Instant Karma ? YOU decide !
The only senator to vote against the Coronavirus Bill is now diagnosed with.....coronavirus. By the way, he's an MD.Today in Axios;
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Sen. Rand Paul tests positive for coronavirus
by Zachary Basu
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has tested positive for the coronavirus, his office announced on Twitter Sunday.
Why it matters: He's the first U.S. senator to test positive. According to his office, Paul is asymptomatic and was not aware of making direct contact with an infected person.
Paul, a licensed physician and notorious deficit hawk, was the only senator to vote against a bipartisan $8 billion deal to provide emergency coronavirus funding earlier this month.
He sought to introduce an amendment that would take the funding from the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, but it was voted down 80-16.
Paul may be considered a high-risk patient for coronavirus.
In August 2019, the senator tweeted that he had part of his lung removed during surgery after it was damaged in a 2017 assault by his neighbor.
Sen. Rand Paul tests positive for coronavirus
by Zachary Basu
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has tested positive for the coronavirus, his office announced on Twitter Sunday.
Why it matters: He's the first U.S. senator to test positive. According to his office, Paul is asymptomatic and was not aware of making direct contact with an infected person.
Paul, a licensed physician and notorious deficit hawk, was the only senator to vote against a bipartisan $8 billion deal to provide emergency coronavirus funding earlier this month.
He sought to introduce an amendment that would take the funding from the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, but it was voted down 80-16.
Paul may be considered a high-risk patient for coronavirus.
In August 2019, the senator tweeted that he had part of his lung removed during surgery after it was damaged in a 2017 assault by his neighbor.
In other news, Harvey Weinstein also tested positive for coranavirus.
And by the way, just in case a complete moron thinks that I wished it upon either one of them, I didn't. I don't wish diseases on anyone. Not that it matters, if anyone did wish it upon them, I assure you, that wishing wouldn't make it happen. Otherwise, we'd all win the lottery.
However, I do see the irony in the only senator to vote against the coronavirus bill, to be the first senator to be diagnosed with coronavirus. Sad, but ironic.
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Some may not qualify. They're going to have to make exceptions for people that have been trying to work and now, aren't allowed to.
So far, I'm still working. Many are and many aren't. We've cut way back to essential work only. Like most, I lose income other wise. That means the people voluntarily or forced into temporary unemployment, are losing income.
The long term fix to raise unemployment benefits to match wages would serve better. In the event some businesses can't recover from the unjustified panic once things start back to normal, no penalties and all claims should be allowed as if new.
Odds are on the high side of being able to fight it off for most.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been exposed to covid & is quarantined.
The better idea has been proposed. Instead of sending cash, up the unemployment benefits to match wages. Isn't that what unemployment insurance is for?
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, wife of Canuck PM has tested positive.
Odds are on the high side of being able to fight it off for most.
I agree that the people that have actually been doing the work should get paid, though curious to know how D would propose to pay for all of this..
Even scientist disagree how it came about and how to remedy it.
Governments all over the world have their fors and against policies you can only do your best.
Just because someone has different idea does not make them right or wrong this is a new virus no-one could have predicted and no-one was ready for it.
Even My grandchildren.
There isn't any way to accurately measure for certain what the majority that have recovered already, were actually sick with. From the onset, most were treating and likely being diagnosed as the flu.
January and February were very harsh months for a large number in my area.
Even with actual testing available now, it's far too late for any type of accurate numbers of infection and recovery.
It would have been far too easy to pass it off as the flu or pneumonia.
I don't believe in karma, fate, destiny, or soul mates. I do believe that the human race has it's own types of natural selection. Some are self created and some are as natural as reproduction.
People will either be able to recover with the advancements we have today, and working on, or they won't. There isn't enough of an impact to justify the actions we're under now.
So some politicians start getting ill. I'm far from concerned as they need that to remind them that they aren't as elite or untouchable as many of them might think.
They can't even remotely come up with anything when they say things are dire and force people to lose as they close up shop around the country and globe.
We have to play the hand that was dealt to us.