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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

September 13, 2021

Heather Cox Richardson

As the coronavirus continues to burn across the United States, Republicans are maintaining their opposition to President Joe Biden’s new requirement that certain groups, including those who work at companies that employ more than 100 people, should either be vaccinated or be tested frequently for the virus. They insist that vaccination should be voluntary, but have no solution to the new spike in coronavirus infections and deaths.

In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis is threatening to sue cities that impose vaccine requirements, saying such mandates will hurt the economy by threatening jobs. More than 11,215 Florida residents are currently hospitalized with Covid-19.

More than 243,000 children tested positive for the virus last week, the second highest number of pediatric cases since the pandemic started. About 2200 are currently hospitalized.

Democrats continue to develop the infrastructure measure they expect to pass through reconciliation, thus being able to steer the bill through the Senate without facing a filibuster (budget reconciliation bills can’t be filibustered). A recent poll conducted for CNN by the independent research firm SSRS found that 93% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning Independents think it is important to the party’s identity to believe that the federal government should do more to help people.

The price tag on the new measure is currently around $3.5 trillion. As E. J. Dionne points out in the Washington Post, that number covers 10 years of spending, a period of time in which the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP), which measures the value of production, is expected to be $288 trillion. So that $3.5 trillion makes up around just 1.2 percent of the economy. It’s a big number, but not a large percentage for an investment in childcare, elder care, education, and addressing climate change.

The Democrats propose to fund the bill not with deficit spending alone, as so many of our investments have been funded of late, but by cutting spending elsewhere and by raising revenue by restoring some of the taxes Republicans cut in 2017. The Democrats also propose raising taxes on individuals who make more than $400,000 a year, or couples who make more than $450,000 a year. There is a growing impulse to level the economic playing field in this country as growing inequality makes the news more frequently. As Dr. Gabriel Zucman, an economist at the University of California at Berkeley, told Washington Post reporter Jeff Stein, the wealth of the top 400 people in the U.S. has increased by $1.4 trillion since 2019.

While the moderate Democrats and the progressive wing of the party are sparking breathless news stories as they hash out their differences, it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that Republicans refuse to participate in this process at all.

Perhaps the biggest breaking news today, although it, too, is a continuation of a longer theme, is that, in California’s recall election of Governor Gavin Newsom, the campaign website of challenger Republican Larry Elder, a right-wing talk show host, is already claiming he lost the election because of fraud. “Statistical analyses used to detect fraud in elections held in 3rd-world nations (such as Russia, Venezuela, and Iran) have detected fraud in California resulting in Governor Gavin Newsom being reinstated as governor,” the website says. "The primary analytical tool used was Benford’s Law and can be readily reproduced."

But the election isn’t until tomorrow.

The theme that Democrats win elections only by cheating became popular in Republican circles after the 1993 Motor Voter Act, which made it easier for poor people to vote. Republicans said Democrats, who passed the measure, were simply packing elections with their own voters. There was not then, and there is not now, evidence of widespread fraud in American elections.

Former president Donald Trump harped on the idea that Democrats cheated in the 2016 election—he insisted he would have won the popular vote as well as the vote in the Electoral College if it hadn’t been for fraudulent Democratic votes—and that idea is, of course, at the heart of his complaint about Biden’s election in 2020. There is no evidence for these accusations; they are lies. And yet, that recent CNN/SSRS poll found that 59% of Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents think believing that Trump won the 2020 election is important to their identity as Republicans.

California has about half as many registered Republicans as it does registered Democrats, and Newsom won in 2018 by almost 24 percentage points, so if Newsom wins tomorrow’s election it will hardly be an upset. But Elder is already claiming fraud and refusing to say he will accept the results of the election—the same playbook Trump used in 2016 and 2020. Tonight, a pastor at a rally for Elder prayed: “We don’t even look at the polls because we are looking to you, Lord. Lord, we pray that you would take down the current government…. We ask this state will be set free, and you would start with Larry Elder.”

If losers in a democracy refuse to accept the legitimacy of elections, the system falls apart.

The growing radicalism of the Republican Party is putting pressure on Democrats to pass a voting rights act to counteract the vote-suppressing measures that Republican-dominated states are enacting. Today, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he hopes to bring a voting rights bill backed by West Virginia Democratic senator Joe Manchin to the floor for a vote as early as next week.

Notes:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-vaccines-mandate-covid/2021/09/13/751c7bde-14a3-11ec-9589-31ac3173c2e5_story.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/newsom-leads-california-recall-polls-larry-elder-pushes-baseless-fraud-n1279080

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/10/politics/fact-check-republican-claims-recall-rigged-stolen/index.html

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/live-updates/covid-delta-variant/?id=79988274#79994240

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/12/make-or-break-moment-our-democracy/

http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2021/images/09/12/rel5c.-.partisanship.pdf

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/09/13/democrats-tax-biden-budget/

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Only 6 percent of all alleged pandemic deaths are directly related to Covid-19

The US public health agency CDC recently released an update showing that 94 percent of all Americans who are officially said to have died due to Covid-19, had an average of 2,6 other contributing diagnoses or even causes of death. Despite these sensational revelations, destructive shutdowns and restrictions continue around the world as if nothing had happened.

This comes a month after it was revealed in the UK that those who once tested positive were then registered as deceased in Covid-19 – no matter how much later or for what reasons they then died. At the same time, it is now announced that 90 percent of all those who test positive probably do not even have the virus, which since August, may explain why 90 percent are reported to be asymptomatic.

On Saturday, August 26, the US National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its website. It contained a sensational revelation: Of all those who officially died of Covid-19 in the United States, which on September 2 was reported to be nearly 190 000 people, only 6 percent actually did not have one or more other serious illnesses or possible other causes of death.

The other 94 percent also had an average of 2,6 [sic] other illnesses or causes of death. Many were stunned by the news and waited for the political and media establishment in the United States and perhaps even the outside world, not least the countries that had completely ruined their economies and populations through draconian virus restrictions, to comment and immediately change their guidelines and lift shutdowns.

But the only thing that was heard from world leaders was a retweet of the news from President Donald Trump, who that the CDC had quietly updated the Covid numbers. There were 9 210 deaths, and the other 94 percent had 2-3 other serious medical conditions and the absolute majority were very old.

The tweet was deleted by Twitter. The almost total silence is deafening.

The news is by no means unique to the United States, but it has emerged in countless countries that the figures for Covid-19 have been grossly exaggerated. One example is the United Kingdom, where the country’s Minister of Health Matt Hancock in July called for an investigation into the death toll for Covid-19.

This after it was revealed that those who had ever tested positive for the Coronavirus had it noted as a cause of death – regardless of how long after the test or of what cause, they had died. Scotland and Northern Ireland contented themselves with “only” doing so up to 28 days after the test.

The astonishing scandal was hardly given any space at all in the system media.

Among those who in the official US statistics are said to have died of Covid-19, some 5 133 had also died of “intentional and unintentional injury, poisoning and other side effects”. In total, seven causes were noted with internationally accepted diagnostic codes (ICD-10) and among these are suicide (T14), traffic accidents with pedestrians (V01), assault (Y09) and war-related deaths (Y36).

Overall, almost every conceivable way of dying seems to have been listed, but they are all reported in the media as having died of the “deadly” Coronavirus.

This information completely overturns what has been reported so far by authorities and the media in the United States, but despite this, mum’s the word.

The US president tried to inform his people by retweeting the news, but the tweet was quickly taken down by Twitter, arguing that it violated their rules. Financial analyst Jeff Berwick, one of the first to report it via his YouTube channel Dollar Vigilante, had his video taken down quickly every time it was uploaded. The system media’s and the big technology companies’ attempts to silence the news failed, however, as it spread like wildfire on social media.

An exception was the New York Post, which reported on the CDC’s figures on August 31 in an article entitled “94 percent of Americans who died of Covid-19 had a contributing disease state – CDC”. In the article, the newspaper writes that “the figures are based on death certificates, which the agency [CDC] called ‘the most reliable data source'”.

CNN had previously written that Covid-19 is so deadly that it could be compared to “two jumbo jets with Americans crashing every day” or “two terrorist attacks like 9/11 happening every week”.

Meanwhile, the high death toll continues to be officially reported, with the United States registering the highest number in the world, even though we now know that 94 percent of these have an average of 2,6 underlying serious diseases or even causes of death.

And if we compare the now official figures on September 2 of 189 964 to the current population in the United States of 331 million, we get a mortality rate of 0,057.

WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus, the communist génocidaire and former top member of a terrorist organization who is not even a doctor, sowed panic around the world on March 17 when he said that 3,4 percent of the world’s population was at risk of dying from the “new Coronavirus”.

The New York Times (NYT) reported on August 29 that potentially 90 percent of all those who have tested positive for Covid-19 have such insignificant amounts of the virus in their bodies that they do not need to be isolated, nor are they candidates for contact tracing. The newspaper further writes that leading public health experts are now worried about “over-testing”.

The question is not only why restrictions that have already destroyed the world economy and billions of people’s lives are allowed to continue, but how in the name of public health it can be justified that millions of sick people around the world are forced to wait in long queues to get treatment or even see a doctor. The media in the UK reported at the end of August that the restrictions there have now led to sick Britons being forced to wait until 2022.

German urologist Yves Oberndörfer, says he has had daily contact with dangerous and deadly diseases and infections for more than 30 years. “Covid-19 is not one of them.”

“Since the end of March I have advised every one of my patients who asked, to calm down and put aside their fear. Yes, I too was worried until February. The force of the media also impressed me.” But he says his medical responsibility forces him to acknowledge that this “pandemic” only exists as a “laboratory pandemic”.

“That means it is diagnosed in the laboratory, without it being known whether the person is or is becoming sick. And for whatever reason, testing continues. You cannot tell from a positive laboratory finding whether a person is or will be sick.”

According to Oberndörfer, the most important question that everyone can and should ask is, where are all the dead?

Published: September 11, 2020, 9:26 am

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The Queen is making her most serious misstep here

Opinion by Rosa Prince

Updated 1148 GMT (1948 HKT) March 11, 2020

(CNN)In her close to seven decades on the throne, the Queen of England has rarely faltered in her sense of duty or made a serious misstep.

Rosa Prince

She is doing both now, however -- not in her treatment of her grandson, Harry, and his wife Meghan, who made their last public appearance as senior royals this week, but, more insidiously, her handling of another problematic relative, her son Prince Andrew, the Duke of York.

Not for the first time, Andrew finds himself garnering lurid headlines stemming from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

On Monday Geoffrey Berman, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, called the prince out in stinging terms, accusing him of misleading the public by offering to assist authorities investigating Epstein's alleged crimes while in fact failing to make himself available for interview.

Andrew has said in a public statement: "Of course, I am willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency with their investigations, if required." As Berman put it: "Contrary to Prince Andrew's very public offer to cooperate with our investigation into Epstein's co-conspirators ... Prince Andrew has now completely shut the door on voluntary cooperation and our office is considering its options.

Prince Andrew has 'completely shut the door' on cooperating with Epstein investigation, prosecutor says

But the Epstein scandal is not going away. More and more devastating details could seep out unless the boil is lanced by Andrew cooperating, in full, with the New York authorities.

Until he does, the Queen should display the sacrifice and sense of duty which have been the hallmarks of her reign by removing from the duke all remaining vestiges of the privilege of serving as a member of the royal family -- yes, even if as an ordinary British citizen he is exposed to an extradition request by the US.

Otherwise, it won't only be Harry and Meghan questioning why they are treated more harshly for the transgression of wishing to live in another country than the duke is for, at best, consorting with a convicted pedophile.

Buckingham Palace has not responded to Berman's claims, but earlier this year the duke was described to journalists by an unnamed source as "angry and bewildered" at suggestions he was uncooperative in the inquiry.

It is unclear what Berman's "options" might be; the prospect of extraditing a member of the British royal family seems diplomatically improbable. And yet the swirling scandal around Andrew seems unlikely to go away, with the drip-drip of allegations continuing to mount.

He continues to face questions about Virginia Giuffre, who told the BBC she was trafficked to the UK and Caribbean as a 17-year-old and presented as a plaything for the duke by Epstein and his alleged girlfriend-turned-procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell has denied all allegations levied against her. Her attorneys have previously denied she engaged in sexual abuse or sex trafficking.

Andrew has denied having any sexual contact with Giuffre, and Buckingham Palace has also denied her allegations.

Even before Berman's comments and long before Epstein hanged himself in jail, Andrew's friendship with him has posed an existential threat to the royal family.

The crisis has flared up repeatedly over the years: when Andrew was photographed with Epstein in Central Park after the latter was convicted of soliciting a minor; when he was accused by Giuffre; after Epstein's suicide; when the prince gave a disastrous interview to the BBC in which he failed to express sympathy for the victims. Following that interview, Andrew stepped back from royal duties for the foreseeable future.

Through it all, the Queen and the palace have done their best to patch up the damage, scrambling to insert fingers into the leaking dam which threatens to engulf them.

Prince Andrew interview is a PR nightmare and a national joke

It has always felt too little, too late, the statements lacking in empathy, the reduction in the duke's status or exposure a step behind the public mood.

Until now, the greatest crisis for the modern monarchy was the Queen's reserved, almost cold response to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, an attitude which left many of her grieving subjects troubled by the sense that formality and process were more important to her than emotion and family.

How different from the indulgence shown the Duke of York, from permitting him to travel the world at British taxpayers' expense under the guise of trade envoy to allowing the bells of Westminster Abbey to go ahead and peal for his 60th birthday despite his recent disgrace.

Worst of all was the error of judgement of the Queen allowing herself to be photographed beside a grinning duke while driving to church two days after legal documents naming him as Giuffre's alleged abuser were published last August.

Whether or not she believed him guilty -- and she's his mother, naturally she doesn't believe him guilty - what message did this send to Epstein's alleged victims, indeed, to all victims of sexual abuse?

Prince Andrew caught a lucky break this week. The US Attorney's condemnation would no doubt have had far more impact, particularly in the powerful British press, were the world not preoccupied by the coronavirus outbreak.

But while the current Covid-19 outbreak will not last forever, the unhealthy atmosphere currently infecting the royal family will not go away until Prince Andrew gives authorities his full account and cooperation

#royals #prince andrew #duke of york #queen elizabeth ii #brf #british royal family #scandal

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August 26, 2020

Heather Cox Richardson

There is a profound disconnect between the reality of what is happening in America right now and what we are hearing from the White House.

Tonight, Hurricane Laura is barreling toward the coasts of Louisiana and Texas. The storm is on the verge of becoming a Category 5 hurricane, one of the strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall in the continental U.S. Its winds have reached 150 miles per hour and the National Hurricane Center has warned of an “unsurvivable” storm surge of up to 20 feet, as well as anywhere from 5-10 inches of rain. Forecasters warn that half of Lake Charles, Louisiana, home to almost 80,000 people, might be submerged. More than half a million people have been ordered to evacuate the region, but this will be a tall order for the 23.3% of the population there that lives in poverty.

Iowa is trying to rebuild from the August 10 derecho which brought winds of up to 140 miles an hour, left more than 400,000 Iowans without power, and damaged homes, businesses, and more than ten million acres of crops. Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds asked for about $4 billion to cover the cost of the damage; Trump approved the portion that covered federal buildings and utilities but not assistance to homeowners and farmers.

Western wildfires have burned more than 1.8 million acres in August—an area almost double the size of Rhode Island. Fourteen states, including California, Arizona, Oregon, and Colorado, have suffered from the extreme events. While firefighters are gaining control over many of the fires, red flag warnings are still in effect in Northern California, Nevada, Oregon, and Montana.

A disaster of a different sort is burning in America as coronavirus continues to spread. New CDC guidelines quietly put out on Monday no longer recommend testing for asymptomatic people even if they’ve been in contact with someone who has the coronavirus. This new rule appears to reflect Trump's frequent complaints that widespread testing is responsible for our climbing numbers of coronavirus cases. (He is incorrect.) He has repeatedly said we should slow the testing down. A White House spokesperson said the decision was science-based and not political; American Medical Association President Dr. Susan Bailey asked the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Department of Health and Human Services to "release the scientific justification" for the changes.

The spokesperson told reporters that the White House Coronavirus Task Force had signed off on the new guidelines, but Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and member of the task force told CNN that he was not part of any such discussion. “I am concerned about the interpretation of these recommendations and worried it will give people the incorrect assumption that asymptomatic spread is not of great concern. In fact it is,” he said. Other members of the task force also expressed alarm about the new rules.

And there is yet another kind of fire burning. On Sunday afternoon, August 23, a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Rusten Sheskey, fired seven shots into Jacob Blake’s back as he opened his car door, leaving the 29-year-old father of five gravely wounded, likely paralyzed from the waist down.

Protests erupted in the wake of the shooting of yet another Black man, with the same pattern we saw in Portland: peaceful protests by day, riots by night. Armed militia members and counter protesters rushed to Kenosha and clashed with protesters, and after rioters looted and burned businesses, civilians armed with AR-15-style rifles took to the streets claiming they would back the police and restore order. Video shows police officers thanking the armed men for their help, despite the fact they are on the streets after the city’s curfew, and handing them water bottles.

Rather than restoring order, on Tuesday, a 17-year-old white man, Kyle Rittenhouse, from Antioch, Illinois, about 20 miles southwest of Kenosha, shot and killed two people and wounded a third. Rittenhouse’s social media is full of support for “Blue Lives Matter,” and shows him posing with weapons. Video from January 30, shows him in the front row of a Trump rally in Des Moines, Iowa; video from Tuesday shows him trying to get the attention of law enforcement officers before the shooting.

This afternoon, the Milwaukee Bucks professional basketball team refused to play game five of their first-round playoff series against the Orlando Magic. This is what’s known as a “wildcat strike” because it does not have the approval of union leadership—the NBA collective bargaining agreement bans strikes. The Houston Rockets and Oklahoma City Thunder joined in, and by 5:00 the NBA postponed all the evening’s games. All the WNBA games were also called off, and several Major League Baseball teams have struck in solidarity.

In a statement, the Bucks said, “Despite the overwhelming plea for change, there has been no action, so our focus today cannot be on basketball.” They asked the Wisconsin legislature to reconvene and pass “meaningful measures to address issues of police accountability, brutality and criminal justice reform.” They also asked people to vote. Basketball superstar LeBron James was more straightforward: “F**K THIS MAN!!!!!” he tweeted. “WE DEMAND CHANGE. SICK OF IT[.]”

In Washington, tonight, at the third night of the Republican National Convention, speakers painted an image of the nation that did not square with this reality. There was scarce mention of the natural disasters that, in any other administration, would be headline news. The sentence “May God bless and protect the Gulf states in the path of the hurricane," offered by Eric Trump's wife Lara, was about the extent of it.

There was scarce attention paid to the coronavirus, either, which has, to date, killed more than 180,000 Americans. Twenty-five percent of the world's deaths from Covid-19 come from the U.S., which has 4% of the world’s people. From Fort McHenry, Maryland, Vice President Mike Pence congratulated Trump for suspending travel from China and saving “untold American lives.” White House officials continue to talk of the virus in the past tense, as if it is over. Images from the RNC of attendees sitting together, unmasked, send a signal that things are back to normal, when they are decidedly not.

There was no mention of Jacob Blake or the Kenosha shootings of Tuesday tonight, although Trump appeared to take the part of the Kenosha police and the civilian militias when he tweeted today that he was sending federal troops to Kenosha to restore “LAW and ORDER!”. (Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, a Democrat, instead deployed 500 members of the National Guard to Kenosha.)

From Fort McHenry, Maryland, Vice President Mike Pence talked of the “heroes” who have died in unrest around the country without mentioning the events that have sparked the unrest: the shootings of Black men and women at the hands of police officers, people like George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Jacob Blake. He lamented the death of federal officer Dave Patrick Underwood, “shot and killed during the riots in Oakland, California,” implying he was killed by protesters. In fact, Officer Underwood died in a drive-by shooting by a Boogaloo supporter on a nearly empty street. And Pence claimed that Democratic nominee Joe Biden has said he would cut funding to law enforcement; this is a lie from a super PAC ad that spliced together video footage to change its meaning.

A million years ago, during the George W. Bush administration, a White House official dismissively told journalist Ron Suskind that people like Suskind lived in “the reality-based community,” meaning that they believed solutions to the nation’s problems came from studying reality and finding answers. “That's not the way the world really works anymore,” the official told Suskind. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality…. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

Creating their own reality might have worked for Bush’s people in 2004, but sixteen years later, with the country in conflagrations both natural and manmade, it seems that approach is no longer viable.

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Notes:

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/hurricane-laura-storm-track-path-forecast-today-2020-08-26/

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-misleading-biden-ad-defund/fact-check-political-ad-saying-biden-wants-to-defund-the-police-is-misleading-idUSKCN252248

Underwood: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/gopers-keep-falsely-implying-a-protester-killed-a-federal-officer-in-oakland

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/live-blog/hurricane-laura-updates-news-live-hurricane-path-tracker-n1238184/ncrd1238314#liveBlogHeader

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/rnc-night-three-pence-conway-hatch-act

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/lakecharlescitylouisiana

Iowa: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/25/iowa-gov-kim-reynolds-holds-news-conference-cedar-rapids-schools-storm-derecho/5627303002/

https://www.kcrg.com/2020/08/18/trump-signs-only-a-portion-of-iowas-disaster-relief-request/

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/25/us/california-fires-tuesday/index.html

wildcat strike:

Matt Pearce 🦅 @mattdpearceThe NBA collective bargaining agreement bans strikes, which means the Bucks are breaking their own contract to stop playing in protest of police violence. (But this is your reminder that there aren't really illegal strikes, just unsuccessful ones.)

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August 26th 2020

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/america-doesnt-deserve-sports-right-now

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/nba-teams-strike-for-black-lives.html

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/kenosha-suspect-kyle-rittenhouse-trump-rally

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WIGOV/bulletins/29beffc

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2020-08-26/trump-pledges-to-restore-law-and-order-in-wisconsin-amid-jacob-blake-protests

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/testing-overview.html?referringSource=articleShare

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/politics/fauci-coronavirus-cdc-testing/index.html

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I swear to Bob, every single time I check CNN to get some idea of what’s going on Corona-wise in the US, the “Latest on the coronavirus pandemic” live updates from around the world link is in a totally different place or missing!!!

Like I get that there’s so much news constantly that the link changes like every 2 days, but maybe just consistently update the link to reflect the newest page?

Like even when I ran my little dolls websites, I was able to edit a link every few days?

#i found the live updates page from august 22 #but i would like to know about today?#i go to cnn.com and click coronavirus annnnnd????? then what??#sometimes its there all big and bold #sometimes its hidden in the smaller headers #and like right now its not there at all #i checked all the subheaders #i just want to keep at least a little up to date on the world!?

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TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY

byZachary B. Wolf

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The Latest

If you thought coronavirus was no big deal or if you thought it was going to go away, wake up.

Your life is about to change.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, issued a disturbing warning during a White House briefing Tuesday: Americans everywhere need to change the way they live their lives. Right now.

“We would like the country to realize that as a nation, we can’t be doing the kinds of things we were doing a few months ago. It doesn’t matter if you’re in a state that has no cases or one case,” Fauci said, referring Americans to the new federal Coronavirus.gov website for details on precautions to take at home, at work and out in the world.

“If and when the infections will come – and they will come, sorry to say, sad to say – when you’re dealing with an infectious disease… we want to be where the infection is going to be, as well as where it is,” Fauci said.

“Everybody should say, ‘All hands on deck,’” he added.

He's not alone in saying that this is the moment to contain coronavirus. We are at an inflection point, according to Thomas Bossert, a former homeland security adviser to President Donald Trump, writing in The Washington Post. It's worth

reading his entire piece

, but the key point is this:

"Officials must pull the trigger on aggressive interventions. Time matters. Two weeks of delay can mean the difference between success and failure. Public health experts learned this in 1918 when the Spanish flu

killed 50 million to 100 million people

around the globe. If we fail to take action, we will watch our health-care system be overwhelmed."

He compared the lax early actions in Italy, which is now under national lockdown, with the more strict and invasive early actions in Singapore and Hong Kong. (

Read this for a taste of what today was like in Italy.

)

Bossert also said Americans have to prepare to be out of their daily rhythms for weeks:

"How long? Epidemiologists suggest eight weeks might be needed to arrest this outbreak. Administrators, students, teachers and parents need to get busy figuring out how to continue the education of our children while contributing to this community-wide public health effort."

States of emergency --

The suburb of New Rochelle, New York, is under containment, with National Guard called in to help deliver food to residents

. More than 18 governors have declared states of emergency as of Tuesday evening. I wrote today about what a "state of emergency" actually means.

Read it

School closures -- At the White House briefing, Fauci said a nationwide school ban isn't appropriate at this point. This is a massive country. Rather, we need to look where the outbreak is going and pre-emptively target closures there.

Government help -- Vice President Mike Pence assured Americans the President would put the full weight of the government behind fighting the outbreak. Pence said people who feel sick shouldn't feel like they have to work or risk their paychecks.

Administration officials are also pushing a payroll tax holiday to put more money in people's pockets. Americans pay 12.4% for social security and 2.9% for Medicare out of every pay check up to 132,900. That's assuming they keep their job.

But after Trump made a rare trip to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to meet with Senate Republicans, it's clear they're a long way from striking a deal on a package.

CNN's congressional team reports the state of play here

After the hour-long meeting in the Capitol, where the conversation included proposals of payroll tax holidays for workers, targeted relief for hard-hit industries -- like airlines, cruise ships, restaurants and retail -- tax cuts to help small businesses better afford sick leave for their workers and other proposals, some GOP senators remained skeptical about quickly passing an expensive stimulus package.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said afterward that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, would have "ball control" on negotiations that could take place in the coming weeks and that Senate Republicans would defer to them to see if they could cut a deal.

Bottom line: This is so much bigger than partisanship, or how anyone feels about Trump or Washington.

Trump skipped today's White House briefing, but tweeted at the same time about low US unemployment and dinging Democrats over climate policy. Earlier in the day, he retweeted coronavirus safety precautions posted to Pence's account.

Until recently, the President said coronavirus was under control

Even Fox News personalities are split -- which is saying something -- on how seriously to take this threat. Tucker Carlson seemed to give a measured plea for officials to take it seriously. But Trish Regan of Fox Business

dismissed the entire outbreak

as an attempt by Democrats to undo Trump. Seriously. That's how ingrained conspiracy theories have become.

: Rising deaths worldwide

Click here for coronavirus live updates. The worldwide death toll has surpassed 4,000, still mostly in China.

But at least 168 coronavirus patients died in Italy in the past day, a sharp rise.

US cases -- There are at least 985 cases of the novel coronavirus in the United States, according to the state and local health agencies, governments and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

According to the CDC, there are 70 cases from repatriated citizens from Wuhan, the Diamond Princess and the Grand Princess. According to CNN Health’s tally of US cases that are detected and tested in the United States through US public health systems, there are 915 cases in 37 states and the District of Columbia, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases to 985. Thirty people have died.

That's a fraction of the population. But this is far from over.

: Everyday life is changing

Ground zero in Washington state -- The most deadly coronavirus outbreak site in the US is the Life Care Center nursing home in King County. Another patient who had been there died Tuesday, bringing

the total to 19 from that site alone

. It's still not clear how that outbreak started.

Employees have

now been tested at the site

after a long delay when only patients were screened.

Just determining who has the virus has been a struggle. In California,

new commercial labs manufacturing testing kits

are coming online, joining facilities in 18 states.

Closed schools -- There are growing numbers of school closures in affected areas. But there's no clear consideration being given to what happens in terms of child care if large-scale school closures occur. There's also no concerted movement toward help for hourly and low-wage employees -- the people who take care of our sick, who clean our public spaces and who keep store shelves stocked and deliveries running.

Where the virus spreads. A church in Washington, DC, a

Walmart in Kentucky

, a gathering of conservatives, people who encountered a lawyer in New York, a cruise ship, travelers from Asia.

Infected people work for Barclays. The New York Port Authority. There's a

New York City medic

whose girlfriend is a flight attendant. (Note: CDC says you aren't likely to get it

simply from recirculated air in a plane

Happening around the US: Here are just a few specific effects, taken at random from around the country. A one-square-mile area will have all schools and facilities closed in Westchester County, New York (a circle drawn around the synagogue attended by the lawyer who was patient zero there). Closed libraries in Rancho Mirage, California. Banned large gatherings in Santa Clara County, California. Closed schools in Elk Grove, outside Sacramento. A staff member's spouse potentially having it

shuttered all schools in one Long Island

district for a day.

You don't realize how many people you come into contact with until you think about it.

So much of the US economy is built on services. Will we reach a place where restaurants are closed?

They've been restricted in Italy

. So many American workers depend on being in the same place as other people. Already

travel and hotel industries are suffering

Silver linings -- There are

deals to be had

. But if you're at risk, travel may not be a good idea.

Costco is doing well

! It's limiting water sales in some places. Shelves are empty because of panicked preppers.

: Super Tuesday

Is Joe Biden for real? Polls are closing soon in six states, including Michigan, and

this will be a key test of the durability of Joe Biden's surge

. He could create a solid delegate lead with solid wins in southern states like Mississippi.

Michigan is the key. It's a key general election swing state Donald Trump won in 2020. Hillary Clinton's loss to Sanders in Michigan in 2016 should have been the foreboding sign that her message was getting lost. Now, if Bernie Sanders is to argue electability against the former vice president, also formerly known as Joe from Scranton, he'll need to put up in auto country.

Full of it. This is clearly a different kind of campaign. Biden got into a testy exchange with a man at an auto plant who said the former vice president would take people's guns.

Biden told the guy he was "full of shit."

It was a moment and a preview of the general election if Biden gets the nomination.

Also: The campaign is about to change because of coronavirus. Both Biden and Sanders have canceled rallies scheduled for tonight.

And CNN's upcoming debate in Arizona won't have a live audience

: What are we doing here?

The American system of government has been challenged to deal with a singular President and a divided country that will decide whether he should get another four years in the White House.

Stay tuned to

this newsletter

as we keep watch over the Trump administration, the 2020 presidential campaign and other issues of critical interest.

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It might be necessary to start manufacturing coronavirus vaccines even before they have been fully tested to see if they can protect people from infection, said Richard Hatchett, the CEO of Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI).

CEPI is a non-profit put together organization formed to speed the development of vaccines.

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Dec 28 Headlines

WORLD NEWS

Covid: Live updates on pandemic and Omicron variant (CNN)

“Much of the disruption has been caused by staff calling in sick, several major airlines have reported. Globally, airlines canceled more than 6,000 flights on Christmas Eve, Christmas and Boxing Day. In the US, more than 1,200 flights were canceled and more than 5,000 were delayed on Sunday alone. More than 3,000 flights were cancelled on Monday according to FlightAware.”

Brazil: Dam breaks threaten worse flooding (AP)

“Two dams broke in northeastern Brazil, threatening worse flooding in a rain-drenched region that has already seen thousands forced to flee their homes. The city governments of Jussiape and Itambe posted warnings on social media this past weekend urging people to seek safety. The Bahia state government’s press office said heavy rains have caused floods that have killed 18 people and affected at least 50 cities since early November. It said more than 16.000 people are homeless, 19,500 displaced and two people missing as a result of the flooding.”

Russia: Court orders oldest civil rights group Memorial to shut down (BBC)

“Russia's Supreme Court has ordered the closure of International Memorial, Russia's oldest human rights group. Memorial worked to recover the memory of the millions of innocent people executed, imprisoned or persecuted in the Soviet era. Formally it has been "liquidated" for failing to mark a number of social media posts with its official status as a "foreign agent". That designation was given in 2016 for receiving funding from abroad. But in court the prosecutor labelled Memorial a "public threat", accusing the group of being in the pay of the West to focus attention on Soviet crimes instead of highlighting a "glorious past".”

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Covid: US officials recommend shorter Covid isolation, quarantine (AP)

“U.S. health officials on Monday cut isolation restrictions for asymptomatic Americans who catch the coronavirus from 10 to five days, and similarly shortened the time that close contacts need to quarantine. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said the guidance is in keeping with growing evidence that people with the coronavirus are most infectious in the two days before and three days after symptoms develop. The decision also was driven by a recent surge in COVID-19 cases, propelled by the omicron variant.”

Gun Violence: 5 killed, including gunman in Denver area (AP)

“A gunman killed four people and injured an officer after opening fire in several locations around the Denver area, police said Monday. The suspect also died Monday after exchanging gunfire with officers, Lakewood police said. Police said they were still investigating what led to the shootings.”

Crime: Florida hit-and-run leaves 2 children dead and 4 others injured (CNN)

“Two children were killed and four others were hospitalized Monday afternoon after a hit-and-run crash in Broward County, authorities in South Florida said. The ages of the children hospitalized range from 1 to 10, Stephen Gollan, battalion chief at Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue, said at a news conference. Authorities earlier said they received a call regarding a hit-and-run with injuries at around 2:50 p.m., and Broward Sheriff's Office deputies, Wilton Manors police officers and Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue responded to the scene.”

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America's great reopening is encountering some turbulence

Everything is opening at the same time and people are desperate to travel. As concerts resume, theme parks open, families reunite, lovers tie the knot and stir-crazy Americans dream of vacation, airlines that had to hurriedly recommission fleets are struggling to keep up: American Airlines

cancelled 188 of flights over the weekend and is trimming hundreds more

in the coming summer travel season. United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby warned on Sunday of a longer-term problem filling cockpits because the US military is training fewer pilots as it scales back global wars.Security screeners

processed 2.1 million people in US airports on Sunday

— the most since March 7, 2020, before the Covid-19 curse struck. Flying itself, never a pleasant experience in the post-9/11 era, is now even less fun. Apart from mask wearing on board, there's been a spate of mid-air scuffles as travelers' tempers flare as they cram back into aluminum tubes again.

The airline industry isn't alone in encountering turbulence as the US transitions from sheltering from the coronavirus to learning to live with it. The economy, though recovering, is uneven. Many industries, especially in the hospitality sector, can't find enough staff. A crime wave has gotten so bad that President Joe Biden plans to address it this week. Extreme drought in the West threatens to spark a disastrous wildfire season and worsen late-stage pandemic dislocation. And fierce political divides were only widened by a virus uniquely able to inflame cultural fault lines.

It's not quite what Biden bargained for when he planned a national July 4 party to declare freedom from Covid-19. The "Roaring 20s" will have to wait a while.

'My serious proposal to the United States'Iran's new President-elect Ebrahim Raisi said Monday that he would not meet with Biden -- and struck a tough tone on efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal. "My serious proposal to the United States government is for them to return [to the agreement] in an expedited manner ... in doing so they will prove their sincerity," Raisi said. "The people of Iran do not have good memories of the JCPOA," he added, referring to the formal name of the nuclear deal.Click button to enter email to sign up for CNN's Meanwhile in America newsletter.close dialogThe world is watching as the Biden administration takes office.Get updates on US politics delivered to your inbox daily.Sign Me UpNo ThanksBy subscribing you agree to ourprivacy policy. Let's make a dealBarack Obama is back, and he's not mincing words.The former President warned Monday that the US was at risk of joining the list of once "vibrant" democracies around the world that "go into reverse.""We are not immune from some of these efforts to weaken our democracy," Obama said, a day before Senate Republicans are expected to kill off a historic effort to safeguard voting rights.The former President had hoped to stay out of politics once he left the White House (his predecessor George W. Bush went dark for almost the entirety of Obama's two terms in power.) But Donald Trump drew him back to the battlefield in the elections of 2018 and 2020 -- when he delivered an extraordinary warning via primetime Democratic National Convention address that democracy was under assault.Obama on Monday hit at out Republican senators who are set to prevent even a debate on the voting rights legislation. The voting bill establishes national standards for mail-in voting, early voting and registrations of all eligible Americans. It would effectively expand the franchise at a time when many Republican states are building on Trump's election lies to make voting more difficult, especially for Black Americans who tend to vote for the Democrats. Republicans claim the bill is a massive federal power grab and subverts the power of states to run elections. The Constitution however does reserve a role for Washington to intervene in elections."Think about this: In the aftermath of an insurrection, with our democracy on the line, and many of these same Republican senators going along with the notion that somehow there were irregularities and problems with legitimacy in our most recent election," Obama said. "They are suddenly afraid to even talk about these issues and figure out solutions on the floor of the Senate. They don't even want to talk about voting. And that is not acceptable."

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