You know what's going to happen in Texas. Cases go up, and "Look how Biden has failed to control the pandemic".
You know what's going to happen in Texas. Cases go up, and "Look how Biden has failed to control the pandemic".
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
A Fetus is not a person under the 14th amendment.
Christians are Forced Birth Fascists against Human Rights who indoctrinate and groom children. Prove me wrong.
I mean that sure feels good to think about, but sadly there are millions who don't back the current Death Cult leading the state that would suffer as a result.
I've said it before and I'll keep saying it: The wrong people are getting covid. It should be the folks like Abott and Patrick, not someone's relative who abides by CDC guidelines but gets infected because some fuckin shitdick wearing a chin diaper.
EU is starting the process of authorizing the Russian vaccine - https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/em...vid-19-vaccine
R-Pharm seems to be a German company with deep pharma connections to Russia.EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) has started a rolling review of Sputnik V (Gam-COVID-Vac), a COVID-19 vaccine1 developed by Russia’s Gamaleya National Centre of Epidemiology and Microbiology. The EU applicant for this medicine is R-Pharm Germany GmbH.
HEY! You remember how the governor of Texas re-opened the state 100% and then turned around to blame migrants for spreading the virus?
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/04/polit...=AndroidMobile
So...he's blaming a problem that he's making worse rather than accept federal funding for testing and isolation for these asylum seekers being released.DHS has already set plans in motion to use Federal Emergency Management Agency funds to support community efforts to test, isolate and quarantine migrants released from Border Patrol custody, the official told CNN. But the grant money needs to be approved by the state before it can be distributed to border communities. CNN previously reported plans were underway to use FEMA funds to help localities acquire tests.
As of Wednesday, Texas had not yet provided a response to the administration since engaging with the Department of Homeland Security.
Once more, the Death Cult party continues to show that they're doing their damndest to kill as many people as they possibly can in as short a period as they can.
https://www.statnews.com/2021/03/04/...te-floridians/
Apparently, your best shot at getting a vaccine in the US, especially in Florida, is to be rich and white.
If you're a person of color in FL, or the US writ large...well...good fuckin luck, because despite communities of color being disproportionately impacted by the virus they're also getting ratfucked out of getting the vaccine.
Ron DeSantis is truly the High Priest of the Death Cult.
There are many issues brought up, but in this particular case it wasn't like white people were taking all the vaccines for themselves: "Some 250 shots were available to over-65-year-olds and health care workers on Feb. 13. By the end of the day, only around half had been used." They had no plan to let locals know there was even a vaccine event nearby and then put it in the middle of nowhere that needed to be driven to. They didn't even ask the people working there if they had been vaccinated and told them to go home without using the excess.
Well, this is the same state that has a former governor say "Texans would be without electricity for longer than three days to keep the federal government out of their business.’
So, there is that. Maybe Trump is right in the fact we need a wall. Just not around Mexico. I say more like Texas.
There's the federal response and the state responses.
The federal response has improved significantly, the DPA is now being used for more vaccine production and they're apparently getting their shit together with distribution and support for states vaccination programs.
The state response is still what it always was, uneven as fuck. Some governors continue to take it seriously across both parties, however the governors of states like South Dakota, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Texas etc. largely seem to continue to "lead by not existing, or redirecting support to wealthier donors/areas". Those at the folks I call "death cultists", because they seem pretty casual about tens of thousands of their citizens dying due to their failure to implement and enforce CDC guidance etc.
Both impact the respective state responses, but a competent federal response is undermined by an incompetent state response, just as a competent state response can be hamstrung by an incompetent federal response.
So Italy, with EU backing, just stole - sorry, "blocked shipment" - of 250,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine that Australia had paid for, with the reasoning being "we want/need it more than you." Basically if you are incompetent in your handling of the virus and in negotiating with vaccine producers, you can just take what you want.
This is what vaccine nationalism that the WHO has been warning about looks like.
Luckily it shouldn't affect the roll out here, but it is a terrible precedence. (And of note, the vaccines doses Australia is paying for and producing aren't just for Australia - we have committed to provide them for free to Pacific island nations that couldn't really afford it otherwise.)