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The list of those who work at the White House who are affected by COVID-19 has grown sharply. Thursday, it was president Trump and the first lady Melania that followed after Hope Hicks. On Friday, Kellyanne Conway made the list. I believe that makes seven.
I think it's because they aren't following guidelines established by the CDC.

Who's next?

Excerpts today from The New York Times;

...big government compared with the dreaded private sector.
Syndromic alt lefties actually refuse to see the huge differences here. Examples are many. I'll merely mention a few for starters.
In health care, principally from the ethically stipulated subfields of geriatric and transplant medicine, there is a money saving movement, principally among supporters of the unafordable health noncare act, to deny treatments to certain groups of individuals. Overweight and in terminal heart failure? Like your beer and are in terminal stages of liver failure? Much easier to prevail for life saving transplants over private insurance than the biiiig baaaad government. Many more clinical examples, but at least under private systems, the appeal process is much more accessible and extensive.The courts and marketing forces can make companies take notice. Big government could care less. "Too old" for many other interventions?Conscription of your daughters and sons anyone? Pols decide.
Government insinuating it's power between clinicians and their charges. Nuff said.
And the whole concept of eminent domain is a cautionary tale. Your municipality wants your home destroyed for a new park or highway? Or a residential development funded by connected (lobbyists) pols. By fiat, and a quick vote, your home/farm/business are toast, unless the expropriators are private.
Of course, the worst examples come from governments of the one party, fascist dictator States, as with Commie China, Cuba, and the lot. Bridges to nowhere, unoccupied enormous apartment blocks,--- all by dispossessing the land of rural multigenerational farmers. But don't just take my words for it.
Just another of many valid arguments to limit big government to having power over the smallest reasonable tiny list of activities. The potentials for corruption and abuses of power are legion.
I really think those suffering from TD-HD Syndromes get it, but the levels of denial and other obsessive pathologies keep the awareness under tight wraps. VERY tight.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Its time to laugh and not to cry .its time live and not to die.its time to think of this world we live .it time to give and not to take.its time to think of each other. ..its time to love and not to hate .........please add. thank you .Terence
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...otherwise known as the US Presidential debates. Followed by both popular vote and EC mandates.
Anyone spending more than a few minutes catching gaff machine, -sniffy, creepy, real racist, Joe Biden,- will get it. Sadly, evidence be damned, the deluded and deep in denial TD-HD Syndrome sufferers won't. Or actually can't.
But knowing the deep character deficits among the biased MSM, and Dem pols, VERY deep, I expect a late hour hail Mary pass scheme to prevent the imminent, embare-assing slaughter.
Oh, how the sociopathic mind does wander.
My bets are on some fake, VERY fake, medical ruse.
The powerful medications uncle Joe has reportedly been taking, (with mixed, VERY mixed results), are not without side effects. Most are not serious enough to call for a last hour medically based emergency, say copious diarrhea, and attendant dehydration, electrolyte imbalances, and cardiac arrhythmias. Sure, it's a stretch. But hardly outside of the Dems' huge bag of tricks, as anyone watching the now 3 plus year, repeatedly failed, witch hunts will know.
But many other ridiculous schemes abound. A few weeks ago, the red kneed House Speaker, NP, called for cancelling the debates, on the grounds (can't make this stuff up), that Mr. Trump is such an awful person, that he doesn;t deserve a place on the same stage with the Honorable ex VP.
Stay tuned. The antisocial drive, VERY antisocial, to shucking and jiving others never stops.
Just review B. HUSSEIN's outburts of nonsense and lies. And gaffs and malapropisms.
None of which would be said by anyone even remotely making it into the Ivy League, based on character, rather than skin color.
Just as MLK told us all how to live. Except he was caught plagiarizing his Doctorate thesis, and liked to sniff Dem White wimens now and again, behind the decent, lovely Coretta Scott's back.
Flawed, as are all of us. But thankfully nowhere as bad as the many Negro criminal felons being praised by libs, VERY lib, in the news, after being shot dead by honorable police, of all races.
Nothing made up here folks.

...hello new conservative SCOTUS Associate Justice. A delicious six to three court. Hopefully Judge Amy, ---yum, yum, yum. But Mr.Trump is wisely also thinking of a younger conservative woman of color, not VERY much color. After re-election, Jugde Barrett is next. then 7 to 2, for decades.
Sinara Clinical Fetus Murder (CFM). Except perhaps only in early embryonic stages of development and on a State by State and rigorous vetting basis. Where possible, dads' and family input as well as clinicians, ethicists and judges. And one per woman per lifetime, nationally enforced. Mistakes happen. And any slob can be too lazy to practice effective contraception. Times one.
And severe penalties for those clinicians performing CFM, and for repeat mom's killing their young.
In training, some can recall galgen humour.
As in, "You rape 'em, we scrape 'em. No fetus can beat us." Sick, no? But CFM is much worse.
Ho,ho,ho. Go Trump.

For many black men, viral videos featuring the killings of other black men can weigh heavily. Watching the disturbing footage can impact the mental health of African American men, experts say.

For civil rights advocate and Georgetown Law Center professor Preston Mitchum, the images can lead to physical symptoms.

"My stomach is in knots, my heart is racing, my brain is pounding and none of that is hyperbolic," said Mitchum. "It is exhausting to think that you can be up next."

New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams offered a tearful statement during a press conference Wednesday. Though he couldn't bring himself to view the most recent killings, Williams said he was "not okay."

"I am tired," said Williams. "I have yet to watch the video of Ahmaud Arbery. It's too much. I have not watched the video of George Floyd. It's too much."

For others, the videos conjure mixed emotions like anger, despair and powerlessness.

"It hurts, but then also you're feeling anger, and then you have a feeling of helplessness, because, what can we do?" said Rwenshaun Miller, a Charlotte, North Carolina, psychotherapist and founder of the nonprofit Eustress, Inc. that aims to improve mental health in black communities.

Video of Ahmaud Arbery, the Georgia man who was shot by a father and son while jogging in February and George Floyd, the black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck, are the latest incidents capturing the brutalization of black men. The trauma collectively experienced by the black community in the wake of the incidents dates much further back.

"Being shown and seeing images that really demonstrate violence on the black body is something that is not only traumatizing from a contemporary perspective but it also has historical trauma. It really does sort of play to these like larger issues that have been with us for hundreds of years," said Martine Hackett, a public health professor at Hofstra University.

The beating and mutilation of slaves as punishment was accepted practice by slave owners. Late into the 20th century, the threat of lynching in the South was commonplace. Following the 1955 torture and murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy killed by two white men in Mississippi, pictures of his unrecognizable, mutilated body were published. The images of Till's remains are widely considered a flashpoint that ushered in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.

According to health experts, repeated viewing of these images can trigger mental health conditions and impact overall health.

"We can experience PTSD, we can experience other mental health challenges as well anxiety, depression, all of these things may be a result of how we're in the world and as these images continue to circulate," said Miller. "That added stress, the trauma and the constant worry will weigh on you very heavily. It's similar to living in a war zone."

"The stress of viewing these disturbing images has a physical manifestation. Often times, people will say, 'this makes me sick to my stomach' or 'I feel like I'm gonna choke' and those are really, those are actually legitimate feelings that you are having," said Hackett. "And the truth is, that's one of the first things is to recognize that these stressors do play a role in our physical health."

If one is dumb enough to waste time listening to more of Trump's lies,
one is dumb enough to not to wear a mask, nor socially distance.

So, what's the total over & under on how many of the morons will get Covid-19
from these 2 rallies ?

Also, what percentage of those who reserve tickets, will actually show up ?

Will Kool-Aid actually be served ?

What's the over & under on how many lies that will be told ?

Who will they chant to lock up this time ?

Step right up. Place your bets.

Today from The New York Times;

Yesterday from The Independent;