Tillis pushes debunked theory about COVID death toll | TheHill (disrespecting the deaths of nearly 190,000 caused by Covid-19 infection)

Source: Tillis pushes debunked theory about COVID death toll | TheHill

“But I think when the final accounting is done you are going to see, sadly, that the number of people who died may have died from an underlying condition at the same time that they had COVID,” Tillis said.

Ernst also drew fire for saying she is “so skeptical” of case and death counts from the coronavirus, later adding, according to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, “They’re thinking there may be 10,000 or less deaths that were actually singularly COVID-19. … I’m just really curious. It would be interesting to know that.”

The discredited theory comes from a misreading of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) webpage stating that the coronavirus was listed as the sole cause for only 6 percent of deaths from the virus.

However, that does not mean the other 94 percent of people did not die from the coronavirus. Instead, it means that another factor directly caused by the coronavirus, such as respiratory failure, was also listed or that there was an underlying condition that is not necessarily fatal on its own but heightens the risks from the coronavirus.

Hundreds of lawyers from nation’s oldest African American sorority join effort to fight voter suppression

We also will be available to monitor the election at polling locations as rapid responders to draft and file pleadings, appear in court, and make oral arguments to get ballots counted. Sorority members will volunteer where needed,” she continued.

For the effort, the sorority said the National Bar Association will be using the volunteer lawyers “to serve as poll watchers as well as poll monitors on Election Day.”

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The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., (AKA) the nation’s oldest African American Greek-letter sorority, has joined forces with the National Bar Association, the biggest and oldest network of African American lawyers and j…

Texas governor proposes stiffer penalties for organizing, participating in ‘riots’

Another attack on first amendment – if police or elected official declares a protest a riot, then who checks their power to suppress free speech.

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Thursday proposed a series of aggressive legislative proposals to significantly raise the penalties for crimes committed during protests, drawing criticism from civil liberties advocates….

Politics of Portland’s Protests: Crucial Battles Against barbaric Trumpism affect Elections — The Free

”At the moment the future is up for grabs, but can only be seized with a strategy capable of winning the allegiance of the broader public and stunting the growth of a now-toddling fascism”. by Shamus Cooke ON COUNTERPUNCH shared with thanks. Illustrations added. The Politics of Portland’s Protests Portland entered the 100th straight day […]

Politics of Portland’s Protests: Crucial Battles Against barbaric Trumpism affect Elections — The Free

Coffee Date with Luna: Addicted to the Noise — Luna

Hello everyone! I rose from the dead, here I am actually blogging on my own blog. My last few weeks have been quite interesting and when I say interesting, I mean numbingly painful but I am still working through that bullshit. When I say that I rose from the dead I mean it. Forgot to say, welcome […]

Coffee Date with Luna: Addicted to the Noise — Luna

Thoughtful Thursdays: learning a language to smile at others, or not? — ShiraDest: Education, Cooperation, and The 4 Freedoms for ALL Human Beings

Short story: glad I smiled at someone I did not know -who thanked me, and made me grateful to be alive, back in 2005. And even more recently. Less short version of the story:When I lived in Izmir, that summer I took long walks on Saturday afternoons. I had the habit of smiling, or at […]

Thoughtful Thursdays: learning a language to smile at others, or not? — ShiraDest: Education, Cooperation, and The 4 Freedoms for ALL Human Beings

Secret, powerful panels will pick Covid-19 vaccine winners (???s who to trust)

Source: Secret, powerful panels will pick Covid-19 vaccine winners

As pharmaceutical companies work to produce one as quickly as possible, the board’s anonymity has stirred concerns that the cloak of secrecy could, paradoxically, allow undue influence. Whitley, for example, represents the specialized world these experts inhabit — a professor revered in academia who also is paid by the drug industry.

Any political pressure to rush pharmaceutical companies or lean on federal regulators to prematurely greenlight a vaccine would undermine a system put in place to ensure public safety. Calls are growing for companies and the government to be more open about who’s involved in reviewing the vaccine trials and whether board members have any conflicts of interest.

 

French Caribbean island Guadeloupe put on ‘scarlet’ alert level

France’s health minister unveiled a map of coronavirus “danger zones” around the country on Wednesday and explained the country would be divided into zones by alert level with Marseille, the second-largest city, and the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe for now the only two areas put on the “maximum” alert level.

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