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New Study Concludes Lockdowns Didn't Help Slow Spread of COVID
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'What the hell is wrong with them?': Biden rips Republicans for refusing to don masks during siege
'It’s time to grow up,' Biden told GOP lawmakers
President-elect Joe Biden is taking aim at some Republican members of Congress who refused to wear masks while huddling in secure rooms last week during the storming of the Capitol.
"It was shocking to see members of the Congress while the Capitol was under siege by a deadly mob of thugs refuse to wear a mask while they were in secure locations," the president-elect said on Friday. Biden spoke as he unveiled what he called a "bold" plan to speed up the distribution of coronavirus vaccinations that he termed a "dismal failure" under President Trump’s administration.
Pointing a handful of GOP members of Congress who refused to put on masks offered by their Democratic colleagues as they and their staffs sheltered in a cramped, windowless room, Biden asked, "What the hell’s the matter with them?"
He added: "It’s time to grow up. The result – at least four members of Congress today – including a cancer survivor – now have COVID-19 who were in those rooms."
Members of Congress were quickly moved to secure rooms in the Capitol after the seat of the nation’s government was attacked in an insurrection launched by right-wing extremists and other Trump supporters who were trying to disrupt congressional certification of Biden’s election victory.
In his speech, Biden reiterated his request for Americans to wear masks for the first 100 days of his administration, which begins next Wednesday as the president-elect is inaugurated. And Biden repeated that he’ll issue an executive order requiring masks for federal workers and on federal property, as well as for interstate travel on trains and planes.
"This is not a political issue," Biden said. "It’s about saving lives. I know it’s become a partisan issue, but what a stupid, stupid thing for it to happen. This is a patriotic act." And he said experts predict that mask-wearing over the next 100 days could prevent up to 50,000 deaths from the coronavirus by April.
The president-elect’s speech – which he gave in his hometown of Wilmington, Del., came new cases of the virus continue to surge across the country. Nearly 390,000 people in the U.S. have died of COVID since the pandemic swept the nation nearly a year ago. More than 23.4 million people in the U.S. have been infected with the virus since it first struck. And on Tuesday, more than 4,300 deaths nationally were linked to the virus, a new one-day high.Comment
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Don't tell too many people how dumb I am for believing that illegals are pouring over our southern boarder. I'm trying to keep it a secret.Adversity temporarily visits a strong man but stays with the weak for a lifetime.Comment
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Oh No not ANOTHER TRUMP SCREW UP
Vaccine reserve was exhausted when Trump administration vowed to release it, dashing hopes of expanded access
States were anticipating a windfall after federal officials said they would stop holding back second doses. But the approach had already changed, and no stockpile exists.Comment
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more proof that China KNEW about the China Flu and didn't tell the WHOLE truth!
Several researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill with symptoms similar to those caused by the CCP virus in the Autumn of 2019, contradicting claims by a senior researcher from the institute who said there were no infections among the staff scientists.
The revelation is part of a fact sheet released by the U.S. Department of State on Jan. 15 which slams the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for obsessive secrecy around the origin of the CCP virusfrom Taiwaninform the world until Jan. 20.Comment
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White House report warns Florida faces ‘significant fatalities’ in coronavirus uptick
“Aggressive mitigation must be used to match a more aggressive virus,” the weekly report from the White House Coronavirus Task Force recommended
The Jan. 10 report, released to the Tampa Bay Times on Friday, said the rapidly growing numbers of cases is stressing the staffing of hospitals. It continued to place Florida in the red zone for its numbers of new cases and said that 11 percent of the state’s hospitals are reporting a staffing shortage, a slight increase from the prior week.
The White House Coronavirus Task Force, which is led by Vice President Mike Pence, produces weekly reports for each state. The reports have frequently urged Florida and other states to take steps to mitigate the spread of the virus, including limiting capacity at bars and restaurants and implementing policies on face masks.Last edited by bsm2; 01-16-2021, 08:12 PM.Comment
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