Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, along with Maryland Gov Larry Hogan, and DC MayorBowser sent a letter to US Office of Personnel Management urging the Trump administration to keep telework policies in place for the federal workforce:
Northam signs legislation allowing undocumented students to pay in-state tuition
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) – Governor Ralph Northam signed legislation that will allow undocumented students who meet residency requirements to pay in-state tuition, regardless of their immigration status.
“Virginia has made history as the first southern state to implement this law, joining twenty states that offer in-state tuition to students who are undocumented. In these states, students, employers, and the entire society have realized tremendous economic and social benefits,” said Kim Bobo, Executive Director of the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy (VICPP).
The VICPP says it worked with a coalition of community members, legislators and organizations in support of the bills.
“This win is for all undocumented students in Virginia. They have spent countless days participating in rallies and testifying in committee hearings at the General Assembly. This was a movement created by undocumented students. It’s beautiful to finally see this positive outcome after eight years of fighting,“ Yanet Limon-Amado, an organizer at VICPP said.
The bills, SB 395 and HB 1547 will go into effect on July 1.
More Woman Come forward with Accusations against Biden
(Yahoo News) In case you missed it this week while you were busy trembling with fear in your home, seven women have come forward with accusations of inappropriate behavior, with three of them speaking out after former Vice President Joe Biden responded to the previous allegations in a video posted to Twitter Wednesday.
The gestures the women recalled include inhaling the hair of former Nevada lawmaker Lucy Flores and kissing the back of her head; rubbing noses with former political aide Amy Lappos; resting his hand on the thigh of sexual assault survivor Caitlyn Caruso during an event on sexual assault at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and hugging her “just a little bit too long”; and, last but most likely not least, dropping his hand down the back of writer D. J. Hill at a fundraising event in Minneapolis.
On Wednesday, after Biden pledged to be “more mindful and respectful of people’s personal space,” three more women accused him of inappropriate behavior, as reported by the Washington Post. Vail Kohnert-Yount was a White House intern when, she said, Biden introduced himself to her in the basement of the West Wing and “put his hand on the back of my head and pressed his forehead to my forehead while he talked to me.”
Will More Die From Starvation than COVID-19?
The world is facing multiple famines in just a matter of months. The UN has warned that the coronavirus pandemic will push an additional 130 million people to the brink of starvation.
Famines could take hold in “about three dozen countries” in a worst-case scenario, the executive director of the World Food Programme (WFP) said in an address on Tuesday.
Ten of those countries already have more than 1 million people on the verge of starvation.
The UN cited conflict, an economic recession, a decline in aid and a collapse in oil prices as factors likely to lead to vast food shortages.
“While dealing with a Covid-19 pandemic, we are also on the brink of a hunger pandemic…There is also a real danger that more people could potentially die from the economic impact of Covid-19 than from the virus itself.”- David Beasley told the UN’s security council.
The WFP had already warned that 2020 would be a devastating year for numerous countries ravaged by poverty or war, with 135 million people facing crisis levels of hunger or worse. Their updated projections nearly double that number.
Really, how dangerous is COVID-19?
A new study by researchers associated with Stanford University Medical School shows prevalence estimates represent a range between 48,000 and 81,000 people infected in Santa Clara County by early April, 50-85-fold more than the number of confirmed cases. The population prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Santa Clara County implies that the infection is much more widespread than indicated by the number of confirmed cases.
Epidemiologists have known that a significant proportion of people who are infected are going undetected by the medical system because either they don’t feel sick enough to seek help or are asymptomatic. For example, recent research in Iceland suggests that about 50 percent of people infected with the virus have no symptoms.
The infection fatality rate for COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are just about the same as estimates for seasonal influenza.
COVID-19 Panic is based on stupidity
Visualized data absent context and stabilizing influence of time is powerful narrative voodoo. Don’t you miss the good old days when we were all gonna die from Climate Change?
Remember when the state and the “scientists” told us that the coronavirus would kill up to 2.2 million Americans? Then in late in March, it changed to between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths in the U.S. The estimates keep coming in lower and lower.
The government attempts to take credit for this by saying it is because of mitigation and distancing orders. But, the awful six-figure numbers included and factored in mitigation and social distancing orders. Social distancing was always part of their high predictions.
The same model used to predict 100,000 or more deaths now tells us to expect something closer to 60,000 deaths. Of course, now they are artificially inflating their numbers. New York City’s Health Department is now counting “probable” COVID-19 deaths. As Dr. Deborah Birx put it, unlike other countries, “We’ve taken a very liberal approach to mortality . . . if someone dies with COVID-19, we are counting that as a COVID-19 death.”
Lockdowns don’t appear to be highly correlated with infection and death rates. California, our largest state by far, locked down only three days before New York. Per capita, California’s infection rate is 6% that of New York’s, and its death rate is 4%. Florida, also more populous than New York, locked down almost two weeks after New York. Per capita, Florida’s infection rate is 9% that of New York’s, and it has had 4% of its death rate.
Note: The rest of the country is not New York.
A recent Stanford University study reveals the virus is 50-85 times less deadly than initially thought. The infection/mortality rate of COVID-19 is not the 2% to 5% rate others have surmised, but more in the small hundredths-of-a-single-percent range.
We drastically transfigured over 55 million children’s educational and social lives to protect them from a virus that affects them less than the annual flu. As of this writing, a total of three children have died from the virus in New York City — each of whom had underlying health conditions.
Fewer than 10 children have died nationally from COVID-19, although about 80 have died from the flu.
What are we doing? 80,000 people have been hospitalized, however, the previous two flu seasons in America required nearly half a million hospitalizations.
As Dr. Jonathan Geach has written: “Our health care system is now underwhelmed and health care workers are being laid off and furloughed in droves as a result of health care centers having neglected patient care not related to COVID-19 in fear of a COVID-19 surge that failed to materialize on a nationwide basis. This means tens of millions of patients are failing to receive the medical care they need in a timely manner. Almost every hospital outside of the hot spots is empty.” At the Mayo Clinic, as one example, he reports “65% of the hospital beds are empty, as are 75% of the operating rooms.”
California Rep. Tom McClintock said this week: “How many of the 1.8 million new cancers each year in the United States will go undetected for months because routine screenings and appointments have been postponed? How many heart, kidney, liver, and pulmonary illnesses will fester while people’s lives are on hold? How many suicides or domestic homicides will occur as families watch their livelihoods evaporate before their eyes? How many drug and alcohol deaths can we expect as Americans stew in their homes under police-enforced indefinite home detention orders? How many new cases of obesity-related diabetes and heart disease will emerge as Americans are banished from outdoor recreation and instead spend their idle days within a few steps of the refrigerator?”
Also from the United Nations: “The economic hardship experienced by families as a result of the global economic downturn could result in hundreds of thousands of additional child deaths in 2020, reversing the last 2 to 3 years of progress in reducing infant mortality within a single year.”
ANARCHY: Skaters take back Park
Last week, the city of San Clemente, California, decided to dump 37 tons of sand on a local skatepark in order to prevent kids from skating during the coronavirus lockdown. But just a few days later, local skaters were shredding again.
A group of determined skaters brought dustpans, shovels, and buckets to the park over the weekend in order to dig up the sand. Remarkably, by Sunday evening, much of the skatepark was usable.
The dig-up was filmed by motocross videographer Connor Ericsson, who headed over to the skatepark to help the effort and use the sand as a dirt bike course.
“Took advantage of all the sand the city dumped into the San Clemente skatepark then helped some local skaters dig it all out so they could do some social shredding,” read the caption of Ericsson’s Instagram post Sunday, which showed him riding his bike in the park and then digging up the sand.
Smart People at Harvard misspell Arithmetic in Anti-Homeschool Article
Harvard Magazine’s May-June issue published an article that warned of the inherent dangers of homeschooling and featured a photo that contained a spelling error – the illustration misspelled arithmetic.
The illustration, by Robert Neubecker, shows a child imprisoned inside a homemade entirely of books — one of which is a Bible. The other book titles that appear in the illustration are “Reading,” “Writing” and “Arithmatic [sic].”
Trump, California set guidelines to reopen America
The White House unveiled new guidelines for states and localities on lifting coronavirus-related restrictions on citizens and businesses, as President Trump looks to bring the nation’s focus toward reigniting an economy battered by efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19.
The protocols, titled “Opening Up America Again,” do not suggest a time frame for when states should lift restrictions, as the president had suggested they might earlier this week. “Governors will be empowered to tailor an approach that meets the diverse circumstances of their own state,” Trump said during a press conference Thursday evening.
The White House proposed a list of six metrics states should “satisfy before preceding to a phased opening.” They include:
- A decline in influenza-like illnesses reported within a 14-day period and a downward trajectory of covid-like cases reported within a 14-day period;
- A decline in documented cases of COVID-19 within a two-week period or a decline in the share of coronavirus tests that come back positive, if test volume increases or remains flat; and
- Hospitals within a jurisdiction should have the capacity to treat all patients without “crisis care” and there should be a “robust testing program in place for at-risk health care workers” including tests for COVID-19 immunity.
If states meet these criteria, the guidelines suggest a three-phased approach to reopening the economy. The first stage would involve reopening of some businesses, including gyms, restaurants, movie theaters and places of worship “if they adhere to strict physical distancing and sanitation protocols.” The guidelines suggest schools should remain closed, while employers should continue to encourage telework when possible and that nonessential travel be minimized.
Cali
No economy in the US has been hit harder than California. Gov. Newsom, who has allied with the Democratic governors of Oregon and Washington, avoided setting a timetable for easing restrictions that have gutted his economy.
Stay-home orders may be relaxed, but precautions will still be in place. Newsom noted that restaurants may reopen but the waiters may be wearing masks and gloves, and staff may check diners’ temperatures before allowing them inside. Schools may have to stagger start times to keep students from crowding classrooms. Mass gatherings, such as concerts or sporting events, are simply “not in the cards,” he said.
California’s six criteria for easing any lockdowns:
- “The ability to monitor and protect our communities through testing, contact tracing, isolating, and supporting those who are positive or exposed.”
- “The ability to prevent infection in people who are at risk for more severe COVID-19.”
- “The ability of the hospital and health systems to handle surges.”
- “The ability to develop therapeutics to meet the demand.”
- “The ability for businesses, schools, and child care facilities to support physical distancing.”
- “The ability to determine when to reinstitute certain measures, such as the stay-at-home orders, if necessary.”
Congresswoman Elaine Luria Announces Grant Funding Awarded to Eastern Shore Rural Health
ONLEY, VA – Today, Congresswoman Luria announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded $1,152,305 in grant funding to the Eastern Shore Rural Health System to assist with their response to the COVID-19 crisis.
“It is critical that we give health care providers the resources they need during this public health crisis,” said Congresswoman Luria. “Last month, I voted for the passage of the CARES Act to ensure a comprehensive response to COVID-19—include protecting our rural communities. I am glad to see this funding will help our health care providers and those affected by COVID-19 on the Eastern Shore.”
Earlier this month, Congresswoman Luria supported the passage of the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act as well as the CARES Act. These bills, which later became law, were the first and second pieces of legislation passed to provide relief during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also includes funding for community health centers to improve their medical surge capacity and to procure medical supplies. The Eastern Shore Rural Health System was allocated $1,152,305 of this important funding.
Last month, Congresswoman Luria met with leadership from Eastern Shore Rural Health. The Congresswoman and Eastern Shore Rural Health medical officials discussed the needs of health care providers and how hospitals are preparing for the pandemic.
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