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</div><div><b>writing in Sunday's New York Times, global economics correspondent Patricia Cohen broke down how financial globalization proves that "almost everything we thought we knew about the world economy was wrong."</b></div><div>
</div><div>Cohen notes the stark contrast between "the world's business and political leaders'" optimistic outlook on the global economy during the 2018 "annual economic forum in Davos," to "now, as the second year of war in Ukraine grinds on and countries struggle with limp growth and persistent inflation, questions about the emerging economic playing field have taken center stage."</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The columist points to the "heady triumphalism that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991," adding, "Associated economic theories about the ineluctable rise of worldwide free market capitalism took on" a sense "of invincibility and inevitability," as "open markets, hands-off government and the relentless pursuit of efficiency would offer the best route to prosperity."</span></div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">During that time, Cohen continues, "There was reason for optimism," noting, "During the 1990s, inflation was low while employment, wages and productivity were up. Global trade nearly doubled. Investments in developing countries surged. The stock market rose."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">She then emphasizes, "It was believed that a new world where goods, money and information crisscrossed the globe would essentially sweep away the old order of Cold War conflicts and undemocratic regimes," but "there were stunning failures as well," as "globalization hastened climate change and deepened inequalities."</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Cohen acknowledges even though "the financial meltdown in 2008 came close to tanking the global financial system," it wasn't until the <b>Covid-19 pandemic,</b> that "<b>the rat-a-tat series of crises exposed with startling clarity vulnerabilities that demanded attention</b></span><b>."</b></div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Furthermore, she notes "the consulting firm EY concluded in its 2023 Geostrategic Outlook, the trends behind the shift away from ever-increasing globalization 'were accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic — and then they have been supercharged by the war in Ukraine.'"</span></div><div>
</div><div>Cohen adds:</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">She emphasizes, "as the dust has settled, it has suddenly seemed as if almost everything we thought we knew about the world economy was wrong, referencing a recent World Bank analysis, saying, "<b>Nearly all the economic forces that powered progress and prosperity over the last three decades are fading," adding, "The result could be a lost decade in the making — not just for some countries or regions as has occurred in the past — but for the whole world.</b></span><b>"</b></div><div>
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</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Top 10 US billionaires got $1 billion richer every day of pandemic</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Elon Musk, founder of Space Exploration Technologies Corp.- SpaceX, joins President Donald J. Trump at a launch briefing in preparation for the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon vehicle Wednesday, May 27, 2020, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jake Johnson and Common Dreams January 20, 2022</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 10 wealthiest billionaires in the U.S. have added roughly $1 billion to their collective fortune every day—or around $12,600 per second—since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed millions of people across the globe and thrown countless lives into chaos.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The billionaire wealth update comes courtesy of the progressive advocacy group Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF), which released an analysis Wednesday estimating that the combined net worth of the 10 richest people in the U.S. has more than doubled since March 2020, reaching $1.35 trillion this week.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The pandemic has been very good to American billionaires, especially the top 10," said ATF executive director Frank Clemente, who noted that billionaires' pandemic profits will likely not be taxed because they consist largely of unrealized capital gains.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sen. Ron Wyden's (D-Ore.) proposal to subject the unrealized capital gains of the mega-wealthy to taxation has gone nowhere in Congress.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Their obscene rise in wealth—all of it potentially untaxed—stands in stark contrast to the lot of America's working families, who've struggled through almost two years of a health crisis and economic uncertainty including most recently, rising prices," Clemente said. "Chairman Wyden's Billionaires Income Tax would better align the fortunes of America's richest of the rich with the needs of average Americans."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ATF's analysis is the latest in a series of new studies highlighting the extent to which the coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the decades-long trend of soaring wealth inequality in the U.S. and worldwide.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Earlier this week, as Common Dreams reported, Oxfam International released an analysis showing that the 10 richest men in the world have doubled their combined wealth since the pandemic began. Meanwhile, the anti-poverty group noted, "the incomes of 99% of humanity are worse off because of Covid-19."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Tuesday, a coalition of progressive organizations including the Fight Inequality Alliance and the Institute for Policy Studies estimated that a modest annual wealth tax on global millionaires and billionaires would raise $2.52 trillion dollars a year, enough money to lift 2.3 billion people out of poverty.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"For all our well-being—rich and poor alike—it's time to confront inequality and choose to tax the rich," reads the letter, which was addressed to political and economic elites. "If you don't, then all the private talks won’t change what's coming—it's taxes or pitchforks. Let's listen to history and choose wisely."</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/state/">https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/state/</a>GOP fail, 2 am</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">All of these findings, in conjunction with those of our own research, suggest that amid the current deep divide in U.S. politics, it's possible to forecast public health outcomes based on whether a state is led by a Republican or a Democrat. For large chunks of time in 2020, states led by Republicans overall had higher average case and death rates from COVID-19, in part due to their state governments adopting less stringent policies to quell the virus. It is important to note, however, that not all states fit perfectly into this pattern. For example, Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican, adopted relatively stricter measures and this likely led to</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/vermont-model-country-responding-coronavirus-pandemic/story?id=73057030" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">better health outcomes</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></div><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">America's polarized health care politics</font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The differences we discovered between red and blue states in our analysis did not surprise our team. After all, a partisan divide over health care in the U.S. existed before COVID-19. During President Bill Clinton's administration in the 1990s, there was a clear and growing partisan divide over health care reform. During President Barack Obama's administration, Democrats supported the <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2019.01444?casa_token=LyZhJhFUIMgAAAAA%3AwRNanEY1lsb1qQg_4-Thc6TEvYLom3ud5GkbmUGXG6RtYilakaS65vM7DNfRLHmYZ3b4JbL6015i" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Affordable Care Act</a> and <a href="https://read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/article-abstract/36/6/1021/13463/Red-State-Blue-State-Flu-State-Media-Self" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">the federal government's response to the H1N1 virus</a>, while nearly all Republicans opposed both measures.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We already know that partisan divisions over health care in the U.S. can worsen public health. For example, <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2019.01436?casa_token=FzafestjpRoAAAAA%3A9D_WTo5gythAS7jZkYHwwQ1sqtsLoJj8yhkJcnk6hLj9DhQJQ-SGcElo96bjS0R_pE23qSxTmHzJ" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">despite the evidence</a> that the ACA has had a positive effect on individual health care outcomes, <a href="https://read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/article/42/5/985/131420/How-the-ACA-Addressed-Health-Equity-and-What" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Republicans</a> have consistently fought against it. Republican-led states that chose not to adopt Medicaid expansion have not <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/pam.21961" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">experienced</a> all the positive <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102333" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">benefits</a> of the Affordable Care Act.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For example, states such as Texas, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi that <a href="https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/status-of-state-medicaid-expansion-decisions-interactive-map/" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">have not expanded Medicaid</a> have the <a href="https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/11/state-by-state-health-insurance-coverage-2018.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">largest relative percentage of uninsured residents</a> in the country. In some Republican-led states that did opt for Medicaid expansion, it was adopted with new restrictions. This has ultimately <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.2105%2FAJPH.2016.303192" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">led to worse outcomes</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These long-established partisan divisions have also influenced <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423920000463" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Americans' polarized views</a> of the government's proper role in addressing the pandemic. <a href="https://theconversation.com/poor-us-pandemic-response-will-reverberate-in-health-care-politics-for-years-health-scholars-warn-148963" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">This divide</a> grew so wide during 2020 that at some points it was as if <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-partisan-pandemic-do-we-now-live-in-alternative-realities-140290" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">people were living in alternate realities</a> based on their partisan leanings. 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</div><div>Kristi Noem promised transparency — but is among 5 governors defying records requests: report</div><div>Alex Henderson March 15, 2021</div><div>When Kristi Noem was campaigning for governor of South Dakota in 2018, the far-right Republican promised transparency — vowing to "throw open the doors" of government if she won. But Noem's office, according to Associated Press reporter Stephen Groves, has denied records requests when it comes to how much her security detail is costing taxpayers.</div><div>
</div><div>Groves explains, "Her state is among half a dozen where governors' offices routinely block access to executive records, keeping the public in the dark about decision making and possible influence peddling by special interests."</div><div>
</div><div>The 49-year-old Noem, a strong supporter of former President Donald Trump, is popular with the MAGA crowd and was a hit when she recently spoke at the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida. But as Groves points out, it is unknown exactly how much her travels and the security involved are costing taxpayers.</div><div>
</div><div>Jack Marsh, co-founder of the nonprofit South Dakota News Watch, told AP that South Dakota's open records laws are "some of the weakest in the country" and warned, "Things that are in the public's interests are still being hidden from the public."</div><div>
</div><div>Groves notes that open-records laws, also known as "sunshine laws," exist in most states in the U.S. and "give the public insight into (a) governor's decisions." But according to Groves, Noem is among the governors who has "thwarted records requests by citing exemptions."</div><div>
</div><div>"Her administration has refused to disclose how much it costs to send state troopers with her as she travels the country campaigning for former President Donald Trump and raising her own campaign cash," Groves observes. "The governor's office has cited state law exempting security details from records requests and argued that providing the information would 'put lives in danger.' Several GOP lawmakers pushed the governor's office to disclose its annual security costs to the (South Dakota) Legislature, but Noem, a fellow Republican, pressured them to drop the matter."</div><div>
</div><div>Per the AP: "Noem and governors in five other states — Arkansas, California, Massachusetts, Michigan and New Jersey — have thwarted records requests by citing exemptions."</div><div>
</div><div> </div><div>Republican lawmakers are refusing to get vaccinated — which is holding up Congress</div><div>Brad Reed Raw Story March 15, 2021</div><div>Many members of the Republican Party are refusing to take the novel coronavirus vaccine -- and it's delaying Congress's return to a full legislative schedule.</div><div>
</div><div>Axios reports that 25 percent of lawmakers serving in the House of Representatives still have not been vaccinated, even though Congress has its own supply of the vaccine.</div><div>
</div><div>"While it's not certain which party is most to blame for any vaccine hesitancy, the phenomenon is higher among white Republicans than any other demographic group," the publication writes.</div><div>
</div><div>Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) told the publication that he will not be getting the vaccine because he's only 25 years old and "the survival rate is too high for me to want it."</div><div>
</div><div>Additionally, GOP lawmakers such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene have regularly spread anti-vaccination propaganda, making them likely culprits in thwarting the House's efforts to return back to normal.</div><div>
</div><div>"Multiple waves of voting, meant to ensure social distancing inside the House chamber, are slowing a full legislative schedule," notes Axios. "It's also giving power to disrupters like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who's used a procedural move to further drag out the process. Votes can take more than three times longer than pre-pandemic times."</div><div>
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</div><div>Cases in Florida are falling as vaccination rates climb, although DeSantis has come under fire as vaccines have been distributed to communities with his donors.</div><div>
</div><div>"Shutting down tourism, as [CDC Director Rochelle] Walensky would prefer, would be disastrous for many states, especially Florida," wrote Seminara. "Tourism generated $13.3 billion in federal tax revenue and $11.4 billion in state and local tax revenue in 2017, according to Rockport Analytics, and the industry supports more than 1.5 million jobs in the state ... Some students will behave irresponsibly on spring break. But the answer isn't to punish everyone. Heavy-handed efforts to limit personal freedom based on the assumption that too many people are ignorant is elitist."</div><div>
</div><div>Seminara's plea comes after 120 unruly spring breakers were arrested in Miami Beach, after partiers turned on police in a clash that uncovered guns and drugs. It also comes as the UK COVID-19 variant spreads across Florida — something experts aren't entirely sure our current vaccines will be able to contain, although so far they appear to be effective.</div><div>
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</div><div>In a video posted to their Twitter account this Tuesday, comedy duo The Good Liars interviewed a pair of Trump supporters, asking the women why they don't wear masks in the midst of a surging global pandemic.</div><div>
</div><div>"We don't have the vibrational frequency to host the virus," one of the women said. "So, if you don't have that vibrational frequency right here, you're not gonna get it."</div><div>
</div><div>According to the other woman, she doesn't "put life into COVID," so she's immune from the virus. "I never wear a mask," she said. "Ever."</div><div>
</div><div>Watch the video below:</div><div> </div><div>
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>with six weeks left in President Trump's term, EPA has cemented plans to bypass tighter soot standards, despite agency career staff conclusions and concerns about tens of thousands of additional deaths every year.</b></font></div><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler has signed a final rule to keep the existing ambient air quality standards for soot in place at least another five years, </b>according to people familiar with the matter both inside and outside the agency, who spoke on the condition that they not be identified. A formal public announcement is scheduled for later this afternoon.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An EPA spokesman declined to comment in advance of that announcement.</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The decision, which marks a victory for the fossil fuel industry but is certain to be challenged in court, comes as no surprise. In signing the draft rule this spring, Wheeler said he believed the existing limits sufficed to protect public health</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (</span><em style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1062873703/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: 700;">Greenwire</a></em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, April 14).</span></font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">But his determination bypassed the findings of EPA air office employees who concluded in a </span><a href="https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2020-01/documents/final_policy_assessment_for_the_review_of_the_pm_naaqs_01-2020.pdf" style="background: rgb(255, 204, 102); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: 700;">report</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> this year that the existing annual limit on soot exposure could be too weak to prevent "a substantial number" of premature deaths each year. An overview of 30 urban areas, for example, tied exposure to as many as</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> 45,000 annual deaths from heart disease and other causes, with</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> minority communities at greater risk.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Those findings didn't take into account more recent research suggesting that long-term exposure to soot may also heighten vulnerability to COVID-19</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (</span><i style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1063013271/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: 700;">Greenwire</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, April 30).</span></font></p><div style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As E&E News has previously reported, critics are already angling to reverse the decision under the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden (<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063719167/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: 700;">Greenwire</a></em>, Nov. 23). In a letter late last month, for example, <b>Democratic attorneys general from 16 states urged EPA to reopen the review on the grounds that fresh evidence of soot's perils had surfaced.</b></font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Equally contentious was the process by which the Trump administration pursued the legally required review of standards for what is formally known as fine particulate matter or PM2.5.</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Under a fast-track timetable put in motion in mid-2018, the review is ending roughly two years ahead of its previous schedule</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">While Wheeler cited the recommendation of an agency advisory committee in opting to stick with the status quo, that committee is chaired by a consultant who had previously done work for the American Petroleum Institute and was nominated for the position by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In late 2018, in what he later described as a streamlining move, Wheeler fired an auxiliary panel of researchers who were providing additional expertise to the review.</span></font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In statements today, environmental and scientific advocacy groups denounced his decision to stick with the status quo.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"The Trump administration rigged the rule-making process to achieve exactly this result by cutting science and scientists out of the picture at every turn," said Gretchen Goldman, research director of the Union of Concerned Scientists'</b> Center for Science and Democracy, which last year reconvened the fired panel to conduct a competing unofficial review, which found the evidence warranted tighter standards.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"The worst part of all of this is that low income communities and communities of color will bear the brunt of Wheeler's heartless decision,</b>" said Al Armendariz, an Obama-era EPA official who is now a senior director at the Sierra Club. "We look forward to the new administration following the scientific evidence and setting the air quality standard that meets legal requirements to protect public health."</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Soot is known as PM2.5 because it is no bigger than 2.5 microns in diameter,</b> or one-thirtieth the width of a human hair; its formation is closely associated with the burning of coal and oil products. With an ability to penetrate deep into the lungs and even get into the bloodstream, the tiny particles are associated with an array of respiratory and cardiovascular problems, including a greater risk of premature death under some circumstances.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">EPA's current annual exposure threshold for PM2.5, set in 2012, is 12 micrograms per cubic meter of air; the daily limit, dating back to 2006, is 35 micrograms. In this year's report, EPA career staff concluded that the evidence justified an annual standard as low as 8 micrograms per cubic meter of air.</font></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Under the Clean Air Act, particulate matter is among a half-dozen common pollutants for which EPA must set and periodically review ambient air quality standards at least every five years. While the agency rarely meets that timetable, the newly signed final rule is intended to keep the existing standards in place through 2025 at a minimum.</b></font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On Friday, the White House <b>Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs completed a routine review of the final draft rule,</b> according to a government tracking <a href="https://www.reginfo.gov/public/" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: 700;">website</a>. 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Partly, these governors are coming up against the distance between the ideas they claimed to embrace and the ideas Donald Trump was pushing hard this whole time. Republicans like North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, and Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds previously said they were backing personal responsibility and individual freedom around masks, but are now having to mandate masks because, at least in the age of Trump, the Republican base uses its individual freedom to violently reject personal responsibility.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">North Dakota currently sports <a href="https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/1329046386352992265" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word;">the highest COVID-19</a>...</font></p></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 1020</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">e<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ight of the 10 states with the highest rates have Republican governors. Kansas and Nevada, which come in eighth and ninth, both have Democratic governors.</span><a target="blank" style="opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;" /><a href="https://www.cepr.net/red-state-governors-still-flunk-testing/#ftn1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">[1]</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While Democrats also control the legislature in Nevada, the legislature in Kansas is overwhelmingly Republican.</span></font></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The story is more mixed among the states with the lowest positive rates, with five having Democratic governors and five having Republican governors. However, it is worth noting that all five of the states with Republican governors have legislatures that are controlled by Democrats.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In short, by this measure of efforts at getting the pandemic under control, Democrats seem far more serious than Republicans.</font></p><div><div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donald Trump's promise in an ABC News town hall last month that the United States would soon achieve herd immunity for the coronavirus, and conflating that with herd mentality, may be explained because Trump is counting on the latter to rescue his second term. It's otherwise impossible to imagine a campaign whose endgame is to recover the lost loyalty of voters over 65 selecting as its closing argument, "Not enough of you have died yet."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>It's a safe bet that none of his 2016 Republican primary challengers would have embraced the idea that the solution to the pandemic was more American casualties than the Civil War and World War II combined.</b> But many of Trump's Republican comrades-in-arms have embraced, often eagerly, a default preference for herd immunity — harkening back to the harsh social Darwinism that underlies much of modern conservatism. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/15/gop-coronavirus-economy-death/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><u>Early on in the pandemic there were</u></a> Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Rep. Trey Hollingsworth of Indiana and radio host Glenn Beck, all of whom argued that the loss of more American lives was preferable to scaling back the economy. Then, <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/8/7/21357400/anti-mask-protest-rallies-donald-trump-covid-19" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><u>when the issue became wearing masks</u></a>, some opponents argued "if I'm going to get COVID and die from it, so be it …" Of course they really meant, "If <em>you</em> are going to get COVID ..." Wearing masks was a deprivation of freedom — although this argument seems never to have been extended by Republicans to the prohibition on public nudity.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">As the pandemic surged again, by October Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin was referring to "unjustified hysteria" about covid, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-coronavrius-republicans-election/2020/10/05/fdc570ea-071a-11eb-a166-dc429b380d10_story.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><u>and asked,</u></a> after he became infected, ""Why do we think we actually can stop the progression of a contagious disease?"</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (The obvious answer is that we have been doing so, with increasing success, since the 1854 cholera pump moment. That is rejected by many on the right, because stopping a pandemic may require the government to prevent citizens from endangering others.)</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Herd immunity can sometimes reduce mortality from a disease, but over the centuries has failed to end the curse of influenza, tuberculosis, smallpox, polio, rabies or dengue fever. It fits neatly, however, into a social Darwinist framework. Those who die are the "weak" — the poorest, the youngest and the oldest young —<b> or can at any rate be classified as weak and deserving to die, because they died. </b>Survival of the fittest requires discarding the weak.<b> Remember the "let them die" hecklers who populated some of the 2011 Republican debates on health care.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">This underlying value distortion — <em>my</em> personal freedom extends to <em>my</em> right to endanger you — spreads out across a range of other issues. </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Today's Republican reluctance to curb pollution even when it is demonstrably is killing a power plant's neighbors, to keep pesticides that kill farm workers out of the fields or to do anything at all about the climate crisis, which conservatives have privately conceded for years was real and caused by carbon pollution, are all illustrations of how the toxin of social Darwinism still contaminates much of the right's thinking about <b>freedom.</b></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So Trump's response to the COVID crisis — and the willingness of the Republican congressional establishment to enable it — illustrates a deep-rooted flaw in the American right. In a world in which we are, like it or not, all bound together, a tolerable conservatism is one that is willing to protect me from irresponsible neighbors, whether those are COVID-risking teenagers, irresponsible gun owners or multinational chemical companies.</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>D<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">r.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/10/15/herd-immunity-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic-gupta-intl-ldn-vpx.cnn" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Sanjay Gupta</a></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>, chief medical correspondent for CNN, has stressed that if the United States took a "herd immunity" approach to the coronavirus pandemic, millions would die.</b> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But over at Fox News, Dr. Scott Atlas — a major proponent of the "herd immunity" argument — has received a lot of favorable coverage. And <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/scott-atlas-reportedly-derailing-coronavirus-task-force-dangerous-misinformation-hes-only" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Media Matters' Matt Gertz</a>, this week, argues that Fox News has endangered the public's health by encouraging President Donald Trump to make Atlas more prominent on the White House's coronavirus task force.</span></font></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Atlas seized control from Dr. Anthony Fauci and other government experts on public health and infectious diseases, and he has derailed their efforts to slow the spread of the virus,</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">" </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Gertz explains. "This is what governance by Fox News looks like. The White House plucked a purveyor of the network's coronavirus happy talk from its green room, and his view has overwhelmed those who have actual expertise on the subject — with potentially disastrous results."</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Hosts at Fox News, Gertz notes, have "denounced public health officials like Fauci" but "propped up Atlas" — who, Gertz stresses, now "dominates" the White House coronavirus task force despite his "lack of qualifications in public health or infectious diseases."</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Atlas, who joined the task force in August, is a neuroradiologist. But unlike Fauci, he isn't an immunologist. Fauci is one of the United States' leading experts on infectious diseases.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Gertz quotes a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-den-of-dissent-inside-the-white-house-task-force-as-coronavirus-surges/2020/10/19/7ff8ee6a-0a6e-11eb-859b-f9c27abe638d_story.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">report from the Washington Post</a>, noting that Atlas "has pushed a baseless theory inside the task force that the U.S. population is close to herd immunity — the point at which enough people become immune to a disease either by becoming infected or getting vaccinated that its spread slows — despite a scientific consensus that the United States is nowhere close.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Atlas, Gertz points out, has argued against social distancing measures, saying, "All restrictions should be lifted, schools should be opened and only the most vulnerable populations, such as nursing home residents, should be sheltered." </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">And when Fox hosts praise Atlas, according to Gertz, Trump is paying close attention</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">"Fox hosts dictated the pandemic response through their shows and in meetings with Trump and his top advisers, until they finally managed to place one of their own within his ranks," Gertz explains. 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</b></div><div><b>How toxic masculinity became a threat to public health</b></div><div>
</div><div> Nicole Karlis and Salon October 18, 2020</div><div> </div><div>As if the first two waves of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States weren't enough to inspire serious political changes to stop the coronavirus, health experts have sounded the alarm that a third wave is underway. Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are rising across the nation, specifically in the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Montana, as the seasons change and the election nears.</div><div>
</div><div>It's certainly taken a lot of resilience and strength to persevere through this pandemic — particularly given the backdrop of political chaos, uncertainty and immense change in our daily lives. Yet perhaps it is this attitude of "staying strong," and acting stoically — which is rooted in a culture that favors and thrives off toxic masculinity — that has hurt and continues to hurt us the most.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Toxic masculinity, which has become a household phrase over the last few years, is when the archetypal image of masculinity, like displaying strength, becomes harmful to oneself.</b> In 2005, in a study of men in prison, psychiatrist Terry Kupers defined toxic masculinity as <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"the constellation of socially regressive male traits that serve to foster domination, the devaluation of women, homophobia, and wanton violence."</span> The phrase is used to describe the issues men face or sometimes, wrongfully, justify them. Certainly, in a patriarchal society, toxic masculinity not only defines people but politics — as its mores trickle into our entertainment, discourse and politics.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Notably, the pandemic response is being led by the most psychologically compromised, toxic men in America. As I wrote last weekend, President Donald Trump's insistence on depicting himself as so strong as to be able to "work through" his COVID-19 illness is deeply harmful, and apt to put Americans' lives at risk who mimic his behavior — either by working while sick or hiding symptoms.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Meanwhile, Trump's re-election campaign has tried to frame Trump as a "warrior" — masculine, strong and void of emotion. The administration's individualistic, pick-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps rhetoric personifies toxic masculinity, and trickles down to Trump's underlings, too.</b> In June, Vice President <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Mike Pence wrote an op-ed essay in The Wall Street Journal claiming there was no second wave of COVID-19, despite all the evidence to the contrary. "We are winning the fight against the invisible enemy," Pence wrote then, adding "our greatest strength is the resilience of the American people.</span>"</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Yet as psychologists will warn, there is a dark side to resilience....[v NZ]</span></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">animated bar graphs blue states almost gone vs trump says faul but btw reopen</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2020 accuse ilhan buying votes; trifecta: islam, AA, immigrant, (terrorist)</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 31px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">only reliable things in the world are death, taxes, and <b>James O'Keefe</b>'s videos falling apart under scrutiny.</font></span></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">O'Keefe's latest major video for Project Veritas was a video making wild claims about the Minnesota election of Rep. <b>Ilhan Omar</b>. The details aren't worth getting into, but the important thing is that, despite a big roll out that <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=5d417cba4112af561fcc255b23eb66a4408a5fe3b5d3531550eaa0e92c2026c74def0dfcdb80b3b4b3e9a892ed1c496164518cacc4833633" title="featured" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">featured</a> <b>Sean Hannity</b>, O'Keefe's claims <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=5d417cba4112af56f48dbfcd12dd497882bbb51a86b3ecba4c9ea42c1d86aac01c5d906c60c63c9f68de3100f285380426acc9c5dc6da785" title="the claims have fallen apart" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">have fallen apart </a>as actual reporting has come out. But most of the actual reporting only occurred after the video racked up millions of views combined on Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook -- and even now, there is no fact check appended to the videos at all. These companies have made big claims about protecting the election -- but <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=5d417cba4112af5629fcde9b5d830ca00ba1794f373a881cdd3777a1c22623da360714e04cb8e893f71c120ab943ef030053fbd6a3bf47ac" title="seem to have no plan whatsoever" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">seem to have no plan whatsoever</a> for a proven charlatan like O'Keefe.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Also:</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Recall that the last we saw O'Keefe, he was <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=5d417cba4112af5641082087f8c59b6eb6dfa6ea89d792c803ba77cbddb3093b8b94a957a2b0c8574dbaf94071b5c0f25d6eedbc93262013" title="wandering" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">wandering</a> the streets of New York City, claiming that the coroners were lying about the death toll from COVID-19. Hannity <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=5d417cba4112af56ff629b55f3dc7ab2261a3105fa5407d03ba330e3ad6ee6885f0fb72fdb7c880104a729b118c4fedef331e789c1c2bdeb" title="loved" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">loved</a> that one too.</span></font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 1020</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">w<a class="widgetheadline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/white-house-blocks-medical-experts-on-trumps-task-force-from-giving-interviews/" aria-label="White House blocks medical experts on Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force from giving interviews" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; word-break: break-word; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 25px;">hite House blocks medical experts on Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force from giving interviews</a></font></div><div class="social-author clearfix" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="social-authorname" href="https://www.alternet.org/author/elizabeth-preza" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.4; display: inline; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Elizabeth Preza</font></a></div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body css-listicle-body-2648168291" style="margin-top: 10px; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; margin-bottom: 15px; display: -webkit-box; text-overflow: ellipsis; line-height: 23px; -webkit-line-clamp: 3; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body-description"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The White House refused to allow expert immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci or another medical expert on President Donald Trump's Coronavirus Task Force to appear on ABC's "This Week," Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl s</font></p></div></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mma 920</font></div><div><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 31px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> March, <b>Sean Hannity</b> said he wasn’t concerned about coronavirus because “<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d1a7c0d83db3f8d4e4cbf90c0e78b76438f203ebd472a552b6bfce0bb5b003b86b92a40cb5af66a8dfc05aa7f1a99239f375c5e20662e48f" title="we’re all dying" style="">we’re all dying</a>” anyway. In April, <b>Laura Ingraham</b> said that while “<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d1a7c0d83db3f8d4736dcc2b785e00826687d0c92bf243ea61ab4799fe9c87f676478502c6b63355bf47f327e84747e4ffc6d8d4a22e7a8c" title="every life is precious" style="">every life is precious </a>, we want to keep everybody safe and we — of course, that's a given. But we also have to understand the cost of American lives on the other side of this.” The attitude of Fox hosts towards the pandemic that has now killed more than 200,000 Americans with <b>Donald Trump</b> in the White House is <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d1a7c0d83db3f8d4984d3b09c7c8c86777a4c7349696268fc49443ed3ad8be29151324dff1d15fc7a5333089c00d910f02ccce977713a866" title="strikingly different" style="">strikingly different</a> from their attitude towards several events that occurred during <b>Barack Obama</b>’s presidency.</font></span></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 31px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We've <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d1a7c0d83db3f8d42cb95a4353041a284a3bc0377357ae4bd343f64ab10a01e6c97cb5ede419218fad98a476091b16d8c482d53845514744" title="talked" style="">talked</a> <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d1a7c0d83db3f8d4b2c38ee790e9cc70d4228d160a6fe51b641a49a042f8bae29133d9df724c1fd6449ea348386a7aa8a19ef8224a2bb06a" title="about" style="">about</a> the obvious comparison to the Ebola scare of 2014 before (though it is <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d1a7c0d83db3f8d4288c3b6517a98fc674604eda5c48b62dc2f9cfa222cc48068742bd1d9d5eeff00a850b4975e91a418a7c1aa1aebc8587" title="still worth revisiting" style="">still worth revisiting </a>in light of the Supreme Court nomination fight).</font></span></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The most prominent right--wing media lie of the Obama years was probably the one about "death panels." Fox News and right-wing media writ large <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d1a7c0d83db3f8d430660e6d0a03e6934126a923937ab49a61a070e13b8111e6626a3d8af263c83589264cab09d472c75535fd9f26eef689" title="Fox and right-wing media" style="">stoked fear for years</a> that the Affordable Care Act would implement “death panels.” Hannity said that it was “chilling” that Obama had “so little respect for life” and was trying to “encourage … inconvenient people to consider ‘alternatives to living.’” Ingraham scaremongered about the creation of “death camps” for the elderly should the bill become law.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox similarly fearmongered over other incidents during the Obama Administration, including the death of four Americans killed in <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d1a7c0d83db3f8d4c404768ef203fbb36f46f2c47eea12f30fce7b8774aefe04aae6ffd9556273d23a1851e584f3790d5bcc9d643a1fd718" title="Benghazi" style="">Benghazi</a>, and the <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d1a7c0d83db3f8d4b63f4a0ada080ab3565d82fa4ac7f7c5a27b5f5da865a714017ba6ff6ff059aa47c0a5037220f3a23b62eebd64d57ec2" title="H1N1 flu pandemic of 2009" style="">H1N1 flu pandemic of 2009</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now as a major pandemic has killed more than 200,000 Americans, Fox has done everything it can to defend the Trump administration, and push aside public health concerns.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=d1a7c0d83db3f8d4c9ba900ca6a33a78a349e5fdbee5b1f841933ac200e8f0751690878c301fa1cbeff5cc1493884c8804c5870fea17aed2" title="Simply put" style="">Simply put</a> by Media Matters’ <b>Parker Molloy</b>, “When the president is a Democrat and he’s advocating for health care legislation that includes optional end-of-life counseling, it’s a four-alarm emergency. When the president is a Republican and thousands of people -- particularly the elderly -- are dying from a pandemic, it’s no big deal (and actually, he’s doing a great job).”</font></p></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 920 also joni ernst</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thom Tillis, R-N.C., on Thursday <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F08zxAE_YGU&feature=youtu.be" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">told a virtual town hall audience</a> that he believed the 200,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the U.S. had been inflated in order to “encourage people to use social distancing.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“When the final accounting is done,” the actual COVID-19 death count will be lower, Tillis claimed.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The response echoes <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/08/31/the-right-has-seized-on-a-misunderstood-cdc-statement-as-proof-that-coronavirus-isnt-that-deadly/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">a false conspiracy theory</a> pushed by adherents of the baseless QAnon movement: that public health officials are allegedly lying to the public about the true death count because of ulterior or possibly sinister motives. Only 6% of the reported deaths are attributable solely to COVID-19, conspiracy theorists claim.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tillis also embraced an extreme anti-vaccine position and appeared to welcome herd immunity as part of a strategy to get 60% of the country immune. (Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/13/the-death-toll-would-be-enormous-fauci-says-of-herd-immunity-to-coronavirus-in-the-us.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">said</a> last month that a herd immunity strategy would lead to an “enormous” death rate that would be “totally unacceptable.”) T<span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">he Republican incumbent told the caller that she was “absolutely right” in saying “the CDC has made clear” that deaths related to COVID-19 cover “things like heart attacks, and slip-and-falls and things like that” when people “have COVID in their system.” The caller told Tillis she wanted “a more definitive, clear number.”...</span></font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">nyt</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Among the other payments to Mr. Cohen’s company described in the financial records were four for $99,980 each between October and January by Novartis Investments S.A.R.L., a subsidiary of </span><b style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">Novartis,</b><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> the multinational pharmaceutical giant based in Switzerland. </span><b style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">Novartis — whose chief executive was among 15 business leaders invited to dinner with Mr. Trump at the World Economic Forum in January — spent more than $10 million on lobbying in Washington last year and frequently seeks approvals from federal drug regulators</b><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">. Novartis said in a statement that its agreement with Essential Consultants had expired.</span></font></div><div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/team-trumps-response-is-now-a-worldwide-embarrassment">https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/team-trumps-response-is-now-a-worldwide-embarrassment</a></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">stats --> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They’re laughing at us, Donald. Well, they’re laughing at </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">you</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Well, actually nobody’s laughing, there’s 200,000 Americans dead and in the ground right now and, still, the only pandemic “plans” coming out all members of Republican leadership combined ended up abandoned because they left it to Jared Kushner, and Jared Kushner got bored.</span></font></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">920 an</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/we-were-flabbergasted-new-report-says-jared-kushners-conduct-stunned-attendees-at-a-19-meeting/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/we-were-flabbergasted-new-report-says-jared-kushners-conduct-stunned-attendees-at-a-19-meeting/</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">w<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">hen Jared Kushner was grilled by</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jared-kushner-challenged-wolf-blitzer-coronavirus-conspiracies_n_5f61b801c5b68d1b09c9aa35" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">CNN’s Wolf Blitzer</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">earlier this week, the White House senior adviser vigorously defended President Donald Trump on a range of issues — including the president’s widely criticized response to the coronavirus pandemic. Kushner has played a key role in that response: he was put in a charge of a private sector-oriented coronavirus task force that was separate from the White House task force with Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And in a lengthy, <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/jared-kushner-let-the-markets-decide-covid-19-fate" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">in-depth article for Vanity Fair, Katherine Eban revealed some explosive details of Kushner’s coronavirus response,</a> focusing heavily on a meeting on Friday, March 20.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kushner was present at that meeting, which was attended by “a large group of officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency — people one attendee described as ‘the doers’ — to strategize how best to replenish the nation’s depleted reserves of PPE.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kushner, Eban reports, had a “confrontational tone” when he told attendees, “The federal government is not going to lead this response,” he announced. “It’s up to the states to figure out what they want to do." </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">W</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">hen one of the attendees expressed concerns about PPE shortages, Kushner said, “Free markets will solve this. That is not the role of government.”</span></font></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Eban notes, was desperate for supplies — and Kushner’s response was, “Cuomo didn’t pound the phones hard enough to get PPE for his state…. His people are going to suffer, and that’s their problem.” And one of the attendees told Vanity Fair, “That’s when I was like, ‘We’re screwed.’”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to Eban, “What actually transpired in the room stunned a number of those in attendance. Vanity Fair has reconstructed the details of the meeting for the first time, based on recollections, notes, and calendar entries from three people who attended the meeting. All quotations are based on the recollections of one or more individual attendees.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Kushner, according to one of the attendees Vanity Fair interviewed, became “very aggressive” and told the group they “only understood how entrepreneurship works, but didn’t understand how government worked.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Another attendee told Vanity Fair it was “very clear” that Kushner wasn’t interested in finding a solution to the shortages because in March, COVID-19 was primarily hurting blue states. According to that attendee, “We were flabbergasted. I basically had an out-of-body experience: where am I, and what happened to America?”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eban goes on to describe some of the subsequent problems with Kushner’s coronavirus response, including plans for Eastman Kodak to manufacture drugs needed during the pandemic.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Of all the aborted efforts to secure America’s supply chain of essential lifesaving supplies,” Eban writes, <b>“no deal has blown up more spectacularly than the one to turn an aging camera film company, Eastman Kodak, into an American manufacturer of ingredients for low-cost generic drugs.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to Eban, “Vanity Fair has learned, Eastman Kodak was so untested when it came to making drug ingredients that the company’s head of government relations, Kristin Calabrese Williams, wrote to a government health official in March saying that the company would need a ‘waiver from the FDA’s requirements’ to ensure drug safety.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">920 an</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/we-were-flabbergasted-new-report-says-jared-kushners-conduct-stunned-attendees-at-a-19-meeting/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/we-were-flabbergasted-new-report-says-jared-kushners-conduct-stunned-attendees-at-a-19-meeting/</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div><div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">DN 920</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/18/headlines/us_billionaires_added_845b_to_net_worth_since_march_as_pandemic_exposed_racial_inequities">https://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/18/headlines/us_billionaires_added_845b_to_net_worth_since_march_as_pandemic_exposed_racial_inequities</a></font></div><div><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 243);"><li class="hidden-xs" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 0px 0px 23px; line-height: 1.33;"><a data-ga-action="Home Headlines: Headline" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/18/headlines/us_billionaires_added_845b_to_net_worth_since_march_as_pandemic_exposed_racial_inequities" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">U.S. Billionaires Added $845B to Net Worth Since March as Pandemic Exposed Racial Inequities</font></a></li></ul></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">an 920</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</font></div><div><div class="story-intro story-content" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Trump administration has given up on any serious attempts to curb the nation’s ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.</b> As U.S. deaths inch towards the 200,000 mark, outside experts are now warning Americans to <a title="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/opinion/cdc-testing-coronavirus.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">ignore the “dysfunctional” Centers of Disease Control and Prevention</a> after the agency issued new, Trump-favored guidelines to reduce testing, rather than expand it. There is no federal contract tracing effort. There is no standard, expert-based pandemic policy—each state has been left to its own devices, with federal officials ignoring even the most serious state outbreaks.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Don’t worry, though. It’s not like the Trump-led federal government is entirely asleep at the wheel.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> The <b>Department of Health and Human Services is <a title="" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/31/hhs-contract-coronavirus-despair-hope-406361" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">seeking bids for a new quarter-<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">billion</em> dollar communications contract, reports Politico</a>. No, not to encourage Americans to social distance, wear masks, or get tested—don’t be stupid. The new publicity campaign will instead “defeat despair and inspire hope,” advising businesses how to operate “in the new normal” and instilling “confidence to return to work and restart the economy.”</b></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yeah, we’re all going to die.</font></p></div><div class="row" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="col-sm-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="story-body story-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">You will note, dear tired reader, that this language sounds <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">very much</em> like Trump’s own anti-pandemic anti-policy. Rather than taking more aggressive steps to curtail the pandemic—as nearly every other nation on the planet has—the new publicity campaign will presume we live in a “new normal.” It will be based, says “a senior HHS official” who for some reason would not go on the record to say these embarrassing things, on <b>“defeating the mental health challenges of the coronavirus,” which sounds explicitly like Trump’s own insistence that it’s depression over social distancing that’s killing people, not the deadly disease marked on the death certificates.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">so instead of a new testing program or, say, mailing out masks to every American household, we’re getting an advertising campaign meant to “defeat despair.” Oh, and Politico reports the<b> contract will be managed by Trump ex-campaign guy Michael Caputo.</b></font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Odds that Trump loyalist Michael Caputo is going to sign off on a $250 million ad campaign telling Americans to “defeat despair” through the remarkably effective practice of wearing masks, against Donald Trump’s personal wishes? Zero. Less than zero. Zero minus the square root of Ivanka.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anyhoo, the idea that the Trump-led federal government is, immediately before the (cough) November elections, going to be combatting the COVID-19 pandemic via an ad campaign telling Americans to maybe just stop being sad about it is … well, let’s be honest. It’s so on-brand it hurts.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s the “Be Best” of infectious disease campaigns. Sorry, we still need to limit testing—but here’s some tips on how you can restart the economy, fellow patriots. Nothing inspires “hope” like getting your unmasked face back to work, unless it’s getting legislation passed immunizing your employer from consequences if you die afterword. Now <span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">that’s</span> inspiring.</font></p></div></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font><div><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; line-height: 1; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">British American Tobacco</font></h3><div class="hos-nominee-detail visibility-enabled" data-visibility-name="info-about" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.75s ease 0s;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.25;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Big Tobacco wrote the playbook on modern corporate abuse. Literally. From spreading junk science to dividing and undermining opponents, to getting politicians to do their bidding, the tobacco industry was at the leading edge of it all.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.25;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And they’re still up to these dirty tricks. This year, British American Tobacco (BAT) has exploited the global COVID-19 pandemic to market its harmful and addictive new products by co-opting hashtags meant to spread public health information and using influencers to push its brand. BAT also helped fund a junk science study that claims tobacco consumption (which leads among other things to respiratory disease) might reduce the danger of the novel coronavirus (a respiratory disease). And cynically using a global pandemic as a marketing ploy, BAT announced it had begun researching a COVID-19 vaccine.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.25;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We nominate <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px;">British American Tobacco</span> for exploiting the COVID-19 crisis to peddle its harmful and addictive products on social media and make unproven, dangerous health claims that further undermine public health policies.</font></p></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">an 920</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">given that Fox News, as well as some conservative radio stations, have <a title="" href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/18/1928649/-Watch-the-sharply-shifting-coronavirus-rhetoric-from-Fox-News-over-the-last-two-weeks" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">downplayed</a> the severity of the novel coronavirus pandemic, it’s not too surprising that people who rely on such sources for their news may not take all advised precautions seriously at this point in the public health crisis. What sort of precautions? Oh, one of the most essential, basic ones: <a title="" href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/02/us/covid-conservative-masks-nh-poll-trnd/index.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">wearing a face mask</a> in public.<b> A new <a href="https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/conservative-media-consumers-views-COVID-19" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">poll</a> from the University of New Hampshire found that where we get our news can have a seriously big impact on our mask-wearing, and from what we know about this public health crisis, that’s far from good.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to this research, which was conducted in July 2020 and involved 995 New Hampshire residents, 77% of people living in New Hampshire do, indeed, always wear a face mask in public, unless they are outside and properly socially distanced. Only <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">half</em> of the respondents who said they regularly watch Fox News, however, report the same. For conservative radio listeners in the state, that drops to one-third.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>80% of surveyed residents who never tuned in to Fox News or similar conservative outlets wanted the government to make prioritizing containing the virus a bigger priority over the economy. Just over 10% of regular Fox News viewers felt the same</b>. Similarly, three-quarters of people who never consumed these conservative media sources believed that the worst of the virus is still yet to come; less than one-quarter of conservative viewers, however, believe that to be the case.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is certainly not the first poll to show such variation; for example, in the Daily Kos/Civiqs <a href="https://civiqs.com/documents/Civiqs_DailyKos_monthly_banner_book_2020_07_d7fhn9.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">poll</a> from July, only 20% of frequent Fox News viewers believed that wearing a face mask helps prevent the spread of the virus. A majority of Fox News viewers also felt comfortable with schools reopening; as we’ve already covered, campuses are seeing fresh clusters of cases seemingly by the day.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interestingly, according to the New Hampshire polling, some people who regularly watch Fox News <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">are</em> concerned about the virus. 25% of respondents said they were worried about either their own health or someone else’s. The majority of respondents, coming in at two-thirds, who did not watch conservative media, however, were worried about health amid the global pandemic.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">New Hampshire is an interesting place to conduct this poll as it actually doesn’t have a statewide mask mandate, though Republican Gov. Chris Sununu has ordered that masks must be worn in gatherings of more than 100 people. Some cities do have mask mandates, and businesses are allowed to enforce them as well. That 100 people guideline garnered quite a bit of attention when Trump held a rally in New Hampshire last week; masks were supposed to be worn, but many attendees <a href="https://www.wcax.com/2020/09/01/sununu-says-hes-not-concerned-by-lack-of-masks-at-trump-rally/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">reportedly</a> did not wear them.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Looking at some viral images from Trump arriving in North Carolina this afternoon, we see many people greeting him without masks or social distancing.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/the-right-has-seized-on-a-misunderstood-cdc-statement-as-proof-that-isnt-that/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/the-right-has-seized-on-a-misunderstood-cdc-statement-as-proof-that-isnt-that/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">salon matt r</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>conservative social media networks and right-wing personalities, including Fox Nation host Tammy Bruce, have seized on a misunderstood COVID-19 mortality statistic from the CDC as “evidence” that pandemic public health fears are overblown. The viral spread of the “6%” meme seems to speak to both a larger scientific illiteracy and the rapidity with which the conspiratorial right jumps on misinformation that appears convenient to their political narrative.</b> Salon spoke with scientific experts to understand the origin of this meme, and how it has been misinterpreted.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In a <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm?fbclid=IwAR3-wrg3tTKK5-9tOHPGAHWFVO3DfslkJ0KsDEPQpWmPbKtp6EsoVV2Qs1Q#ExcessDeaths" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">report</a> published earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) wrote that “for 6% of the deaths” reported involving the novel coronavirus, the data indicates that “COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned.”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <b>This means that there were co-morbid conditions — meaning multiple health conditions that compounded the coronavirus’ effects — associated with the COVID-19 death on 94% of the other occasions. The CDC added that, “for deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.”</b></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many on Twitter seized upon the “6%” data point to argue that the United States has been overreacting to the pandemic.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“All of this for SIX PERCENT!” tweeted conservative writer and former congressional candidate <a href="https://twitter.com/DeAnna4Congress/status/1300414798367252482" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">DeAnna Lorraine</a>. </b>Another former congressional candidate, this one a veteran and self-described “Torah Observant Christian” named <a href="https://twitter.com/votenickmoutos/status/1300310892878462976" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Nick Moutos</a>, tweeted “#Fact Only 6% of reported #COVID19 deaths were “from” the virus. The other 94% were from other comorbidities. Death toll actually near 10K, or roughly .003% of the US population. #SixPercent"</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b style=""><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">fox News contributor and Fox Nation host </span><a href="https://twitter.com/HeyTammyBruce/status/1300175483016019968" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer">Tammy Bruce</a></b><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b style=""> tweeted about the meme,</b> too,</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> making her point through understatement: “6% Six. Percent.” </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1300135845555396613" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer">Charlie Kirk</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">, the founder and president of right-wing campus group </span><a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/03/25/how-a-diaper-protest-led-to-the-implosion-of-a-conservative-student-group/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer">Turning Point USA</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">, echoed Bruce, tweeting simply: “6%.”</span></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A self-described pro-Trump political candidate in Virginia, <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonRobergeVA/status/1300224704008073216" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Jason Alexander Roberge</a>, tweeted that “I was called a conspiracy theorist in March for calling out the FAKE covid numbers: 6% Six Percent.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Perhaps most shockingly, a Twitter account called <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1300415126986731524" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">The Cain Gang</a> — which describes itself as “formerly run by <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/08/15/herman-cains-twitter-account-is-creeping-everyone-out-it-is-still-trolling-after-his-death_partner/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Herman Cain</a>, now supervised by his team and family” — tweeted that “it looks like the virus is not as deadly as the mainstream media first made it out to be.” That tweet was later deleted. Cain <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/08/15/herman-cains-twitter-account-is-creeping-everyone-out-it-is-still-trolling-after-his-death_partner/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">died of COVID-19</a> on July 30.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These tweets all reflect a profound misunderstanding of what “comorbidity” means, <a href="https://www.jhsph.edu/faculty/directory/profile/658/alfred-sommer" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Dr. Alfred Sommer</a>, an epidemiologist and dean emeritus at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told Salon by email.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">“People with co-morbidities die at higher rates, as do older people (some without serious co-morbidities but with aging, less responsive immune systems),” he wrote. “None of which makes any difference —<b> if these people had not contracted COVID they would not have died at this time! So they are ALL COVID-caused deaths.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sommer believes the number of deaths attributed to the pandemic has actually been underestimated, as many who were ill — either with COVID-19 or something else — were unable to seek care because of the public health situation.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Nobody counts the increase in the number of deaths caused by the pandemic — but not directly by infection: people who had heart attacks and related who couldn’t get care, or were afraid to seek care, because of COVID,” Sommer added. “The rate of these deaths has been running substantially higher this year than in past years.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://twitter.com/drericding?lang=en" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding</a>, senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, called the “6%” meme “a ludicrous misunderstanding and misinformation.” “Basically, [they are] arguing that if you die with COVID and have any risk factors, then it somehow doesn’t count as COVID,” he told Salon. Feigl-Ding compared the situation to that of cancer patients, who frequently have compounding conditions that increase their risk of dying of cancer.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Most cancer patients have many other risk factors, which by their logic means a person didn’t die of cancer if someone has anything else,” he said.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.jhsph.edu/faculty/directory/profile/2566/justin-lessler" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Dr. Justin Lessler</a>, an associate professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, also told Salon that the six percent figure needs to be viewed in an appropriate context.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The ‘six percent’ figure represents those people with only COVID-19 on their death certificate. This will be very unusual,” Lessler explained by email. “First, COVID-19 causes many of the co-morbidities mentioned, which are respiratory conditions. So, having, for example, respiratory failure on your death certificate in addition to COVID-19 is not really having another cause of death, as your coronavirus infection almost certainly caused the respiratory failure. Second, many of the other co-morbidities, such as heart disease, are common in the US and increase your chances of dying from COVID-19, so may be contributing factors to death but not necessarily the root cause.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>He concluded, “The most important thing to remember, is that no matter what the co-morbidities listed are, pretty much all of these people would have lived longer, probably a lot longer, if they had not been infected with the virus.”</b></font></p><article style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://apha.org/about-apha/executive-board-and-staff/apha-staff/georges-c-benjamin-md" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Dr. Georges Benjamin</a>, executive director of the American Public Health Association (APHA) and former secretary of health in Maryland, confirmed to Salon by email that the six percent figure is being characterized “incorrectly.””The 6% figure was the percent that did not have any other diseases listed on the death certificate as a contributing factor for their death. That does not tell us what the risk to the U.S. population is,” Benjamin explained by email. “Approximately 40% of the U.S. population have at least one chronic disease (130 million people [out of] 330 million). That means 40% (130 million) of the country is at risk of getting severe disease if they get infected with SARS-CoV2 the virus that causes COVID-19. That is a significant risk to the overall population. COVID-19 was a contributing cause for the death and may have been the precipitating cause of death.”He added, “The way they are interpreting the 6% figure implies that the individual would have died from their underlying disease regardless of the SARS-CoV-2 infection, which you cannot say.”</font></article></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/the-trump-administration-is-backing-out-of-a-647-million-ventilator-deal-after-investigation-revealed-evidence-of-fraud-waste-and-abuse/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/the-trump-administration-is-backing-out-of-a-647-million-ventilator-deal-after-investigation-revealed-evidence-of-fraud-waste-and-abuse/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">federal government is backing out of a controversial $646.7 million deal to buy ventilators from Royal Philips N.V., acting before the company had delivered a third of the order.</span></b></font></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The deal has been the focus of several ProPublica stories since March. That reporting prompted a <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/the-white-house-paid-up-to-500-million-too-much-for-these-ventilators-congressional-investigators-say" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">congressional investigation</a> that last month found “evidence of fraud, waste and abuse” in the acquisition of the Philips ventilators.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">This week, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform’s Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy announced it is expanding its probe to look at other coronavirus-related deals negotiated by <b>Peter Navarro, the president’s trade adviser, who served as the point man on the Philips deal.</b></font></p><div class="alt_ad_block true_ad_free story-page-in-content-graph-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="alt_ad_msg" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 10px; background: rgb(234, 234, 234);"><div class="header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">AD REMOVED FOR SUBSCRIBED USER</div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversaw the Philips contract, confirmed that the deal is the subject of an internal investigation and legal review.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It was ProPublica’s reporting that got my subcommittee interested in this contract,” <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/represent/members/K000391-raja-krishnamoorthi" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi</a>, the Illinois Democrat who chairs the subcommittee, said in a statement. “It prompted our investigation where we uncovered unfathomably inept dealmaking by top Administration officials like Peter Navarro.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Navarro did not respond to a request for comment. But Sarah Matthews, a White House spokeswoman, defended Navarro on Tuesday, saying he has “played a vital role in our response” to the pandemic, helping to oversee the use of a federal act that compelled production of critical supplies and created “thousands of jobs in the process.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“While the Trump Administration has been focused on saving lives, House Democrats continue to focus on pointless investigations,” she wrote.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Philips, a Dutch company, announced Monday that its U.S. factories had stopped making the ventilators covered by the contract after receiving an early termination notice from HHS. Philips has delivered 12,300 ventilators, less than a third of the 43,000 the federal government had originally sought.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The congressional investigation determined that the deal would have resulted in the U.S. overpaying for the ventilators by as much as $500 million, thanks to “inept contract management and incompetent negotiating by the Trump Administration.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">ProPublica first wrote about the U.S. government’s relationship with Philips in March, detailing how a decade ago government planners had paid Philips millions of dollars to develop a low-cost ventilator that could be stockpiled and deployed if ever there were a pandemic. The U.S. ordered 10,000 once the company received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But when COVID-19 cases overwhelmed hospitals in New York in the spring, Philips hadn’t delivered any. Instead, ProPublica found, Philips was selling a commercial version of that ventilator — manufactured at its Pennsylvania factory — overseas at far higher prices.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Rather than force production of low-cost ventilators, a White House team led by Navarro cut a new deal for more ventilators, agreeing to pay more than four times the price.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">ProPublica in April <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/a-company-promised-cheap-ventilators-to-the-government-never-delivered-and-is-now-charging-quadruple-the-price-for-the-new-ones" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">revealed</a> that this new deal boosted the price of what appeared to be similar ventilators from $3,280 each under the Obama administration deal to $15,000 under the Trump administration. Neither Philips nor HHS would explain how the two models were different.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In its investigation of the deal, the House subcommittee asked Philips to turn over a trove of records and discovered that the more expensive ventilators were “functionally identical” to the cheaper ones.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Navarro and his team “appeared gullible” and there was no evidence that they even tried to negotiate a lower price, the House investigators found.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The U.S. government paid the highest price for the ventilators among American buyers, the investigators found. The company’s records show that Philips had sold more than 5,000 of that model at far lower prices before May 27.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Philips CEO Frans van Houten said earlier this summer that his company did not raise prices to cash in on the coronavirus crisis and did not agree with the conclusions of the congressional investigators.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This week a Philips spokesman said that the list price of the ventilator was $21,000 and that the negotiated price of $15,000 reflected the “higher costs for the expedited delivery schedule.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“While we are disappointed in light of these vast efforts, we will adjust our plans and work with HHS to effectuate the partial termination of this contract,” van Houten said in a written statement Monday.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s not clear how much the deal will ultimately cost taxpayers. Philips, HHS and the White House all declined to say whether the company would be paid an early termination fee.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stephanie Bialek, a spokeswoman for the HHS office in charge of the Strategic National Stockpile, said in a statement that the government has 120,000 ventilators available and didn’t face any shortages. She said her agency had also terminated two other smaller ventilator deals early as it balanced “federal stockpile requirements with commercial market demand for ventilators.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“As a result, HHS is saving the U.S. taxpayer millions of dollars by halting delivery of additional ventilators that are no longer required,” Bialek wrote.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Separately, the HHS Office of Inspector General announced in July that it was auditing the five largest ventilator contracts to determine whether the awarding and monitoring of the contracts complied with federal requirements and HHS policies.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As for the 10,000 low-cost ventilators the U.S. ordered for the stockpile years ago, they will arrive eventually. Philips spokesman Steve Klink said the company still planned to deliver them by September 2022, when they are due.</font></p><div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">yikes, q mainstream? misread CDC?</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/medical-experts-slam-joni-ernst-for-echoing-qanon-conspiracy-theory-that-19-count-is-exaggerated-truly-unconscionable/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/medical-experts-slam-joni-ernst-for-echoing-qanon-conspiracy-theory-that-19-count-is-exaggerated-truly-unconscionable/</a></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">knew big problem in June</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/cell-phone-data-shows-sturgis-rally-attendees-later-visited-61-of-us-counties/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/cell-phone-data-shows-sturgis-rally-attendees-later-visited-61-of-us-counties/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/massive-super-spreader-19-event-now-underway-in-south-dakota/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/massive-super-spreader-19-event-now-underway-in-south-dakota/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[pix <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sturgis, South Dakota motorcycle rally in 2015. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">This year’s rally, now underway, is expected to attract 250,000 people</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.]</span></font></div></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">yikes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/dr-fauci-raises-alarm-about-new-cdc-guidelines-that-were-made-without-him/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/dr-fauci-raises-alarm-about-new-cdc-guidelines-that-were-made-without-him/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/trump-and-his-fda-commissioner-grossly-misrepresented-data-on-blood-plasmas-benefits-in-treating-19-patients-scientists/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/trump-and-his-fda-commissioner-grossly-misrepresented-data-on-blood-plasmas-benefits-in-treating-19-patients-scientists/</font></a></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">820 an </font></div><div><div class="mag-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h3 class="magcat-titlte entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 1px;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/ice-rejected-19-testing-for-all-detainees-at-facility-because-it-would-be-too-much-trouble/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; display: block; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">ICE rejected COVID-19 testing for all detainees at facility because it would be too much trouble</font></a></h3><div class="grid-post-box-meta mag-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 7px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="author-italic author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/gabe-ortiz/" title="Posts by Gabe Ortiz" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Gabe Ortiz</a> / <a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/daily-kos/" title="Posts by Daily Kos" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Daily Kos</a></font></span></div></div><div class="mag-excerpt entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There’s really no bottom when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and private prison profiteers join forces—just consider the latest example. Internal emails obtained through an ongoing lawsuit show the mass detention agency…</font></p></div></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/report-facebook-employees-have-evidence-showing-pattern-preferential-treatment-right-wing" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/report-facebook-employees-have-evidence-showing-pattern-preferential-treatment-right-wing</font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A new BuzzFeed report reveals that Facebook employees have evidence that shows the platform gives preferential treatment to right-wing Facebook pages, which is <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/black-lives-matter/facebook-has-repeatedly-caved-bogus-right-wing-pressure" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">at stark odds</a> with conservatives’ frequent and unsubstantiated claims that social media platforms are censoring right-wing accounts.</b></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An August 6 <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">article</a> from Craig Silverman and Ryan Mac reports that there are growing internal concerns about how Facebook handles misinformation, particularly misinformation related to voting and the upcoming 2020 presidential election. </font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In internal message boards, employees questioned “the apparent special treatment of right-wing pages” including the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">far-right outlet Breitbart, which Facebook <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/black-lives-matter/facebook-has-repeatedly-caved-bogus-right-wing-pressure#paragraph--narrative-item--3322281" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">considers</a> a “trusted new source</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.” <b><u>Reportedly, employees have evidence that shows “a pattern of preferential treatment for right-wing publishers and pages,”</u></b> <b>including interference in Facebook’s fact-checking process from company leaders such as Facebook</b></span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Vice President for Global Public Policy </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Joel Kaplan</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. Kaplan, a former deputy White House chief of staff for the George W. Bush administration, </span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/mark-zuckerberg-hypocrite-and-trumpist" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 102); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">reportedly</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <b>pushed for Facebook to partner with right-wing groups and was </b></span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/bombshell-report-facebook-has-known-it-fomenting-extremism-years-and-refuses-stop" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">involved</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> in nixing proposed solutions to stop political polarization on the platform</span>.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This reporting comes as right-wing politicians and figures continue to <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/timeline-how-baseless-right-wing-claims-about-tech-bias-led-trump-drafting-executive" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">baselessly</a> <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/conservatives-cried-endlessly-about-censorship-2019" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">accuse</a> Facebook and other social media platforms of censorship and anti-conservative bias. During the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee <a href="https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/antitrust-hearing-tech-ceos/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">hearing</a> last month, conservative lawmakers <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2020/07/29/republicans-use-tech-antitrust-hearing-to-rail-against-anti-conservative-bias/#624f0da955aa" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">repeatedly</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/b_fung/status/1288562452377014273" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">alleged</a> that Facebook is biased against right-leaning content. Additionally, Fox News <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-friends-defends-trumps-false-statements-about-coronavirus-and-children" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">attacked</a> Facebook and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/top-right-wing-media-figures-rally-around-demon-sperm-doc" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">accused</a> the platform of censorship after Facebook <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/trumps-fox-friends-interview-demonstrates-fox-news-systemic-covid-19-misinformation" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">enforced its policy</a> against COVID-19 misinformation.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Media Matters has repeatedly found that claims of anti-conservative bias on social media platforms are false</b>. <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/study-analysis-top-facebook-pages-covering-american-political-news" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">In</a> <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/study-facebook-still-not-censoring-conservatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">multiple</a> <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/despite-bias-claims-facebook-not-censoring-conservatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">studies</a> over the course of several years, Media Matters has shown that right-leaning and left-leaning content thrives on Facebook, with right-leaning Facebook pages earning more interactions -- reactions, comments, shares -- on posts about <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/right-wing-talking-points-get-most-engagement-facebook-posts-about" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">voting</a> and posts about <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/black-lives-matter/study-right-wing-fearmongering-leads-facebook-engagement-about-peaceful-protests" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">protests</a> against police brutality than do posts from left-leaning or ideologically nonaligned pages. In recent weeks, this trend has <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/right-leaning-content-dominates-facebook-week-prior-judiciary-hearing-despite-conservative" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">continued to hold</a>. </font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BuzzFeed’s latest report about Facebook employees claiming there is a pattern of preferential treatment toward right-leaning Facebook pages and figures further underscores how Facebook has caved to pressure from conservatives, despite evidence repeatedly debunking conservatives’ baseless accusations. From BuzzFeed’s August 6 article:</font></p></div></div><blockquote class="block-quote block-quote--collapsable" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="block-quotequote" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1.5rem;"><p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>With heightened internal tensions and morale at a low point, concerns about how the company handles fact-checked content have exploded in an internal Workplace group dedicated to misinformation policy.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Last Friday, at another all-hands meeting, employees asked Zuckerberg how right-wing publication</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Breitbart News could remain a Facebook News partner after sharing a video that promoted unproven treatments and said masks were unnecessary to combat the novel coronavirus. </font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The video racked up 14 million views in six hours before it was removed from Breitbart’s page, though other accounts continued to share it.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Zuckerberg danced around the question</span><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">, but did note that Breitbart could be removed from the company's news tab if it were to receive two strikes for publishing misinformation within 90 days of each other. (<b>Facebook News partners, which include dozens of publications such as BuzzFeed News and the Washington Post, receive compensation and placement in a special news tab on the social network</b>.)</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“This was certainly one strike against them for misinformation, but they don't have others in the last 90 days,” Zuckerberg said. “So by the policies that we have, which by the way I think are generally pretty reasonable on this, it doesn't make sense to remove them.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But some of Facebook’s own employees gathered evidence they say shows Breitbart — along with other right-wing outlets and figures including Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, Trump supporters Diamond and Silk, and conservative video production nonprofit Prager University — has received special treatment that helped it avoid running afoul of company policy</b>. They see it as part of a pattern of preferential treatment for right-wing publishers and pages, many of which have alleged that the social network is biased against conservatives.</font></p></div></blockquote><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">aha-let: any number of smart ppl say we need to resotre unions are ctr-balance to corp power, but teachers are often women and not terribly well paid, so trad workers w/o power/leverage but Red for Ed; teacher union longtime target; workers MOST in danger of covid are undoc immigrant meatpackers</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/mark-levin-likens-teachers-unions-want-covid-19-protections-schools-segregationists-orval">https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/mark-levin-likens-teachers-unions-want-covid-19-protections-schools-segregationists-orval</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">trump threatened pull fed $ from schools if not reopen</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/massive-super-spreader-19-event-now-underway-in-south-dakota/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/massive-super-spreader-19-event-now-underway-in-south-dakota/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 820</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/how-the-cdc-director-surrendered-to-trumps-pressure/" style="font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" color="color" rgb="rgb" transition="transition" all="all" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" display="display" inline="inline" important="important" font-size="font-size" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" line-height="line-height">ow the CDC director surrendered to Trump’s pressure</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/steven-harper/" title="Posts by Steven Harper" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: right; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Steven Harper</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: right;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: right;">/</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: right;"> </span><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/billmoyers-com-2/" title="Posts by BillMoyers.com" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: right; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">BillMoyers.com</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/what-happens-when-red-states-pass-blue-states-in-19-cases-were-about-to-find-out/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/what-happens-when-red-states-pass-blue-states-in-19-cases-were-about-to-find-out/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">..<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.Around a week or so ago the <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Red states bypassed both the Swing and Blue states</strong> in <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">cases per capita</strong> and are now running around <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">7% ahead</strong> in official COVID-19 cases per capita, with no sign of slowing down. In terms of <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">mortality</strong>, the Blue states are still well ahead of both the Swing and Red states; there have been roughly <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2.2x as many official deaths per capita in the Blue states</strong> than in the Red states. However, this trend line is also looking bad for the Red states as well, if at a slower pace:</span></font></div><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 50px; list-style: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; list-style: square; position: relative; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In early April, the death rate was nearly 7x higher in the Blue states.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; list-style: square; position: relative; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By early May that was down to 4.5x higher.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; list-style: square; position: relative; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In early June it was 3.8x higher.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; list-style: square; position: relative; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In early July it was 3.4x higher.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px; list-style: square; position: relative; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This week it’s down to 2.2x higher.</font></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some folks have suggested that the shift might be due to the Red states massively ramping up their <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">testing</strong> rates…after all, if the Red states suddenly start testing at twice the rate as the Blue states, it would be reasonable to see their positive COVID-19 case levels increase faster.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is a fair question, so I decided to check.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...Assuming these are nominal factors, however, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">the trend is clear: COVID-19 is quickly becoming more of a Red State problem than a Blue State problem <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">even though Blue States are testing residents at a higher rate....</strong></span></font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Grijalva vs gohmert Goober</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 820</font></div><div><div class="header-list-style" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/jake-johnson/" title="Posts by Jake Johnson" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Jake Johnson</a> / <a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/common-dreams/" title="Posts by Common Dreams" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Common Dreams</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">August 6, 2020</span></font></div></div><div class="item-content entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Medical professionals were compelled to speak out Wednesday after President Donald Trump defended and doubled down on his claim that children are “virtually immune” to Covid-19, a dangerous falsehood the…</font></p></div></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/trumps-vaccine-chief-picks-his-own-former-employer-for-2-1-billion-deal/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/trumps-vaccine-chief-picks-his-own-former-employer-for-2-1-billion-deal/</font></a></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>trump’s vaccine chief picks his own former employer for $2.1 billion deal</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lt. Governor Rutherford Participates In GlaxoSmithKline Ribbon Cutting Ceremony by Anthony DePanise at 14200 Shady Grove Rd Rockville MD 20850, Image via.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Eoin Higgins / Common Dreams August 2, 2020</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The White House on Friday awarded a record-breaking $2.1 billion contract for development of a Covid-19 vaccine, raising questions about a former pharmaceutical executive’s involvement in the administration’s decision.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The deal is for 100 million doses of a vaccine manufactured by Sanofi, a French drug maker, and its British partner GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Fortune reported:</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The deal follows billions of dollars of U.S. commitments to other experimental vaccines—all still needing to show their effectiveness in testing—and may stoke concerns that other countries will be left behind. Vaccines are seen as the key to leading the world out of the pandemic that has killed about 675,000 people in a matter of months.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Dr. Moncef Slaoui, a former GSK executive</b>, is head of the White House’s Operation Warp Speed, the administration’s program to develop and disburse an effective coronavirus vaccine. Slaoui’s connection to his former company has been the focus of concern from advocacy groups and politicians skeptical of his claims of neutrality.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to the New York Times:</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Dr. Slaoui is not a federal employee, instead working under a $1 contract that exempts him from federal rules that would require him to list his outside positions, stock holdings and other potential conflicts. Dr. Slaoui said in an interview in May that he was determined to avoid any conflicts of interest, but that <b>his GSK stock represented his retirement from 29 years at the company, and that he had told federal officials he would not take the job if he had to sell it.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) raised concerns over Slaoui’s ties to GSK in May.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“It is a huge conflict of interest for the White House’s new vaccine czar to own $10 million of stock in a company receiving government funding to develop a Covid-19 vaccine,” Warren tweeted. “Dr. Slaoui should divest immediately.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As Common Dreams reported, the former executive’s refusal to relinquish his shares in the company made the process of awarding a contract a “sham,” in the words of former Office of Government Ethics director Walter Shaub.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“You can’t have a contractor supervising government officials,” said Shaub.</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" 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</div><div>GOP under fire for slipping $30 billion Pentagon gift into coronavirus relief bill</div><div>
</div><div>AD REMOVED FOR SUBSCRIBED USER</div><div>Written by Common Dreams August 1, 2020</div><div>37</div><div>In a floor speech late Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell described the GOP’s newly released coronavirus stimulus package as a “carefully tailored” plan to provide financial relief to desperate Americans.</div><div>
</div><div>But a look at the legislative text (pdf) released by Senate Republicans shows the HEALS Act is replete with massive gifts to the Pentagon and defense contractors that would do nothing to aid the unemployed, provide nutrition assistance to hungry children, prevent an avalanche of evictions, or stop the spread of coronavirus.</div><div>
</div><div>“Last time I checked F-35s don’t help families pay their bills,” Rep. Chuy García (D-Ill.) tweeted in response to the GOP’s proposal of $686 million in spending on new fighter jets.</div><div>
</div><div>The legislation also includes hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for surveillance planes, Apache helicopters, and armored vehicles.</div><div>
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</div><div>The HEALS Act proposes a total of $29.4 billion in new military spending just a week after the House and Senate approved a $740.5 billion Pentagon budget for fiscal year 2021.</div><div>
</div><div>Meanwhile, as Common Dreams reported earlier Tuesday, the Republican package includes no money for state and local governments, election assistance, or the U.S. Postal Service. The legislation would also slash the weekly federal unemployment insurance boost from $600 to $200.</div><div>
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</div><div>Roll Call’s John Donnelly reported Monday that “Senate Republicans have laced their roughly $1 trillion coronavirus relief package with at least $7 billion for weapons, most of which are built by leading contractors that contribute heavily to congressional campaigns.”</div><div>
</div><div>According to Donnelly:</div><div>
</div><div>The draft appropriations portion, made public Monday evening, includes money for fighter jets, helicopters, radars, ships, and armored vehicles that the measure’s authors have deemed “emergency” spending that is not capped by the budget control law…</div><div>
</div><div>The top two defense contractors, Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co., would do especially well under the measure.</div><div>
</div><div>The list of weapons is topped by fully $1 billion for an unstated number of Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime surveillance jets. Also on the list is $283 million for Boeing Apache helicopters for the Army.</div><div>
</div><div>Boeing’s Ground-Based Midcourse Defense anti-missile system, which is aimed at intercepting incoming ballistic missiles from sites in Alaska and California, would receive $200 million, and $243 million more would go to a missile defense radar program.</div><div>
</div><div>“People are dying, or worried about keeping a roof over their families’ heads, or cutting hours because their kids’ schools are closed,” said Anthony Weir, a lobbyist on nuclear disarmament and Pentagon spending at the Friends Committee on National Legislation. “And this is the time to jam some military procurement into this year that you didn’t get last year?”</div></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wow 3 in one day an 8/20, apparently vanity fair</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/jared-kushner-called-on-to-resign-after-damning-report-reveals-his-depravity/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/jared-kushner-called-on-to-resign-after-damning-report-reveals-his-depravity/</font></a></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">common dr</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>in the wake of devastating new reporting by Vanity Fair, a chorus of voices Friday called for the immediate resignation of Jared Kushner, a top White House advisor and the son-in-law of President Donald Trump, for disastrous—and deadly—failures by the administration that appear to have put the political desires of the president above the public health needs of the American people.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Vanity Fair article takes an exhaustive look at decisions made and actions taken by a secretive task force led by Kushner that was charged with implementing an “aggressive, coordinated national COVID-19 response”—including a federal testing regime that would help stem the spread of the virus<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">. What the investigation uncovered, according to reporter Katherine Eban, was an ultimately “aborted plan” for a far-reaching national testing strategy and a deliberative process that “began not with public health experts but with bankers and billionaires.”</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While the plan itself devised by the team Kushner put together was characterized as “imperfect” but “a starting point,” the most shocking revelations have to do with why the strategy, which members of the unit believed would head straight to Trump’s desk and then be rolled out nationwide with large fanfare in early April, suddenly seemed to disappear—like “poof into thin air,” said one participant in the effort.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Eban reports:</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">the prospect of launching a large-scale national plan was losing favor, said one public health expert in frequent contact with the White House’s official coronavirus task force.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Most troubling of all, perhaps, was a sentiment the expert said a member of Kushner’s team expressed: that because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically. “The political folks believed that <b>because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy,” said the expert.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>That logic may have swayed Kushner. “It was very clear that Jared was ultimately the decision maker as to what [plan] was going to come out,” the expert said.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On April 27, Trump stepped to a podium in the Rose Garden, flanked by members of his coronavirus task force and leaders of America’s big commercial testing laboratories, Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp, and finally announced a testing plan: It bore almost no resemblance to the one that had been forged in late March, and shifted the problem of diagnostic testing almost entirely to individual states.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">While the veracity of such claims cannot be verified—and Kushner refused to answer a detailed set of questions or be interviewed by Vanity Fair—the implications of such a decision speak for themselves and drew immediate outrage and a demand for accountability.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Imagine the administration had intel on an imminent terrorist attack that would kill over 100,000 people, and chose to do nothing because it was politically easier,”</b> tweeted Matt Duss, foreign policy advisor for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), on his personal account. “That’s what we have here. We need to be talking about accountability. For all of it.”...</font></p></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">cf moyers cox So won civil war; pluto olig: only rich white men deserve are qualified to govern, thus kush gets covid and ME peace:</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">a 720</font></p><p><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/heres-why-jared-kushners-plan-for-widespread-19-testing-just-went-poof-into-thin-air/" rel="bookmark" title="Here’s why Jared Kushner’s plan for widespread COVID-19 testing ‘just went poof into thin air’" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.4; display: block;" open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" px="px" font-weight="font-weight" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" color="color" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Here’s why Jared Kushner’s plan for widespread COVID-19 testing ‘just went poof into thin air’</font></a></p><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">hmmn, could this affect 2020 election? </font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a data-ga-action="Home Headlines: Headline" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2020/7/29/headlines/teachers_union_prepared_to_strike_if_schools_arent_made_safe_from_coronavirus" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-weight="font-weight" text-align="text-align" center="center" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(241, 242, 243); border: 0px;">Teachers’ Union Prepared to Strike If Schools Aren’t Made Safe from Coronaviru</a>s</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">dn 720</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" margin-top="margin-top" px="px" margin-bottom="margin-bottom" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">----</font></p></div></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/theres-a-reason-why-republicans-are-pushing-hydroxychloroquine-again-and-its-ugly/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/theres-a-reason-why-republicans-are-pushing-hydroxychloroquine-again-and-its-ugly/</font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Mark Sumner / Daily Kos July 30, 2020</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Wednesday morning, Republicans are in the second day of a full-on blitz attempting to sell the idea that hydroxychloroquine is effective as a treatment against COVID-19. That effort comes in the form of not just statements from Donald Trump, but supporting tweets and emails from Republican candidates and a full-court press from Fox News. At first, the idea that the GOP is latching onto claims from a doctor who believes medicines come from alien DNA to justify renewed support for a drug proven ineffective months ago seems baffling.<b> Even if everyone from Ron DeSantis to Peter Navarro has joined in buying hundreds of millions of pointless doses, and they have, the billions wasted on the drug hardly seem to justify a second round of life-threatening propaganda.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But the hydroxychloroquine story isn’t about whether or not the drug is effective—and to be clear, it’s not. The reason Republicans are supporting this fresh round of out-and-out lies about a treatment that is more harmful than helpful isn’t because they’re getting rich off the pills. It’s because they really, really need to convince people that it’s safe to go back to work and send their kids back to school. Because hydroxychloroquine, schools reopening, and the GOP “plan” for COVID-19 are all a single story. It’s the story of Republicans needing working class people to go out there and generate money—for the wealthy.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On Monday, Republicans finally produced a draft of their take on the next round of addressing COVID-19—a round that, though a third the size of what’s needed at this point, is still much larger than the entire economic stimulus program that Barack Obama fought for and signed in 2009.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> The Republican plan not only cuts unemployment compensation for those unable to work because of the pandemic, it sweeps in $30 billion for critical pandemic items l<b>ike more F-35 fighters and a new FBI building</b>. It<b>took that kind of “sweetening” to get enough Republicans to agree to having any plan at all.</b></span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">But there are two things that Republicans were dead set on getting into their package. Two things that Sen. Mitch McConnell and others made clear were absolutely a requirement before the Senate would lift a finger. The Republican plan had to:</font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Ensure that it cut unemployment benefits to workers sent home by business closures during the pandemic.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><b>Protect corporations from being sued</b> by workers who caught COVID-19 from being forced to work in unsafe conditions.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>These were not a secret agenda. These were McConnell’s openly stated goals</b>. He has been pushing for weeks the idea that, unless corporations are given a free pass to get as many workers sick as they like, <b>America would be “swamped by personal injury lawsuits,</b>” just because people had been personally injured. Republicans aren’t hiding this. Their entire agenda when it comes to COVID-19 is making sure that people have no choice but to get out there and put their lives on the line for minimum wage. Trump even used an executive order to put mostly immigrant workers back onto the lines at meatpacking facilities even as people at those facilities were literally dying.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>And that’s exactly why Republicans are also keen on reopening schools. Those complaining about people not being eager to work for minimum wage in the midst of a pandemic and those calling for the reopening of public schools are after the same thing: Maintaining a low-cost “service class” that does the actual work while the wealthy and corporations collect the benefit of their labor.</b> It’s not anything new. It’s actually baked into the unfettered capitalism of the American system. The COVID-19 crisis only serves to underline the utter cruelty and inhumanity intrinsic to that system.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The public school funding system in the United States—where almost all the cost falls on property tax in local communities—is one of the best tools the wealthy have ever created to externalize costs and ensure the continued presence of a low-cost worker class. The result of the current system of school funding is that poor communities end up paying a much higher tax rate, while still getting schools that provide inadequate opportunities for their children, helping to lock in a poverty cycle. This is by no means an accident.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Across the nation, private schools are not opening. Barron Trump’s school is not opening. </b>But Republicans want public schools open for the same reason they want unemployment benefits ended: the working class is the engine that puts more money in wealthy pockets. Reopening public schools in the midst of a pandemic has nothing to do with educating the nation’s children. It has everything to do with removing obstacles that keep the cogs from getting back out there and turning the wheels of commerce.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cutting unemployment and opening schools is entirely designed to give American workers absolutely no choice but to put their lives on the line without making a single demand on their employers. That’s what Republicans are saying every time they complain about the chance that someone might possibly be able to survive for another month on unemployment benefits. Other nations are absolutely providing workers with enhanced benefits during the pandemic because “paying people to stay home” is good public policy. It’s impossible to have effective social distancing if workers are being put in a position where they cannot stay home, and cannot disobey directives from their employers, even if those directives are unsafe.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Hydroxychloroquine is just the carrot being dangled in front of workers as they’re forced back on the job, and their children are forced back into school without an option. It’s the promise that if they do get sick, there’s something that can be done about it. Unfortunately, it’s also an absolute lie.</font></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">disaster and surveil capitalism together at last:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Meet Palantir: A Surveillance Company Founded By Trump Crony Thiel To Track COVID-19</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As if we don’t have enough to worry about from Trump and the coronavirus already, there’s a data-mining company called Palantir, founded by gazillionaire crony Peter Thiel, digging up and providing information about us and COVID-19 to the federal government.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By NewsHound Ellen</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reporter Spencer Ackerman appeared on AM Joy today to expand on a frightening article in The Daily Beast about Thiel and Palantir’s involvement in the creation of a government coronavirus data platform.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A top donor to conservative causes and the first outside investor in Facebook, Thiel was, according to The Wall Street Journal, instrumental in pushing the social networking giant to allow politicians to lie in advertisements on the platform. It’s a policy that many outside observers believe will help the Trump campaign—which Thiel has again pledged to support.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Palantir, which Thiel helped found—and still retains a sizeable stake in — has watched its already-lucrative government business skyrocket in the Trump era.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, as Ackerman explained to host Joy Reid, Palantir is integrating data for the Department of Health and Human Services “from a staggering amount of data sets from around the country.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ACKERMAN: Palantir isn’t saying anything on the record about this contract, Joy. What we’ve found is that Palantir is building the Department of Health and Human Services a platform to integrate data from a<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> staggering amount of data sets from around the country. HHS says 187 data sets, basically things like supply chain management for hospitals, bed space in hospitals dealing with coronavirus, information as well on where new instances of the outbreak may be and their intensity. What we don't have a clear picture on is what access Palantir itself will have to that information.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Reid noted that Palantir has previously worked for HHS to detect Medicare fraud, for the FBI in criminal probes, the Department of Homeland Security to screen air travelers and to keep tabs on immigrants. Given Thiel’s stance against truth on Facebook, Reid pointed out, “This is not a guy who's on the side of the public.</span>”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ackerman agreed.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>All of the data that we generate from nearly everything we do, particularly in an economic sphere these days, all of it being digital</b>, </font></div><div><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...ACKERMAN: <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Palantir is basically the weaponization of what Shoshana Zuboff at Harvard Business School calls surveillance capitalism</span></font></span></div><div><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">has a huge amount of implication for our privacy. And what that really means, it has a huge implication for our freedom.</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Palantir has built, with CIA start-up money from its In-Q-Tel investment arm, a really incredible suite of tools that a variety of both law enforcement, intelligence, military, commercial and civilian government sector entities use to monitor a tremendous amount of what we do. The implications of this are really profound and they're only going to grow the more data we all generate.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Under Donald Trump, it's really been super-sized. They've gotten something like upwards of $800 million already in federal contracting money, and this one particular tool they're sending to HHS, this thing called Foundry,</b> we found a contract for that basically a drop in the bucket for Palantir, $7.5 million, but now what we all have to find out is where that data actually goes and what happens to that data when they no longer need it. The history of surveillance over the past generation is that once you build these tools and the government has them, they don't want to give them up, and they migrate into being a permanent fixture of government life and activity.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s the same HHS, by the way, where the coronavirus response team is led by a former dog breeder and the spokesman is a racist conspiracy theorist.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What could go wrong?</font></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">hmmn, it's been bad in red states fr a while (but not mdwest?)</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/trump-was-content-to-let-people-suffer-from-covid-19-in-blue-states-until-infections-soared-among-our-people-in-republican-states-report/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/trump-was-content-to-let-people-suffer-from-covid-19-in-blue-states-until-infections-soared-among-our-people-in-republican-states-report/</a></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/heres-your-field-guide-to-the-5-main-types-of-pandemic-deniers/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/heres-your-field-guide-to-the-5-main-types-of-pandemic-deniers/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Every day there is more data to prove the dangers of the coronavirus. Yet, bizarrely, the more proof we have of the damage of the pandemic; the more vicious and hysterical its deniers. It is hard not to be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of uninformed, deluded ideas covidiots spew on a daily basis. We mourn not just the lives lost and the bodies damaged, but the collective intelligence of our nation. With international news consistently depicting the United States as the dumbest nation in the developed world, it is as if news of the covidiocy is almost as depressing as news of the virus’s spread itself.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The trend to what is described as America’s move from freedom to “freedumb” has sadly been a long time in the making. The pandemic only painfully reveals a process that was well-documented by Charles Pierce’s 2010 book “Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free.”</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Pierce opens with a story of Americans descending on the Creation Museum in Kentucky, where homeschooled children on field trips can behold a dinosaur wearing a saddle. With stories like these it is not hard to understand how this country lost its grip on even the most basic scientific concepts. It is not a big leap from dinosaurs in saddles to believing that face masks make us sick.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shortly before the 2016 election we started to hear that part of the problem with America’s stupidity was the fact that social media allows us to exist in information silos or echo chambers where our ideas aren’t challenged and where we get a daily dose of confirmation for our brand of personal wackiness. Surely, information silos are a problem, but as the pandemic deniers have shown, there is actually a fairly diverse array of covidiocy types.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In fact, when we lump all pandemic deniers together into the same pile, we miss the fact that what plagues America on a cognitive level is a far more serious disease, one that has neither one symptom nor one easy cure. <b>Here are five main types of covidiots to look out for:</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Eye Rollers</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The eye rollers think that all of the news over the pandemic is exaggerated hype.</b> This is the line of reasoning that suggests that if we didn’t test for the virus so well, our numbers would be more in line with other developed nations. The eye rollers think that the coronavirus is just like the flu and that its mortality rates are of no real significance.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You’d think all you’d need to do with an eye roller is show them the inside of an ICU or have them hear stories from those who have been gravely sickened by the virus. But the key to the eye roller is that they aren’t going to believe a single piece of evidence because, from their view, all proof of the dangers of the pandemic is <b>manufactured to produce hysteria.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The eye roller is disturbing for the fact that they have a long history of not taking a single critical issue in this nation seriously. So, coupled with their eye rolling over what they perceive as coronavirus hype, they are also likely to believe that we have no racism, no sexism, in fact, no significant problems whatsoever. For them, liberals manufacture issues that aren’t real so that they can create social anxiety and elevate their policy platform. These are the people who disparage the Black Lives Matter movement as reverse racism and mock #MeToo as a problem of thin skin.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Shoulder Shruggers</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The shoulder shruggers are your Ayn Rand-style covidiots. These folks get the numbers and the science. They have a full sense of the dead bodies and damaged lungs, but they simply don’t care. They epitomize the “profit over people” worldview.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>This is the line of reasoning we saw on display by Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick </b>who suggested that grandparents should be willing to die in order to save the economy for their grandkids: “My message: let’s get back to work, let’s get back to living, let’s be smart about it, and those of us who are 70-plus, we’ll take care of ourselves.” According to him, there is no reason to “sacrifice the country” in order to save a few old people.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Like the eye rollers, the shoulder shruggers have a far more pernicious mindset that shapes their views on a wider set of concerns than the virus. These are the folks who see in the virus neoliberal opportunities to capitalize rather than empathize.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Narcissistic Hedonists</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The hedonists simply don’t want to be inconvenienced by the virus. They want their manicures, haircuts and happy hours. Their own selfishness dominates their behavior and clouds their ability to consider the wellbeing of others. They see the entire world from the vantage point of their pleasure-driven egos and they outright refuse to be inconvenienced for the benefit of others.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The narcissistic hedonists talk about how they have a right not to wear a mask and how those who worry over the pandemic should just stay home. “You’re infringing on my rights,” they scream any time they are told they can’t enter a store without a mask. “This is a free country, and I’m here to shop.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The narcissistic hedonists have no commitment to a social project nor do they care a wit about the common good. They have weighed the costs and risks of their behavior and they think that their own desires are more valuable than their grandparents’ lives.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This strain of covidiot also has a long history in this nation. Unlike the eye roller who thinks everything in the nation is already great or the shoulder shrugger who cares more about the economy than society, the narcissistic hedonist places their desires at the center of everything. And, even worse, they think that their own destructive ego-driven behavior is their “right” as Americans.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Self-Proclaimed Scientists</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The self-proclaimed scientists are a unique strain of covidiot that derives from this nation’s long resistance to expertise. The self-proclaimed scientist will tell you that you should not listen to Dr. Anthony Fauci. Instead you should listen to them, since they have done “research” and they know more about the virus than world-leading scientists.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recently warned of the dangerous consequences of our national anti-science bias: “One of the problems we face in the United States is that unfortunately, there is a combination of an anti-science bias that people are — for reasons that sometimes are, you know, inconceivable and not understandable — they just don’t believe science and they don’t believe authority.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Yet, as Pierce documents in the book I cited earlier, the<b> American tendency to eschew expertise and disparage science has extremely deep roots in our collective history. I</b>t is tied not just to religious extremism, but also to the history of anti-intellectualism in the U.S. The urge to put down teachers and professors alongside scientists is part of the American habit of distrusting smart people and it is tied to the idea that some folks would prefer a president they want to have a beer with over an intellectual or even highly educated president.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The anti-expertise sickness that plagues the United States is sadly to blame for much of the failed U.S. response to the pandemic, but its negative impact on the functioning of our nation goes well beyond flaws in our healthcare system and public health policy. As long as we continue to be skeptical of knowledge and attracted to BS, we can expect our nation to continue to look less and less like a developed nation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Conspiracy Theorists</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of the special features of conspiracy theorists is that they are found on both the left and the right, unlike a lot of the other strains of covidiots. They converge in the bizarre alternate reality of anti-vaxxers. But, regarding the coronavirus, the conspiracy theories are largely skewed to the right.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The range of conspiracy theories about the pandemic is simply too broad to cover in this piece. It spans from theories that the virus was deliberately started by China or by Bill Gates to theories that the virus simply isn’t real at all. Nature reported in March that “the website Biohackinfo.com falsely claimed that Gates planned to use a coronavirus vaccine as a ploy to monitor people through an injected microchip or quantum-dot spy software.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Healthline reported in June that 25 percent of people believe unproven theories about COVID-19. This is all to show that there is a strange urge in this country to attach to fantasy theories rather than facts.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The danger to the conspiracy theorist is not just their refusal to accept evidence that challenges their views, but rather their paranoid worries that any evidence is actually propaganda designed to dupe them and cause harm</b>. The conspiracy theorist is so worried thinking that information is manipulation that they lose any sight of what the truth actually is. And as coverage of a Palm Beach County Commission meeting that went viral for the outlandish arguments presented by residents against a mask ordinance (which the Florida county did pass) shows, covidiots tend to mix up their reasons for refusing to wear masks and take the pandemic seriously. Trying to follow these arguments against wearing masks will hurt your brain.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What’s worse is that having to “debate” matters of science and evidence-based medicine tends to leave us fighting each other rather than the virus. Even more disturbing, there is no vaccine for covidiocy: It promises to linger well after the virus has been contained, wreaking havoc on our society, taking up resources and frustrating progress. It’s a condition that has plagued our country for decades and it won’t be cured until and unless we make a collective effort to prevent its spread.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/how-the-so-called-champion-of-american-business-fought-to-protect-profiteering-and-endangered-millions"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/how-the-so-called-champion-of-american-business-fought-to-protect-profiteering-and-endangered-millions</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As hospital intensive care units overflow again, and delays in COVID-19 testing reports reach record levels in many cities, a conversation I recently with Sen. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, reminded me that I had forgotten something utterly critical: </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Donald Trump’s decision to unilaterally disarm America in the face of the coronavirus invasion was urged upon him by an ostensible defender of American business: the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When the pandemic reached America, we weren’t ready — any more than we were ready when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. But Trump had the tools to do what the U.S. has often done: make up for lack of preparedness. The crucial gaps to fill in March were supplies for testing to limit the spread of the virus, and medical equipment to treat those who got sick — testing kits, swabs, reagents, masks, gowns and gloves — by the billions. Government health agencies estimated that if the pandemic took hold, the country would need, for example, 3.5 billion N95 medical masks. We had 12 million.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Presidents have available, and have routinely used, the Cold War-era Defense Production Act to overcome such critical supply shortages </b>— not just in wartime, but also to ensure adequate relief supplies after natural disasters. DPA can be used to put emergency purchases at the head of a supply chain, but also to require factories to convert their output to provide needed equipment in adequate volumes. Members of Congress urged Trump to appoint a military official as DPA czar to coordinate production and distribution of essential pandemic-related medical supplies, as was done in the Korean War.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">In March, Trump was leaning towards robust use of the DPA, fashioning himself as a wartime president and the battle against the coronavirus as America’s “big war.” He invoked the DPA to require General Motors to speed up its production of ventilators. But he quickly discovered that he had an enemy within — not the virus as such, but the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Within days of Trump’s announcement that he would mobilize as if for war and use the DPA, the Chamber of Commerce’s lobbying army swung into action. Among the Chamber’s arguments: DPA would impose “red tape on companies precisely when they need flexibility to deal with closed borders and shuttered factories.” Unstated: if the government took charge of the supply chain for tests, masks and gowns, it could also prevent bidding wars from competing hospitals and states that would, and did, drive prices — and profits — through the roof.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>In response, labor unions representing nurses, hospital staff and other frontline workers who were unable to be tested, or to obtain masks or gowns, protested and urged the Chamber to join a national mobilization</b> to defeat the coronavirus. The appeal was not answered. On March 23, <b>Markey and his Massachusetts colleague, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, wrote to the Chamber demanding an explanation. The Chamber’s response: Defense Production Act reliance was unnecessary, because “American companies will do whatever it takes to support America’s response to the pandemic and shore up the economy.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But what the workers had feared — insufficient production, soaring prices and profits, chaotic delivery mechanisms — took over the health care market during the first wave of virus spikes in the Northeast. Some hospitals were paying 15 times the usual price for masks.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Chamber continued its strenuous opposition to enabling the government to ensure an adequate supply of tests and PPE. Even Trump conceded that profiteering had taken over the market, and ultimately he did invoke the DPA to prevent it — but when it came to the export market.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Supplies increased, but often at exorbitant prices. Only when the shutdowns of most of the American economy brought the number of hospitalizations down sharply did supply and demand come into temporary balance. Americans believed that if there was a second wave later in the year, at least health care workers on the front lines would have the tools they needed.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Trump, denied by Chamber opposition of an easy pathway to acting like a heroic wartime president, seemingly lost interest. By June his focus had shifted from fighting the virus to reopening the economy and then reigniting the culture wars. Media headlines proclaiming his lack of interest didn’t even provoke “fake news” tweets from the East Wing of the White House.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The virus had a longer attention span. With major states like Florida, Texas and Arizona opening rapidly and prematurely, the holes in the jerry-built testing, tracing and quarantine systems each state had fashioned without federal guidance gave the virus its chance.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cases — although not, initially, fatalities — began to soar. Suddenly, what any nationally coordinated effort would have been tracking and resolving all along — that the nation had stepped up production of tests, masks and gowns to meet the needs of an economy in shutdown, but had nowhere near the level of supplies for a massive second wave — came home to roost. By early July, new cases were flooding the hospital capacity of even some of the nation’s major health care centers, such as Houston.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In New Orleans, testing centers had to close eight minutes after they opened. In 100-degree heat in Phoenix, lines at testing centers were eight hours long. San Antonio and Austin were forced to limit testing to those with symptoms, leaving the system utterly unable to detect asymptomatic cases, when research suggests that to 40% of infections take place. Wait times for test results soared with caseloads, so that even those who got tested might not find out they were positive until they were well past the contagious stage.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Nurses were again forced to use one N95 mask for weeks at a time.</b> Prices for what was actually available soared. States reported they could only fulfill 10% of their orders. Even now, in July, the U.S. has nothing like the 3.5 billion N95 masks that we knew in January we would need. Indeed, how could we? No manufacturer could have guessed in March how severe the crisis would be by fall. With no one managing the system, it was clearly foolish for any private company to produce, on speculation, several billion masks. Market signals cannot prepare America for the massive increase in possible scale required by such a pandemic. Nor can individual cities and states trigger the necessary ramp-up of supplies. Only a systematic national plan designed to ensure that we were ready for the worst-case scenario could have protected us.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Inevitably, the “market solutions” favored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have failed America not once but twice. In failing, they have taken the nation’s economy over the precipice into a deep, long, economic decline. That the loudest voice claiming to represent U.S. business chose to defend profiteering, embrace short-term thinking and risk the collapse of the American health care system and economy is both shameful and shocking.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>And that most Americans, including me, had already forgotten this is scary. This is not the first time the Chamber has successfully pursued policies that put us enormously at risk — for years it has been one of the major forces preventing Washington from adopting even the most modest efforts to accelerate a transition off fossil fuels to save lives and protect the climate. But if the Chamber can get away once again with having caused massive economic damage while risking the health of millions, and with its public reputation unscathed, it’s unlikely to change its behavior.</b></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A new study finds that Fox News <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/05/12/unproven-drug-treatment-for-coronavirus-championed-by-trump-and-fox-news-shows-no-benefit-study/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">peddled misinformation</a> about the coronavirus pandemic 253 times in only five days. The documented instances included <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/04/29/tucker-carlson-exposed-as-coronavirus-truther-how-the-fox-news-host-masks-conspiracies-in-populism/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">claims which undermined science</a> and <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/05/27/study-fox-news-viewership-linked-to-higher-non-compliance-with-stay-at-home-orders/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">faith in experts</a>, as well as demands that <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/04/16/bless-you-fox-news-stars-shower-blessings-upon-protesters-for-violating-coronavirus-restrictions/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">schools and businesses reopen at the risk of public health</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/06/17/hydroxychloroquine-truther-laura-ingraham-urges-trump-campaign-to-ignore-alarmist-covid-drivel/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Primetime host Laura Ingraham</a>, who has no medical or scientific background whatsoever, led the pack with about a quarter of <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/05/05/fox-news-laura-ingraham-falsely-claims-there-was-no-real-scientific-basis-for-social-distancing/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the claims</a> — 63 total, or just more than 12 per show. Additionally, <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/02/as-covid-deaths-mounted-lindsey-graham-kept-moving-the-goalposts-for-trump/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the network’s “straight news” programs contributed</a> about 35% of the misinformation.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-news-pushed-coronavirus-misinformation-253-times-just-five-days" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">study</a>, published Thursday by media watchdog Media Matters for America, was conducted from July 6 to 10 — the week after a Yahoo News <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/as-coronavirus-surges-fox-news-shifts-its-message-on-masks-200834996.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">report</a> proclaimed that Fox’s coronavirus coverage had taken a “remarkable turn” for the better....</font></p></div><div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump’s <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/20/corruption-full-display-trump-executive-order-directs-all-agencies-gut-business" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">ongoing</a> efforts to roll back regulations designed to protect the environment, workers, and public health likely played a significant role in the spread of Covid-19 in the United States.</font></b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s according to a new report released Tuesday by New York University School of Law’s Institute for Policy Integrity (IPI), a nonpartisan policy think tank.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 45-page report titled “<a href="https://policyintegrity.org/files/publications/Weakening_Our_Defenses_Covid_Deregulation_Report.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Weakening Our Defenses</a>” (pdf) details how Trump’s far-reaching deregulatory push has exacerbated several major risk factors for contracting and spreading Covid-19, such as high levels o<b>f air pollution, hazardous working conditions, and lack of adequate health insurance.</b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“President Trump’s deregulatory agenda has affected all those factors, and, therefore, the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">disproportionate racial and economic justice impacts</span> of deregulation are now most likely compounding in deadly ways in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic,” the report says.</font></b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Even before the pandemic,” the report continues, “those regulatory decisions collectively were already causing dire consequences for public health and safety, the environment, and economic conditions—but we now know that those regulatory decisions have likely also increased our collective susceptibility to Covid-19."</font></b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[twt]</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the report cites the Trump administration’s <a href="https://www.epa.gov/stationary-sources-air-pollution/reclassification-major-sources-area-sources-under-section-112-clean" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">rollback</a> of restrictions on nearly 2,000 forms of hazardous air pollution in 2018, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/19/chorus-outrage-trump-admin-throws-climate-public-health-under-bus-killing-obama-era" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">weakening</a> of the Clean Power Plan, and <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/30/trump-kneecap-obama-era-fuel-efficiency-standards-hurtling-nation-toward-more" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">gutting</a> of vehicle fuel efficiency standards in 2020 as examples of environmental deregulatory actions that left the U.S. more vulnerable to Covid-19. The U.S. currently has the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/14/coronavirus-world-map-which-countries-have-the-most-covid-19-cases-and-deaths" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">most confirmed</a> coronavirus cases and deaths in the world.</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“These rollbacks have put all of us—especially low-income communities, Black people, and people of color, and essential workers—at higher risk of contracting and dying from Covid-19,” said Gina McCarthy,</span> former Environmental Protection Agency administrator and current president of the Natural Resources Defense Council.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The report also points to the Trump administration’s weakening of workplace safety standards at meatpacking plants, which have become major Covid-19 hotspots.<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6927e2.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"> <b>According to</b></a><b> the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 16,200 meat and poultry processing workers have contracted Covid-19 at 239 facilities in the U.S.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“In October 2019, the Trump administration’s Department of Agriculture finalized a rule to ‘modernize’ swine slaughter inspections,” IPI’s report says. “The new program, which pig processing plants may opt into, reduces the number of food safety inspectors in plants and removes caps on pig slaughter line speeds.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By forcing workers to perform their jobs in close proximity to one another, the report notes, the prioritization of speed over safety forces “likely puts meat processing workers at greater risk for Covid-19.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Trump administration’s efforts to undermine the Affordable Care and limit Medicaid eligibility by approving state-level work requirements also may have contributed to the spread of Covid-19, according to the new report.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Though some of these state requirements have since been invalidated by the courts, other state programs could yet be implemented, and even the temporary loss of coverage in some states could be significant—particularly during a pandemic,” the report says.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Kathleen Rest, executive director of the Union of Concerned Scientists, said in a statement that the Trump administration’s “failure to listen to and act on the best available science is irresponsible and dangerous.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“From day one, the Trump administration has attempted to roll back not only existing public health protections, but the scientific basis on which all public health protections are based,” said Rest. “That’s short-sighted and foolish at the best of times, but they have continued to dismantle safeguards even as the country faces the threat of Covid-19, one of the biggest public health crises in our history.”</font></p></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/07/03/halfway-house-pandemic-coronavirus-geo-group/">https://theintercept.com/2020/07/03/halfway-house-pandemic-coronavirus-geo-group/</a></font></p><div class="Homepage-HomepageSubjectSecondaryNode-textBlock" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 16px; width: 247.266px; flex: 1 1 100%;"><h4 class="elements-Heading-heading elements-Heading-light Homepage-HomepageSubjectSecondaryNode-heading" relay="[object Object]" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; position: relative; z-index: 1; cursor: pointer;"><span class="elements-Eyebrow-eyebrow elements-Eyebrow-light PromoHeadline-eyebrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.1; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coronavirus Crisis</font></span><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How the Coronavirus Became a Death Sentence at a GEO Group Halfway House</font></span></h4><div class="Homepage-HomepageSubjectSecondaryNode-byline" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="PromoByline-byline PromoByline-light" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="PromoByline-authors" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="undefined" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Liliana Segura</font></span></span></div></div></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div><div><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></b></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ew 720 methane</font></p><h1 class="widgetheadline h1" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; font-weight: normal;"><a class="widgetheadline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.ecowatch.com/food-waste-environment-2646305670.html" aria-label="How COVID-19 Creates Food Waste Mountains That Threaten the Environment" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2;">How COVID-19 Creates Food Waste Mountains That Threaten the Environment</a></font></h1><h1 class="widgetheadline h1" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></h1><div><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url css-listicle-body-2646305670 expanded" data-elid="2646305670" data-post-url="https://www.ecowatch.com/food-waste-environment-2646305670.html" data-authors="World Economic Forum" data-headline="How COVID-19 Creates Food Waste Mountains That Threaten the Environment" style="margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body-description" style="clear: both;"><div class="widgetbrief"><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Emma Charlton</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gluts of food left to rot as a consequence of coronavirus aren't just wasteful – they're also likely to damage the environment.</font></p></div><div class="content-container"><div class=" rebellt-item is--desktop col1" id="rebelltitem1" data-id="1" data-is-image="False" data-href="https://www.ecowatch.com/food-waste-environment-2646305670.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1" data-published-at="1593607152" data-basename="particle-1" data-post-id="2646305670"><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mountains of produce, including eggs, milk and onions, are going to waste as the COVID-19 pandemic shutters restaurants, restricts transport, limits what workers are able to do and disrupts supply chains. And as that food decays, it releases methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fresh milk and eggs have been dumped, and some ripe crops reploughed back into fields, according to reports in the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/closed-due-to-coronavirus-restaurants-clear-out-their-pantries-11586005203?mod=article_inline" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Wall Street Journal</a> and the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/business/coronavirus-destroying-food.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); overflow-wrap: break-word;">New York Times</a>. While consumer demand for some supermarket items has risen as a result of lockdowns, it's unlikely to offset steep declines elsewhere, such in restaurants and school and workplace canteens.</font></p></div><div class=" rebellt-item is--desktop col1" id="rebelltitem2" data-id="2" data-is-image="False" data-href="https://www.ecowatch.com/food-waste-environment-2646305670.html?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2" data-published-at="1593607152" data-basename="methane-on-the-rise" data-post-id="2646305670"><h3 data-role="headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Methane on the Rise</font></h3><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Not only is this a tragic waste of food at a time when many are going hungry, it is also an <a href="https://donatedontdump.net/2014/07/07/the-effects-of-food-waste-on-the-environment-by-junemy-pantig/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); overflow-wrap: break-word;">environmental hazard</a> and could contribute to global warming. 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text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Food decay leads to production of greenhouse gases, methane and carbon dioxide. EPA</font></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, 28 to <a href="https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/SYR_AR5_FINAL_full.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); overflow-wrap: break-word;">36 times more effective than CO2 at trapping heat</a> in the atmosphere over a 100-year period, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Many export-oriented producers produce volumes far too large for output to be absorbed in local markets, and thus <a href="https://unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=2333" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); overflow-wrap: break-word;">organic waste levels have mounted substantially</a>," says Robert Hamwey, Economic Affairs Officer at UN agency UNCTAD. "Because this waste is left to decay, levels of methane emissions, a greenhouse gas, from decaying produce are expected to rise sharply in the crisis and immediate post-crisis months."</font></p></div><div class=" rebellt-item is--desktop col1" id="rebelltitem4" data-id="4" data-is-image="True" data-href="https://www.ecowatch.com/food-waste-environment-2646305670.html?rebelltitem=4#rebelltitem4" data-published-at="1593607152" data-basename="particle-4" data-post-id="2646305670"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;" /><p style="margin-top: 4px !important; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; 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display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Food supply chains are easily disrupted. UN FAO</font></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></small></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dumping food was already a problem before the crisis. In America alone, <a href="https://www.refed.com/?sort=economic-value-per-ton" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); overflow-wrap: break-word;">$218 billion is spent growing, processing, transporting</a> and disposing of food that is never eaten, estimates ReFED, a collection of business, non-profit and government leaders committed to reducing food waste. That's equivalent to around 1.3% of GDP.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since the pandemic took hold, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-52267943" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); overflow-wrap: break-word;">farmers are dumping 14 million liters</a> of milk each day because of disrupted supply routes, estimates Dairy Farmers of America. A chicken processor was forced to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/business/coronavirus-destroying-food.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); overflow-wrap: break-word;">destroy 750,000 unhatched eggs a week</a>, according to the New York Times, which also cited an onion farmer letting most of his harvest decompose because he couldn't distribute or store them.</font></p></div><div class=" rebellt-item is--desktop col1" id="rebelltitem5" data-id="5" data-is-image="False" data-href="https://www.ecowatch.com/food-waste-environment-2646305670.html?rebelltitem=5#rebelltitem5" data-published-at="1593607152" data-basename="food-prices-collapsing" data-post-id="2646305670"><h3 data-role="headline"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Food Prices Collapsing</font></h3><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The excess has also seen prices collapse. The <a href="http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); overflow-wrap: break-word;">FAO Food Price Index</a> (FFPI) averaged 162.5 points in May 2020, down 3.1 points from April and reaching the lowest monthly average since December 2018. The gauge has dropped for four consecutive months, and the latest decline reflects falling values of all the food commodities – dairy, meat, cereal, vegetable – except sugar, which rose for the first time in three months.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">All this while the pandemic is exacerbating other global food trends.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"This year, some 49 million extra people may fall into extreme poverty due to the COVID-19 crisis," said António Guterres, Secretary-General of the UN. "The number of people who are acutely food or nutrition insecure will rapidly expand. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGhLKAbNDiY&feature=youtu.be" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Even in countries with abundant food, we see risks of disruptions in the food supply chain</a>."</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[twt] World Economic Forum has launched its <a href="https://www.weforum.org/great-reset/about" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); overflow-wrap: break-word;">Great Reset initiative</a>, which urgently calls for global stakeholders to cooperate in managing the consequences of the COVID-19 crisis. It calls on policymakers to put the environment at the heart of plans to rebuild as we emerge from the pandemic.</font></p></div><p class="" style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Reposted with permission from <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/covid-19-food-waste-mountains-environment/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); overflow-wrap: break-word;">World Economic Forum</a>.</font></p><div class="around-the-web" style="margin-top: 20px !important;"><div class="from-your-siteheadline" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase; visibility: hidden !important; margin-bottom: -5px !important;"><ul class="around-the-weblist" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><li class="from-your-siteitem"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/food-waste-increase-2597861750.html" class="from-your-sitelink" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); font-weight: 700; 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margin: 4px 2px; display: inline-block; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1; border-radius: 20px; border: 2px solid rgb(232, 232, 232); padding: 6px 11px;">methane</a> <a class="tagsitem" href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/environment" style="text-decoration-line: none; margin: 4px 2px; display: inline-block; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1; border-radius: 20px; border: 2px solid rgb(232, 232, 232); padding: 6px 11px;">environment</a></font></div></div><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></b></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">india and brazil covid surge 6/3/20, brazil #2 behind US; west pt cadets (ceremony is still on?!) dn</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><div class="mag-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h3 class="magcat-titlte entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 1px;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/one-out-of-3-americans-used-bleach-in-non-recommended-high-risk-practices-to-battle-coronavirus-cdc/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; display: block; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">one out of 3 Americans used bleach ‘in non recommended high-risk practices’ to battle coronavirus: CDC</font></a></h3><div class="grid-post-box-meta mag-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 7px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="author-italic author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/david-badash/" title="Posts by David Badash" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">David Badash</a> / <a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/the-new-civil-rights-movement/" title="Posts by The New Civil Rights Movement" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">The New Civil Rights Movement</a></font></span></div></div><div class="mag-excerpt entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One third of Americans used bleach or other household disinfectants “in non-recommended high risk practices” in attempts to reduce the spread of the deadly coronavirus, a new CDC survey finds.…</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; 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The nation didn’t just lack enough ventilators, PPE, and other critical…</font></p></div></div></h3></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/the-u-s-is-declaring-a-vaccine-war-on-the-world/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/the-u-s-is-declaring-a-vaccine-war-on-the-world/</font></a></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">520</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/more-evidence-emerges-that-ron-desantis-is-deliberately-under-reporting-covid-19-deaths-in-florida/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/more-evidence-emerges-that-ron-desantis-is-deliberately-under-reporting-covid-19-deaths-in-florida/</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">520</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/more-evidence-emerges-that-ron-desantis-is-deliberately-under-reporting-covid-19-deaths-in-florida/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/more-evidence-emerges-that-ron-desantis-is-deliberately-under-reporting-covid-19-deaths-in-florida/</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">#3 ny nj</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><div><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/pandemics-environmental-destruction-2645854694.html"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.ecowatch.com/pandemics-environmental-destruction-2645854694.html</font></a></div><div><h1 class="widgetheadline h1" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="widgetheadline-text custom-post-headline" href="https://www.ecowatch.com/coronavirus-wildlife--ecosystem-destruction-2645713976.html" aria-label="Coronavirus Pandemic Linked to Destruction of Wildlife and World's Ecosystems" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Coronavirus Pandemic Linked to Destruction of Wildlife and World's Ecosystems</font></a></h1></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/coronavirus-wildlife--ecosystem-destruction-2645713976.html">https://www.ecowatch.com/coronavirus-wildlife--ecosystem-destruction-2645713976.html</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h3 class="magcat-titlte entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 1px;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/the-next-death-wave-from-covid-19-will-be-the-poor-rural-and-white/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; display: block; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">next death wave from COVID-19 will be the poor, rural and white</font></a></h3><div class="grid-post-box-meta mag-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 7px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="author-italic author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/thom-hartmann/" title="Posts by Thom Hartmann" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alex Henderson May 22, 2020</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When hospitals have an insufficient amount of PPE (personal protective equipment), the chances of doctors and nurses being infected with coronavirus increases. Many hospitals in the U.S. have been complaining…</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>Corporate lawyers openly discuss suing nations over profits lost to COVID-19 measures: ‘Ticking time bomb’</div><div>=</div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">aha this is beyond corp personhood?! // long sought class action /tort reform?</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McConnell <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/20/mcconnell-unemployment-benefits-271661" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">vowed</a> in a private call with House Republicans Wednesday that the enhanced unemployment benefits keeping millions of people afloat amid Great Depression-level joblessness will not be extended in the next coronavirus stimulus legislation, effectively endorsing a major income cut for a large swath of the U.S. population.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The boosted unemployment insurance—which provides an additional $600 per week on top of state benefits and is set to expire on July 31—”will not be in the next bill,” the Kentucky Republican <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/20/mcconnell-unemployment-benefits-271661" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">reportedly told</a> his GOP colleagues, calling the fact that some people are making slightly more money on unemployment than they did from their jobs “crazy.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Progressives have said <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/28/maybe-pay-people-more-says-aoc-data-shows-half-us-workers-could-make-more" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">this is a reason to raise wages</a>, not roll back benefits.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ernie Tedeschi, a former Treasury Department economist, <a href="https://twitter.com/ernietedeschi/status/1262862927306133505" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">estimated</a> that if enhanced unemployment benefits are not extended, “unemployed workers will effectively get a pay cut of 50-75% overnight."</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">in a series of tweets Wednesday evening, Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) pointed to a Brookings Institution <a href="https://www.hamiltonproject.org/blog/incomes_have_crashed_how_much_has_unemployment_insurance_helped" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">analysis</a> showing that boosted unemployment benefits offset around half of all lost wages and salaries in April. House Democrats passed legislation last week that would extend the boosted unemployment benefits through January of next year.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Removing that support while eliminating access to food, shelter, and healthcare would inflict untold suffering and could cause widespread civic unrest,” Beyer warned. “Cutting back federal assistance at the height of the crisis would mean self-inflicted disaster, devastation, and additional deaths. That must not happen.”...</font></p><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">//</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/small-business-owners-tell-mitch-mcconnell-stop-using-our-plight-to-push-for-covid-19-corporate-immunity/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/small-business-owners-tell-mitch-mcconnell-stop-using-our-plight-to-push-for-covid-19-corporate-immunity/</a></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/trump-sends-letter-threatening-permanent-freeze-of-us-funding-to-who-written-for-his-base-and-to-deflect-blame/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/trump-sends-letter-threatening-permanent-freeze-of-us-funding-to-who-written-for-his-base-and-to-deflect-blame/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 style="margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"straight news"?</font></h1><p style="margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">omg wow conscience?</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 5/20</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">'<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/this-will-kill-you-fox-news-host-desperately-warns-viewers-of-danger-after-trump-say-hes-taking-hydroxychloroquine/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4; display: inline !important;">This will kill you!’: Fox News host desperately warns viewers of danger after Trump say he’s taking hydroxychloroquine</a></font></div><div class="mag-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="grid-post-box-meta mag-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 7px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="author-italic author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/cody-fenwick/" title="Posts by Cody Fenwick" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cody Fenwick</font></a></span></div></div><div class="mag-excerpt entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News host Neil Cavuto rushed to warn viewers on Monday that despite President Donald Trump’s new claim that he is taking hydroxychloroquine to prevent the infection by the coronavirus, the…</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; font-style: italic;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trump administration has ordered an “innovative” and “first of its kind” at home coronavirus testing program that has the support of Bill Gates and other public health experts to cease, and it’s unclear why.</span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></font></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The program, as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/us/coronavirus-testing-seattle-bill-gates.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">The New York Times</a> and <a href="https://www.kuow.org/stories/landmark-seattle-area-covid-19-home-testing-project-halted-pending-federal-approval" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">NPR affiliate KUOW</a> report, is based in Seattle, Washington, and allowed residents to easily test for coronavirus. One of the program’s benefits is 43 percent of its more than 12,000 participants so far were asymptomatic. To date the program has identified dozens of previously-undetected COVID-19 cases.</font></p><div class="ncrm_ad_block story_page_incontent_p2" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="teadsNative" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Seattle Coronavirus Assessment </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Network </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(SCAN), operated by researchers from the Seattle Flu Study and Public Health – Seattle & King County, and had an “in-person technical adviser” from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was authorized by the State of Washington.</span></b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">“Please discontinue patient testing and return of diagnostic results to patients until proper authorization is obtained,” the FDA ordered, saying it had “concerns about safety and accuracy."</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>SCAN’s researchers say they had, The Times reports, “submitted data validating both the safety and reliability of the swabs in home-based collection.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>One researcher not affiliated with the program called halting it “bizarre.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">It’s unclear if Bill Gates’ association with the project has any negative impact. Some far right conspiracy theorists among Trump’s base, including those protesting state stay-at-home policies, falsely claim Gates is developing a vaccine that contains a microchip to track those who get injected.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">President Donald Trump has been very concerned with the actual numbers attached to coronavirus cases and has made clear he wanted to keep the numbers low <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2020/03/trump-knew-coronavirus-could-be-a-crisis-but-made-clear-lower-numbers-were-better-for-his-re-election-report/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">to help his re-election campaign</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2020/03/trump-we-dont-want-everybody-taking-the-coronavirus-test-its-totally-unnecessary/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">has said</a>, “we don’t want everybody taking this test,” referring to coronavirus testing. “It’s totally unnecessary. This will pass through and we’re going to be even stronger for it.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">On Thursday Trump said testing for coronavirus is “overrated,” and complained that the more tests are conducted, the more cases there are.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“When you test, you have a case,” <a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2020/05/dumbest-man-on-the-planet-trump-hilariously-mocked-for-saying-if-we-didnt-do-any-testing-we-would-have-very-few-cases/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Trump said</a> in Allentown, Pennsylvania. “When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing we would have very few cases.”</b></font></p><div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/eric-trump-predicts-covid-19-is-a-conspiracy-against-his-dad-that-will-magically-disappear-in-november/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/eric-trump-predicts-covid-19-is-a-conspiracy-against-his-dad-that-will-magically-disappear-in-november/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Bob Brigham / Raw Story May 17, 2020</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">President Donald Trump’s son Eric suggested that coronavirus lockdowns were a conspiracy to keep his father from holding 2020 campaign rallies during a Saturday appearance on Fox News with Jeanine Pirro.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">With America leading the world in reported coronavirus fatalities, the president’s son was focused on the 2020 campaign against former Vice President Joe Biden.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Listen, Biden loves this,” he claimed. “They think they’re taking away Donald Trump’s greatest tool, which is being able to go into an arena and fill it with 50,000 people every single time.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“So you watch, they will milk it every single day between now and November 3rd,”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“And guess what, after November 3rd, coronavirus will magically all of the sudden go away and disappear and everybody will be able to reopen,” he predicted.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“They’re trying to deprive him of his greatest asset, which is the fact that the American people love him, the fact that he’s relatable, and the fact that he can go out there and draw massive crowds,” he argued.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the segment, his claims about his father’s crowd sizes and popularity were both exaggerated....</font></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/premier-medical-journal-blasts-the-trump-administration-in-a-stunning-editorial-and-calls-for-a-new-president/" style="font-family: " open="Open" sans="Sans" sans-serif="sans-serif" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" color="color" rgb="rgb" transition="transition" all="all" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" font-size="font-size" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" line-height="line-height" display="display" inline="inline" important="important"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Premier medical journal blasts the Trump administration in a stunning editorial — and calls for a new president</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/alex-henderson/" title="Posts by Alex Henderson" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: right; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Alex Hend</font></a></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div></div><div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/why-capitalism-cant-cure-global-pandemics/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/why-capitalism-cant-cure-global-pandemics/</a></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/leaked-white-house-data-shows-infections-spiking-more-than-1000-in-rural-areas-that-backed-trump"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/leaked-white-house-data-shows-infections-spiking-more-than-1000-in-rural-areas-that-backed-trump</font></a></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">----</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/the-trump-administrations-monstrous-idea-direct-payments-in-exchange-for-cuts-to-social-security-benefits" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/the-trump-administrations-monstrous-idea-direct-payments-in-exchange-for-cuts-to-social-security-benefits</a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">common dr</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Suddenly concerned about the growing national debt now that corporations have secured access to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/26/looting-america-big-corporations-progressives-appalled-senate-unanimously-passes" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">trillions of dollars in Covid-19 bailout funds</a> with little oversight, Trump administration officials are reportedly considering several proposals purportedly aimed at reducing government spending—including a pair of plans that would provide Americans with cash payments in exchange for delays or cuts to their Social Security benefits.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to weighing a push for automatic federal spending cuts that would take effect once the economy rebounds from the coronavirus crisis, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Washington Post</em> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/10/top-white-house-advisers-unlike-their-boss-increasingly-worry-stimulus-spending-is-costing-too-much/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">reported</a> Sunday that top White House economic officials are “exploring a proposal floated by two conservative scholars that would allow Americans to choose to receive checks of up to $5,000 in exchange for a delay of their Social Security benefits.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senior administration officials have also “discussed the ‘Eagle Plan,’ a 29-page memo that called for an overhaul of federal retirement programs in exchange for upfront payments to some workers,” according to the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Post</em>. “The proposal calls for giving Americans $10,000 upfront in exchange for curbing their federal retirement benefits, such as Social Security.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The “Eagle Plan” was crafted by a State Department official close to President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, who forwarded the proposal to the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Art Laffer, a conservative economist and Trump adviser, told the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Post</em> that he supports the proposal.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"They’re calling this monstrous idea the ‘Eagle Plan’ but it should be called the ‘Work ‘Til You Die Plan,'” <a href="https://twitter.com/SSWorks/status/1259565538281492480" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">tweeted</a> progressive advocacy group Social Security Works. “The only reason to support it over simply sending people $2,000/month is to undermine our Social Security system.”...</font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/04/09/coronavirus-trump-smartphone-tracking/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://theintercept.com/2020/04/09/coronavirus-trump-smartphone-tracking/</font></a></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">a <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.1em; box-shadow: white 0px 1px 0px, rgb(17, 17, 17) 0px 4px 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"> SMARTPHONE TRACKING</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">firm helping Donald Trump clinch his 2020 presidential reelection recently told investors it’s identified a promising new profit opportunity: the global coronavirus pandemic.</span></font></p><div data-reactid="217" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Phunware is part of a vast galaxy of obscure advertising technology companies that help clients follow and target their customers — to “capitalize on users’ daily digital trail,” as Phunware’s site puts it. By embedding Phunware code in their app, a developer can easily glean detailed records of where a user goes and what they do, creating a rich behavioral history to sell on to others....</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/05/08/coronavirus-trump-kushner-miller-pompeo-barr/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://theintercept.com/2020/05/08/coronavirus-trump-kushner-miller-pompeo-barr/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">james risen!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div data-reactid="197" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.1em; box-shadow: none; text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 30px;">FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE PANDEMIC</span> are rampaging through Washington. Their names are Kushner, Miller, Pompeo, and Barr.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They are fulfilling Donald Trump’s darkest desires to twist the Covid-19 pandemic into a culture war, while also looking for ways to exploit the nation’s greatest public health crisis in a century to foment hoaxes and conspiracy theories and punish Trump’s enemies.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile, they are ignoring the actual pandemic. Trump and his lackeys have decided to let America burn.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;" /></div><div data-reactid="199" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><b>Miller’s long-term anti-immigrant obsession has already had a devastating impact on the nation’s ability to deal with the pandemic</b>. Trump has</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-admin-pulling-millions-fema-disaster-relief-send-southern-border-n1046691" style="letter-spacing: 0.01em; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">gutted the budget of the Federal Emergency Management Agency</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">, which is supposed to coordinate America’s disaster response, while a growing share of funding for its parent organization, the Department of Homeland Security, has been shifted to immigration and border control.</span>They have wasted the time the American people gave them to come to grips with Covid-19. It was precious time granted by people who, in overwhelming numbers, complied with state-level stay-at-home orders for two months so the government could come up with a serious national strategy to address the health crisis and its economic fallout.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Trump has betrayed that sacrifice by failing to develop any coherent plan at all. He has surrendered to the virus, even as the American death toll heads rapidly toward 100,000.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>He has instead spent his time sitting in the White House watching cable news, braying at his critics on Twitter, and summarily <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/04/09/coronavirus-trump-firings/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">firing anyone in the federal government</a> who tries to actually take action to prevent the pandemic from becoming even worse</b>. The latest victim is Dr. Rick Bright, who<a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/05/05/coronavirus-whistleblower-health-human-services/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> filed a whistleblower complaint</a> on Tuesday after he was ousted from his position as director of the government’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. Bright’s sin? He refused to get on board with the Trump administration’s incoherent response to the virus, notably its <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/04/22/trump-urges-doctors-lie-live-tv-federal-official-says-fired-limiting-use-hydroxychloroquine/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">dangerous</a> and <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/04/06/drug-treatment-trump-talks-covid-can-fatal-side-effect-cardiologists-warn/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">ill-informed</a> efforts to push hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug, as a Covid-19 treatment just because Trump had called it a miracle cure.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While professionals like Bright are pushed aside, Trump has turned to the usual suspects to do his bidding.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Jared Kushner,</b> his pale, thin-lipped son-in-law, has gone from creating havoc in the Middle East, where he was supposedly in charge of developing Trump’s “policy” for the region, to creating havoc in the federal response to Covid-19, thanks to his role running a backdoor coronavirus task force<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/jared-kushner-fema-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> rife with incompetence </a>and <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/02/29/cronyism-and-conflicts-of-interest-in-trumps-coronavirus-task-force/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">political favoritism</a>. (The Trump White House has a front-door ad-hoc task force, run by Vice President Mike Pence, but Trump <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/03/14/trump-says-no-idea-pandemic-response-team-disbanded-thats-true/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">shut down</a> the professional pandemic team at the National Security Council in 2018.)</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Kushner’s most consequential and deadliest contribution to the government’s response came early in the crisis, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/politics/kushner-trump-coronavirus.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">when he convinced Trump that the press was overhyping the threat</a></b>. That appealed to Trump’s natural inclination to call Covid-19 a media-invented hoax, especially as he started facing criticism for failing to address shortages of tests and other urgently needed medical equipment, including protective gear for nurses and doctors. Trump’s failure to take any action during the pandemic’s critical early days allowed the virus to become embedded in the United States.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Naturally, Kushner has now declared victory, even as Covid-19 expands its fatal reach across the nation. “We’re on the other side of the medical aspect of this,” Kushner told Fox News last week. “We’ve achieved all the different milestones that are needed. The federal government rose to the challenge, and this is a great success story.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><b>Stephen Miller, a young man with an endless forehead who serves as Trump’s master of the dark arts of xenophobia and nationalism, has inserted himself into the Covid-19 crisis as well</b>, convincing the president to sign an executive order</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/04/29/muslim-ban-coronavirus-iran-family-separation/" style="letter-spacing: 0.01em; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">severely restricting immigration</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">during the pandemic. Of course, Miller wants the temporary order to lead to the permanent, draconian crackdown on immigration he has long wished for. Miller has pushed through dozens of</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/stephen-miller-audio-immigration-coronavirus/2020/04/24/8eaf59ba-8631-11ea-9728-c74380d9d410_story.html" style="letter-spacing: 0.01em; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">smaller changes</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">in</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/18/politics/immigration-changes-coronavirus/index.html" style="letter-spacing: 0.01em; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">immigration policies and procedures</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">during the pandemic, which may also lead to permanent changes.</span></font></p></div><div data-reactid="210" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Mike Pompeo,</b> the secretary of state with a body like a neighborhood bowling league champion, is helping Trump foment conspiracy theories about the origins of Covid-19. Pompeo has been pushing the notion that the virus was manufactured in a Chinese laboratory. By contrast, the consensus among most scientists, public health officials, and intelligence analysts throughout the world is that the virus reached humans naturally through contact in a Chinese wet market.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While the exact origins of the virus don’t matter to most Americans now struggling to deal with Covid-19, Pompeo’s goal in pushing this so-called Wuhan lab theory is to make Trump feel better about his own failed handling of the crisis. It also can be weaponized to convince Trump’s die-hard base that the government’s botched handling of the pandemic is not Trump’s fault.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over the last few days, Pompeo has offered a series of confused statements about the issue, probably because Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease professional, has repeatedly and publicly pushed back, saying that the scientific evidence shows that the virus is not man-made.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over the weekend, Pompeo claimed there was strong evidence that the virus originated in a Chinese lab. On Wednesday, he said <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/06/politics/pompeo-wuhan-lab/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">he wasn’t certain</a>, but added that there is “significant evidence” that the virus came from a Chinese laboratory.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His jumbled statements show that Pompeo is trying to walk a tightrope between the experts and Trump, who has a long-standing addiction to conspiracy theories.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the process, Pompeo has managed to pointlessly anger China — just one aspect of a broader Trump-Pompeo renunciation of international cooperation on Covid-19. Earlier this week, the Trump administration refused to join a virtual summit of world leaders who pledged to join forces to develop vaccines and treatments.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;" /></div><div data-reactid="212" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Attorney General William Barr, Trump’s Tom Hagen, has also joined the president’s Covid-19 show.</b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Barr is now threatening to turn the Justice Department against the state governors who, in the absence of national leadership, have <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/04/05/andy-beshear-governor-kentucky-coronavirus/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">done</a> the <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/04/08/coronavirus-trump-whitmer-michigan/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">most</a> to grapple with the pandemic.</span> In the process, Barr is aligning himself with the ugliest strain of an emerging American culture war. Trump has repeatedly <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/04/18/trump-urges-followers-risk-lives-rallies-wont-attend/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">tweeted his opposition</a> to state stay-at-home orders, while showing support for protests by armed right-wingers at several state capitols, who have demanded that the stay-at-home orders be lifted. In another demonstration of Barr’s political fealty to Trump, the attorney general is now threatening lawsuits against states with strict stay-at-home orders, complaining that they infringe of people’s civil liberties.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Barr’s claim to be a champion of civil liberties was undermined by his actions just weeks earlier, when the administration tried to empower the attorney general to ask federal judges to freeze court proceedings during a national emergency. While the Democratic-controlled House will almost certainly not vote for the administration proposal, if it did become law it could mean that <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/21/doj-coronavirus-emergency-powers-140023" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">anyone arrested could be held without charge until the crisis ends</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0.01em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For Trump and his flunkies, Covid-19 has been everything but a public health crisis. As if to underline that point, Trump said earlier this week that Pence’s coronavirus task force would soon be winding down. He quickly changed course on that, saying that the task force will remain active but will focus on reopening the economy. In other words, it will be an adjunct to Trump’s reelection campaign
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You know what you don’t hear many people saying lately? That everyone loves their private health insurance, and that’s why we can’t have health-care reform that gives too many people coverage through the government.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The idea was always absurd, since not wanting to lose your coverage is very different from loving it. (And you don’t understand the true nature of private insurance until you’ve had to fight with an insurance company over a bill it didn’t want to cover.) But the coronavirus pandemic could transform the way we think about health care, among many other things.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s why this report from CNN is rather interesting:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Attorney General William Barr made a last-minute push Monday to persuade the administration to modify its position in the Obamacare dispute that will be heard at the Supreme Court this fall, arguing that the administration should pull back from its insistence that the entire law be struck down.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">With a Wednesday deadline to make any alterations to its argument looming, Barr made his case in a room with Vice President Mike Pence, White House counsel Pat Cipollone, members of the Domestic Policy Council, press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and several other officials. The meeting ended without a decision and it was not immediately not clear if any shift in the Trump administration’s position will emerge.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">This lawsuit, initiated by multiple Republican states, seeks to have the entire Affordable Care Act struck down, which would immediately cost 20 million people their health coverage and mean that somewhere between 50 million and 130 million would lose protections for preexisting conditions, among other things.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>This is not a new position for Barr, who may be a Trump lickspittle but has enough political sense to realize what a catastrophe it would be for the GOP if the lawsuit succeeds.</b> It does not appear that the rest of Trump’s crackerjack team of political savants agrees, even in the midst of a pandemic. The prospect of striking down the ACA is too enticing.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This lawsuit was a humanitarian disaster in the making before, but consider what it means now. By some estimates, as many as 35 million Americans could lose their employer-provided health coverage in this recession. While some of those will become eligible for Medicaid and some may be able to get coverage on the Obamacare exchanges, there will without a doubt be millions of people added to the ranks of the uninsured.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And Republicans still want to take away coverage from even more people?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It was an interesting coincidence that on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday morning,<b> Kellyanne Conway repeatedly referred to Trump as “this health-care president,</b>” which is kind of like calling him “this environmental president” or “this immigration president” or “this modesty and sensitivity president.” Maybe she’s already getting worried about how the issue will play in November.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And the lawsuit could — and should — be an issue, one made particularly vivid by the pandemic.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The case could be heard by the Supreme Court this fall, though the decision wouldn’t come until after the election. Republicans may already be afraid that the pandemic will make people even more angry at the prospect of tossing out the ACA, and even more receptive to new reforms that expand the number of people with more secure government coverage, especially when you throw in the fact that health insurance premiums are likely to spike next year.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Which is why I suspect that the pandemic will make it even more likely that Chief Justice John Roberts will once again step in to save the Republican Party from itself by voting with the liberals and saving the ACA.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Imagine it’s January 2021, and there’s a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress. Even if the pandemic is under control, the memory of all that death and sickness will still be with us, as will the terrible economic consequences. Were the court to strike down the ACA, the upheaval and suffering would be so enormous that it would immediately become likely that Congress would pass a dramatic new health reform. Perhaps not single-payer, but certainly a public-option plan that provided millions more with the security that comes with government coverage, and that you can’t get with insurance that you lose if you lose your job.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is just one area among many in which Democrats have policy ideas that could address gaps and weaknesses in our system that the pandemic revealed and exacerbated — family leave, higher wages, stronger labor protections, and automatic stabilizers to react quickly to downturns without political wrangling, to name a few. In the wake of this crisis, it’s going to become even harder for Republicans to resist at least some of them, especially if moderate Democrats who would hold the balance of power decide that a more robust system of social supports is exactly what the public now wants and expects.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s not to say some kind of new New Deal is a guarantee if Democrats are in control, but it has certainly become more likely. The opportunity is there, if they decide to take it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>And if Trump wins in November? He’ll keep trying to get the ACA overturned, probably with continued promises that if he’s successful, Republicans will replace it with “something terrific.”</b> We’ll probably see more iterations of the pattern in which Trump announces that a spectacular new GOP health-care plan is in the works, then everybody pretends he never said any such thing and he forgets all about it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And Republicans will go right back to saying that government is the problem and we should put our faith in the wisdom of the market. That’s an argument that may sound even more hollow than it did before.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CNN’s Jake Tapper did a special walking through the timeline of the COVID-19 crisis and the denial from President Donald Trump leading up to the middle of March.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>While the virus was spreading across the world, President Donald Trump believed that all of the warnings from his government were just more from the “deep state” trying to conspire against him and his presidency.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“His focus, much of it, was on the U.S. Senate,” said Tapper of Trump in January.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“In his view, it was the so-called deep state, people in government who were hell-bent on bringing him down,” said Mark Mazzetti, New York Times investigative reporter. “So, by the time the coronavirus pandemic really started to worsen in the United States and scientists and experts were telling him of the problem, he saw some of these people as just an extension of the deep state, and so that led to I think, some of the skepticism that he had towards the advice he was being given"</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump issued his China ban, but according to the report, public health experts said that Trump assumed it would take care of everything. He then took his foot off the gas for weeks, ignoring the virus and having political rallies throughout the country instead of focusing on the crisis.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Political correspondent Sara Murray explained that public health experts “really look with despair at those couple of weeks because they say whatever your feelings were on the travel ban at the time, it was a perfectly fine and reasonable step to take, and he bought himself a little bit of time, and then he just squandered it.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While the FDA acted quickly to issue test kits, they quickly found that the tests weren’t working. Precious time was wasted because the FDA blocked anyone else from creating a test.’</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“There was a test available from the world health organization, but the CDC did not choose to get it, and nobody inside the government asked outside labs to help,” said Tapper.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Sanjay Gupta said that it was clear in early February that there was human to human contact.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Warning stacked up health experts, but they all went ignored. When one Trump official crafted a memo about the crisis, the president became enraged that someone put something down on paper about the virus. In the notorious “Red Dawn” email chain on Feb. 9, the government health experts were calling for social distancing. It was five weeks later that Trump would finally agree to it. But on that same day, Trump’s team was giving a briefing to governors where they were saying it was a serious problem.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“They gave us a pretty detailed outline of what they felt was happening with this virus,” said Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R). “We knew this was going to be a serious crisis.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In early February, Trump was telling everyone that the virus was going to be down to zero cases in the United States, but behind the scenes, his experts were preparing for cases to go from 15 to millions.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">See clips of the special below:</font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/americans-have-become-human-guinea-pigs-in-the-gops-wild-experiment-to-retain-power/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/americans-have-become-human-guinea-pigs-in-the-gops-wild-experiment-to-retain-power/</font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">amanda</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/03/09/dixie-chicks-gaslighter-comeback-political/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">gone mainstream </a>in recent years, but the word “gaslighting” used to be an esoteric term from the world of psychology and domestic abuse counseling. The word refers<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslight(1944_film)" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"> to the 1944 film “Gaslight,”</a> in which Ingrid Bergman plays a woman whose husband tries to drive her insane by hiding her belongings and otherwise manipulating her environment, and telling her that the changes she perceives are all in her head. Experts in domestic violence developed the term to describe the way that abusers in real life try to manipulate victims. The gaslighter works by denying reality, often when the facts are plain as day, with such conviction and repetition that the victim starts to question themselves and the evidence of their own senses.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For instance, <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/understanding-narcissism/201709/are-you-being-gaslighted-the-narcissist-in-your-life" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">this might take the form of the abuser</a> denying that he hit his victim or falsely claiming that she provoked it, and then browbeating her until she accepts the lie and even starts to wonder whether she imagined the whole thing.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Under Donald Trump’s administration, however, <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/04/01/george-conway-mcconnell-is-gaslighting-america-by-blaming-trumps-virus-failures-on-impeachment/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the term has ventured into politics</a>. It’s become <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/03/19/is-donald-trump-delusional-or-a-gaslighter-media-should-say-clearly-its-both/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">a way to talk about how Trump and his defenders won’t merely tell lies</a>, but will <a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/12/23/how-to-understand-trump-now-wounded-child-drug-addict-or-delusional-gaslighter/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">stand by even the dumbest</a> and most obvious lies, holding their ground until the defenders of reality simply give up fighting. This started from the very beginning of the administration, <a href="https://www.salon.com/2017/01/24/alternative-facts-in-the-situation-room-how-will-the-trump-administration-handle-a-real-crisis/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">when Trump and his administration claimed his inauguration crowd</a> was bigger than Barack Obama’s, and insisted on repeating that lie and intimidating government agencies into backing it up. Needless to say, this has continued throughout the coronavirus pandemic, dialed up to an extreme.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One might wonder why we need a term with such a complicated back story, when the word “lying” is right there for the taking. The reason is that Trump lies so frequently and in such varying ways that it’s useful to have <a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/02/24/lies-bullst-and-gaslighting-a-field-guide-to-trumps-reality-warping-mendacity/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">a taxonomy of Trump lies</a> to understand the various ways his lies work and how best, perhaps, to resist them.</font></p><div class="alt_ad_block true_ad_free story-page-in-content-graph-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="alt_ad_msg" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 10px; background: rgb(234, 234, 234);"><div class="header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">AD REMOVED FOR SUBSCRIBED USER</div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With garden-variety lying, the liar tends to assume the target doesn’t know the truth and so can be made to accept the lie as if it were truth. Gaslighting differs dramatically in that the target actually knows what’s true. They experienced it, heard it or witnessed what really happened themselves. So what the gaslighter must do is convince the target to reject the evidence of their own eyes and ears.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gaslighting is a useful term to explain what Trump did throughout this past weekend, <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/04/24/now-that-trump-has-suggested-we-shoot-up-lysol-can-cable-news-stop-airing-this-crap/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">in response to what we at Salon are calling “Lysol-gate,”</a> in which our president went on national television and suggested that injecting household cleaners into people’s lungs might be a clever idea to fight the coronavirus that the medical profession clearly hadn’t thought of yet.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The reason doctors haven’t considered this idea is that it will kill the patient — and, I guess, also any virus lurking in his or her lungs. Trump is literally too stupid and lazy to know that fact, which was deeply embarrassing for him and anyone who supports him.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The problem Trump faces here is that he’s right there on video, marveling about “the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute” and speculating about an “injection inside, or almost a cleaning, because, you see, it gets in the lungs,” and pompously instructing the federal officials tasked with managing this crisis to investigate this possible treatment.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the wake of widespread outrage, mockery and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxDKW75ueIU" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">meme-creation</a>, Trump turned to gaslighting. The goal is to deny the evidence of our own eyes and ears with such shamelessness and persistence that people start to question whether they heard what they heard, or at least give up trying to insist on the truth.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump’s first gaslighting attempt was <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/04/25/heres-how-trump-and-his-allies-are-trying-to-defend-his-crazy-claim-about-injecting-disinfectant_partner/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">to try to pretend he was pranking the press</a>, telling a group of reporters the next day: “I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is a classic example of how gaslighting differs from plain old lying. Trump is insisting here that those of us who heard him suggest injecting disinfectants in people’s lungs have broken brains — if we didn’t detect the slightest hint of sarcasm in his tone, it’s because <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">we</em> are defective in some way, not because he wasn’t actually being sarcastic. The point is to <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/4/24/21234730/trump-sarcastic-disinfectant-injections-coronavirus" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">force people who heard him perfectly well</a> to defend their own ability to hear and see things, knowing full well that there’s no definitive, objective way for human beings to “prove” that they know the difference between sarcasm and not-sarcasm.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But at the same time Trump was implying that only crazy people with broken brains didn’t detect his supposedly obvious sarcasm, he also suggested that only crazy people with broken brains heard him say the word “lungs.” To repeat, he suggested an “injection inside, or almost a cleaning, because, you see, it gets in the lungs.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I do think that disinfectant on the hands could have a very good effect,” Trump told reporters later.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is more gaslighting. It’s about trying to make people question whether, in their eagerness to criticize Trump, they misheard or misinterpreted him. (Never mind that rubbing bleach or Lysol or other household disinfectants on your hands is also a bad idea, since they will burn your skin.) His two arguments contradict each other — he couldn’t simultaneously have been messing with reporters and making an earnest argument about hand-washing — but in a sense, that’s the point. What the gaslighter wants to do is disorient the target so they begin to question their own sense of reality. Flooding them with a bunch of confusing and logically incoherent claims suits that goal.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since then, Trump has been ranting incessantly on Twitter, <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/4/26/21237373/trump-tweet-coronavirus-disinfectant-birx-confusion-strategy" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">throwing out a bunch of scattershot arguments </a>over which government officials he addressed his disinfectant comments to, and whether or not he directly said that coronavirus was a “hoax.” He’s referring to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/team-trump-cant-erase-the-boss-coronavirus-hoax" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the long-ago controversy following a rally in February</a> where he said that <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">fears</em> about the coronavirus — which turned out to be fully justified — were a “hoax.” This was bizarre but entirely typical Trump hedging, indulged in precisely so he could get into quibbling arguments later about what, exactly, he had described as a hoax.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">All these insignificant points of litigation — was he talking to Dr. Deborah Birx or Homeland Security Undersecretary Bill Bryan when he made his “injection” comment? Was he talking about the virus itself or merely the fear of the virus when he said “hoax”? — are also forms of gaslighting. It’s about seizing on minor but irrelevant details the target may have gotten wrong to imply that the target’s sense of reality is irrevocably damaged and therefore they can’t be trusted to understand anything at all.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An abuser in a marriage, for instance, might use the fact that his wife once forgot that his favorite shirt is purple, not red, to argue that she is too stupid and crazy to be trusted when she says that he hit her or that he won’t let her see her friends. Trump is pulling the same trick, using minor confusion over the details of that specific press conference as “evidence” that people didn’t hear him correctly when they heard him suggest injecting disinfectants into people’s lungs.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Because gaslighting works differently than garden-variety lying, it requires a different response. With garde- variety lying, it’s often just a matter of supplying a fact check. But gaslighters put the person who is being lied to on the defensive, and try to make the debate over whether the target is mentally stable enough to be trusted, not the content of the gaslighter’s lies. Trump wants the debate to be about what’s in our heads, which is ultimately insubstantial and unprovable, not what the entire world heard him saying with his own mouth.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Defeating gaslighting often requires more of a meta-response. Rolling the tape over and over to confirm that we all heard Trump say the words he actually said certainly helps, but it’s not enough. It’s important to resist getting mired in line-by-line debates over whether people who are horrified by Trump’s disinfectant comments got the color of his tie right. Instead, we should call out these kinds of diversionary tactics, which are meant to force us into a debate about whether our minds are broken and whether we can literally perceive anything at all. That’s not the issue. The issue is that our president is a lazy, arrogant moron who went on TV and spewed fatuous bullshit about how maybe doctors should look into shooting up patients with poisonous chemicals because, y’know, it’s worth a shot.</font></p></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Q: Did Marco Kill Obamacare?” asked a 2015 tweet from the presidential campaign of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., before presumptively answering the question: “A: You bet he did.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OK, so who wants to tell him?</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Rubio, like his fellow failed presidential aspirant Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, staked his campaign on bringing down Barack Obama’s signature health care law</b>, the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Rubio began his specific effort to sabotage the law in 2013, a few short years after entering the Senate and before setting out to win the White House. Seven years later, the Supreme Court made clear what was otherwise evident then: Rubio and his fellow Republicans didn’t kill Obamacare, they only made it a bigger mess.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While Cruz’s infamous stunt to undermine the ACA by shutting down the government — complete with his 2013 reading of Dr. Seuss’s “Green Eggs and Ham” on the Senate floor — proved he was willing to “troll the libs” at any cost, Rubio’s less flashy legal assault was meant to cement his status as the Obama-slayer.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>At the time, Rubio was still making an attempt to burnish his Tea Party bonafides.</b> As congressional Republicans unsuccessfully voted to defund the ACA more than 50 times he went on the warpath against an obscure portion of the law meant to safeguard participating insurance companies against crippling financial loss as a result of the new requirement to cover clients with pre-existing conditions. Under what was known as “risk corridors,” the law helped some companies defer the cost of lower premiums in the early days of the ACA marketplaces. If an insurance company priced its plans less than 3% below a set target, the government would cover the losses. Conversely, an insurer that benefited from millions of new customers under the law’s individual mandate had to pay its excess profits to the government. Ultimately, the goal was to entice more insurers on the markets, leading to lower prices for consumers. Like the ACA itself, risk corridors have a Republican pedigree and were even <a href="https://www.medpac.gov/docs/default-source/reports/chapter-6-sharing-risk-in-medicare-part-d-june-2015-report-.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">included</a> inGeorge W. Bush’s Medicare Part D program .</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Still Rubio picked the program to push forward his presidential ambition by promoting what he thought would prove a poison pill to the larger health care law.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Decrying it as a “taxpayer bailout,” he testified against risk corridors as the star witness at a House Oversight Committee hearing and penned op-eds against the program. In a classic case of a solution in search of a problem, Rubio claimed that the ACA was suffering a “death spiral,” an actuarial term used to describe a marketplace spinning out of control, to push for the demise of the law’s infrastructure. Although Rubio didn’t actually sponsor <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1378743-pg-892.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">the provision in Congress’ 2014 appropriations bill</u></a> that prevented the federal government from using certain funds to make the required payments to insurers, he took credit for it. The Rubio-inspired provision also required the program to become budget-neutral.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Republican rider effectively pulled the rug out from under insurers</b>. After companies had already locked in their 2015 rates on the assurance of a government stopgap, Congress changed the rules such that the federal government could only afford to pay 13 cents of every dollar owed to the insurance companies. Insurers compiled an overall loss of $5.5 billion the year after the Republicans blocked one avenue of funding. The risk corridors were a temporary program, which expired after 2016, but insurers ultimately lost $12 million due to Rubio’s shenanigans.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“So far, we’ve succeeded in stopping the Obama administration from bailing out healthcare companies under ObamaCare, and it’s critical that Congress once again stand with taxpayers to stop any taxpayer bailout of health insurers from happening,” Rubio <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/cache/files/34875e7c-25c1-4055-8a1d-82f973c8e93a/395AF80FA38F770DDFB148C266F89B3B.bailouts-letter-to-gop-leadership-11-24-15.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">wrote</u></a> to Republican leadership at the time.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As lawyers for the insurance companies argued before the Supreme Court, Rubio and congressional Republicans orchestrated “a massive government bait-and-switch.” Republicans weren’t able to muster the votes to repeal the ACA outright, so they just tried to bail out on the law’s statutory obligations. <b>The end result was weakened Obamacare markets with fewer insurers and higher premiums. </b>Premiums that, as the Supreme Court just ruled, must still be subsidized by the federal government.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On Monday, <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-1023_m64o.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">the Supreme Court voted in</a> an 8-1 decision against Rubio’s gimmick to take down Obamacare. Justice Samuel Alito was the sole dissenter, arguing that the decision provides “a massive bailout for insurance companies that took a calculated risk and lost.”</b> Writing for the majority, Justice Sonia Sotomayor relied on what she called “a principle as old as the nation itself: The government should honor its obligations.” Republicans in Congress could not simply decline to fund the program, the Supreme Court ruled. The government still has to pay insurers $12 billion all of these years later.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">So the man Donald Trump derided as </font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">“Little Marco” didn’t win the White House, and didn’t kill off Obamacare either<b>. He simply <a href="https://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/11/20/risk-corridor-payments-unitedhealth-cooperatives-and-the-marketplaces/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">drove small insurers out of rural America</u></a>, leaving many coverage areas with no competition in the marketplace</b>. In effect, he created a monopoly by driving out small insurers, quite likely so he could attract Koch brothers funding for his ill-fated presidential campaign.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Of course this was all eminently predictable, according to a plain reading of the relevant laws and long-standing jurisprudence. But Rubio’s instance on a vanity campaign that cost millions of dollars and denied millions of people access to affordable health care feels like more than a pathetic afterthought now, as our embattled health care system struggles to meet the challenge of a global pandemic.</font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/historian-trump-isnt-fighting-science-hes-stealing-its-authority/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/historian-trump-isnt-fighting-science-hes-stealing-its-authority/</font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump is doing something similar and similarly harmful. When President Trump says his decisions will be based on a “hunch,” he is repeating the tactics of generations of creationists. It might sound at first like he is rejecting the need for scientific credentials or expertise. In fact, though, Trump is positioning himself as superior to those experts, not against them. Like creationists, Trump does not deride the authority of science itself. Instead, he portrays himself as the best arbiter of the meaning of scientific details, the perspicacious decider-in-chief.</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this, because a lot of people will have this, and it’s very mild. They will get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor.....</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://theconversation.com/deaths-and-desperation-mount-in-ecuador-epicenter-of-coronavirus-pandemic-in-latin-america-137015"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://theconversation.com/deaths-and-desperation-mount-in-ecuador-epicenter-of-coronavirus-pandemic-in-latin-america-137015</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>Breitbart News issues humiliating correction on a bogus ‘fact-check’ that denied Trump proposed injecting disinfectants</div><div> </div></span></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">aha: "freestyling" at "press conf" but clearly spinning out simple metaphors</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Here are the desperate ways Trump and his allies are trying to defend his dangerous claim about injecting disinfectants</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Cody Fenwick April 24, 2020</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Facing a barrage of fact-checks, criticism, and mockery, President Donald Trump and his defenders are trying to make excuses for his absurd and dangerous suggestion on Thursday that injecting people with disinfectants might help fight COVID-19.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To be 100 percent clear: There’s no reason to think this would work, and it is an even potentially fatal idea. Experts across the board insist that household cleaners should not be used internally on humans.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Because this is an obvious fact, Trump and his supporters are desperate to find an excuse for his dangerous suggestion. And unfortunately for them, two of the excuses they’ve already offered are contradictory. To review, here’s what Trump actually said:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out, in a minute. One minute. Is there a way we can do something like that? By injection, inside, or almost a cleaning, ’cause you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. You’re going to have to use medical doctors, right? But it sounds <b>interesting </b>to me.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These remarks came after a discussion of a recent study on sunlight and disinfectants’ abilities to kill the virus on surfaces, outside of the body. Before discussing disinfectants, Trump also preposterously speculated that light could somehow be used externally or internally on the human body to treat COVID-19, which Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, dismissed. Watch the remarks below:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After hearing presentation President Trump suggests irradiating people’s bodies with UV light or injecting them with bleach or alcohol to deal with COVID19. pic.twitter.com/cohkLyyl9G</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 23, 2020</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>If you watch the remarks, there’s really no ambiguity about what Trump is saying. He’s trying to extrapolate from studies about effective methods of cleaning the virus in the environment to treating humans who are infected</b>. It’s a frankly childish understanding of medicine, but he presented it as a fascinating possibility — and on national TV, no less, where some vulnerable and susceptible viewers may actually take his claims seriously.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">So how could one possibly defend these remarks?<b> Breitbart, </b>a far-right website that closely aligns itself with the president, took a widely mocked stab at offering an excuse in the form of “fact check”:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">CLAIM: President Donald Trump suggested injecting people with disinfectant to cure coronavirus.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">VERDICT: False. Trump was speaking generally about new information about sunlight, heat, and disinfectant killing the virus.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is not so. As the clip shows, Trump was talking about using this information as a possible basis for testing potential treatments of COVID-19.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the most desperate section of this “fact check,” writer Joel Pollak claimed that when Trump said the word “inject” he didn’t really mean “inject,” and it was unfair of critics to think he did:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump used the word “inject,” but what he meant was using a process — which he left “medical doctors” to define — in which patients’ lungs might be cleared of the virus, given new knowledge about its response to light and other factors.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The use of the word “other factors” here is particularly rich, because Trump talked about “injecting” directly after he brought up disinfectants specifically. That’s what was so egregious and concerning.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a slightly more plausible defense of Trump, Breitbart pointed out that the president appeared to walk his comments back later in the briefing:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When ABC News’ Jonathan Karl asked Dr. Bryant about whether the president had proposed injecting a person with “bleach and isopropyl alcohol” later, Trump clarified that “It wouldn’t be through injection,” and that he was talking about “cleaning, sterilization of an area,” and about applying the disinfectant to “a stationary object.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But he’s the actual exchange this refers to, per the White House transcript:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[KARL] But I — just, can I ask about — the President mentioned the idea of cleaners, like bleach and isopropyl alcohol you mentioned. There’s no scenario that that could be injected into a person, is there? I mean —</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ACTING UNDER SECRETARY [BILL] BRYAN: No, I’m here to talk about the findings that we had in the study. We won’t do that within that lab and our lab. So —</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">THE PRESIDENT: It wouldn’t be through injection. We’re talking about through almost a cleaning, sterilization of an area. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t work. But it certainly has a big effect if it’s on a stationary object.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So here’s what actually seems to have happened. Trump floated the idea of injecting people with disinfectants. Then, incredulous, a reporter asked Bryan, who actually knows what he’s talking about, whether this could even be a possibility. Bryan knocks down the possibility that Trump floated directly, saying directly “no” and “We won’t do that within that lab and our lab.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Then Trump, apparently realizing that others think this is an absurd idea, tries to backpedal the outrageously dangerous and simplistic idea that he had floated.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Now that Trump clearly knows that everyone is mocking and deriding him for this error, he’s trying to make his own excuse. But instead of sticking with Breitbart’s twisted interpretation that “inject” doesn’t really mean “inject,” Trump inow wants us to believe he was being sarcastic.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Asked about the injection remarks on Friday in the Oval Office, Trump said: <b>“I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen</b>.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Again, if you watch the remarks above, it’s clear they weren’t sarcastic. Later in Thursday’s briefing, when a reporter criticized Trump for floating baseless rumors, the president defended himself by saying he was just sharing ideas. And even if he had been sarcastic, it’s would still be dangerous to float such an idea during a briefing where people are trying to get information about the nation’s crisis.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="" new="New" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">Vijay Prashad and a team of writers have produced an </span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://go.ind.media/e/546932/a-in-the-midst-of-coronashock-/f6f2gl/604775033?h=cyHH1kfMbIyj0oj1v1uJv1rHx9cdb5Bmv7BdU3XgXl8" style="text-decoration-line: none;" new="New" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">authoritative account of how the U.S. has done everything in its power</a><span style="" new="New" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px"> to distort China’s response to the coronavirus, principally as a means of distraction from our own failures at home.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="" new="New" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">...</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" font-weight="font-weight" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Facts and Ideology</span></font></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Florida Senator Marco Rubio <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-china-world-health-organization-chinese-communist-party/" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1;">accused</a> the WHO of “servility to the Chinese Communist Party.” He wrote that the United States will open “investigations into the WHO’s unacceptably slow decision-making on whether to declare a global pandemic and into how China has compromised the integrity of the WHO.” U.S. funds for the WHO are in the balance. Characteristically, Rubio offered no facts.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Was the WHO slow in declaring a global pandemic? In 2009, the first known case of <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-pandemic-timeline.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1;">H1N1</a> was detected in California on April 15; the WHO declared a global pandemic on June 11, two months later. In the case of SARS-CoV-2, the first known cases were detected in January 2020; the WHO declared a global pandemic on March 11—one and a half months later. In the interim, the WHO sent in investigation teams to Wuhan (January 20-21) and to Beijing, Guangdong, Sichuan, and Wuhan (February 16-24); their investigation, before the declaration, was thorough. The timeframe for the WHO declaration is similar, even faster in 2020 than it was in 2009.</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/trump-says-hes-aiming-to-shield-corporations-from-legal-liability-for-workers-who-contract-covi-19-on-the-job"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/trump-says-hes-aiming-to-shield-corporations-from-legal-liability-for-workers-who-contract-covi-19-on-the-job</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div class="widget__brief" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Charli Shield</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After the novel coronavirus broke out in Wuhan, China in late December 2019, it didn't take long for conspiracy theorists to claim it was manufactured in a nearby lab.</font></p></div><div class="js-appear-on-expand" style="transition: all 350ms ease 0s; height: auto; overflow: hidden; opacity: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class=" rebellt-item is--desktop col1" id="rebelltitem1" data-id="1" data-is-image="False" data-href="https://www.ecowatch.com/coronavirus-wildlife--ecosystem-destruction-2645713976.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1" data-basename="particle-1" data-post-id="2645713976"><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scientific consensus, on the other hand, is that the virus — SARS-CoV-2 — <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.5;">is a zoonotic disease</a> that jumped from animal to human. It most likely <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.2736" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.5;">originated in a bat</a>, possibly before passing through another mammal.
</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While the virus was certainly not engineered in a laboratory, this doesn't mean we haven't played a role in the current pandemic. Human impingement on natural habitats, biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation are making virus spillover events much more likely, a <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.2736" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.5;">major new study</a> from scientists in Australia and the US has found.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The number of emerging infectious disease outbreaks has more than tripled <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsif.2014.0950#RSIF20140950F1" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.5;">every decade since the 1980s</a>. More than two thirds of these diseases originate in animals, and about <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nature06536" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.5;">70% of those come from wild animals</a>. Many of the infectious diseases we're familiar with — Ebola, HIV, swine and avian flu — are zoonotic.</font></p></div><div class=" rebellt-item is--desktop col1" id="rebelltitem2" data-id="2" data-is-image="False" data-href="https://www.ecowatch.com/coronavirus-wildlife--ecosystem-destruction-2645713976.html?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2" data-basename="particle-2" data-post-id="2645713976"><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Aided by a hyper-connected global population, SARS-CoV-2 and the disease it causes, COVID-19, has also demonstrated how quickly modern outbreaks can become pandemics.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While the speed at which COVID-19 has spread across the world has shocked many, scientists have long been <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2176051/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.5;">warning</a> of such a <a href="https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/4/3/493/3789515" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.5;">pandemic</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">By disrupting ecosystems, we have created the conditions that allow animal viruses to cross over into human populations, says Joachim Spangenberg, ecologist and vice-president of the Sustainable Europe Research Institute.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">"We are creating this situation, not the animals," Spangenberg told DW.</font></p></div><div class=" rebellt-item is--desktop col1" id="rebelltitem3" data-id="3" data-is-image="False" data-href="https://www.ecowatch.com/coronavirus-wildlife--ecosystem-destruction-2645713976.html?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3" data-basename="deforestation-habitat-encroachment" data-post-id="2645713976"><h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Deforestation, habitat encroachment</font></h3><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">As people move further into the territories of wild animals to clear forests, raise livestock, hunt and extract resources, we are increasingly exposed to the pathogens that normally never leave these places and the bodies they inhabit.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">"We're getting closer and closer to wild animals," says Yan Xiang, professor of virology at the University of Texas Health Science Center, "and that brings us into contact with these viruses."</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">"As you increase human population density and increase encroachment onto natural habitats, not just by people but by our domesticated animals, you're increasing the rolls on the die," David Hayman, professor of infectious disease ecology at Massey University in New Zealand, told DW.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">But, as well as increasing the likelihood of transfer, ecosystem disruption also has an impact on how many viruses exist in the wild and how they behave.</font></p></div><div class=" rebellt-item is--desktop col1" id="rebelltitem4" data-id="4" data-is-image="False" data-href="https://www.ecowatch.com/coronavirus-wildlife--ecosystem-destruction-2645713976.html?rebelltitem=4#rebelltitem4" data-basename="particle-4" data-post-id="2645713976"><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the last century, tropical forests, home to around two thirds of the world's living organisms, <a href="https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/planet-earth/forests-and-deserts/rate-of-deforestation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.5;">have been halved</a>. This profound loss of habitat has ripple effects throughout the entire ecosystem, including on the "parts we tend to forget — infections," says Hayman.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">In some cases, scientists have observed that when animals at the top of the food chain disappear, the animals at the bottom of the food chain, like rats and mice that carry more pathogens, tend to fill that space.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">"It's not just about how many species we have in an ecosystem," says Alice Latinne at the Wildlife Conservation Society, "it's about which species."</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">"Each species plays a different role in the ecosystem and sometimes, if you just replace one species with another, this can have a huge impact in terms of disease risk. And sometimes we can't predict it," she told DW.</font></p></div><div class=" rebellt-item is--desktop col1" id="rebelltitem5" data-id="5" data-is-image="False" data-href="https://www.ecowatch.com/coronavirus-wildlife--ecosystem-destruction-2645713976.html?rebelltitem=5#rebelltitem5" data-basename="particle-5" data-post-id="2645713976"><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Habitat changes can also force animals — and their pathogens — to go elsewhere, including areas populated by people.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Latinne draws on the example of the emergence of Nipah virus in Malaysia in the late 1990s, where deforestation drove fruit bats from their forest habitat to mango trees on pig farms. Bats often carry pathogens that don't bother them, but in this case when the pigs came into contact with bat droppings and saliva, they became infected. The pigs then went on to infect farmers.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Evidence linking disruption of ecosystems to increased risk of novel infection transfer is why, Spangenberg says, experts talk about the importance of the "One Health" concept; the idea that the health of animals, the ecosystem and humans are all interlinked, and when one is out of balance, others follow suit.</font></p></div><div class=" rebellt-item is--desktop col1" id="rebelltitem6" data-id="6" data-is-image="False" data-href="https://www.ecowatch.com/coronavirus-wildlife--ecosystem-destruction-2645713976.html?rebelltitem=6#rebelltitem6" data-basename="wildlife-trade" data-post-id="2645713976"><h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Wildlife trade...</font></h3></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/trump-fans-cant-admit-hes-to-blame-for-this-crisis-so-theyre-launching-nonsensical-protests-instead"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/trump-fans-cant-admit-hes-to-blame-for-this-crisis-so-theyre-launching-nonsensical-protests-instead</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/how-the-coronavirus-pandemic-shows-that-christian-white-nationalism-is-a-much-greater-threat-to-the-us-than-radical-islam/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/how-the-coronavirus-pandemic-shows-that-christian-white-nationalism-is-a-much-greater-threat-to-the-us-than-radical-islam/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 420 </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">h<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/under-donald-trump-covid-19-is-accelerating-the-republican-partys-descent-into-authoritarianism/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4; display: inline !important;">ow COVID-19 is accelerating the Republican Party’s descent into authoritarianism</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/corey-hill/" title="Posts by Corey Hill" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: right; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Corey H</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: right;">ill</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/some-trump-supporters-say-theyre-willing-to-die-to-reopen-economy-when-its-my-time-to-go-gods-going-to-call-me-home/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/some-trump-supporters-say-theyre-willing-to-die-to-reopen-economy-when-its-my-time-to-go-gods-going-to-call-me-home/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">basically TP?</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some Trump supporters say they’re willing to die to reopen economy: ‘When it’s my time to go, God’s going to call me home”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Brad Reed / Raw Story April 15, 2020</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Supporters of President Donald Trump are getting antsy about stay-at-home orders — and they’re encouraging one another to openly rebel against strict measures aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Daily Beast reports that Trump supporters are sparking a “protest movement” against social distancing restrictions aimed at forcing governors to reopen their economies at a time when tens of thousands of Americans have died from the virus in the span of just one month.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">North Carolina-based conservative activist Ashley Smith, who founded an anti-social distancing group called “ReopenNC,” said that she wasn’t worried about dying as long as it means the economy can reopen.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“When it’s my time to go, God’s going to call me home,” she tells the publication. “I think that to live is inherently to take risks. I’m not concerned about this virus any more than I am about the flu.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michigan activist Rosanne Ponkowski, meanwhile, said that the lower-than-expected projected death toll from COVID-19 justifies reopening the economy, despite the fact that the death toll has only been lowered due to social distancing restrictions.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“They were predicting huge numbers of people falling ill and dying, and that wasn’t the case,” she said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former Georgia Congressman Jack Kingston, a longtime ally of Trump, summed up conservative anger over the restrictions like this: “The liquor stores and dispensaries are open but I can’t buy gun!”</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/illinois-governor-chartering-flights-from-china-in-a-herculean-effort-to-prevent-trump-from-snatching-millions-of-masks-and-gloves-report/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/illinois-governor-chartering-flights-from-china-in-a-herculean-effort-to-prevent-trump-from-snatching-millions-of-masks-and-gloves-report/</a></font></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4/15/20 wwf declared essential services ~ covid?! DN</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/trump-and-his-allies-have-made-a-dark-calculation-reopening-at-any-price-is-his-only-path-to-re-election/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/trump-and-his-allies-have-made-a-dark-calculation-reopening-at-any-price-is-his-only-path-to-re-election/</font></a></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Trump and his allies have made a dark calculation — ‘reopening’ at any price is his only path to re-election</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Heather<b> Digby</b> Parton / Salon April 15, 2020</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It seems like only yesterday that everyone was lamenting the lack of COVID-19 tests and vital medical equipment, and now we are supposedly ready to “reopen the country.” That’s because it was only yesterday — and it will be the same tomorrow. There are still not enough tests and not enough medical equipment. But because the worst hotspots, including New York City are muddling through at or near the apex of the pandemic curve — dealing with the ravages of this virus day after day as the bodies pile up but new cases level off — President Trump is trying to change the subject away from his failures to a premature declaration of victory.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His coronavirus rallies (aka “press briefings”) this week have been hostile affairs, with the president on the defensive trying to push back against the devastating cascade of reporting that has laid bare the fiasco of his response to the pandemic. But by once again attempting to downplay the current state of the crisis, he seems intent upon making exactly the same mistakes he made before.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MSNBC’s Chris Hayes astutely observed on his Tuesday night show that Trump made three essential errors at the beginning of the crisis.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He failed to take it seriously and appreciate the terrible danger of a pandemic.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The administration did not move quickly, with the lead time, it had to prepare adequate testing.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He focused on the problem of the economy, thinking of it as somehow more important than — and separate from — the epidemic.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Inadequate testing left public health professionals flying blind for weeks and Trump’s lack of understanding of the threat meant that officials waited far too long to issue social distancing guidelines and initiate any meaningful public health response. Trump spent most of his time making happy talk to pump up the stock market, which made it almost impossible for the government to adjust for new information or switch gears when something wasn’t working, because he was deeply invested in saying everything was going great.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Hayes pointed out, Trump learned nothing from that experience and has remained focused on himself and his re-election prospects above everything else — so he’s doing exactly the same things all over again.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump still fails to appreciate the deadliness of this virus, now bragging openly that because the models no longer suggest hundreds of thousands of deaths, he has handled the crisis “perfectly.” Now that he’s concentrating on “reopening the country,” he again fails to understand that testing and contact tracing on a massive scale is absolutely necessary to avoid a terrible resurgence of the outbreak.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indeed, he still doesn’t seem to understand that asymptomatic people can spread the virus. At last Friday’s coronavirus rally, Trump said widespread testing was not needed because “people aren’t going to go to the hospital, people aren’t going to get sick. It will be gone and it won’t be that much longer.” (The public health experts undoubtedly pounded their heads on their desks when they heard that one.)</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He has totally abdicated, once again, the responsibility to make sure that testing is available:</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The president, who rolled out a partnership for testing in parking lots at major retailers in mid-March, now says fed govt “can’t be thinking about” testing in a Wal-Mart parking lot, but states should. The testing never lived up to the promises the president rolled out.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 14, 2020</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>And of course, Trump still sees the economy as the greater problem, without understanding that these things are all connected,</b> and that dealing with the epidemic is necessary before the economy can recover. Simply telling people to go back to work, go back to the mall and go out to dinner doesn’t mean they are going to do it if they think it might kill them. He can’t just magically wish this all away.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So, what are we really looking at in terms of “opening up the country”? He’s been talking about it almost from the start but it’s never been clear exactly what he means. He spent a couple of months just hoping the virus would miraculously go away or suggesting that his miracle cure, hydroxychloroquine, would bring an abrupt end to the crisis and he could go back to talking about Hunter Biden every day.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That didn’t work out, so now he’s pushing the “reopening” as some kind of edict from the mountaintop. On Monday he made the startling announcement that he had the “absolute authority” to order state governors to reopen. Someone must have informed him we actually have a written constitution and he isn’t a king, so he walked that back a bit on Tuesday, saying that he would be “working with” governors and he expected they would do as he suggested.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lurking underneath that comment was the implicit threat that if they didn’t, he might not be able to “help” them any further with federal assistance:</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>We’re going to have some very strong recommendations for the governors. We’re going to work with the governors and the governors are going to do a good job.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>And if they don’t do a good job we’re going to come down on them very hard, we’ll have no other choice.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s a dark threat. No, Trump doesn’t have “absolute authority” over the states, but he has plenty of power that he can use. We’ve already seen it in action. He has made it quite clear that if the states need something they’d better kiss the ring, famously saying of governors who were pleading for ventilators, “It’s a two-way street. They have to treat us well also. They can’t say, ‘Oh, gee, we should get this, we should get that.'”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It has been demonstrated that he’s more than willing to pass out favors to loyal political allies like Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., or Republicans in tough re-election races such as Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado and Sen. Martha McSally of Arizona. Jared Kushner floated in like an apparition at one White House rally and talked about getting a phone call from one of Trump’s New York cronies, and then rushing out some needed supplies right away.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It seems obvious that Trump and some of the people who are whispering in his ear are making the calculation that losing tens of thousands more lives than necessary is just the price that has to be paid. Rep. Trey Hollingsworth, an Indiana Republican may have articulated this idea more clearly than Trump ever has in an interview on Tuesday:</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is always the American government’s position to say, in the choice between the loss of our way of life as Americans and the loss of life, of American lives, we have to always choose the latter.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Our GDP is supposed to be down 20% alone this quarter. It is policymakers’ decision to put on our big-boy and big-girl pants and say it is the lesser of these two evils. It is not zero evil, but it is the lesser of these two evils and we intend to move forward that direction. That is our responsibility and to abdicate that is to insult the Americans that voted us into office.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The one’s who are still alive anyway.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is the policy that Trump himself reportedly called “letting the wave just wash over the country” — to which Dr. Anthony Fauci responded, “Mr. President, many people would die.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump may be deeply ignorant, but he understood that part. Like Hollingsworth, he just sees the preventable deaths of Americans as a necessary evil to get what he calls “the greatest economy in the history of the world” back on track before November.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08042020/science-denial-coronavirus-covid-climate-change"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08042020/science-denial-coronavirus-covid-climate-change</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">American science denialism, deployed for years against climate change and, most recently, the coronavirus, can be traced back to the early 1950s during the fight over smog in Los Angeles. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div class="content" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">When a Cal-Tech biochemist fingered nitrogen oxide emissions and uncombusted hydrocarbons from automobiles and refineries as the cause of the thick smog that often blanketed the city, the American Petroleum Institute counter-attacked by highlighting the alleged uncertainty of his science. The tactic was a test run for the fossil fuel industry's assault 40 years later on climate science. </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Decades of climate denial now appear to have paved the way for denial of Covid-19 by many on the right,</b> according to experts on climate politics. After the fossil fuel industry spent hundreds of millions of dollars attacking climate scientists and accentuating the supposed uncertainty of climate science, it isn't hard to understand how that happened. </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;">President Trump, who denies climate change, has brushed off Covid-19's seriousness until recently </span><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19032020/denial-climate-change-coronavirus-donald-trump" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">by relying on many of the same arguments he uses to dismiss global warming, such as ignoring government scientists or blaming China. </a> </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Climate deniers have long attacked climate scientists, and Covid-19 deniers recently launched a smear campaign against </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/technology/coronavirus-fauci-trump-conspiracy-target.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR2y0Pj3YSNjezyE58FWlHt0w3KalV7sOymYXdujAwMlALXyH6bGrGdzMFk" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,</a> in part because he corrected the President's inaccurate statements about the pandemic.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The radio host and staunch Trump supporter Bill Mitchell offered a glimpse of how some conservatives see the pandemic as part of a continuum of dubious science when he tweeted that the novel coronavirus is "a minor infection" and the worries about it were </span><a href="https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/1238935884831039503" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;"> "climate change 2.0."</a> </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;">"It's this sense of </span><em style="box-sizing: inherit;">deja vu</em>. This is what climate denialism looked like," said Jerry Taylor, president of the bipartisan, pro-climate action think tank Niskanen Center and himself a former skeptic of climate science. "</b>The peril here is the reality of what's about to follow. You can't gaslight it. You're not going to be able to deny the reality of the deaths. That will be the wages of dismissing what the technocratic and scientific elites have been telling us for months."</font></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.333;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An Echo Chamber of Denial</font></span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05062016/oil-industry-clean-air-fight-smog-los-angeles-dress-rehearsal-climate-change-denial-exxon" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">After he was hired by the City of Los Angeles, Arie Haagen-Smit,</a></span> a Cal-Tech scientist specializing in airborne microscopic chemicals, quickly figured out that the city's smog came from burning oil. Industry executives immediately hired their own scientists to attack his work. When those scientists came back and said Haagen-Smit was right, the industry hired new ones to sow doubt and home in on small uncertainties that remained.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By 1956, when Haagen-Smit's conclusion had been confirmed by others, oil industry executives pivoted and employed a new tactic: they blamed the auto industry for tailpipe emissions. </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Throughout the fight, the oil industry's use of science denial provided a preview of what was to come in the 1980s, as the fight to deny climate change began. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Through it all," Carroll Muffett, president of the Center for International Law, told InsideClimate News in a 2016 interview, "you see the creation of an echo chamber of doubt that takes the small unknowns and uncertainties and magnifies it until all we have is unknowns, when in fact the actual science isn't that way at all."</span></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/content/Exxon-The-Road-Not-Taken" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Exxon was told unambiguously in 1977 by James Black, its own senior scientist, that burning fossil fuels would warm the planet and endanger humanity.</a></span> His warning was echoed publicly 11 years later, when NASA's James Hansen sounded the alarm about climate change in landmark congressional testimony. </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exxon and the API responded by dusting off the uncertainty playbook and pivoting to a new narrative throughout the 1990s that focused on all that remained unknown about climate change. Exxon helped set up the pro-industry<b> Global Climate Coalition and the Global Climate Science Team to sow doubt </b>and assert that it wasn't even clear that climate change was occurring. </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22122015/exxon-mobil-oil-industry-peers-knew-about-climate-change-dangers-1970s-american-petroleum-institute-api-shell-chevron-texaco" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">The coalition disbanded, its work completed, after the administration of George W. Bush, scion of a Texas oil family, rejected the Kyoto Protocol in 2001.</a></span> The industry also recommended its own contrarian scientists to review the administration's submissions to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The oil industry's ties to the administration were revealed in 2005 when a whistleblower disclosed that Philip Cooney, a former API lobbyist working in the White House, had been rewriting government research papers to create doubt about climate change. He left the administration and went to work for ExxonMobil. </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Between 2003 and 2010, 91 climate denialist groups received more than half a billion dollars. They recreated the echo chamber from the long-ago war on smog, increasing its size and upping the volume enough to shape the narrative on climate change for Congress, the media and the American public.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><b>Under pressure from shareholders, Exxon promised to stop funding climate deniers in 2007</b>. But by then, climate change denialism had become a force so extreme in its attacks on mainstream science that even giant oil companies had become suspect. I</span><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05062016/oil-industry-clean-air-fight-smog-los-angeles-dress-rehearsal-climate-change-denial-exxon" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">n 2012, the Heartland Institute, one of the country's leading climate denialist organizations, launched a billboard comparing those who believed in climate change to the Unabomber, Charles Manson and Osama bin Laden</a>. The backlash was severe.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But by 2017, Heartland's chief executive, Joseph Bast, was a guest at the White House when Trump announced that the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. "We are winning in the global warming war," Bast said in an email to supporters.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A 2016 survey by the Pew Research Center found that fewer than 30 percent of Americans understood that the vast majority of climate scientists and peer-reviewed studies support the conclusion that climate change is a human created threat. </font></span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.333;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Polls Reveal a Partisan Divide over Climate Change and Covid-19</font></span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Today, there's an overlap between communities that have played down the coronavirus pandemic and those that deny man-made climate change. Concern about global warming has risen in recent years in the United States, but conservatives</span><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/25/younger-republicans-differ-with-older-party-members-on-climate-change-and-energy-issues/" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">, especially older Republicans</a>, remain holdouts.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Similar disparities between Republicans and Democrats have emerged in recent polling on the coronavirus pandemic. </span><a href="https://www.people-press.org/2020/03/26/worries-about-coronavirus-surge-as-most-americans-expect-a-recession-or-worse/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">A survey released March 26 </a>by the Pew Research Center showed that while 78 percent of Democrats and 66 percent of total respondents said the pandemic was a major threat to public health, only 52 percent of Republicans said it was. Surveys earlier in March by <a href="https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=3657" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Quinnipiac College</a> and the <a href="http://www.apnorc.org/projects/Pages/Worries-about-the-Coronavirus-Increase.aspx" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research at the University of Chicago</a> also indicated that majorities of Republicans doubted the seriousness of the pandemic. And while older Americans have been generally more worried about the virus, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/14/older-americans-are-more-worried-about-coronavirus-unless-theyre-republican/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">older Republicans weren't for weeks, even as the pandemic spread. </a> </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;">In the most recent polling, partisan differences remain: </span><a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-04-06/ap-norc-poll-americans-increasing-effort-to-avoid-infection" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">The Associated Press-NORC Center survey released this week</a> showed that 35 percent of Republicans are extremely worried or very worried about being infected by the coronavirus, compared to 61 percent of Democrats.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;">These </span><a href="https://theconversation.com/democratic-governors-are-quicker-in-responding-to-the-coronavirus-than-republicans-135599" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">partisan disparities also surface in the way states and territories</a> have reacted to the Center for Disease Control's recommendations on social distancing as the best means to limit the spread of the virus. Those that have been most diligent about implementing social distancing are largely Democratic strongholds, and those most lax have been red states, according to <a href="https://www.unacast.com/covid19/social-distancing-scoreboard" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">a Covid-19 social distancing scoreboard created by Unacast, </a>a technology company that studies human mobility. </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.unacast.com/covid19/social-distancing-scoreboard" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Alabama </a></span>had been among states doing the least to establish social distancing, according to the Unacast scorecard, a resistance that continued until early April, when Gov. Kay Ivey announced a stay-at-home order to take effect on April 4. The virus has now spread throughout the state, with 2,229 cases and 48 deaths reported by the state Department of Public Health on Wednesday. </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ashley Lucier is a 30-year-old middle school English teacher who lives with her husband and two young boys in Prattville, Alabama. Lucier's small family and close friends have taken the pandemic seriously and are staying home, she said. But some co-workers think, "'This is a hoax,' and that people are trying to make Trump look bad. They think this will all blow over and we'll be back to work soon," Lucier said.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lucier's parents, both Republicans, live about 10 minutes away in Montgomery. As Lucier began to lock down in her own home, her mother, Cheryl, 59, was still going out to eat with friends and to church, until the restaurants and churches closed. She was taken aback when her daughter refused to send the grandchildren over to visit, Lucier said. Now, her mother's views on the pandemic have started to shift toward greater worry and caution. But Lucier's father, Anthony, 62, remains less concerned about the pandemic and less convinced of the recommendations of public health. He asked that his family's surname be withheld because he said he feared retaliation over his climate views.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"If Trump doesn't worry about it," Lucier said, "then my parents don't worry about it."</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Affable and with an easy laugh, Anthony calls himself a conservative Republican and jokingly describes his liberal daughter, and only child, as a "leftist guerilla jungle fighter." A Fox News fan, he refers to Covid-19 as "the flu," </span><a href="https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1243670348211654664?s=20" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">echoing the president.</a> The novel coronavirus is not like the seasonal flu, and its mortality rate is 10 times higher. Anthony also thinks global warming is a hoax and considers the urgent narrative about the pandemic as "climate change 2.0."</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"It does feel like that because so many things are thrown in people's faces that are absolutely not true, that you think the next thing down the line is a hoax," Anthony said. "There's so much that's based on nothing, that when the wolf does come along to your door, everyone is surprised."</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anthony acknowledges that the virus could be a real threat, a "wolf." But his small manufacturing firm is open, and he still goes to work. Anthony thinks that people can do little to avoid catching such a contagious illness, so the social distancing and the lengthy lockdowns he has heard of but not seen yet in Alabama feel like overkill. </font></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We can do this for a certain amount of time before it becomes more of a problem than the flu itself and does serious economic damage," Anthony said, repeating objections Trump voiced last week to widespread social distancing. "People gotta keep on working, they gotta keep on making things, gotta keep on living."</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Like Anthony, a plurality of Republicans in the recent Pew poll—nearly 4 in 10—said they felt the country was overreacting to the pandemic. Pluralities of Democrats and others said they thought Americans were not taking the threat seriously enough</span>. </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"My father still shrugs most of it off as a media bias or an overreaction of the public, even when I tell him the information is from reputable sources," Lucier said. "I don't know if it will really hit him unless someone close to us gets seriously sick."</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That person who could get seriously sick is Lucier herself. Always outdoorsy and healthy, Lucier developed a blood clot in her lungs as a complication of donating a kidney in July 2018. She is on an inhaler and blood thinner for the clots. Her lung function is greatly reduced, and when she had the flu last year, Lucier landed in the hospital. Her parents say they understand she's at risk now, Lucier said, but given how they lead their lives still, she isn't convinced.</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Continuing ambivalence about social distancing will only prolong the crisis, said Gretchen Goldman, research director of the Union of Concerned Scientists' Center for Science and Democracy. "When you have a big segment of the population that's dismissive about social distancing, you will have spread and you'll keep overloading the hospital system," Goldman said. "The longer there are mixed messages, the longer people don't take it seriously, the worse it will get."</font></span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.333;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Will Covid-19 Deaths Lead Skeptics to Rethink Views on Climate Change?</font></span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Why don't many Americans like Lucier's parents take the pandemic seriously, even when it poses a risk to loved ones? Beyond the </span><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22122017/big-oil-heartland-climate-science-misinformation-campaign-koch-api-trump-infographic" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">nearly 30 years of climate denial</a> that have given conservatives the arguments and social acceptance to dismiss scientific expertise, some of the resistance is driven by "solution aversion," said Taylor of the Niskanen Center. If people think the remedies to a problem will be painful or require sacrifice, they're more reluctant to accept the reality of the threat. With both climate change and Covid-19, skeptics think they will have to surrender economic prosperity, so they dismiss the looming risks.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Conservatives have also been encouraged to doubt the objectivity of scientists, Taylor said. Ideological champions on the right </span><a href="https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2009/11/24/climategate_hoax_the_universe_of_lies_versus_the_universe_of_reality/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">such as Rush Limbaugh have described scientists as part of a liberal cabal to deceive the American people on issues like climate change. </a></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;">In 2009, thousands of hacked emails from climate scientists were leaked, in a scandal known as Climategate. Climate deniers seized upon excerpts from the emails to cast doubt on the scientific consensus about global warming before international negotiations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. </span><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20100708/hacked-email-scientists-exonerated-misconduct-third-time" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">Multiple reviews of the scientists' emails exonerated them of tampering with data, </a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">but to deniers, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Climategate</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> remains proof of the dishonesty of climate researchers. </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">"There's a hostility toward the messengers," Taylor said. "Technocratic elites and scientists are for the most part Democrats, and that's one thing the Republican base knows really well. They're not trustworthy. They're not part of the tribe. And Republicans have been hearing for 30 years that they have an agenda they want to advance."</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Nelson, a professor of environmental ethics and philosophy at Oregon State University, said that feeling part of a bigger community, such as a political party or movement, can become "more important than accepting the truth." </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Opening people's eyes to that truth isn't a matter of pointing more often to science because that's already an impediment, he said. A more useful approach to changing minds might be to acknowledge that the resistance people offer is reasonable to them, if not completely sound to others, Nelson said. </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Goldman </span>of the Union of Concerned Scientists agreed. "One of the things we've learned from communicating climate science is that if you communicate something that triggers someone's worldview, it makes them more resistant to the science," she said. "We saw the same triggering of political worldviews with the coronavirus because the primary messengers like the president and his allies were denying it. And you didn't see as many scientific experts who should have been leading the messaging at the beginning of the pandemic."</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the death toll from the pandemic climbs, conservatives are likely to set aside their continued skepticism of science, including the facts underpinning climate change, Taylor said. "The distrust of expertise and the medical profession will wither away," he said, "because we'll see the consequences of that distrust."</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Goldman is less optimistic that the impact of Covid-19 can lead doubters to reconsider anything other than Covid-19. </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-239956ee-7fff-2577-babe-e0cd9347437e" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I'm skeptical that this situation is enough to change people's minds on climate change," she said. "There will never be an event that you can point to and say that it's climate. You won't have a 'gotcha moment' as you would with this virus because you have a more definite link to deaths when you have a virus. If coronavirus changes people's science denial ways here, I wouldn't put money on it changing their views on other scientific issues."</font></span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="tagged-with" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-transform: uppercase; margin-bottom: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><label style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; line-height: 1.2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PUBLISHED UNDER:</font></label><div class="field field-name-field-topics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; padding-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/topics/climate-denial" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New 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<div class="field-item odd" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; padding-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/tags/coronavirus" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">CORONAVIRUS</a></div> <div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; padding-right: 0.5em;"><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/tags/covid-19" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">COVID-1</a>9</div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/banks-and-the-trump-administration-see-opening-to-bring-back-wall-street-casino-in-coronavirus-crisis/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" 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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Banks and the Trump administration see opening to bring back Wall Street casino in coronavirus crisis</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Joan McCarter / Daily Kos April 12, 2020</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>The banksters are gonna bankster.</b> Right now, they are gleefully rubbing their hands together as if they were washing coronavirus away, but in anticipation of the rollback of regulations they’ve been under since the last big economic crisis. You remember it—the one that they created a dozen years ago that nearly brought the global economic system down. Since then, they’ve been chafing under the modest rules imposed by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law. But those rules are being eased under the current economic and public health crisis, and if the banksters have their way, there will be no going back.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Federal Reserve and other regulators are loosening the rules on how much capital banks have to hold to be able to absorb losses; are allowing smaller banks to take on a higher debt load; and the Trump administration has delayed rules that would make them prepare against potential losses and set up systems to minimize risks. Trump’s cronies are doing their best to figure out how to weaken all these rules and turn Wall Street into a casino again. They see this as an opportunity, but the top Democrats in charge of banking oversight vow to fight.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“While our federal regulators, agencies and financial institutions must take action to protect consumers and our economy, I must emphasize that it is unacceptable to use this crisis as an excuse to justify rollbacks of important financial regulations that are in place to protect our financial system and economy,” Rep. Maxine Waters, chair of the House Financial Services Committee, warned last month. “Wall Street will take advantage of anything to chip away at commonsense financial protections,” Ohio Sen. <b>Sherrod Brown</b>, top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, told Politico. “Right now, as we deal with the economic fallout of coronavirus, we need the financial watchdogs to keep a close eye on the financial system. We need to be doing everything we can to protect hardworking Americans, not helping Wall Street and big banks skirt regulations.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Banks do need to have flexibility to make loans and keep businesses and individuals afloat. But they also need to not play roulette with the global economy, and Wall Street certainly has done nothing in the past 12-plus years to indicate it was going to watchdog itself.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>How QAnon conspiracists and coronavirus truthers make a dangerous combination</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Marc-André Argentino, The Conversation April 9, 2020</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by Marc-André Argentino, Concordia University</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>First there was the pandemic, then came the “infodemic” — a term the head of the World Health Organization defines as the spread of false information about COVID-19.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The most dangerous conspiracy theories about the coronavirus are now part of the QAnon phenomenon. For months now, actors in QAnon have downplayed the severity of the crisis, amplified medical disinformation and have been originators of hoaxes.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The QAnon movement started in 2017 after someone using an anonymous account known only as Q posted wild conspiracy theories about U.S. President Donald Trump on the internet forum 4chan.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">QAnon conspiracy theorists believe a deep state cabal of global elites is responsible for all the evil in the world. They also believe those same elites are seeking to bring down Trump, whom they see as the world’s only hope to defeat the deep state. QAnon has now brought the same conspiracy mentality to the coronavirus crisis.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As a researcher of online movements like QAnon, I use a combination of data science and digital ethnography to research how extremist movements use technology to create propaganda, recruit members to ideological causes, inspire acts of violence or impact democratic institutions.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bottom-up approach</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A central component of QAnon is the crowdsourcing of narratives. </b>This bottom-up approach provides a fluid and ever changing ideology. My analysis of Twitter shows from January to March, there was a 21 per cent increase (a total of 7,683,414 posts) in hashtags used by the QAnon community. This means the misinformation they spread has the capacity to reach a wider audience.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">For instance, QAnon community influencers on Twitter promoted Miracle Mineral Supplement as a way of preventing COVID-19. The toxic product was sold by the <b>Texas-based Genesis II Church of Health and Healing for US$45.</b> The U.S. Food and Drug Administration had previously issued a warning about the dangerous and potentially life threatening side effects of the supplement.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In January, QAnon was amplifying narratives on 8kun (the internet forum formally known as 8chan), Facebook and Telegram (an encrypted instant messaging plaform) about a false theory that Asians were more susceptible to the coronavirus and that white people were immune to COVID-19. Not only are there racist undertones associated with this disinformation, it minimizes the threat posed by the virus.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From February until the second week of March, QAnon followed the lead of Trump in downplaying the threat of the virus and calling it a hoax. They believed the virus was a<b> deep state plot to damage the president’s chance at re-election.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> The QAnon community said those warning about the pandemic threat were trying to detract from U.S. domestic politics, stop Trump rallies and remove all the economic gains they contended had occurred during the Trump presidency.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After the WHO upgraded COVID-19 to pandemic status and the U.S. announced it was closing its borders to most people from Europe for 30 days<b>, QAnon changed the narrative again. Suddenly, QAnon thought the pandemic was something to celebrate because it was a cover for the Trump administration’s secret plan to arrest deep state agents.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Evangelicals within the the QAnon movement viewed the pandemic as the promised coming of the Kingdom of God on Earth. David Hayes, who is better known as the Praying Medic and an influencer in the QAnon community with 300,000 YouTube subscribers, said in a March 14 livestream that there was no reason to be concerned about COVID-19. Hayes reassured his viewers that they may not be affected by the disease because this was “spiritual warfare” — only those who have not been chosen by God will be affected by the disease.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The person known as Q, who spawned the QAnon movement, didn’t post anything online about COVID-19 until March 23. Up until then, all of the medical disinformation, hoaxes and downplaying of the pandemic had been sourced from QAnon influencers and community.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Public health threat</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In his first post on the topic of COVID-19, Q pushed a conspiracy theory with racial undertones about COVID-19 being a Chinese bioweapon and that the virus release was a joint venture between China and the Democrats to stop Trump’s re-election by destroying the economy.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The QAnon conspiracies have created an environment of complacency among its followers who aren’t taking the risks posed by the virus seriously.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Florida pastor Rodney Howard-Browne, who has given credence to QAnon in the past and has preached that the coronavirus was planned by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was arrested after holding Sunday services and disregarding federal, state and county orders to limit gatherings to less than 10 people. His conspiratorial beliefs led to his negligent actions, which put hundreds of people from his congregation at risk.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In another instance, right-wing media figures were spreading an “empty hospital” conspiracy, downplaying the pandemic and its death toll.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A QAnon account originally launched the #FilmYourHospital hashtag. This was amplified by QAnon influencers such as former California congressional candidate DeAnna Lorraine <b>Tesoriero and QAnon influencer Liz Crokin</b>. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This hoax was then picked up by mainstream right-wing media figures promoting COVID trutherism to a wider audience.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">The FBI once called conspiracy theories spread by QAnon and others a “potential domestic terrorism threat.” It’s time to call the infodemic a public health threat.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Conversation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Marc-André Argentino, PhD candidate Individualized Program, 2020-2021 Public Scholar, Concordia University</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>‘Can’t get cancer from poor people’: Here’s why the billionaire class supports ‘coronavirus care for all’ but never ‘Medicare for all’</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Credit: Gage Skidmore</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Andrea Germanos / Common Dreams April 7, 2020</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Sirota, senior advisor and speechwriter for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, gave a scathing account Monday of what he believes is driving foes of Medicare for All to embrace universal coverage for the treatment of COVID-19, dubbed “Coronavirus Care for All” by the progressive writer.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The highly contagious nature of the coronavirus is leading the affluent political class to look after their own interests, wrote Sirota. The wealthy are thus in this case backing a healthcare system in which “workers are only permitted to get the absolute minimum amount of free healthcare that may prevent them from infecting billionaires.” </b>Sirota made the argument Monday evening in a publicly available Facebook post, in which he noted that President Donald Trump and Sanders rival former Vice President Joe Biden are supporters of such a system.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Sirota</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@davidsirota</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If you are wondering why Trump, Biden & Third Way simultaneously vilify Medicare for All but suddenly support Coronavirus Care For All -- it isn't a contradiction. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It almost certainly has to do with class and self-interest: https://www.facebook.com/rocktheboat/posts/10158336887095536 …</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Billionaires and lobbyists, wrote Sirota, can count on “gold-plated private health insurance,” and aren’t at risk when a low-wage worker is suffering from a serious—and expensive—but non-contagious health issue such as cancer.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Private heath insurance affords no such buffer when it comes to COVID-19.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A “billionaire Manhattanite and that Washington lobbyist may have great health insurance,” wrote Sirota, but “they and their families are indeed personally jeopardized by that grocery worker being unable to afford COVID testing and treatment, because that grocery worker can spread the disease to the food supply and the larger community.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sirota put the motivation for the narrowly focused government-backed coverage in harsh terms:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A more simple way of saying this is: the affluent political class supports Coronavirus Care For All because they fear getting COVID from poor people, but that same affluent political class opposes Medicare for All because they can't get cancer from poor people and so they don’t care that poor folk cant afford chemo—and they certainly don’t want to pay higher taxes to fix that.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In feudal terms: the peasantry is only allowed to be given the minimal amount of free healthcare that makes sure the gentry don’t get infected—nothing more.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This anti-Medicare for All but pro-COVID-19 care for all mentality puts a spotlight on a harsh truth, wrote Sirota: “the rich and powerful will only act out of fear, never out of a sense of moral solidarity—and only in narrow ways that serve their own interests.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Read Sirota’s full post here and below:...</font></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/how-new-york-citys-emergency-ventilator-stockpile-ended-up-on-the-auction-block/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/how-new-york-citys-emergency-ventilator-stockpile-ended-up-on-the-auction-block/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>How a basic economic principle could derail our ability to combat the coronavirus</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Leigh Osofsky, The Conversation April 7, 2020</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by Leigh Osofsky, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A series of recent protests by the workers preparing and delivering our essential foods and other goods highlights a key risk to our ability to combat the coronavirus.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some employees at an Amazon warehouse and Instacart “shoppers” briefly walked off the job on March 30, citing inadequate health protections and compensation. And Whole Foods workers organized a national “sick out” protest to pressure the grocery chain for hazard pay and more protections.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With most Americans sheltering in place, these workers are among the millions of individuals who face heightened risks as they continue to do their jobs keeping our refrigerators and pantries stocked during the pandemic. But because of an economic theory I study known as “positive externalities,” most of them aren’t being adequately compensated for it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Creating positive externalities</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A positive externality is created when someone’s private behavior leads to broader social benefits. Common examples include when someone buys a hybrid car, gets vaccinated or stops smoking. In each of these examples, someone’s private behavior reduces risks for everyone.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">A negative externality, </span>on the other hand, is when private behavior leads to a public harm, such as pollution from a factory.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>By delivering food and other supplies, workers at Instacart, Whole Foods and hundreds of other companies are reducing the need for people to congregate and thus lowering the systemic risk of COVID-19 for everyone.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>This is an essential public health benefit at a critical time in the pandemic. Without them, it would be much harder to fulfill government stay-in-place orders and slow the spread of COVID-19.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But in general they perform jobs that pay relatively little, and the workers say they lack basic protective gear such as hand sanitizer and masks that would keep them safe</b>.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Paying for an externality</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Unfortunately, the free market isn’t very good at dealing with positive externalities like this – or compensating those who bear the cost. As a result, there’s a risk the people creating the public benefit will not provide enough of it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is easiest to understand by way of example.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Imagine a “shopper” for Instacart – the app-based food delivery platform – delivers groceries to someone with COVID-19. It begins as a private transaction: The worker gets paid, and the sick customer gets food delivered in a time of need. But there is an additional benefit to the rest of us – the positive externality – from the delivery. Everyone is safer because the sick consumer doesn’t have to go to the grocery store.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then there is the extra cost. The Instacart worker faces a heightened health risk by spending more time outside of home and delivering groceries to the sick customer. While the customer may pay a higher tip as a measure of her gratitude, it is unlikely to be enough to take into account the value of the broader benefit to society or the concentrated risk that the Instacart worker faces in producing this benefit.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And that means the undercompensated worker may decide it’s in her interest to stop putting herself at risk – and stop delivering food.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now consider that this is happening countless times and in countless ways across the country as millions of workers keep putting themselves at risk so that others can stay at home.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Who should pay the workers enough to compensate them for their extra risk and ensure we all continue to enjoy this broad public benefit?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Instacart and other companies, of course, are the ones paying these workers, along with fees or tips paid by consumers. The surging demand for these companies’ services suggests they should be able to afford to offer higher wages and provide the kinds of protective gear like masks and hand sanitizer that the workers need.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some companies are doing that. Target, Amazon and Whole Foods have said they will provide their workers temporary “hazard pay.” And Instacart responded to the protest by providing its gig workers with health and safety kits.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A government response</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But a few companies stepping up to compensate their own workers slightly more isn’t enough to compensate the workers for the great benefits they are providing to the public at large.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In economics, widely shared public benefits such as large parks and clean lakes tend to require public – that is government – support. Similarly, the production of a good that is costly but has a large positive externality, like the efforts of all these workers, needs a government response.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Essentially, the government could compensate these workers for the benefits to the public through something like a hazard subsidy and a supply of protective gear, thereby ensuring an ample supply of these workers and the services they provide during this time of crisis.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To be sure, this isn’t a perfect solution. For instance, absent some sort of market forces dictating how much the government subsidizes, the government may pay too much. And there would be questions about which workers are truly essential to creating the public health benefits and should receive the higher pay – should liquor employees be included?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But in a time in which the government is already offering large, unqualified aid packages to the public, such costs are not insurmountable. To get close to the right solution, I believe we first need to recognize how these workers create a large public benefit for us all.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[You need to understand the coronavirus pandemic, and we can help. Read The Conversation’s newsletter.]The Conversation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Leigh Osofsky, Professor of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/the-tragic-and-laughable-rise-of-jared-kushner-should-leave-us-all-terrified"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/the-tragic-and-laughable-rise-of-jared-kushner-should-leave-us-all-terrified</font></a></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The tragic and laughable rise of Jared Kushner should leave us all terrified</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Nancy LeTourneau / Washington Monthly April 7, 2020</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1.2K</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We now know a bit more about what is happening with the critical medical supplies that I wrote about on Monday. Here is how Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker explained it on PBS News Hour.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Josh Marshall</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">@joshtpm</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gov @GovPritzker confirms that the federal ‘Air Bridge’ flights from China, organized by the White House taskforce, are bringing PPE back from China which are then turned over to private companies. The states then have to bid against each other to purchase from those companies.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">The federal government is seizing shipments of these supplies meant for states or other countries and then turning them over to private companies to distribute. Here is the formula, as outlined by a report in the New York Times.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">FEMA allows those distributors to sell about half of the equipment to companies and counties that had previously placed orders. The other half of the shipments must be sold to counties that the federal government prioritizes by the severity of the outbreak, based on data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The federal government will also soon save 10 percent of the supplies on each flight for the national stockpile, according to officials.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>There are five companies that have been chosen to distribute these supplies: McKesson Corp., Owens & Minor, Cardinal Health, Medline Industries, and Henry Schein.</b> While there has been zero transparency on how those companies were chosen, on Saturday, it was announced that they would all be exempt from anti-trust laws in order to coordinate their efforts.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/this-utterly-damning-coronavirus-timeline-lays-bare-trumps-total-lack-of-leadership/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/this-utterly-damning-coronavirus-timeline-lays-bare-trumps-total-lack-of-leadership/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">40 gop reps and sen urge oil bailout, djt WH mtg w/ 8 ceo's? exxon shell? HAMM?!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/trump-keeps-claiming-that-he-quickly-banned-travel-from-asia-and-europe-due-to-covid-19-but-that-is-a-brazen-lie/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/trump-keeps-claiming-that-he-quickly-banned-travel-from-asia-and-europe-due-to-covid-19-but-that-is-a-brazen-lie/</a></font></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">420 an s<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click1.e.alternet.org/dmhsmljzjngfgmwwfrhjjfjwwrfwzcdbsnjghtlctrrp_ctjdtmqmftcqltmtggl.html?a=&b=4220&c=21989&d=2" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">lide into martial law’: ACLU attorney warns anti-coronavirus measures are coming at the expense of civil liberties</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/cnn-host-spars-with-trump-economist-peter-navarro-for-touting-his-social-scientist-credentials-in-hydroxychloroquine-fight-why-should-we-listen-to-you-and-not-fauci"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/cnn-host-spars-with-trump-economist-peter-navarro-for-touting-his-social-scientist-credentials-in-hydroxychloroquine-fight-why-should-we-listen-to-you-and-not-fauci</font></a></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CNN host spars with Trump economist Navarro for touting ‘social scientist’ credentials in hydroxychloroquine fight: ‘Why should we listen to you?’</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Image via Screengrab.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Alex Henderson April 6, 2020</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Axios’ Jonathan Swan has reported that Dr. Anthony Fauci and Peter Navarro (policy coordinator for the Trump White House’s trade policy) had a heated argument in the White House’s Situation Room over the benefits of hydroxychloroquine as a way to possibly treat coronavirus. Navarro, like President Donald Trump, has been pushing chloroquine aggressively — while Fauci has strong reservations. And the merits of hydroxychloroquine (which has been used to treat malaria) in relation to coronavirus were hotly debated on Monday morning, April 6 when Navarro appeared on CNN’s “New Day” and was aggressively grilled by host John Berman.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Berman emphasized that Navarro lacks Fauci’s medical expertise, asking why someone would believe Navarro over a well-respected “infectious disease doctor” like Fauci. When Navarro described himself as a “social scientist,” Berman responded that being a “social scientist” is not the same as having medical expertise.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I’m sorry, that doesn’t qualify you to treat patients,” Berman said. “You know it doesn’t qualify to you treat patients.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Why should we listen to you and not Dr. Anthony Fauci?,” Berman maintained. The CNN host demanded to know, “Why is Dr. Anthony Fauci, the lead infectious disease doctor in this country, wrong about this?”...</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/jared-kushner-creating-confusion-by-coordinating-covid-19-response-with-trumps-corporate-allies-wapo-reporter"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/jared-kushner-creating-confusion-by-coordinating-covid-19-response-with-trumps-corporate-allies-wapo-reporter</font></a></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Jared Kushner creating ‘confusion’ by coordinating COVID-19 response with Trump’s ‘corporate allies’: WaPo reporter</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Travis Gettys / Raw Story April 6, 2020</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reporter Robert Costa revealed that Jared Kushner has been coordinating the distribution of medical supplies with Republican donors.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Washington Post national political reporter said President Donald Trump’s son-in-law has sparked confusion in those efforts by placing himself in the chain of command, and both Kushner and trade adviser Peter Navarro were contradicting advice from White House medical experts.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“When you ask about the inner circle, it is clear to me,” Costa told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” “based on my reporting, that Peter Navarro, more than anyone now, whether it’s on urging the president to take a position that’s different than Dr. [Anthony] Fauci, or when it comes to the Defense Production Act, nudging corporations, sometimes pushing corporations to do what the White House wants, that Navarro is at the center.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“Jared Kushner is there and he’s really being a liaison to different donors, to different corporate allies of this administration, which has created confusion about the chain of command, about whether corporations should work through Jared, whether they should work through Vice President [Mike] Pence and the task force,” he added.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Na<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">varro and other Trump advisers, including Rudy Giuliani, have been overriding medical experts on the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine against the coronavirus, and Costa said the president’s confidence in that unproven drug was not matched by science.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“That scene at the [Centers for Disease Control] from weeks ago, where the president says he is quite familiar with medicine, even though he is not a medical professional, is a statement that you often hear inside of the White House,” Costa said. “Top officials say the president has confidence that’s not backed up by experience or data. This is an alarming situation for not only people in the White House but many governors. They say if the president keeps talking about hydroxychloroquine in a way that is encouraging people to go seek it out, you’re going to have a medical, chaotic situation in this country, where people are trying to get a drug that’s not truly proven as efficacious for treating coronavirus and COVID-19.”</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/tactics-from-the-right-wing-playbook-on-covid-19/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/tactics-from-the-right-wing-playbook-on-covid-19/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">D<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">uring this extremely challenging time, when the spread of the coronavirus threatens people’s lives and the nation’s well-being, Americans should be able to count on their leaders for honest and accurate information. But Americans who trust right-wing media, political, and religious leaders have too often gotten the opposite.</span></font></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Donald Trump himself has been a steady <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/11/politics/fact-check-trump-administration-coronavirus-28-dishonest/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">source</a> of dishonesty, disinformation, and wildly mixed signals about the coronavirus outbreak. And his supporters in right-wing media, the religious-right political movement, and Republican Party leadership have employed a range of messaging strategies and tactics designed to mask administration failures, smear its critics, and promote narratives that serve to distract and misinform Americans about the crisis and the public health measures being taken to address it.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Here, briefly, are some of the ways Americans are being ill-served by conservative leaders, activists, and media.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Dismissing and Downplaying the Threat</font></u></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the early days of the spread of the virus, Trump and members of his administration downplayed the seriousness of the threat the virus posed to Americans. Trump’s allies and <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-federalists-coronavirus-coverage-is-a-dangerous-joke/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">right-wing media</a> have decried what they described as a <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/ron-paul-suggested-coronavirus-was-a-big-hoax-then-his-son-caught-it/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">hoax</a>, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-supporters-fuel-dangerous-election-year-coronavirus-claim" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">hype</a>, and fearmongering designed to harm Trump’s reelection prospects. Even now, as new cases and deaths continue to spike, Trump and his supporters send mixed messages about the threat and the importance of social distancing.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Distracting Americans with Conspiracy Theories and Finger-Pointing</font></u></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A wide range of <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rodney-howard-browne-used-his-sunday-service-to-spread-coronavirus-conspiracy-theories/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">conspiracy theories</a> about the virus and its spread have been promoted not only by fringe activists in online spaces but also by <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rep-peter-king-entertains-conspiracy-theory-that-coronavirus-is-chinese-bioweapon/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">members of Congress</a> and religious leaders with large audiences. Many of the conspiracy theories are meant to deflect accountability from U.S. officials’ decision-making by diverting attention and blame elsewhere. COVID-19 has been portrayed as a weapon of war launched by the <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/covid-19-is-chinese-bio-warfare-says-trump-allied-megachurch-pastor-jack-hibbs/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Chinese</a> or <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rodney-howard-browne-used-his-sunday-service-to-spread-coronavirus-conspiracy-theories/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">North Korean</a> governments and as a plot by <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/lou-engle-calls-for-three-day-fast-to-stop-coronavirus-and-save-stadium-prayer-rallies/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Satan</a>, the <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/josh-bernstein-the-coronavirus-outbreak-is-a-democratic-and-chinese-conspiracy-against-trump/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Democratic Party</a>, <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rodney-howard-browne-used-his-sunday-service-to-spread-coronavirus-conspiracy-theories/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">globalists,</a> <a href="https://banned.video/watch?id=5e675a2412f790009b69bfa4" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">big pharma</a>, and other habitual enemies of the right-wing imagination. Others who promote the <a href="https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/03/18/the-coronavirus-is-conspiracy-theory-gold-for-qanon/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">QAnon</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/mark-taylor-the-coronavirus-is-a-cover-to-carry-out-the-mass-arrests-long-promised-by-qanon/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">conspiracy theory</a> popular in some corners of Trump’s base say the virus and social distancing measures are cover for <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/liz-crokin-the-coronavirus-is-cover-for-the-military-to-make-mass-arrests/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Trump to make mass arrests</a> of a deep-state pedophile ring. A new wave of hoax conspiracy-mongering is <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/tactics-from-the-right-wing-playbook-on-covid-19/A%20new%20wave%20of%20hoax%20conspiracy-mongering%20is%20spreading%20on%20social%20media%20using%20hashtags%20like%20#coronavirustruth%20and" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">spreading on social media</a> using hashtags like #coronavirustruth and #FilmYourHospital.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Pushing the Team Trump Line, Whatever It Is</font></u></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The extent to which right-wing activists, leaders, and <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/oan-reporter-chanel-rion-asks-incredibly-bonkers-softball-question-at-trump-coronavirus-presser" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">media</a> have become public relations vehicles of the White House is evident in the ways that they have followed the Trump administration’s own dramatic shifts from dismissing fears of the virus as hype generated by the media to belatedly recognizing the seriousness of the situation and the need for strong public health measures. Trump’s supporters have learned from him not to bother acknowledging or explaining their abrupt shifts in position. One religious-right activist even <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/prayer-warriors-rally-around-trump-prophesy-quick-end-to-pandemic-predict-great-awakening/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">defended Trump’s misinformation</a> as a strategy for sowing confusion in the “enemy camp.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Making the Most of It / Shameless Opportunism</font></u></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some right-wing leaders are taking advantage of the crisis to push preexisting agendas. Among them: promoting hostility to immigrants and immigration; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/opinion/covid-abortion-ohio-texas.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">shutting</a> <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/490169-planned-parenthood-aclu-sue-iowa-governor-for-suspending-abortions-amid" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">down</a> <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kentucky-ag-calls-for-halt-on-abortions-during-coronavirus-crisis" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">access </a>to abortion; promoting <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2020/03/29/devos-leaving-students-behind-and-launching-national-school-vouchers/#52a899456b4a" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">school vouchers</a>; <a title="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-trump-administration-epa-suspends-environmental-protection-laws/" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-trump-administration-epa-suspends-environmental-protection-laws/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">undermining </a><a title="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27032020/coronavirus-covid-19-EPA-API-environmental-enforcement" href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27032020/coronavirus-covid-19-EPA-API-environmental-enforcement" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">environmental </a><a title="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/29/21198674/coronavirus-epa-trump-regulations" href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/29/21198674/coronavirus-epa-trump-regulations" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">protections</a>; fomenting nationalism and <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-uses-coronavirus-fears-to-advance-bannons-far-right-agenda/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">disparaging international institutions</a>; <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/candace-owens-throws-jabs-at-conservatives-advocating-government-response-to-coronavirus/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">disparaging</a> federal aid to <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rick-wiles-the-coronavirus-is-an-end-times-plague-sent-by-god-to-purge-the-world-of-sin/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">struggling individuals</a> and promoting libertarian <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-federalist-asks-is-america-better-off-letting-people-die-from-coronavirus/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">social darwinism</a>; and weakening the separation of church and state. Others have used it to enrich themselves by <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/missouri-ag-sues-jim-bakker-over-fake-coronavirus-cure/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">selling bogus “cures.”</a></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Playing God and Portraying Trump’s Actions as Part of a Divine Plan</font></u></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservative evangelicals are Trump’s most loyal supporters. Many have followed his shifts, urging their followers to adopt the administration’s social distancing guidelines. But some have <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/roy-moore-says-closing-churches-is-tyranny-tells-pastors-they-have-duty-to-assemble/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">resisted</a> restrictions on large gatherings, portraying them as attacks on religious liberty and telling supporters that believers have <a href="https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1237761136507981824" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">divine protection</a>. Some have portrayed <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/christians-should-be-more-concerned-about-hell-bound-neighbors-than-coronavirus-says-revivalist-john-burton/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">attending church</a> as <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/megachurch-pastor-mockes-people-who-stayed-home-over-coronavirus-fear/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">a test of their faith</a> in God’s power to heal. Some have called the virus a sign of God’s punishment for <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/perry-stone-claims-americas-coronavirus-outbreak-is-a-reckoning-for-allowing-abortion-and-gay-marriage/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">abortion</a> or <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rick-wiles-says-coronavirus-death-of-lgbtq-lawyer-is-a-sign-of-gods-judgment/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">homosexuality</a>, and others have said it’s God’s way to focus attention on the church.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some “prophetic” leaders have declared that God will bring <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/prayer-warriors-rally-around-trump-prophesy-quick-end-to-pandemic-predict-great-awakening/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">swift and miraculous resolution</a> to the crisis: one asserted that the <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/prophet-claimed-tide-is-turning-on-coronavirus-two-weeks-ago/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">tide was turning in mid-February</a>; others decreed that <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/steve-strang-and-cal-pierce-decreed-that-coronavirus-would-leave-earth-today/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">the virus would leave Earth on March 23</a>; and others have predicted divine intervention around <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/prayer-warriors-rally-around-trump-prophesy-quick-end-to-pandemic-predict-great-awakening/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Passover</a> or Easter, when Trump himself has said he would like to see churches full. Some are depicting current events as evidence that we are living in the <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rick-wiles-the-coronavirus-is-an-end-times-plague-sent-by-god-to-purge-the-world-of-sin/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">End Times</a> and that believers should therefore expect “pestilence” and other events prophesied for the last days.</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">420 intercept</font></div><div><h2 style="line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">b<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://join.theintercept.com/go/6066?t=16&utm_source=The+Intercept+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&akid=1737%2E185521%2Ek9Nbb2" style="text-decoration-line: none;">eware of Trump Using the Coronavirus as a Cover for War With Iran</a></font></h2><h4 style="font-weight: normal; margin-top: 5px; line-height: 16.25px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mehdi Hasan</font></h4><p style="line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Strangling Iran’s economy, already devastated by Covid-19, isn’t enough for Trump, even though a new war would be a strategic disaster.</font></p><p style="line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a rel="nofollow" class="yiv7544206692read-more" target="blank" href="https://join.theintercept.com/go/6066?t=17&utm_source=The+Intercept+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&akid=1737%2E185521%2Ek9Nbb2" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; text-transform: uppercase; display: inline-block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">READ MORE →</font></a></p></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27032020/coronavirus-covid-19-EPA-API-environmental-enforcement"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27032020/coronavirus-covid-19-EPA-API-environmental-enforcement</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">long</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>T<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">he Trump administration's unprecedented decision to suspend enforcement of U.S. environmental laws amid the COVID-19 crisis throws a lifeline to the oil industry as it copes with the greatest threat to its business in a generation.</span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></b></font></div><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d496569c-7fff-1e4f-03ed-8cbaf7373167" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The </span><a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-announces-enforcement-discretion-policy-covid-19-pandemic" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">decision</a>, announced late Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency, comes after <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6819817-API-Letter-to-EPA-Seeking-Oil-Industry.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">a detailed call for help</a> from the industry's largest trade group, the American Petroleum Institute, five days earlier. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d496569c-7fff-1e4f-03ed-8cbaf7373167" style="box-sizing: inherit;">The EPA went further than meeting the oil industry's request—announcing </span><a href="https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/covid-19-implications-epas-enforcement-and-compliance-assurance-program" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">a blanket policy</a> suspending enforcement and civil penalties for any regulated entity that can show COVID-19 was the cause of a failure to comply with the law. But it is clear that a primary beneficiary will be the oil industry, which sought suspension of its obligations under consent decrees over past air and water pollution violations at its refineries, deferral of requirements on handling of fracking wastewater and a pause in reporting its greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d496569c-7fff-1e4f-03ed-8cbaf7373167" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" inherit="inherit">On Friday afternoon, t</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">he EPA announced a separate action to relieve refineries of their legal obligation this year to produce "summer" blends of gasoline, designed to reduce smog-forming emissions....</span></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/trump-administration-quietly-guts-covid-19-paid-leave-provision-that-already-excluded-75-percent-of-workers/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/trump-administration-quietly-guts-covid-19-paid-leave-provision-that-already-excluded-75-percent-of-workers/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/fox-news-doctor-says-its-time-for-covid-19-patients-to-come-off-ventilators-either-survive-or-die/">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/fox-news-doctor-says-its-time-for-covid-19-patients-to-come-off-ventilators-either-survive-or-die/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">see single-payer:</font></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/heres-why-the-tormented-conservative-mind-is-so-drawn-to-the-dangerous-allure-of-miracle-drugs/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/heres-why-the-tormented-conservative-mind-is-so-drawn-to-the-dangerous-allure-of-miracle-drugs/</font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Here’s why the tormented conservative mind is so drawn to the dangerous allure of miracle drugs</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Amanda Marcotte / Salon April 3, 2020</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In one of the oddest developments of the coronavirus crisis, there’s been a run on a pair of<b> antimalarial drugs, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine</b>, which are used primarily in the U.S. to treat arthritis and to prevent organ damage from lupus. The drugs are being sucked out of pharmacies at an alarming rate, thanks to Americans who have convinced themselves these drugs will save them if the develop COVID-19, and thereby leaving patients who actually need these medications in danger.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This is happening in the face of only thin evidence that these drugs work against the novel coronavirus, and plenty of evidence that they don’t work. At one Paris hospital that used the drug heavily — on the recommendation of<b> Didier Raoult, a climate change-denying French doctor with a shady reputation </b>— the results suggest these drugs are not effective at all. Chinese doctors also concluded they were useless. These drugs are known to have some scary side effects, including sudden cardiac death in some patients. They are also notorious for psychological side effects, such as paranoia and nightmares. At least one person in the U.S. has died from swallowing aquarium cleaner that contains a similar chemical compound.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>So why are so many people so eager to get their hands on drugs that are clearly dangerous and may do no good?</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The most immediate reason is simple: The people rushing the pharmacies are Republicans, and both Donald Trump and numerous Fox News personalities have told them these drugs are a “game-changer” that can save them from the coronavirus.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">But there’s a reason these false or unproven claims are resonating with the ordinary citizens of Trumpistan. The hope that there’s a hard-to-get miracle cure that will save them speaks directly to the poisonous social Darwinism that guides modern conservatism. It reflects deep hostility to the very concept of a shared public good and a fierce attachment to a racialized ideology of individualism that treats public goods such as health care as things to be hoarded by those with the privilege, money and status to do so.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Conservative ideology simply doesn’t allow for the possibility that anything, including pandemic management, is best managed with a “we’re all in this together” mentality. Instead they’re drawn to this fantasy that there’s a Platinum Member COVID-19 status that can be purchased, which will allow them to opt out of the suffering of the plebeian class that has to quarantine or risk sickness and death.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">There’s no question that Trump and other right-wing figures are pushing this hydroxychloroquine angle hard. Trump has talked about these drugs several times during his daily propaganda-dump “press briefings,” as well as on Twitter.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Laura Ingraham of Fox News has been hyping this stuff heavily, hosting a doctor who misleadingly argued that “this is the beginning of the end of the pandemic” Wednesday night. She’s also had tweets removed by Twitter for promoting medical disinformation.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Sean Hannity of Fox News has been urging his millions of viewers to grab this stuff up as well, saying “I love the idea of off label use”</b> and arguing that even if it doesn’t work, people have <b>“right to try” </b>— completely ignoring that these drugs are dangerous.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">There are many other examples, carefully collected here by Media Matters. This kind of repetition works, and goes a long way towards explaining how enthusiastically right-wing audiences have latched onto these drugs as a possible miracle cure....</font></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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