LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
I would be absolutely shocked if McConnell lost. That's case of champagne territory. I'll give some to friends.
If I had to make a wager, my bet would be that Mitch squeaks by and Lindsey loses by a couple points. Harrison is a much greater threat than McGrath in my opinion.
It would be so sweet to see him lose after hitching onto Trump. Thinking back to his own words.
“If we chose Trump, we will lose, and we’ll deserve it”
I would be absolutely shocked if McConnell lost. That's case of champagne territory. I'll give some to friends.
I wouldn't mind seeing McConnell win and being minority leader so he has to eat some shit for a while.
I don't think so.He'd retire almost immediately.
I don't think so.
I think he'd hang around and wait the two years with the thought that the Democrats will inevitably shoot themselves in the foot and he can take over again.
If that doesn't happen? Then I think he'll retire.
Hospitals will begin sending coronavirus-related information directly to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), under new instructions from the Trump administration.
The move will take effect on Wednesday, according to a new guidance and FAQ document for hospitals and clinical labs quietly posted on the HHS website.
Previously, hospitals reported to the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network, which the agency describes as the nation’s most widely used health care-associated infection tracking system.
The CDC tracked information including how many beds are available, the number of ventilators available and how many COVID-19 patients the hospitals have.
Beginning Wednesday, hospitals will report the same data but will bypass the CDC and send it to HHS directly.
According to HHS, the goal is to streamline data collection, which will be used to inform decisions at the federal level such as allocation of supplies, treatments and other resources.
But the move comes amid concerns that the White House has been sidelining the CDC and after Trump administration officials attacked Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert and a member of the White House coronavirus task force.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthca...VbKXu-UOLbqbX_fuAb6nxdO0vm9q3oN7IPY-Hlgx3aIp4
You just don't even know what to say about this. The fact that children will die. Teachers will die. staff will die. It doesn't matter, because Trump needs the economy numbers to get better.
https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1283839301734801410
Just got the "plan" for reopening my daughters school. There is a remote option which we will do. But no face masks, no mention of distancing in the classroom.
Talk of having kids"walk on separate sides of the hallway" and having fewer people in the cafeteria at a time.
This is not going to be good.
Dukakis tho
It's absolutely bizarre to me that school reopening would be dictated at the national level in a country so large and populous as the US. In our province, which has "only" 16 million people, the decisions as to how/if to bring kids back have been delegated to individual school boards. That makes sense - a school board that has schools in downtown Toronto should have a different set of rules than one hundreds of kilometres away in rural, northern Ontario in towns which may have no cases.
Trump needs everyone back at work so that he can claim to be the saviour of the economy - remember that idiot in Texas who said there are more important things than living? Yeah, we're back to that.
It's not dictated at the federal level, he's only trying to do so. Like many other instances, he's trying to turn the presidency into an absolute dictatorship, but again will be to no avail.
It's all done at the local level. Here in MA there are recommendations by the state board of education (which are being resisted by the Mass Teacher's Association), but the decisions on how to implement schooling this fall are made by local school districts individually.