I was in Italy once in the 90s for three weeks and three different governments formed whilst there. Somehow everything kept going on in a relaxed Italian manner.
I'm waiting expectantly for him to announce that Walmart and other stores can't require masks.
My county is at the top of the list for covid cases in GA. Surprise, it's not Atlanta. Every weekday I have to travel to the second county on the list and visit the hospital.
One more week and I'm free from here except for the occasional visit to maintain the house.
I've always wondered what it was like to live in a fascist state. In an idle way of course.
Well now I really, truly know (we were creeping toward it) esp with feds driving around and arresting ppl on the random so hey! time for red dawn amirite?
this whole thing was so predictable. it was clear to everybody with two neurons to rub together that this would be the result of the hasty reopening and now that we're looking WAY worse than before in terms of new cases, as every damn epidemiologist was saying, and with an election around the corner, the data had to disappear.
Heather Cox Richardson had a little something to say about this in the July 15 edition of her excellent newsletter to which you should immediately subscribe. I’m lifting the bits relevant to this article directly; it’s long but worth the read if your blood pressure is under control for today.
For context, on March 29 Mike Pence instructed hospital administrators to report statistics to 3 separate systems: the one at the CDC (which until Friday had been in use for 15 years), HHS Protect, and TeleTracking.
Fucked up thing the first: Donor pay-off. Surveillance state. Back room deal. Peter Fucking Thiel.
HHS Protect is developed by Palantir Technologies, a data-mining firm that works with the Pentagon and law enforcement agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Peter Thiel, a billionaire Trump supporter, co-founded the company, which last week confidentially filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to go public. An initial public offering (IPO) would have made bucketloads of money in any case, but a federal contract to compile coronavirus information is a sweet addition to its portfolio.
Fucked up thing the second: Nice patient care protocols you have there. Be a shame if anything happened to them.
The TeleTracking system also raises suspicions of a financial deal. On June 3, Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) wrote to the director of the CDC, Dr. Robert Redfield and the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Robert P. Kadlec, to ask why HHS had awarded a $10 million no-bid contract to create this data system that duplicated the one the CDC already had. Why indeed?There is, in the letter shifting data collection, a peculiarly nasty stick. Underlined on the first page of the instructions is that “We will no longer be sending out one-time requests for data to aid in the distribution of Remdesivir or any other treatments or supplies. This daily reporting is the only mechanism used for the distribution calculations, and the daily [sic] is needed daily to ensure accurate calculations.”Remdesivir is one of the two drugs proven effective at combatting Covid-19. Two weeks ago, the Trump administration bought up almost all of the world’s supply of the drug for the next three months.The rest of the world was outraged at this purchase, but at the time HHS Secretary Alex Azar defended the move by saying “To the extent possible, we want to ensure that any American patient who needs remdesivir can get it. The Trump administration is doing everything in our power to learn more about life-saving therapeutics for Covid-19 and secure access to these options for the American people.”Now, it appears, in order to get access to it, hospitals will need to use the private data systems the administration supports.
My question for anyone who might know is, what’s this bit about states needing to get permission from the ASPR Regional Administrator before the state can then grant each hospital a written release from having to report directly to the federal government instead of the state? Has this always been the protocol, or is it new fuckery. I can see this potentially being the fuckery that allows Trump’s Republican sycophants to hide their state’s data.
Yes, the elegance of a Disney theme park with the inexplicable design features of a three year old's sketch (are those howling Schmoos plopped on the roof?)
There are typically a lot of steps involved when getting things set up to submit information to state or federal governments. The recipients need to confirm that the sender is authorized to send it in the first place and that they can do so securely.
I was in Italy once in the 90s for three weeks and three different governments formed whilst there. Somehow everything kept going on in a relaxed Italian manner.
so 0 new cases today?
I'm waiting expectantly for him to announce that Walmart and other stores can't require masks.
My county is at the top of the list for covid cases in GA. Surprise, it's not Atlanta. Every weekday I have to travel to the second county on the list and visit the hospital.
One more week and I'm free from here except for the occasional visit to maintain the house.
Fucking donnie! He'll take it if it ain't nailed down!
Yo! NANCY PELOSI!
IMPEACH HIM AGAIN AND DO IT TODAY!
I've always wondered what it was like to live in a fascist state. In an idle way of course.
Well now I really, truly know (we were creeping toward it) esp with feds driving around and arresting ppl on the random so hey! time for red dawn amirite?
this whole thing was so predictable. it was clear to everybody with two neurons to rub together that this would be the result of the hasty reopening and now that we're looking WAY worse than before in terms of new cases, as every damn epidemiologist was saying, and with an election around the corner, the data had to disappear.
pandemic over! USA! USA! USA!
Donald Trump is not at war with coronavirus; Donald Trump has always not been at war with coronavirus.
So who do you think will get fired tonight?
Confusion and lack of focus will hamper Trump's critics - while the Trump crowd won't even notice it.
Heather Cox Richardson had a little something to say about this in the July 15 edition of her excellent newsletter to which you should immediately subscribe. I’m lifting the bits relevant to this article directly; it’s long but worth the read if your blood pressure is under control for today.
For context, on March 29 Mike Pence instructed hospital administrators to report statistics to 3 separate systems: the one at the CDC (which until Friday had been in use for 15 years), HHS Protect, and TeleTracking.
Fucked up thing the first: Donor pay-off. Surveillance state. Back room deal. Peter Fucking Thiel.
HHS Protect is developed by Palantir Technologies, a data-mining firm that works with the Pentagon and law enforcement agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Peter Thiel, a billionaire Trump supporter, co-founded the company, which last week confidentially filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to go public. An initial public offering (IPO) would have made bucketloads of money in any case, but a federal contract to compile coronavirus information is a sweet addition to its portfolio.
Fucked up thing the second: Nice patient care protocols you have there. Be a shame if anything happened to them.
The TeleTracking system also raises suspicions of a financial deal. On June 3, Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) wrote to the director of the CDC, Dr. Robert Redfield and the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Robert P. Kadlec, to ask why HHS had awarded a $10 million no-bid contract to create this data system that duplicated the one the CDC already had. Why indeed?There is, in the letter shifting data collection, a peculiarly nasty stick. Underlined on the first page of the instructions is that “We will no longer be sending out one-time requests for data to aid in the distribution of Remdesivir or any other treatments or supplies. This daily reporting is the only mechanism used for the distribution calculations, and the daily [sic] is needed daily to ensure accurate calculations.”Remdesivir is one of the two drugs proven effective at combatting Covid-19. Two weeks ago, the Trump administration bought up almost all of the world’s supply of the drug for the next three months.The rest of the world was outraged at this purchase, but at the time HHS Secretary Alex Azar defended the move by saying “To the extent possible, we want to ensure that any American patient who needs remdesivir can get it. The Trump administration is doing everything in our power to learn more about life-saving therapeutics for Covid-19 and secure access to these options for the American people.”Now, it appears, in order to get access to it, hospitals will need to use the private data systems the administration supports.
I’m dropping this here:
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My question for anyone who might know is, what’s this bit about states needing to get permission from the ASPR Regional Administrator before the state can then grant each hospital a written release from having to report directly to the federal government instead of the state? Has this always been the protocol, or is it new fuckery. I can see this potentially being the fuckery that allows Trump’s Republican sycophants to hide their state’s data.
Yes, the elegance of a Disney theme park with the inexplicable design features of a three year old's sketch (are those howling Schmoos plopped on the roof?)
And they are going to take their CARES money to give it to property owners (US citizens only), instead of using it to actually combat the virus.
There are typically a lot of steps involved when getting things set up to submit information to state or federal governments. The recipients need to confirm that the sender is authorized to send it in the first place and that they can do so securely.