10% would go to the poor. another 10% would be spent in advance for college for all my 5 grand children. 15% in gold coins and 55% purchasing ranch properties around the world. Here in Texas, S. America possibly Aussieland and a chalet either in Norway or Switzerland. This would be for my prodigy as I am old. 5% for mad money and a train trip on the Orient Express First Class. (I've always wanted to ride a train thru Transylvania's Carpathian Mountains and hear the "children of the night".) and 5% helping extended family and friends
Michigan Democrat Governor Begs Feds For Hydroxychloroquine Just Days After Threatening Doctors For Prescribing It
Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is now asking the federal government to send her hydroxychloroquine just four days after she threatened to revoke the medical licenses of doctors who prescribed it.
Last week, Whitmer sent a letter warning physicians and pharmacists of punishments for the prescribing of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine despite a major study recommending “COVID-19 patients be treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin to cure their infection and to limit the transmission of the virus to other people in order to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the world.”
Medical professionals were threatened with “administrative action,” with Whitmer claiming that hydroxychloroquine had not met the benchmark for “proof of efficacy.”
How quickly things change.
Four days later, Whitmer is now begging the feds to send her hydroxychloroquine.
“We want to ensure that doctors have the ability to prescribe these medicines,” she said.
“We also want to make sure that the people who have prescriptions that predated COVID-19 have access to the medication they need. And so all of the work that we’ve done is trying to strike that balance.”
It’s also worth noting that Fox News host Laura Ingraham was forced to delete a tweet that promoted hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 cure under threat of suspension despite it already having been approved by the FDA.
In its approval letter, the FDA said, “Based on the totality of scientific evidence available to FDA, it is reasonable to believe that chloroquine phosphate and hydroxychloroquine sulfate may be effective in treating COVID-19.”
As COVID-19 blankets the globe - now having officially infected over 800,000 people in 179 countries, causing over 39,000 deaths - scientists are tracking a multitude of strains, according to USA Today.
The virus has undergone over a hundred tiny mutations which act like genetic fingerprints - allowing researchers to see how the virus is migrating and splitting into similar but new subtypes, which can be seen at the website NextStrain.org.
(for more on "strain" vs "mutation" and why the terminology is causing confusion, see this thread from NextStrain's Trevor Bedford)
Labs around the world are turning their sequencing machines, most about the size of a desktop printer, to the task of rapidly sequencing the genomes of virus samples taken from people sick with COVID-19. The information is uploaded to a website called NextStrain.org that shows how the virus is migrating and splitting into similar but new subtypes. -USA Today
Frequent sequencing of the virus has allowed researchers to draw several conclusions; for example, social distancing and shelter-in-place orders appear to be working in some areas, and that the virus doesn't appear to be growing more lethal as it evolves.
"The virus mutates so slowly that the virus strains are fundamentally very similar to each other," said infectious disease specialist Charlies Chiu of the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. "The outbreaks are trackable. We have the ability to do genomic sequencing almost in real-time to see what strains or lineages are circulating," he added.
Chiu also believes that it's unlikely that the difference in strains is responsible for the virus hitting people differently - with most some feeling only slightly under the weather for a day or two, 15% needing hospitalization, and a mortality rate that varies by country (and likely by testing rates).
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the COVID-19 illness, began circulating in China around mid-November or mid-December. Its genome is made up of approximately 30,000 base pairs - while a human has over 3 billion. According to the report, the virus's most divergent strains contain only 11 base pair changes.
So far, most cases on the U.S. West Coast are linked to a strain first identified in Washington state. It may have come from a man who had been in Wuhan, China, the virus’ epicenter, and returned home on Jan. 15. It is only three mutations away from the original Wuhan strain, according to work done early in the outbreak by Trevor Bedford, a computational biologist at Fred Hutch, a medical research center in Seattle.
On the East Coast there are several strains, including the one from Washington and others that appear to have made their way from China to Europe and then to New York and beyond, Chiu said. -USA Today
When I was separated from my first wife (also after 10 years and a child) I had a dream one night that I was in divorce court and they brought my 'wife' in and to my surprise it was an oriental woman.
I said to the judge "That's not my wife!" The judge asked for her identification and it said she was indeed my wife. I insisted... "I don't care what her paperwork says... THAT'S NOT MY WIFE!" Everyone in the court was arguing with me. I kept repeating "I don't care she's NOT my wife!"
In my utter frustration I awoke saying over and over "She's NOT my wife! She's NOT my wife!" Then it dawned on me ... This was no longer the woman I married. This was now a stranger to me. Just as well be an oriental lady. SHE WAS NOT MY WIFE any longer. That was the day I divorced her in my heart and took off my wedding ring.
I canceled my alarm service and put up two Pakistani flags and an Isis flag. Now my house is being watched by the FBI, the CIA, and NSA and I save $49.95 a month!
In America EVERY hospital that opens must have in their charter that they will take care of the indigent or they can't get a license to open. Hospitals make A LOT of money. They can afford to take care of the indigent. We also have "Charity Hospitals" often run by religious groups; Catholic, Baptist etc. There are also "University " hospitals. Hospitals affiliated with universities. For lesser ailments we have "Free Clinics" usually run by the city or county.
No one in America should go without seeing a doctor if they need one.
The down side to "Healthcare for all" is now the hospitals want YOU (the government since you pay taxes) to cover what they used to do for free or minimal charge.
She's in way over her head. She doesn't have a clue. Just another democrat blaming the Federal government while covering up her own ineptitude. Reminds me of Puerto Rico after the hurricane.
Dr. Drew Pinsky Blames Alarmist Media on United States' Coronavirus Panic
"Everything else you see in the press is them trying to capture your eye. They are not helping things and making things much worse to the point where the panic is worse than the outbreak… Don’t get into the spin on social media, take your eyes off the television a bit, and don’t listen to the crazy rhetoric designed to capture your eyes and scare you. We’re going to do fine if we follow Dr. Fauci recommendations, and things are looking good right now.”
A billionaire Republican megadonor has purchased a "sizable" stake in Twitter and "plans to push" to oust CEO Jack Dorsey among other changes, according to new reports, raising the prospect of a shocking election-year shakeup of the social media platform that conservatives have long accused of overt left-wing political bias.
Paul Singer’s Elliott Management Corp. has already nominated four directors to Twitter's board, a development first reported by Bloomberg News, citing several sources familiar with the arrangement. The outlet noted that unlike other prominent tech CEOs, Dorsey didn't have voting control over Twitter because the company had just one class of stock; and he has long been a target for removal given Twitter's struggling user growth numbers and stock performance.
Singer, who opposed President Trump's campaign in 2016, has since changed his tune, raising the prospect that some of the changes to Twitter could make the platform a friendlier place for pro-Trump users. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Singer donated $24 million to Republican and right-leaning groups in the 2016 election.
Twitter has long rankled not only conservatives but also independent-minded commentators and left-of-center activists. In 2018, feminist Meghan Murphy slammed Twitter for the "dangerous" banning and silencing of users who didn't follow the platform's guidelines. Murphy was banned after writing that "men aren't women," in defiance of Twitter's stated views on gender. "I don't want to draw a line that ends up silencing people who have political ideas, or who are talking about ideologies, or who are challenging popular discourse that has been deemed offensive," Murphy told The Hill.
Twitter did not immediately reply to a request for comment. "We prohibit targeting individuals with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category. This includes targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals," Twitter's website read. Meanwhile, Jordan Peterson, the Canadian professor who famously protested legislation that would punish professors for refusing to use students' custom pronouns, began development recently on a "free speech" alternative to Twitter called Thinkspot.
And, California GOP Rep. Devin Nunes last year filed a major lawsuit seeking $250 million in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages against Twitter and a handful of its users, accusing the social media site of "shadow-banning conservatives" to secretly hide their posts, systematically censoring opposing viewpoints, and totally "ignoring" lawful complaints of repeated abusive behavior. "Twitter is a machine," Nunes' personal attorney, Steven S. Biss, told Fox News. "It is a modern-day Tammany Hall. Congressman Nunes intends to hold Twitter fully accountable for its abusive behavior and misconduct."
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