Today's News (2020/7/22) COVID-19 edition
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'We can't pull it off': Florida sheriff says he can't muster security for GOP convention
There's a lack of clear plans, adequate funding and enough law enforcement officers, he says.
By MARC CAPUTO
07/20/2020 02:01 PM EDT
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/20/florida-sheriff-gop-convention-security-373089
The sheriff of Jacksonville, Fla., said he can’t provide security for the Republican National Convention because of a lack of clear plans, adequate funding and enough law enforcement officers.
“As we're talking today, we are still not close to having some kind of plan that we can work with that makes me comfortable that we're going to keep that event and the community safe,” Duval County Sheriff Mike Williams told POLITICO.
“It’s not my event to plan, but I can just tell you that what has been proposed in my opinion is not achievable right now ... from a law enforcement standpoint, from a security standpoint.”
The controversy deals one of the biggest potential blows to President Donald Trump’s decision to hold an in-person nominating convention during a pandemic. The proposal has already been beset by concerns over safety and reports of high-profile Republicans declining to attend.
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Daniel Dale
twitter.com/ddale8
20 July 2020
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1285315879325118465
Trump told NC residents yesterday that their Democratic governor told him he could only have 10 people in a 19,000-seat arena for the RNC.
Cooper's office says he never said that to anyone:
[LINKS TO:
Contradicting Trump, NC governor says he never demanded a convention limit of '10 people' in arena
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/20/politics/fact-check-trump-roy-cooper-rnc-charlotte/index.html
]
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Grifters started the anti-mask movement
20 July 2020
Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/20/no-mask-no-service/#dorr-brothers
Last March, there was a brief news blip when the NRA and various other far-right organizations denounced a bunch of astroturf organizations that claimed to be raising money for right-wing causes but were actually just pocketing the money.
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190318/florida-alert-look-out-alabama-here-comes-dj-partens-bait-switch
These organizations were founded by the Dorr brothers, a multi-generational clan of paranoid, violent right-wing "activists." The younger Dorrs have perfected the right-wing direct mail hustle invented by the Goldwater campaign.
They send postal come-ons to frightened, vulnerable people, using a mix of "petty insults, racist dog-whistling, and silly stunts" to scare them into writing checks to the Dorrs' many "charities."
Their IRS filings reveal the other side of the hustle – their "charities" are spending 90% of their donors' money on "fundraising." The fundraisers who these dollars go to? The Dorrs. Naturally.
A year ago, the Dorrs were making big money running anti-abortion and gun-rights hustles, but when the pandemic hit, they invented a new grift: a network of astroturf organizations calling for states to "re-open."
That's right: the Dorrs founded the Flu Klux Klan.
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COVID-19 patients could be at risk for chronic fatigue: ‘Your whole life can change if you get this’
July 21, 2020 at 9:56 am Updated July 21, 2020 at 10:30 am
By Darcel Rockett
Chicago Tribune
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/covid-19-patients-could-be-at-risk-for-chronic-fatigue-your-whole-life-can-change-if-you-get-this/
As the world continues to watch the number of COVID-19 cases increase (and daily records being broken), patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis, aka chronic fatigue syndrome, want to tell those recovering from coronavirus to listen up.
COVID-19 patients may be at risk of developing the neuroimmune condition ME/CFS, which depletes one’s energy. ME/CFS, which leaves 75% of those affected unable to work and 25% homebound or bedridden, impacts 15 million to 30 million people worldwide, and symptoms may be triggered by an infection, according to the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says some diagnosed with coronavirus are showing symptoms that resemble those seen in ME/CFS patients.
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Karen Campbell
twitter.com/KarenCampbellTV
19 July 2020
https://twitter.com/KarenCampbellTV/status/1284977983023980554
Anti-mask protesters march around the #Indiana State House chanting “USA” & “We Will Not Comply.”
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
- 'We can't pull it off': Florida sheriff says he can't muster security for GOP convention
- Contradicting Trump, NC governor says he never demanded a convention limit of '10 people' in arena
- Grifters started the anti-mask movement
- COVID-19 patients could be at risk for chronic fatigue: ‘Your whole life can change if you get this’
- Anti-mask protesters march around the #Indiana State House chanting “USA” & “We Will Not Comply.”
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'We can't pull it off': Florida sheriff says he can't muster security for GOP convention
There's a lack of clear plans, adequate funding and enough law enforcement officers, he says.
By MARC CAPUTO
07/20/2020 02:01 PM EDT
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/20/florida-sheriff-gop-convention-security-373089
The sheriff of Jacksonville, Fla., said he can’t provide security for the Republican National Convention because of a lack of clear plans, adequate funding and enough law enforcement officers.
“As we're talking today, we are still not close to having some kind of plan that we can work with that makes me comfortable that we're going to keep that event and the community safe,” Duval County Sheriff Mike Williams told POLITICO.
“It’s not my event to plan, but I can just tell you that what has been proposed in my opinion is not achievable right now ... from a law enforcement standpoint, from a security standpoint.”
The controversy deals one of the biggest potential blows to President Donald Trump’s decision to hold an in-person nominating convention during a pandemic. The proposal has already been beset by concerns over safety and reports of high-profile Republicans declining to attend.
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Daniel Dale
twitter.com/ddale8
20 July 2020
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1285315879325118465
Trump told NC residents yesterday that their Democratic governor told him he could only have 10 people in a 19,000-seat arena for the RNC.
Cooper's office says he never said that to anyone:
[LINKS TO:
Contradicting Trump, NC governor says he never demanded a convention limit of '10 people' in arena
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/20/politics/fact-check-trump-roy-cooper-rnc-charlotte/index.html
]
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Grifters started the anti-mask movement
20 July 2020
Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/20/no-mask-no-service/#dorr-brothers
Last March, there was a brief news blip when the NRA and various other far-right organizations denounced a bunch of astroturf organizations that claimed to be raising money for right-wing causes but were actually just pocketing the money.
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20190318/florida-alert-look-out-alabama-here-comes-dj-partens-bait-switch
These organizations were founded by the Dorr brothers, a multi-generational clan of paranoid, violent right-wing "activists." The younger Dorrs have perfected the right-wing direct mail hustle invented by the Goldwater campaign.
They send postal come-ons to frightened, vulnerable people, using a mix of "petty insults, racist dog-whistling, and silly stunts" to scare them into writing checks to the Dorrs' many "charities."
Their IRS filings reveal the other side of the hustle – their "charities" are spending 90% of their donors' money on "fundraising." The fundraisers who these dollars go to? The Dorrs. Naturally.
A year ago, the Dorrs were making big money running anti-abortion and gun-rights hustles, but when the pandemic hit, they invented a new grift: a network of astroturf organizations calling for states to "re-open."
That's right: the Dorrs founded the Flu Klux Klan.
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COVID-19 patients could be at risk for chronic fatigue: ‘Your whole life can change if you get this’
July 21, 2020 at 9:56 am Updated July 21, 2020 at 10:30 am
By Darcel Rockett
Chicago Tribune
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/covid-19-patients-could-be-at-risk-for-chronic-fatigue-your-whole-life-can-change-if-you-get-this/
As the world continues to watch the number of COVID-19 cases increase (and daily records being broken), patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis, aka chronic fatigue syndrome, want to tell those recovering from coronavirus to listen up.
COVID-19 patients may be at risk of developing the neuroimmune condition ME/CFS, which depletes one’s energy. ME/CFS, which leaves 75% of those affected unable to work and 25% homebound or bedridden, impacts 15 million to 30 million people worldwide, and symptoms may be triggered by an infection, according to the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says some diagnosed with coronavirus are showing symptoms that resemble those seen in ME/CFS patients.
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Karen Campbell
twitter.com/KarenCampbellTV
19 July 2020
https://twitter.com/KarenCampbellTV/status/1284977983023980554
Anti-mask protesters march around the #Indiana State House chanting “USA” & “We Will Not Comply.”
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
