PlayerRep said:
The funds go into their slush. They get raises every year automatically.
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Some Ask a Taboo Question: Is America Overreacting to Coronavirus?
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The funds go into their slush. They get raises every year automatically.
Cuervohola said:
Nope, not true.
"Since 2010 Congress has annually voted not to accept the increase, keeping it at the same nominal amount since 2009. The Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1992, prohibits any law affecting compensation from taking effect until after the next election."
Salaries of members of the United States Congress - Wikipedia
"The bill also contains a grab-bag of provisions that in some cases might seem to range far afield from the coronavirus pandemic, including $13 million for Howard University, $25 million for Washington’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and $75 million for the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities National Endowment for the Arts. Senate aides said those allocations and others were justified to help the institutions prepare for and respond to the coronavirus outbreak."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/25/trump-senate-coronavirus-economic-stimulus-2-trillion/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/25/trump-senate-coronavirus-economic-stimulus-2-trillion/
PlayerRep said:
No, you're wrong.
PL 101-194
"Revises the method for computing annual cost-of-living increases for certain executive, legislative, and judicial positions by using the most recent percentage change in the Employment Cost Index."
It doesn't matter if they choose not to take the raise, it was passed that they get the raise annually.
Newest Shortage in New York: The City Is Running Out of Dogs to Foster
"Of all the shortages created by the coronavirus pandemic -- the toilet paper and the hand sanitizer and the bottled water -- the oddest of them all has to be dogs. Oh, and cats too.
That’s right, in the New York city area, the epicenter of the disease, there is suddenly a run on pets. At least of the adopted or fostered kind. Muddy Paws Rescue and Best Friends Animal Society are reporting shelters they work with are either all out of or almost out of cats and dogs after a surge in applications of as much as 10-fold in the past two weeks.
Ordered to shelter in place at home, and both a little bored and a lot anxious, New Yorkers apparently see the four-legged friends as way to calm frayed nerves."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-25/newest-shortage-in-new-york-the-city-is-running-out-of-dogs
"Of all the shortages created by the coronavirus pandemic -- the toilet paper and the hand sanitizer and the bottled water -- the oddest of them all has to be dogs. Oh, and cats too.
That’s right, in the New York city area, the epicenter of the disease, there is suddenly a run on pets. At least of the adopted or fostered kind. Muddy Paws Rescue and Best Friends Animal Society are reporting shelters they work with are either all out of or almost out of cats and dogs after a surge in applications of as much as 10-fold in the past two weeks.
Ordered to shelter in place at home, and both a little bored and a lot anxious, New Yorkers apparently see the four-legged friends as way to calm frayed nerves."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-25/newest-shortage-in-new-york-the-city-is-running-out-of-dogs
Spanky2 said:
Gallup Poll, 60% approval of how Trump doing with the crisis
"At 49% overall job approval in the latest Gallup poll, and with 60% approval of the way he is handling the coronavirus epidemic, President Trump’s standing with voters has improved even as the country closed down and the stock market underwent a historic meltdown." Wall St Journal
"Washington Foundation donates $450K for coronavirus response
The Dennis and Phyllis Washing Foundation announced Wednesday it has awarded $450,000 to 86 organizations that fill basic needs in communities across Montana in response to the COVID-19 pandemic." Missoulian
The Dennis and Phyllis Washing Foundation announced Wednesday it has awarded $450,000 to 86 organizations that fill basic needs in communities across Montana in response to the COVID-19 pandemic." Missoulian
Just saw a tv ad from this PAC attacking Trump over handling the current crisis.
Unite the Country is a new, single-candidate super PAC that supports former Vice President Joe Biden. It was started by former Biden aides to help promote his 2020 presidential candidacy.
Unite the Country is a new, single-candidate super PAC that supports former Vice President Joe Biden. It was started by former Biden aides to help promote his 2020 presidential candidacy.
This would be good news, is what happened with SARs, and what I've been assuming would occur. If the spread slows or stops seasonally, it will give us time to catch up and develop a vaccine.
"One of the key questions about the virus has been whether its spread would slow or stop in warm weather and return in cold weather, and Dr. Fauci suggested that it may follow that seasonal pattern."
“What we are starting to see now in the southern hemisphere,” he said, referring specifically to southern Africa, “is that we are having cases that are appearing as they go into their winter season. And if, in fact, they have a substantial outbreak, it will be inevitable that we need to be prepared that we will get a cycle around the second time.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/world/coronavirus-news-live.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
"One of the key questions about the virus has been whether its spread would slow or stop in warm weather and return in cold weather, and Dr. Fauci suggested that it may follow that seasonal pattern."
“What we are starting to see now in the southern hemisphere,” he said, referring specifically to southern Africa, “is that we are having cases that are appearing as they go into their winter season. And if, in fact, they have a substantial outbreak, it will be inevitable that we need to be prepared that we will get a cycle around the second time.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/world/coronavirus-news-live.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
PlayerRep said:
I think Kennedy Center is part of a federal agency and it depends on funding from the government and also ticket sales from events. It is closed and has over 800 employees who are not working. Doesn’t bother me that they are getting funding to make up for loss of ticket revenue because of shut down. Good information though thanks
The FDA just approved the use of blood serum, from people who have had the virus, to be used with current virus patients. One of the scientists involved in this appears excited, but still cautious. There as some prior dt out of China. It wasn't clear but was helpful.
Just heard that when a patient needs a ventilator, they need it immediately. Can't be any lag time.
Just heard that when a patient needs a ventilator, they need it immediately. Can't be any lag time.
GrizLA said:
C'mon , Be smarter than that !
What's True
During a Feb. 28, 2020, campaign rally in South Carolina, President Donald Trump likened the Democrats' criticism of his administration's response to the new coronavirus outbreak to their efforts to impeach him, saying "this is their new hoax." During the speech he also seemed to downplay the severity of the outbreak, comparing it to the common flu.
What's False
Despite creating some confusion with his remarks, Trump did not call the coronavirus itself a hoax.
https://youtu.be/G5TZ6fTYrsE
"A provision in the bill would allow all colleges to retain federal funds allocated to help educate qualifying students, even if the students in question dropped out because of coronavirus-related emergencies. While the provision applies to all colleges, critics of for-profit colleges contend that, because those schools tend to have higher dropout rates, they would be able to retain more of the money they collect via federal loans to their students than would traditional nonprofit colleges."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/us/politics/virus-fineprint-stimulus-bill.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/us/politics/virus-fineprint-stimulus-bill.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
High doses of Vitamin C being used in NYC
Being that Vitamin C is a key building block to a strong immune system to begin with, why wouldn't it be a viable treatment? Well, besides the fact it isn't traded on Wall Street. Besides that.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8149191/New-York-hospitals-treating-corona-patients-6000-milligrams-VITAMIN-C.html
Being that Vitamin C is a key building block to a strong immune system to begin with, why wouldn't it be a viable treatment? Well, besides the fact it isn't traded on Wall Street. Besides that.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8149191/New-York-hospitals-treating-corona-patients-6000-milligrams-VITAMIN-C.html
