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Biden signs burst of virus orders, vows ‘Help is on the way’
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and ZEKE MILLER
January 21, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — With a burst of executive orders, President Joe Biden served notice Thursday that America’s war on COVID-19 is under new command, promising an anxious nation progress to reduce infections and lift the siege it has endured for nearly a year.

At the same time, he tried to manage expectations in his second day in office, saying despite the best intentions “we’re going to face setbacks.” He brushed off a reporter’s question on whether his goal of 100 million coronavirus shots in 100 days should be more ambitious, a point pressed by some public health experts.

The 10 orders signed by Biden are aimed at jump starting his national COVID-19 strategy to increase vaccinations and testing, lay the groundwork for reopening schools and businesses, and immediately increase the use of masks — including a requirement that Americans mask up for travel. One directive calls for addressing health care inequities in minority communities hard hit by the virus.

[BillyCarpenter]

Go on start a new thread. Don't you know how?

Don't need to. My post is relevant to the conversation as you posted something about "experts'. The truth always deserves to see the light of day. Lord know that all we'll get from you is liberal talking points.

[BillyCarpenter]

Biden signs burst of virus orders, vows ‘Help is on the way’

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Biden’s Covid-19 Plan Is Maddeningly Obvious
It is infuriating that the Trump administration left so many of these things undone.

Opinion | Biden’s Covid-19 Plan Is Maddeningly Obvious - The New York Times

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Don't need to. My post is relevant to the conversation as you posted something about "experts'. The truth always deserves to see the light of day. Lord know that all we'll get from you is liberal talking points.

Start new thread on All your phobias

So sorry you CAN'T handle real news.
Go on start Your new thread

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Symone Sanders says “strong possibility" of Republican support for a Biden-Harris COVID relief plan
Symone Sanders, Senior Advisor and Chief Spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks with Ali Velshi to discuss the new administration’s plans for the next four years. She says President Biden and Vice President Harris are already at work addressing the four major crises, as they see them – “the climate crisis, crisis of racial injustice, economic crisis, a public health crisis.” On watching Vice President Kamala Harris sworn in this week? Says Sanders, “An amazing moment.”

[Phil B.]

They told us that the Trump rallies were supposed to be the SUPER SPREADER events?

Tragedy: Huge Number of National Guardsmen Get COVID from Biden Inauguration

On the day after Joe Biden’s inauguration, the National Guard announced that the 26,000 troops who were deployed to Washington, D.C., didn’t face any security threats.
“There were no security incidents reported involving the National Guard,” a news release from the National Guard Bureau read.
“Our ability to move 26,000 Soldiers and Airmen to DC from every state and territory in less than two weeks would not have been possible without the support of our governors and their adjutants general,” said Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson, head of the National Guard.

“It speaks volumes about America’s investment in the National Guard; and most importantly, the support our service members get from their family and their employers.”
There may have been no security incidents reported. After all, we moved more National Guardsmen into the 68 square miles of our nation’s capital than troops that we have in the whole of Afghanistan. One would hope that would be the outcome.

However, to say there weren’t any threats at all would be inaccurate, and to say the exercise spoke volumes about our country’s investment in the National Guard may be problematic, at least when you factor in that almost 200 of the men and women who deployed to the District of Columbia have tested positive for COVID-19.
According to a report in Friday’s Wall Street Journal, defense officials say the cramped quarters the troops were housed in may have played a role in transmission.
This comes after pictures and videos which showed Guardsmen forced to rest in an underground parking garage in Washington because they’d gotten kicked out of the Capitol — already not an ideal situation, particularly if you want to stop transmission of COVID-19 — began circulating the day after the inauguration.





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Jan 21, 2021

Thousands of National Guardsmen were forced to vacate congressional grounds today and are now taking their rest breaks outside and in nearby parking garages, after two weeks of sleepless nights protecting the nation’s capital





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“Yesterday dozens of senators and congressmen walked down our lines taking photos, shaking our hands and thanking us for our service. Within 24 hours, they had no further use for us and banished us to the corner of a parking garage ...” one Guardsman said https://politi.co/3sJETEF



One defense official told The Wall Street Journal that this “raised concerns COVID-19 protocols can’t be maintained,” the newspaper reported.
Well, yes.

Furthermore, the outlet reported that not every Guardsman was tested for COVID-19 before they were deployed to Washington, D.C. While they were screened, unless the test was part of the screening process, it wasn’t necessarily carried out.
Days before the inauguration, The Associated Press reported the FBI was vetting the troops being sent to the inauguration because of fears there might be extremists within the Guard who would carry out the kind of attack the Guard was supposed to prevent. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said troops in D.C. were also receiving training to identify against threats within the ranks.
The FBI and the military were willing to go through these steps, but the troops being deployed weren’t necessarily tested for COVID-19 first, nor did anyone at the federal level ensure they were at least housed in situations where COVID protocols could be properly followed.
Let that sink in.

Furthermore, 5,000 of these Guardsmen are expected to stay on in the nation’s capital through March. While we’re not necessarily going to see cases like them sleeping in garages ever again, why are we to believe the situation is now under control? This isn’t a stellar track record so far.
Officials may say hindsight is 20/20, but this wasn’t being criticized in hindsight. As an overreaction to the Capitol incursion — an attack at which there was no National Guard presence until it was too late — we stuffed the nation’s capital with troops.
People said this was for optics when it was being done. It turned out to be optics.
And it’s optics that could have ended up with those troops getting infected with COVID-19. They may have faced a threat, but it wasn’t from extremists.

[BillyCarpenter]

They told us that the Trump rallies were supposed to be the SUPER SPREADER events?

Tragedy: Huge Number of National Guardsmen Get COVID from Biden Inauguration


On the day after Joe Biden’s inauguration, the National Guard announced that the 26,000 troops who were deployed to Washington, D.C., didn’t face any security threats.
“There were no security incidents reported involving the National Guard,” a news release from the National Guard Bureau read.
“Our ability to move 26,000 Soldiers and Airmen to DC from every state and territory in less than two weeks would not have been possible without the support of our governors and their adjutants general,” said Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson, head of the National Guard.

“It speaks volumes about America’s investment in the National Guard; and most importantly, the support our service members get from their family and their employers.”
There may have been no security incidents reported. After all, we moved more National Guardsmen into the 68 square miles of our nation’s capital than troops that we have in the whole of Afghanistan. One would hope that would be the outcome.

However, to say there weren’t any threats at all would be inaccurate, and to say the exercise spoke volumes about our country’s investment in the National Guard may be problematic, at least when you factor in that almost 200 of the men and women who deployed to the District of Columbia have tested positive for COVID-19.
According to a report in Friday’s Wall Street Journal, defense officials say the cramped quarters the troops were housed in may have played a role in transmission.
This comes after pictures and videos which showed Guardsmen forced to rest in an underground parking garage in Washington because they’d gotten kicked out of the Capitol — already not an ideal situation, particularly if you want to stop transmission of COVID-19 — began circulating the day after the inauguration.





POLITICO






@politico


·
Jan 21, 2021

Thousands of National Guardsmen were forced to vacate congressional grounds today and are now taking their rest breaks outside and in nearby parking garages, after two weeks of sleepless nights protecting the nation’s capital





POLITICO



@politico




“Yesterday dozens of senators and congressmen walked down our lines taking photos, shaking our hands and thanking us for our service. Within 24 hours, they had no further use for us and banished us to the corner of a parking garage ...” one Guardsman said https://politi.co/3sJETEF



One defense official told The Wall Street Journal that this “raised concerns COVID-19 protocols can’t be maintained,” the newspaper reported.
Well, yes.

Furthermore, the outlet reported that not every Guardsman was tested for COVID-19 before they were deployed to Washington, D.C. While they were screened, unless the test was part of the screening process, it wasn’t necessarily carried out.
Days before the inauguration, The Associated Press reported the FBI was vetting the troops being sent to the inauguration because of fears there might be extremists within the Guard who would carry out the kind of attack the Guard was supposed to prevent. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said troops in D.C. were also receiving training to identify against threats within the ranks.
The FBI and the military were willing to go through these steps, but the troops being deployed weren’t necessarily tested for COVID-19 first, nor did anyone at the federal level ensure they were at least housed in situations where COVID protocols could be properly followed.
Let that sink in.

Furthermore, 5,000 of these Guardsmen are expected to stay on in the nation’s capital through March. While we’re not necessarily going to see cases like them sleeping in garages ever again, why are we to believe the situation is now under control? This isn’t a stellar track record so far.
Officials may say hindsight is 20/20, but this wasn’t being criticized in hindsight. As an overreaction to the Capitol incursion — an attack at which there was no National Guard presence until it was too late — we stuffed the nation’s capital with troops.
People said this was for optics when it was being done. It turned out to be optics.
And it’s optics that could have ended up with those troops getting infected with COVID-19. They may have faced a threat, but it wasn’t from extremists.

Reading an article like this pisses me the F off.

Why?

Because liberals have no fucking morals. If THEY feel threatened, then they call in The Guard.

When BLM and Antifa were killing folks, looting and burning, liberal saw no need to call in The Guard. Hell, they even told police to stand down.

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Hilarious your upset but not over the insurgents that invaded the US Capital to overthrow a Legal Election.

[BillyCarpenter]

Hilarious your upset but not over the insurgents that invaded the US Capital.

What more do you want me to say? I already said that they should go to jail. Everyone that broke the law should go to jail. You need to admit that your party is full of shit when it comes to protecting folks. Yeah, I know you're gonna deny BLM and Antifa. Go ahead.