Tuesday, July 14, 2020
The Pandemic Could Get Much, Much Worse. We Must Act Now.
By
Mr. Barry is the author of “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History.”
To understand just how bad things are in
the United States and, more important, what can be done about it
requires comparison. At this writing, Italy,
once the poster child of coronavirus devastation and with a population
twice that of Texas, has recently averaged about 200 new cases a day
when Texas
has had over 9,000. Germany, with a population four times that of
Florida, has had fewer than 400 new cases a day. On Sunday, Florida reported over 15,300, the highest single-day total of any state.
The
White House says the country has to learn to live with the virus.
That’s one thing if new cases occurred at the rates in Italy or Germany,
not to mention South Korea or Australia or Vietnam (which so far has
zero deaths). It’s another thing when the United States has the highest growth rate of new cases in the world, ahead even of Brazil.
To reopen schools in the safest way,
which may be impossible in some instances, and to get the economy fully
back on track, we must get the case counts down to manageable levels —
down to the levels of European countries. The Trump administration’s
threat to withhold federal funds from schools that don’t reopen won’t
accomplish that goal. To do that, only decisive action will work in
places experiencing explosive growth — at the very least, limits even on
private gatherings and selective shutdowns that must include not just
such obvious places as bars but churches, also a well-documented source of large-scale spread.
Existing drug may downgrade COVID threat to common cold level — Jerusalem study
https://www.timesofisrael.com/existing-drug-may-downgrade-covid-threat-to-common-cold-level-jerusalem-study/
An existing medicine can “downgrade” the danger-level of coronavirus
to that of a common cold, a Jerusalem researcher is claiming, after
testing it on infected human tissue.
Prof. Yaakov Nahmias says that his research shows that the novel
coronavirus is so vicious because it causes lipids to be deposited in
the lungs, and that there is a solution to undo the damage: a
widely-used anti cholesterol drug called fenofibrate.
America shuts down again -- choosing reality over Trump's false claims
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/14/politics/donald-trump-states-economy-coronavirus/index.html
While President Donald Trump obsesses about his reelection hopes in his White House bubble, state and local leaders are frantically reversing state reopenings that he demanded, which turned America into the world's biggest coronavirus hotspot.
As
emergency rooms filled and the virus quickened its relentless march
across southern and Western states, Trump stuck to the fiction that the
worst is already over: "We had to close it down; now we're opening it
up," the President said of the economy at the White House, patting
himself on the back for saving "millions of lives."
As
new cases of the disease reach 60,000 a day nationwide, many leaders,
including those who supported Trump's aggressive approach, now have
little choice but to prioritize science over politics, leaving the
President looking out of touch with reality.
You won't believe what Donald Trump just said about coronavirus testing
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/14/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-testing/index.html
On Monday afternoon, President Donald Trump
was asked about his insistence that the only reason that coronavirus
cases are spiking across the South and Southwest was an increase in
testing. His answer was, uh, something else.
Here's the exchange:
Reporter: President Trump, you've said many times that the number of coronavirus cases is going up because testing is increasing.
Trump: That's right.
Reporter:
Do you acknowledge that it's going up for other reasons too; for
example, that it's actually spreading? And what are you going to do to
stop the spread?
Trump:
Well, you know that we have one of the lowest mortality rates anywhere.
If you know, [former Vice President Joe] Biden and [former President
Barack] Obama stopped their testing; they just stopped it. You probably
know that. I'm sure you don't want to report it. But they stopped
testing. Right in the middle, they just went, "No more testing," and on a
much lesser problem than the problem that we have, obviously with
respect to -- this is the worst thing that's happened since probably
1917. This is a very bad -- all over the world. It's 188 countries right
now.
Ukraine to bar Israeli visitors to Uman this Rosh Hashannah
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/283539
Israeli visitors to be
barred from flying to Ukraine for annual Uman pilgrimage, says Ukrainian
government, citing coronavirus spike.
Obama admin shut down H1N1 testing, complicating Biden's attacks on Trump's coronavirus screening
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/flashback-obama-admin-halted-state-h1n1-testing-complicating-bidens-attacks-on-white-house
Joe Biden is stepping up his attacks
on the Trump administration's coronavirus testing management, saying
Wednesday that "the crisis in Arizona is the direct result of Donald
Trump's failure to lead and his desire to 'slow the testing down,' and
Americans are suffering the consequences."
Biden
specifically called for the White House to "immediately resume
operating federally-managed community-based testing around the country
and establish multiple sites in Arizona." And, in recent weeks, Biden
has demanded
that Trump "speed up the testing" nationwide, saying Trump has been
"putting politics ahead of the safety and economic well-being of the
American people."
However, during the 2009 swine flu pandemic, the Obama administration suddenly told states to shut down their testing,
without providing much in the way of explanation. And, Biden's top
advisor at the time has acknowledged that the Obama
administration didn't do "anything right" to combat that pandemic,
before walking back those comments.
The record seemingly
complicates Biden's claims, in advertising and speeches, that he would
have handled state-level coronavirus testing more effectively than the
current White House.
Trump's bizarre COVID-19 claim: 'Biden and Obama stopped their testing'
https://news.yahoo.com/trumps-bizarre-covid-19-claim-205429254.html
President Trump on Monday defended the nation's coronavirus testing record and rising case numbers.
DONALD TRUMP: Well, you know that we
have one of the lowest mortality rates anywhere. If you know Biden and
Obama stopped their testing-- they just stopped it. You probably know
that. I'm sure you don't want to report it.
But they stopped
testing. Right in the middle, they just want, no more testing, and on a
much lesser problem than the problem that we have, obviously, with
respect to-- this is the worst thing that's happened since probably
1917. This is a very bad-- all over the world. It's 188 countries right
now.
But now we are-- we test more than anybody by far. And when you test, you create cases. So we've created cases.
President Trump Is Working to Undermine Dr. Fauci Even as Coronavirus Cases Spike
https://time.com/5866602/trump-white-house-anthony-fauci/
With U.S. virus cases spiking and the death toll mounting, the White
House is working to undercut its most trusted coronavirus expert,
playing down the danger as President Donald Trump pushes to get the
economy moving before he faces voters in November.
The U.S. has become a cautionary tale across the globe, with once-falling cases now spiraling. However, Trump suggests the severity of the pandemic that has killed more than 135,000 Americans is being overstated by critics to damage his reelection chances.
Trump on Monday retweeted a post by Chuck Woolery,
once the host of TV’s “Love Connection,” claiming that “Everyone is
lying” about COVID-19. Woolery’s tweet attacked not just the media and
Democrats but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and most
doctors “that we are told to trust. I think it’s all about the election
and keeping the economy from coming back, which is about the election.”
At the same time, the president and top
White House aides are ramping up attacks against Dr. Anthony Fauci, the
nation’s top infectious diseases expert. Fauci has been increasingly
sidelined by the White House as he sounds alarms about the virus, a most
unwelcome message at a time when Trump is focused on pushing an
economic rebound.
Brooklyn child-molest monster ‘got away with it’ after fleeing to Israel
https://nypost.com/2012/06/03/brooklyn-child-molest-monster-got-away-with-it-after-fleeing-to-israel/
But
in 2010, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled Mondrowitz was grandfathered and
exempt from the revised treaty. He was freed for good.
Weiss, now 45, a married father of three in Highland Park, N.J, is
one of dozens of Mondrowitz’s known Jewish victims, advocates say. He
and others came forward too late to press charges because of the statute
of limitations on sex-abuse claims. Some abused drugs and committed
suicide to escape the pain, he said..
“It totally stinks to know that this guy has escaped justice and is
entitled to live a stable life smack in the middle of a Jewish community
that ought to know better. It’s a failure of an entire society that is
paralyzed to take action action, Weiss said.
“I believe he will one day answer to his maker — and that time is coming.”
Mondrowitz: Lawyer alleges cover-up
Five Towns Jewish Times
Abraham Mondrowitz can be known as the man with nine lives. How so?
1. Twenty five years ago, he was somehow able to elude any charges being pressed by the young men that he counseled in his role as a therapist working for Yeshivas.
2. He was able to avoid any repercussions to his ability to be hired by yeshiva after Yeshiva.
3. He managed to elude prosecution in the United States while living here.
4. He managed to flee the United States and live in Israel when finally facing an indictment by the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office. [...]
Abraham Mondrowitz can be known as the man with nine lives. How so?
1. Twenty five years ago, he was somehow able to elude any charges being pressed by the young men that he counseled in his role as a therapist working for Yeshivas.
2. He was able to avoid any repercussions to his ability to be hired by yeshiva after Yeshiva.
3. He managed to elude prosecution in the United States while living here.
4. He managed to flee the United States and live in Israel when finally facing an indictment by the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office. [...]
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