9/22/20: Did Trump nominate a Russian for
the open seat on the Supreme Court? And did Mitch McConnell get excited and
agree to hold a vote tomorrow?
You know they might.
The blogger is on vacation and out of the news loop, which is
good for his mental health.
We did hit 200,000 dead from the coronavirus, however.
Heard it on the car radio. Trump gives himself an A+ for his handling of the
crisis, even though we lead the world in deaths.
My wife and I go hiking at Sleeping Bear Dunes; at night, I
check Worldometers. Germany has one-fourth the
population of the USA. They have less than 10,000 dead. Canada had 875 new
cases on September 20, the last day they have reported. We had 39,127 on
September 21. Even when we adjust for population, we have four times as many
cases as our neighbors to the north.
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CURRENT AND FORMER CDC officials told
reporters for The Hill, that they have never seen morale so low.
“It’s just, people are beaten
down. People are beaten down partially by a public who not only distrusts us
but who actually think we want to infringe on their civil liberties,” said one
current CDC employee. “The other factor is the active undermining by
senior members of our own administration.”
“As I talk to former colleagues
at CDC, the feeling I get is just an overwhelming sense of despair. People are
working incredibly hard to reduce the impact of the pandemic and the sense that
they’re being blocked by people at the political level, and that the
work that they’re doing is not being appreciated by the American public,” said
Rich Besser, a former CDC director who now runs the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation.
“The feeling right now is that
public health is not being allowed to lead and to demonstrate the path forward
to reduce transmission and increase economic activity,” he said.
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Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan. The man in the blue shirt, center, had trouble making the top. The blogger and his wife are on vacation. |
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