have had anything to say at the U.N., other than having to explain to the world why he made the U.S. a laughing stock, a world-class bungler, with his incompetent rapid exit from Afghanistan while arming the Tenth-Century Taliban with 21st century weaponry, and why he screwed over France with the submarine deal of his, so for Joe, keeping this PANDEMIC alive for partisan political purposes is of great importance to him, which again takes us back for more Joe at the U.N., as follows
But our shared grief is a poignant reminder that our collective future will hinge on our ability to recognize our common humanity and to act together.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the clear and urgent choice that we face here at the dawning of what must be a decisive decade for our world — a decade that will quite literally determine our futures.
As a global community, we’re challenged by urgent and looming crises wherein lie enormous opportunities if — if — we can summon the will and resolve to seize these opportunities.
Will we work together to save lives, defeat COVID-19 everywhere, and take the necessary steps to prepare ourselves for the next pandemic?
For there will be another one.
Or will we fail to harness the tools at our disposal as the more virulent and dangerous variants take hold?
end quotes
And WHOA, MULE, stop the tape right there: Will we work together and take the necessary steps to prepare ourselves for the next pandemic for there will be another one?
HUH?
The next PANDEMIC?
What is it that Joe Biden knows here, that we do not?
Sounds like Joe is really planning ahead here in how to maintain his status as the DICTATOR OF AMERICA with another PANDEMIC in the pipeline even as Joe is making a SUPER HUMAN effort to defeat this one!
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/o ... ent-429477
Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 AT 8:26 PM
Paul Plante says:
And from there we need to come forward in time again to 24 September 2021 and the “Remarks by President Biden on the COVID-19 Response and the Vaccination Program,” where we have this seriously sick pup in the White House ranting as follows and sounding like a real dangerous despot as he does so, to wit:
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everyone.
But this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
And it’s caused by the fact that, despite Americans having an unprecedented and successful vaccination program, despite the fact that for almost five months, free vaccines have been available in 80,000 locations, we still have — we still have over 70 million Americans who have failed to get a single shot.
And to make matters worse, there are elected officials actively working to undermine with false information the fight against COVID-19.
This is totally unacceptable.
The vast majority of Americans are doing the right thing.
And in a country as large as ours, that’s — 25 percent minority can cause an awful lot of damage.
And they are causing a lot of damage.
The unvaccinated overcrowd our hospitals, overrunning emergency rooms and intensive care units, leaving no room for someone with a heart attack or a cancer operation needed to get the lifesaving care because the places where they would get that care are crowded; they are not available.
The unvaccinated also put our economic at — recovery at risk, causing unease in the economy around the — and causing unease around the kitchen table.
I can imagine what’s going on in the conversations this morning, and a lot of parents wondering what’s going to happen.
“What’s going to happen?”
Those who have been vaccinated — “what’s going to happen?”
Potentially slowing economic growth, costing jobs.
Their refusal has cost all of us.
The refusal to get vaccinated has cost all of us.
And I understand there’s a lot of misinformation you’ve been fed out there, but try to look through — get to people you trust, the people who have been vaccinated.
Ask them.
Ask them.
So, get vaccinated.
But just don’t take it from me.
Listen to the voices of the unvaccinated Americans who are lying in hospital beds, taking their final breaths, saying — and, literally, we’ve seen this on television — “If only I had gotten vaccinated.”
“If only.”
“If only.”
They’re leaving behind husbands and wives and small children — people who adore them.
People are dying and will die who don’t have to die.
end quotes
Listen to the voices of the unvaccinated Americans who are lying in hospital beds, taking their final breaths, saying — and, literally, we’ve seen this on television — “If only I had gotten vaccinated.”
HUH?
Where the hell is that taking place, putting people who are taking their last breath on television as a scare tactic to help Joe Biden push this **** on behalf of BIG PHARM whose SHILL Joe Biden is?
That right there is some real sick **** Joe Biden is pulling, putting dying people on television to scare people into doing what he says.
What kind of a sick twist uses dying people on television as props to push his partisan political agenda?
And people are dying and will die who don’t have to die?
They don’t have to die?
How come?
Because Joe Biden says so?
As to people dying who didn’t have to die, I’m thinking of that little two-year old girl in Kabul, Afghanistan who Joe blew into hamburger along with her family just recently with his revenge drone strike.
They didn’t have to die, but notwithstanding, Joe Biden killed them, anyway, to show all the world, the galaxy, and the universe just how tough a mother****** Joe Biden really is.
But people do die, and people have been dying now for millennia because dying is a natural part of life, and accordingly, that is what people do.
So is Joe Biden now trying to tell us that he has the power to make us live forever if we would only believe in him with all our hearts and minds and do exactly what he says when he says it?
Talk about a hack politician spewing misinformation, alright, there it is in spades!
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/o ... ent-430539
Paul Plante says:
And from there we need to come forward in time again to 24 September 2021 and the “Remarks by President Biden on the COVID-19 Response and the Vaccination Program,” where we have this seriously sick pup in the White House ranting as follows and sounding like a real dangerous despot as he does so, to wit:
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everyone.
But this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
And it’s caused by the fact that, despite Americans having an unprecedented and successful vaccination program, despite the fact that for almost five months, free vaccines have been available in 80,000 locations, we still have — we still have over 70 million Americans who have failed to get a single shot.
And to make matters worse, there are elected officials actively working to undermine with false information the fight against COVID-19.
This is totally unacceptable.
The vast majority of Americans are doing the right thing.
And in a country as large as ours, that’s — 25 percent minority can cause an awful lot of damage.
And they are causing a lot of damage.
The unvaccinated overcrowd our hospitals, overrunning emergency rooms and intensive care units, leaving no room for someone with a heart attack or a cancer operation needed to get the lifesaving care because the places where they would get that care are crowded; they are not available.
The unvaccinated also put our economic at — recovery at risk, causing unease in the economy around the — and causing unease around the kitchen table.
I can imagine what’s going on in the conversations this morning, and a lot of parents wondering what’s going to happen.
“What’s going to happen?”
Those who have been vaccinated — “what’s going to happen?”
Potentially slowing economic growth, costing jobs.
Their refusal has cost all of us.
The refusal to get vaccinated has cost all of us.
And I understand there’s a lot of misinformation you’ve been fed out there, but try to look through — get to people you trust, the people who have been vaccinated.
Ask them.
Ask them.
So, get vaccinated.
But just don’t take it from me.
Listen to the voices of the unvaccinated Americans who are lying in hospital beds, taking their final breaths, saying — and, literally, we’ve seen this on television — “If only I had gotten vaccinated.”
“If only.”
“If only.”
They’re leaving behind husbands and wives and small children — people who adore them.
People are dying and will die who don’t have to die.
end quotes
Listen to the voices of the unvaccinated Americans who are lying in hospital beds, taking their final breaths, saying — and, literally, we’ve seen this on television — “If only I had gotten vaccinated.”
HUH?
Where the hell is that taking place, putting people who are taking their last breath on television as a scare tactic to help Joe Biden push this **** on behalf of BIG PHARM whose SHILL Joe Biden is?
That right there is some real sick **** Joe Biden is pulling, putting dying people on television to scare people into doing what he says.
What kind of a sick twist uses dying people on television as props to push his partisan political agenda?
And people are dying and will die who don’t have to die?
They don’t have to die?
How come?
Because Joe Biden says so?
As to people dying who didn’t have to die, I’m thinking of that little two-year old girl in Kabul, Afghanistan who Joe blew into hamburger along with her family just recently with his revenge drone strike.
They didn’t have to die, but notwithstanding, Joe Biden killed them, anyway, to show all the world, the galaxy, and the universe just how tough a mother****** Joe Biden really is.
But people do die, and people have been dying now for millennia because dying is a natural part of life, and accordingly, that is what people do.
So is Joe Biden now trying to tell us that he has the power to make us live forever if we would only believe in him with all our hearts and minds and do exactly what he says when he says it?
Talk about a hack politician spewing misinformation, alright, there it is in spades!
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/o ... ent-430539