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It Can Happen Anytime

26 Sunday Jul 2020

Posted by Commentary about the Blue Marble in Coronavirus, Schools

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Remember when the daughter would go out with her boyfriend and she would be told to be home by 11:00 pm or maybe 10:00 pm? Why? She would ask and mother would say “Nothing good happens after 11:00 pm.”

The truth is if two people are together sex can occur at anytime. I use the analogy because it doesn’t make any sense for schools to have kids for just four hours a day. A Covid 19 trained emergency care nurse just told me it can be spread in a minute. Do the administrators think the virus can only be spread after four hours? Could some administrators explain their thinking?

Truth and Action Saves Lives

23 Thursday Jul 2020

Posted by Commentary about the Blue Marble in Coronavirus, Uncategorized

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Let’s think about how to either keep from getting the virus or how to get over it over it once we got it. Apparently we can keep from getting it by staying in the steam room or maybe the warm pool room of one of Trump’s resorts. Several times Trump said heat and high humidity will kill it. If that was true it wouldn’t have been in the southern hemisphere’s summer. Brazil’s death toll is rapidly climbing. Its heat and humidity hasn’t slowed it.

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern went straight to the countrywide lockdown when the virus first appeared. Today they have no cases and a fully functioning economy. Why? They paid attention to what the WHO said and didn’t keep calling it a hoax as people died.

As people died here, our President partied, campaigned, denied, and said he had everything under control. With over 61,000 dead and increasing, he still is patting himself on the back by saying it would have been much worse without him in charge!

Of course, we can’t overlook the medicinal remedies he has espoused as cures. They have been promoted by his celebrity friends before the FDA said supposed cures didn’t help and could be dangerous. Commonsense says don’t put household cleaners into the body or stick a u-v light up your butt. Still thousands called their local, state and federal poison control agencies.

We are behind the eight ball while those countries that reacted quickly are opening up. Almost all New Zealanders love Ardern for her quick action on guns and the virus. We, on the other hand, are greatly divided and can’t believe our leadership.

Conventions Tell the Story

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Joe Gallas thinks I wrote an “ageist and racist” letter concerning the delegates to the major party conventions. Joe, the truth is I am not an anti-anyone. I have voted for delegates of both parties since Reagan’s first term and my comments are accurate. Joe, try looking at the audiences (delegates) of previous conventions. One is a rainbow and the other is mostly a monotone. One has a variety of ages and the other has a giant majority of AARP age attendees.

Both major parties have about the same number of attendees. The delegates pick up their own expenses to go to their party’s convention. The city that gets the Republican Convention can expect attendees to spend about 25 to 35% more than a Democrat Convention. The percentage comes from the search for cities to host the Democrat Convention in 2016. It was an amazing number that really opened my eyes.

This year will be almost 100% more since the Democrats will be virtual and the Republicans are in multiple venues. As I write this Tim Murtaugh, Trump’s campaign communications Director, is being interviewed. He is responding to questions about moving out of Charlotte and into Jacksonville.  Both communities are going to get some benefits versus the virtual one in Milwaukee.

Joe, don’t deny what you can see for yourself. I bet you haven’t been to a convention either. A few weeks ago a Republican strategist was on a Sunday morning news show saying the visuals of their conventions didn’t portray the idea of an inclusive party. I agree with him.

XXV Option

23 Thursday Jul 2020

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An old episode of “Madam Secretary” concerned a President whose erratic behavior necessitated his removal from office until doctors could certify him fit to resume office. The straw that caused the invoking of XXV Amendment was his threats to use nuclear weapons in Iran.

Several times President Trump has threatened the use of nuclear weapons on North Korea and Iran, but as usual, he has not carried them out. His bombastic personality means his words are now perceived as meaningless and not to be taken as more bluster when his threat could be real. Analogy is boy crying wolf.

Trump has been paranoid for many years and now has become extremely paranoid. He has fired many of his chosen secretaries and assistants who he perceived were not completely loyal to him.

He took narcissism to an extreme level when he said “These people will tell you how great I am,” and then sat to the side of the dais. The leaders of our government were then required to use “great” over and over in their loyalty speech. Sounded Hitler-like.

Trump has created a fantasy world with all the crazy ideas and conspiracies he reads on the internet or suggested on Fox by their talking heads or their guests. He often says the pandemic is a hoax causing his believers to rebel against the science.

He has been a habitual liar since he was a little kid and now he seldom every tells the truth. A great example was during an interview where he was saying we had fewer cases per thousand of Covid 19 than any other country in spite of showing a sheet indicating we are halfway down the list.

Maybe it is time to invoke the XXV Amendment!

Are We Doomed

19 Sunday Jul 2020

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I am afraid this may be a gloom and doom letter because I am writing what many of my friends here and abroad have told me. They are beginning to wonder if this virus is going to be like the plague during the Middle-Ages, killing off over a third of the population in Europe. My usual response is the current death projections are only 1% of the births for this year.

This stuff is very scary and if the leaders of our country and a few others emulating him don’t start trying to stop its spread, millions WILL DIE. But it won’t even be a tiny dent in the world population.

The Australian government has just placed army units on the roads leading out of Melbourne and keeping its almost five million people in forced isolation. The Australian government is considering closing off the entire state of Victoria to stop the spread to other parts of the country according to a friend in Victoria.

Some of us noted the Chinese said they had found a worse virus spreading – Pneumonic plague which is spread by breathing and not fleas. Another issue is the anti-virus vaccine being manufactured after being tested on thirty healthy young Americans is based on creating antibodies. A six-month test with a wide range of people is next. Currently we know antibody counts in those who have had Covid 19 falls off in a few months. Does that mean we will need a shot three or four times a year?

Sorry for opening your eyes and increasing your fears. Maybe we wouldn’t be concerned if we had responsible scientists saying what needs to be done but then denied and subverted by the White House and many governors! We may not like Pritzker but Illinois is safer than 46 other states!

Vaccinate

19 Sunday Jul 2020

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The next several months will be agonizing for a particular anti-science group. These wackos are against vaccines because of some harebrained studies touted on the internet or tweeted by Trump. Always a mistake!

Why will it be a problem? Well, they will have to decide whether or not to get a shot for Covid 19. Will they depend on the rest of us to get the shot to protect them? A good example is measles. Measles is making a comeback, crippling and killing kids who can’t have shots because of health conditions. When their kids get it, many say it is God’s will or simply I didn’t think it was good for my child.

With people flying around the world in a matter of a few hours, diseases from other continents can be here before the infected person shows symptoms. Covid 19 is just the latest example. At least three countries still have polio and several more have measles. So far we have missed the hemorrhagic diseases although several less dangerous ones are now part of American life.

We have vaccines for polio, measles, and other childhood diseases now which are safe and vaccines for several of the really nasty diseases which don’t need to be given until necessary. Until everyone gets a shot and puts Covid 19 into an extinct category like small pox, it will keep coming back killing tens of thousands every year. It’s very possible shots will have to be taken every year or less to get immunity.

He Fiddled, We Died

19 Sunday Jul 2020

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While Rome burned, Nero was supposed to have played his fiddle. That’s where fiddling began to be equated with inaction. While many groups and organizations (including the World Health Organization – WHO) screamed about an epidemic that could become a pandemic. Trump, his son, and his son’s girlfriend golfed and partied in Trump’s Florida resort. That’s fiddling around!

After denying any responsibility for helping the states to get supplies, he said the Federal government would be the sole purchaser. Within a week, he reversed himself and said buying the supplies was the state’s responsibility. Then he complained about the states running up the cost and took back the responsibility before again relinquishing it again. States buying their own kept the shipments a secret so the Feds would not confiscate them as some governors and mayors have indicated happened.

Suddenly King Donald has declared he has complete and total control of the country during emergencies. Apparently that was a giant step too far for many of his important political supporters. Two days later he wouldn’t abdicate his “complete and total authority”, but said he would authorize the governors to open their states on their own schedule. A few days later he backs right wing protesters (oddly only in states with Democratic governors) in complaining about the stay home directions which he had directed of us hours before.

He says he wants bi-partisanship but constantly complains about Democrats, even when they push him to do the right thing. Trump doesn’t use a little fiddle, he uses a giant cello.

Influencer of Death

19 Sunday Jul 2020

Posted by Commentary about the Blue Marble in Coronavirus, President Trump

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President Donald Trump has become the world’s greatest murderer by influencing people in his unscientific rants and self-serving speeches. Millions of people are not social distancing or wearing a mask because Trump has often said it is a hoax and just another flu. Those gullible people are dying by the thousands along with the thousands they infected. It’s not freedom of speech!

From 1900 – 1907 a woman worked in restaurant kitchens killing many people by accidentally giving them typhoid. She had no symptoms but spread it through each kitchen she worked in. Typhoid Mary was finally locked away for the rest of her life.

When the Aids virus ramped up, people wontedly spreading it were jailed and convicted for killing people who contracted it. That virus was also deadly to those who caught it until medicines were found to extend life. Using a condom is still the best way to avoid spreading it.

Comparing those diseases and methods of containing them is just like wearing a mask, social distancing, and isolating to combat Covid 19. Maybe we should start locking people up when they are carelessly spreading the disease. The President’s “social influencing” (social media word) has caused upwards of 50,000 deaths and is continuing to cause more. Gullible people follow his lead and his calling it a hoax or a democratic witch hunt has killed people and continues to do so. Maybe Trump and his gullible followers need to be locked up like Typhoid Mary.

Leading the World

15 Wednesday Jul 2020

Posted by Commentary about the Blue Marble in Coronavirus, President Trump

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The United States is finally leading again in something. We have more cases of Covid 19 Virus than any other area or country. We have had more deaths than any other country or area of comparable size or larger. China is about five times our size and the European Union is slightly larger yet they aren’t even close to us. With the resurgence of the first wave of infections, today’s predictions by the administration’s experts have decreased the number of months it will take for us to reach 200,000 deaths from January to November.

Why does the country that spends so much on health care per capita than any other country be leading the world? The President keeps blaming our disastrous responses on China and the World Health Organization. The truth is China didn’t know how virolent or how it was spread. One doctor tried to alert authorities but he didn’t yet have enough cases to convince anyone. When the authorities saw what was going on, they brought in WHO. Several Americans were part of that team. When the team verified the Chinese information, alerts were issued. After dumping Obama’s pandemic people, America had nobody with access to the Oval Office to start a reaction. Trump dithered on doing what was needed while the rest of the world was locking down. The result, according to experts who were fired afterwards, was 30 to 50,000 additional deaths. Their statements were made in April.

Political interference from Trump over-riding his picked team of experts is the cause of today’s predicament in the states with Republican governors. He told them to open up too early, not to test, and use only positive talks. He has told the Centers for Disease Control’s Director Robert Redfield to ease the guidelines for sending children back to school. They didn’t, so Redfield’s days are probably numbered. He wants every child back in school before the election. He literally said he would force school districts to make children come to school. Before saying he would withhold money he stopped short of saying he would direct Attorney General Barr to look into it. Later he said he would use money from the CARE Act to support schools, getting all of the children back. More Mismanagement.

Arizona’s experts and medical personnel are crying out for Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) supplies. Their hospitals are full and their Republican Governor did an update after nine critical days of silence. Republican Governors have abdicated their job of protecting their citizens by giving mayors’ authority to lockdown or wear masks. At the same time those same Republican Governors still follow Trump’s leads by criticizing those same mayors who acted on science.

This is the same routine of denial and mismanagement which Trump caused in March and April. As the demand for PPE and ventilators ballooned, Trump said he would supply all the states need. He couldn’t because the rest of the world, by then, was also buying them up or keeping all they could manufacture. Then he said the states were responsible, causing them to bid against each other. This caused prices to skyrocket even more and poor quality equipment to be purchased at high prices. Trump then criticized the states for bidding up the items and said he would take control because he had all the items they needed, but he didn’t.

Testing supplies is another blunder. He keeps saying plenty of tests are available but states are pleading for more. As of the end of June over a hundred different tests are available but the CDC has only been able to certify eleven as reliable. Experts say we need to be testing ten times more per day and getting quick answers. One area in Florida takes nine to eleven days for an answer which is only eighty percent accurate. Other tests the CDC tested didn’t get to twenty percent accurate. Some of the tests had zero. Many states bought those because the CDC’s own tests didn’t work and they hadn’t approved any yet.

The President constantly lies about the virus and its effects only to have his own experts contradict him moments later. He is still calling Covid 19 a hoax and the numbers of infected not important. He has all but dismissed Fauci and others who told the truth. Last week he said we shouldn’t test so much because it makes him look bad before the election.

The one truthful thing he has undeniably said; his only concern is getting re-elected. This shows he doesn’t care how many die, just if he can win enough states in November. His niece is right. He is mentally ill.

Foolish Behavior

15 Wednesday Jul 2020

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Over the last several days I have been watching interviews with a variety of people. Some were sad, some were uplifting, and some were the most stupid, selfish people America can produce.

The last evaluation is about people who follow the spouting of some of the most idiotic conspiracy rants denying the virus exists, that it is just another flu, and masks are an infringement of their rights. It harkens back to the “Ugly American” image Americans had in foreign countries. The locals saw selfish better-than-thou people who were discourteous and self serving. Some even go out of their way to contaminate others and themselves.

Some of the interviewees were people who had been reckless by going into packed bars and restaurants without social distancing and masks. Now they were in the intensive care unit. One was a husband and wife whose son had just died from it. He had gone to a party, got infected, and gave it to his parents. Shortly after the mothers interview she died. His stupidity killed himself, his mother and maybe his father who was still in the ICU at the time.

One thing I learned from the interviews is when a person is put on a ventilator they will usually have lung damage and often cognitive loss. These sometimes are permanent. I saw one guy who had been on a ventilator for several weeks. He had trouble breathing, talking, and moving.

It is sad how people decide to not wear a mask and infect themselves and people they know and love.

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