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9 minutes ago, BillStime said:
Me and My Shadow.
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York closing centers, laying off staff
NEW YORK — Planned Parenthood of Greater New York has begun laying off and furloughing employees and will temporarily close a dozen of its health centers, citing a strain on resources posed by the coronavirus pandemic.
The organization — which formed in January through the merger of five Planned Parenthood affiliates, including the Mohawk Hudson affiliate in the Capital Region — began terminating and furloughing staff on Monday, according to emails obtained by the Times Union. Staff will be reduced by about 28 percent across all departments, either through permanent termination, or through furloughs and reduced hours through June 30.
The temporary closure of health centers will leave some communities, such as Rome and Oneida in Central New York, with no nearby options for sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing or abortion services, according to staff at those centers.
“Our concern is that there was no effort to keep offices open, even one or two days per week, in those communities,” said one staff member who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity. “Those patients have a very hard time traveling, and don’t have access to care anywhere else.” (FALSE)
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York President and CEO Laura McQuade wrote in a letter to staff Monday that financial modeling showed losses for the affiliate ranging from $20 million to $32 million for the remainder of the year, depending on how long the pandemic lasts and its impact on fundraising.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesunion.com .
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ANALYSIS: TRUE.
Banning Alcohol Sales During the COVID-19 Pandemic Is a Terrible Idea.
Just deal with the infectious diseases, “public health” types, and leave the other stuff alone. You aren’t exactly brilliant even at dealing with those.
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IT’S EASY TO TELL WHO’S ON THE PAYROLL, OR AT LEAST THE TEAM:
“The Wall Street Journal recently featured a remarkable op-ed column by Henry Kissinger about Covid-19.
What was conspicuously absent in the piece is any mention of China.
Kissinger failed to mention China even once.”
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Push play.......
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let us all remember, @USATODAY ran an article asking if it was ok for Kavanaugh to still coach his daughter's basketball team
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State police (sans gloves/mask) taking down License plates
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THE NEW YORK TIMES PROTECTS JOE BIDEN FROM SEXUAL ASSAULT ALLEGATION:
“‘We found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Biden, beyond hugs, kisses, and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable’…
You couldn’t make this up. It’s like saying we investigated Genghis Khan and found no pattern of behavioral misconduct beyond all the raping and killing he committed in his decades-long invasions of China and the Western world.”
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At some point we are going to have to integrate these issues into the models to help us analyze the cost benefit between opening up the economy too soon or too late.
DOJ Spokesperson: ‘Expect Action From DOJ Next Week!’ on Overreach by State, Local Officials on Religious Services
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Former NFL player who recovered from the coronavirus says hydroxychloroquine 'worked great' as treatment
A former NFL player voiced support for the efficacy of an anti-malarial drug, hydroxychloroquine, that has been touted by President Trump as a treatment for the coronavirus.
On Friday, former Buffalo Bills tight end Mark Campbell told CNN the medicine helped him overcome the highly contagious disease that has put much of the global economy on hold.
"Fortunately for me, you know, they put me on some meds, the HGQ worked great for me, I will be honest with you there," Campbell said.
Campbell added that the entirety of his sickness lasted almost 30 days, and that he was recovering at home with his wife and children.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
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But here’s the kicker conclusion of the New York Times story.
No other allegation about sexual assault surfaced in the course of our reporting, nor did any former Biden staff corroborate Reade’s allegation. We found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Biden, beyond hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 12, 2020
We didn’t find any pattern…except for this pattern here…
Exactly what does the New York Times think harassment is? They simply toss aside the women who said he groped them/touched them inappropriately.
What happened to “believe all women?”
Not to mention — did they miss the reports of swimming naked in front of female Secret Service agents, the story about the kids stroking his legs, and how many creepy videos?
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He only went all over the world monitoring elections.............what does he know.
IT’S ALL ABOUT FRAUD:
Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.” That quote isn’t from President Trump, who criticized mail-in voting this week after Wisconsin Democrats tried and failed to change an election at the last minute into an exclusively mail-in affair. It’s the conclusion of the bipartisan 2005 report of the Commission on Federal Election Reform, chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker III.
Concerns about vote-buying have a long history in the U.S. They helped drive the move to the secret ballot, which U.S. states adopted between 1888 and 1950. Secret ballots made it harder for vote buyers to monitor which candidates sellers actually voted for. Vote-buying had been pervasive; my research with Larry Kenny at the University of Florida has found that voter turnout fell by about 8% to 12% after states adopted the secret ballot.
You wouldn’t know any of this listening to the media outcry over Mr. Trump’s remarks. “There is a lot of dishonesty going on with mail-in voting,” the president said Tuesday. In response, a CNN “fact check” declares that Mr. Trump “opened a new front in his campaign of lies about voter fraud.” A New York Times headline asserts: “Trump Is Pushing a False Argument on Vote-by-Mail Fraud.” Both claim that voter fraud is essentially nonexistent. The Carter-Baker report found otherwise.
Intimidation and vote buying were key concerns of the commission: “Citizens who vote at home, at nursing homes, at the workplace, or in church are more susceptible to pressure, overt and subtle, or to intimidation. Vote buying schemes are far more difficult to detect when citizens vote by mail.” The report provides examples, such as the 1997 Miami mayoral election that resulted in 36 arrests for absentee-ballot fraud. The election had to be rerun, and the result was reversed.
There are more recent cases, too. In 2017 an investigation of a Dallas City Council election found some 700 fraudulent mail-in ballots signed by the same witness using a fake name. The discovery left two council races in limbo, and the fraud was much larger than the vote differential in one of those races. The case resulted in a criminal conviction. . . .
It is often claimed that impossibly large numbers of people live at the same address. In 2016, 83 registered voters in San Pedro, Calif., received absentee ballots at the same small two-bedroom apartment. Prosecutors rarely pursue this type of case.
Mail-in voting is a throwback to the dark old days of vote-buying and fraud. Because of this, many countries don’t allow absentee ballots for citizens living in their country, including Norway and Mexico. Americans deserve a more trustworthy system.
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"On the same day that the New York metropolitan area had the highest number of deaths they had, when you look at the admissions, the hospitalizations, the intensive care, and the need to intubate..."
"... that not only has flattened; it's starting to turn the corner. So, that's where we're hopeful. And it's cautious optimism that we're seeing that decrease. And if you look at the patterns of the curves in other countries, once you turn that corner, hopefully, we will see a very sharp decline. And then you can start thinking about how we can keep it that way and prevent it from resurging, when you're starting to think about a gradual reentry of some sort of normality, some rolling reentry. So, you're trying to balance two things. You want to make sure you don't do something prematurely and precipitously. At the same time, you pay attention to the need to try and get back to normal.... It is not going to be a light switch that we say, OK, it is now June, July or whatever, click, the light switch goes back on. It's going to be depending where you are in the country, the nature of the outbreak that you have already experienced, and the threat of an outbreak that you may not have experienced.... Obviously, New York... is going to be very different from Arkansas... and very different maybe from some places on the West Coast, like Washington state, which have been successfully able to prevent that big spike.... We are hoping that, at the end of the month, we could look around and say, OK, is there any element here that we can safely and cautiously start pulling back on? If so, do it. If not, then just continue to hunker down...."
Said Anthony Fauci, interviewed this morning on Jake Tapper's "State of the Union" (full transcript)..-
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The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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