Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Nice job, Doug Ford.

 

The majority of Americans are ok with wearing a mask. Anti-maskers are a minority that gets a ton of press coverage.

 

Nothing personal, Bloomberg News, but my money is on things getting much worse before Halloween rather than waiting for winter.

Warning signs flash ahead of COVID’s second U.S. winter — Bloomberg

 

The good news appears to be the second-wave strain is not as deadly as the previous one.
Borne out in reporting around the world.

 

Everything about this smells.

The Trump administration has compared Operation Warp Speed's crash program to develop a COVID-19 vaccine to the Manhattan Project. And like the notoriously secretive government project to make the first atomic bomb, the details of Operation Warp Speed's work may take a long time to unravel.

One reason is that Operation Warp Speed is issuing billions of dollars' worth of coronavirus vaccine contracts to companies through a nongovernment intermediary, bypassing the regulatory oversight and transparency of traditional federal contracting mechanisms, NPR has learned.

Instead of entering into contracts directly with vaccine makers, more than $6 billion in Operation Warp Speed funding has been routed through a defense contract management firm called Advanced Technologies International, Inc. ATI then awarded contracts to companies working on COVID-19 vaccines.

As a result, the contracts between the pharmaceutical companies and ATI may not be available through public records requests, and additional documents are exempt from public disclosure for five years.

Vaccine contracts awarded this way include $1.6 billion for Novavax, $1.95 billion for Pfizer, $1.79 billion for Sanofi and $1 billion for Johnson & Johnson.​

How Operation Warp Speed's Big Vaccine Contracts Could Stay Secret

 

Wife’s coworkers daughter exposed to COVID at day care when another child tested positive. Now Mom, Dad and children have to be quarantined. Their jobs are on hold and their coworkers have to pick up the slack. The emotional toll of someone waiting for test results for their 3 year old is great. And they are in lockdown for a couple of weeks.

Another friend who is a teacher, her husband tested positive, she’s now in quarantine. Her class is out a teacher and they, the students, have to be quarantined. Their families all have to be tested and on lockdown.

republican policies 7 months later are still destroying the fabric of the country.

 

It’s been 20 minutes and @BTExpress hasn’t chimed in with a random economics fact yet. I’m shocked.

 

Well, sure. Americans have gotten back a significant portion of those jobs they lost at least in part due to the way Trump handled the country's COVID response. How many jobs has Biden added this year?

Thanks, President Trump!