The lesson is that Republican* legislators are terrified of losing their seats. They will continue to benefit from insider trading and countless other forms of corruption and there is NO action that Trump has taken or will ever take that will cause any of them to openly criticize or vote against Trump.
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Ordering peacefully protesting Americans to be gassed and beaten elicits this response from Republican* legislators:
This week I learned that protesting wearing a mask is a public health hazard, but groups without masks destroying private property is not a public health hazard. I did not realize COVID 19 could tell the difference.
Until we deal with the triple pestilence of Trump, COVID19, and racism, there will continue to be lessons to be learned. Oh, and climate change hasn’t gone away either.
Day 42 of the Georgia Economic Recovery. Misleading data, essay by WSJ:Last month the respected scientific journal Lancet published a study with little apparent vetting [on] hydroxychloroquine (HCL) …
scientists around the world reviewed the Lancet study, they spotted glaring data errors. One example: Obesity and smoking rates in the study were the same across six continents. In a letter to Lancet’s editors last week, 120 scientists criticized the study’
The study also had not undergone an ethics review, they pointed out, and Lancet had broken its pledge to share all data and code on Covid studies. Surgisphere’s CEO Sapan Desai was one of the study’s authors and claimed his hospital contracts did not allow the data to be shared. This raised more red flags.
On Wednesday the Guardian published an investigation of Surgisphere that raises questions about how it obtained so many patient records from around the world given privacy and technical challenges. Surgisphere’s LinkedIn page early Wednesday identified only three employees.
Lancet on Wednesday published an “Expression of Concern” about the study and said it would undergo “an independent data audit.” That’s good, but its publication may have already done public-health harm. Doctors have complained that the negative press has made it difficult to recruit patients in the U.S. for clinical trials to study HCL’s effectiveness as a prophylactic or early-stage treatment against Covid-19.
Lancet editors last month published an editorial urging Americans to vote out President Trump, so it’s fair to ask if political bias clouded their scientific judgment and caused their publication standards to slip. The World Health Organization… said it is restarting its HCL trial.
HCL should rise or fall as a treatment on its medical merits, not whether people think it vindicates or repudiates Donald J. Trump. And keep the politics out of medicine.
Well, this is pre-Floyd (we now have BeforeCovid and BeforeFloyd). I hope we actually do learn something this time. I’m seeing business reporting on solving this problem. I got spam from an M&A broker quoting Mattis and saying this time is different. May it be so.
Zoom, the verb that became a proper noun… that became a verb again. Maybe it can become an adjective, or even an adverb, soon (we zoomly went for a stroll).
pearlsbs over 4 years ago
I think the word “zoom” was already being used as a verb.
Darsan54 Premium Member over 4 years ago
We’re still going through these times and lessons remain to be learned.
braindead Premium Member over 4 years ago
Trump has definitely learned his lesson:
The lesson is that Republican* legislators are terrified of losing their seats. They will continue to benefit from insider trading and countless other forms of corruption and there is NO action that Trump has taken or will ever take that will cause any of them to openly criticize or vote against Trump.
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Ordering peacefully protesting Americans to be gassed and beaten elicits this response from Republican* legislators:
“I’m late for lunch.”
RobinHood over 4 years ago
This week I learned that protesting wearing a mask is a public health hazard, but groups without masks destroying private property is not a public health hazard. I did not realize COVID 19 could tell the difference.
Elmer F. over 4 years ago
Be quiet and do what you’re told.
danielmkimmel over 4 years ago
Until we deal with the triple pestilence of Trump, COVID19, and racism, there will continue to be lessons to be learned. Oh, and climate change hasn’t gone away either.
jbmlaw01 over 4 years ago
Day 42 of the Georgia Economic Recovery. Misleading data, essay by WSJ:Last month the respected scientific journal Lancet published a study with little apparent vetting [on] hydroxychloroquine (HCL) …
scientists around the world reviewed the Lancet study, they spotted glaring data errors. One example: Obesity and smoking rates in the study were the same across six continents. In a letter to Lancet’s editors last week, 120 scientists criticized the study’The study also had not undergone an ethics review, they pointed out, and Lancet had broken its pledge to share all data and code on Covid studies. Surgisphere’s CEO Sapan Desai was one of the study’s authors and claimed his hospital contracts did not allow the data to be shared. This raised more red flags.
On Wednesday the Guardian published an investigation of Surgisphere that raises questions about how it obtained so many patient records from around the world given privacy and technical challenges. Surgisphere’s LinkedIn page early Wednesday identified only three employees.
Lancet on Wednesday published an “Expression of Concern” about the study and said it would undergo “an independent data audit.” That’s good, but its publication may have already done public-health harm. Doctors have complained that the negative press has made it difficult to recruit patients in the U.S. for clinical trials to study HCL’s effectiveness as a prophylactic or early-stage treatment against Covid-19.
Lancet editors last month published an editorial urging Americans to vote out President Trump, so it’s fair to ask if political bias clouded their scientific judgment and caused their publication standards to slip. The World Health Organization… said it is restarting its HCL trial.
HCL should rise or fall as a treatment on its medical merits, not whether people think it vindicates or repudiates Donald J. Trump. And keep the politics out of medicine.
William Robbins Premium Member over 4 years ago
Well, this is pre-Floyd (we now have BeforeCovid and BeforeFloyd). I hope we actually do learn something this time. I’m seeing business reporting on solving this problem. I got spam from an M&A broker quoting Mattis and saying this time is different. May it be so.
Timothy Madigan Premium Member over 4 years ago
Zoom, the verb that became a proper noun… that became a verb again. Maybe it can become an adjective, or even an adverb, soon (we zoomly went for a stroll).
stevie44 over 4 years ago
Wow! Is it over? Nobody told me.
Charlie Tuba over 4 years ago
It’s always been a verb!
Constantinepaleologos over 4 years ago
“Zoom” has always been a verb.