twoday posted:

lol, the Dutch adopted this policy and have been perusing it more intensely than the British but they at least had the PR knowhow to translate it to groepsimmuniteit (group immunity) to get rid of the association with livestock that immediately comes to mind with "herd immunity." I find it amazing but also not surprising that this never occurred to the tories

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/SteveDeaceShow/status/1246947047107854338?s=20

Skypie posted:

Why do Republicans like payroll tax cuts so much

Nobody is loving working to benefit from it lmao

Old Story posted:

the ghana dancer meme is my new favourite iteration of danse macabre

Victory Position posted:

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1246900303175311360

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/SteveDeaceShow/status/1246947047107854338?s=20

Atrocious Joe posted:

Imagine if the US copied China and had the local cadres of the ruling party picking up groceries for people

We'd get to order around a bunch of TPUSA interns to get our beans

MorrisBae posted:

Yeah that's pretty damning

Zotix posted:

#firefauci is trending, but it's still being beaten doubly by #Trumpisaloser

Spoondick posted:

https://twitter.com/eshap/status/1087701336358031360?s=19

charlie kirk was denied healthcare before it was mainstream

facetoucher cat posted:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1283304/

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1246854614584082439

Lmao

Durf posted:

reminder that he 'threw out his back' while in a hotel room with chud Hogg, a minor at the time

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1246922820338270214?s=20

Death Cult posts are getting sort of samey

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1246956231895506944?s=20


I feel like #FireFauci is staying in the trends cause libs are dumb and keep tweeting it out to make fun of it

quote:

Fifteen years ago, Florida braced for a pandemic.

Officials knew as early as 2005 that an outbreak could devastate the state and infect much of the population. They wrote reports predicting a crisis remarkably similar to the one playing out now: a virus that could infect more than a million Florida residents.

And they responded in force, bolstering the state health department with resources and specialized workers to combat a potential crisis.

But that operation was dismantled by governors and lawmakers more worried about the bottom line, the Tampa Bay Times has found.

They slashed research funding, cut thousands of jobs and ignored gaps in the state’s defense against fast-spreading diseases.

Florida now has fewer epidemiologists per resident than most of the country and has cut back on statewide pandemic drills.

As coronavirus cases spike across Florida, there are signs that the weakened health department is unprepared.

The state needed to hire about 100 students and professors in a matter of days last month to assist its overloaded epidemiologists — public health experts who help control disease outbreaks.

That strained public health system has previously made serious errors when handling smaller and slower-moving outbreaks like tuberculosis and hepatitis A, according to government investigations and news reports. Public health workers failed to properly track down people who had contacted infected patients, mistakes that experts said prolonged outbreaks and likely increased hospitalizations.

The system that protects Florida against smaller outbreaks is the same one now deployed against the coronavirus pandemic, said Dr. Richard Hopkins, who served as acting state epidemiologist in 2012. “A pandemic is just a really big version of what people do every day,” he added.

Over the years, experts and state officials repeatedly raised alarms about Florida’s public health system. Ignored at the time, their warnings are enshrined in one agency report after another.

There’s the health department’s 2012 workforce development plan:

“Florida is facing a public health workforce crisis” that puts Floridians “at grave risk.”

There’s the agency’s 2017 budget request:

“There is a lack of sufficient individuals at the local level who have the skills to perform epidemiological analyses as well as manage the large volume of day-to-day reportable diseases, outbreaks.”

Dr. Leslie Beitsch, the health department’s deputy secretary until 2018, saw the toll that cuts were taking on the agency’s depleted staff. He said the potential consequences were clear.

“It may not have been predictable that we had a coronavirus variant,” Beitsch told the Times. “But a pandemic was predictable.”

Most of the cuts were made under former Gov. Rick Scott, now a U.S. senator. In a statement, Scott spokesman Chris Hartline defended the cuts, saying: “The Democrats and their media partners believe that bigger government and more bureaucracy are the solution to every problem. People who actually know what they’re talking about realize that that’s not always the case. We’re certainly not going to apologize for making government more efficient and effective for Florida taxpayers.”

“He left the Department of Health and county health departments in a great position,” Hartline added.

got any sevens posted:

does the uk have mail voting? if so, could labor force a new election?

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/DerekCressman/status/1246941689475764225

Thoguh posted:

I still can't believe they're holding a vote on Tuesday and also are openly disenfranching the largest city in the state

gradenko_2000 posted:

lol Labour's new leader is literally a knight and his last tweet was simping for the queen, he's just gonna sell the whole party down the river

saints gambit posted:

Look, I'm prepared to let meat and beans go, but I think you're taking the piss, mate.

Thoguh posted:

I still can't believe they're holding a vote on Tuesday and also are openly disenfranching the largest city in the state

smarxist posted:

Spoondick posted:

hope you're looking forward to having your friends and relatives die so you can spend the rest of your short life in squalor in a neofeudal corporatist dystopia

Business Gorillas posted:

this is the dems marching their olds to vote for biden and die hth

Spoondick posted:

hope you're looking forward to having your friends and relatives die so you can spend the rest of your short life in squalor in a neofeudal corporatist dystopia