Εγκλήματα και κωλοτούμπες Δημοκρατικών

[Juno]

Ας αρχίσουμε να τα συγκεντρώνουμε.


Τρανς Rachel Levine.
Τον περασμένο Μάιο, πριν εφαρμόσει την πολιτική να μαζέψει τα θετικά κρούσματα στα γηροκομεία (ανεβάζοντας τον αριθμό τους στον ουρανό), πήρε την μανούλα από εκεί. Άρα δεν έχει δικαιολογία, δεν ήξερα, νόμιζα πως θα τους έχουν χώρια, είχε καλό εξαερισμό και δεν ξέρω τι άλλο μπορεί να πει.
Για τις υπηρεσίες του (να αυξήσει τα κρούσματα τέρμα πάνω επί προεδρίας Trump), η Kamala τον πήγε κατευθείαν στο Υπουργείο Υγείας.


Biden HHS nominee moved mother out of care facility as she directed nursing homes to take COVID patients

Biden HHS nominee moved mother out of care facility as she directed nursing homes to take COVID patients
Rachel Levine was criticized over handling of coronavirus pandemic

Biden administration nominee Rachel Levine faced scrutiny last May after she moved her mother out of a personal care facility shortly after she implemented a policy directing Pennsylvania’s nursing homes and certain care facilities to admit recovered COVID-19 patients who were treated at nearby hospitals.

Levine implemented the policy last March in her role as Pennsylvania’s health secretary. President-elect Joe Biden nominated Levine this week to serve in his administration as assistant health secretary in the Department of Health and Human Services.

In May, a spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Dept. of Health told PennLive.com that Levine and her mother were notified that residents in her personal care facility had tested positive for the virus.

Levine stressed to the outlet that her mother had lived at a personal care facility, which is distinct from a nursing home, and that the facility did not fall under the jurisdiction of her agency.

By last May, Levine introduced strict guidelines in her state, including mass testing, in response to data that nearly 70% of Pennsylvania’s COVID-19 deaths at the time were linked to nursing homes and long-term care facilities. That same month, local news outlet WHTM in Harrisburg, Pa., reported that Levine had helped her mother to vacate a personal care home within the state.

"My mother requested, and my sister and I as her children complied to move her to another location during the Covid-19 outbreak," Levine said in a statement to the outlet at the time. "My mother is 95 years old. She is very intelligent and more than competent to make her own decisions."



The Biden-Harris transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Levine faced criticism over the policy, which directed long-term care facilities and nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients who were unable to return home or who had lived at the facilities prior to their hospitalization. The guidance noted, "this may include stable patients who have had the COVID-19 virus."

Critics, including Pennsylvania State Sen. Doug Mastriano and State Rep. Seth Grove, called out Levine for her handling of the virus, with some demanding her resignation.

"Our secretary of health, Dr. Levine, decided that it would be good to allow covid-positive patients to be returned to elder-care facilities. And as a result of that, it broke out like fire," Mastriano said at a May rally, according to TribLive.com.

Several states reported COVID-19 outbreaks at nursing homes and long-term care facilities in the early days of the pandemic. In August, the Department of Justice asked governors in states that implemented such orders, including Pennsylvania and New York, to submit data on whether they may have contributed to nursing home deaths.

The Biden-Harris transition has emphasized the incoming administration's plans to combat the coronavirus pandemic. President-elect Biden has set a goal to deliver 100 million coronavirus vaccine doses within his first 100 days in office.

Levine will become the first openly transgender federal official if confirmed by the Senate.

"Dr. Rachel Levine will bring the steady leadership and essential expertise we need to get people through this pandemic — no matter their zip code, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability — and meet the public health needs of our country in this critical moment and beyond," Biden said in a statement on her nomination. "She is a historic and deeply qualified choice to help lead our administration's health efforts."

[Juno]

Το πιο πρόσφατο που ψέκασαν εννιάχρονη με σπρέυ πιπεριού.

Rochester police officers suspended after girl, nine, handcuffed and pepper-sprayed

Rochester police officers suspended after girl, nine, handcuffed and pepper-sprayed
Outrage swells in western New York city after body-cam video shows officers spraying girl in face with chemical ‘irritant’


A still image from the bodycam video. The city did not specify how many officers were suspended. The suspensions will last at least until an internal police investigation is completed. Photograph: Rochester Pd/Reuters

The city of Rochester, New York, has suspended police officers seen in body-camera videos spraying a chemical “irritant” in the face of a distraught and handcuffed nine-year-old girl, officials announced on Monday.

The city did not specify how many officers were suspended. The suspensions will last at least until an internal police investigation is completed.

The decision was announced as community outrage swelled over the incident.

Video released by police showed the girl being restrained after officers were summoned to a family disturbance on Friday. Crying and shouting “I want my dad”, the girl was led to a police car and was sitting in the back seat when a male officer told his colleague: “Just spray her at this point.”

Police proceed to pepper-spray the nine-year-old, who screams and shouts: “Wipe my eyes, please.” An officer then closes the door. The video shows at least seven officers were present.

Rochester police were already under scrutiny over the death of a mentally ill black man in March 2020. Daniel Prude, 41, died of asphyxiation after officers put a hood over his head and pressed his head to the pavement for two minutes.

Rochester police released body camera footage six months after Prude’s death, after his family sued the city. The incident prompted national protest. The police chief was fired.

Regarding the Friday incident, Andre Anderson, Rochester’s deputy police chief, said officers were told the girl had “indicated that she wanted to kill herself and she wanted to kill her mom”.

Anderson told reporters officers had chased the girl as she attempted to flee. Police decided to take the nine-year-old to hospital, but Anderson said the girl refused to get into a police car.

“It didn’t appear as if she was resisting the officers, she was trying not to be restrained to go to the hospital,” Anderson said. “As the officers made numerous attempts to try to get her in the car, an officer sprayed the young child with OC spray to get her in the car.”

The video shows officers wrestling with the nine-year-old in the snow. At one point an officer says: “You’re acting like a child.”

The girl responds: “I am a child.”

The Rochester police chief, Cynthia Herriott-Sullivan, said: “I’m not going to stand here and tell you that for a nine-year-old to have to be pepper-sprayed is OK. We’re going to do the work we have to do to ensure that these kinds of things don’t happen.”

The president of Rochester’s police union defended the officers involved.

“[The officer] made a decision there that he thought was the best action to take. It resulted in no injury to her,” Mike Mazzeo, president of the Rochester Police Locust Club, told reporters. “Had they had to go and push further, and use more force, there’s a good chance she could have been hurt worse.”

Mazzeo added: “It’s very very difficult to get somebody into the back of a police car like that.”

Rochester’s mayor, Lovely Warren, noted that she was the mother of a 10-year-old daughter and the video “is not anything you want to see”.

In a statement, Warren added: “I am deeply troubled by the macing and handcuffing of a child who is in distress and clearly emotional.”

The police body camera video shows numerous cars and officers on the snowy scene. After being restrained on the ground, the girl, wearing flowered leggings and a black sweatshirt, asks: “Can you please get the snow off of me? It’s cold.”

“You had your chance,” one officer tells her. Another shouts: “Get in the car now.”

Warren met Herriott-Sullivan before announcing the disciplinary action.

“What happened Friday was simply horrible, and has rightly outraged all of our community,” Warren said in a statement. “Unfortunately, state law and union contract prevents me from taking more immediate and serious action.”

The New York state attorney general, Letitia James, said on Monday her office was “looking into” what happened. She called the incident “deeply disturbing and wholly unacceptable.”

James last year empaneled a grand jury to investigate several Rochester police officers following the death of Prude.

The New York Civil Liberties Union said Rochester police should no longer be involved in mental health crises.

“There is no conceivable justification for the Rochester police to subject a nine-year-old to pepper spray, period,” the group’s executive director, Donna Lieberman, said.

Για όποιον δεν τον πρόσεξε, η μικρή δεν είναι λευκή.
To BLM όμως πάει, τελείωσε.

[Aprilianos]

Τραμπ θα λενε οι Αμερικανοι και θα κλαινε!!

[Juno]

Πρώτο quote.
Μόλις μία ημέρα αφού ανέλαβε ο Sleepy Joe, ανοίγει η εστίαση στην Ουάσιγκτον, ούτε τα προσχήματα δηλασή. Μέχρι τις 19 Ιανουαρίου ήταν επικίνδυνα λόγω επιδημίας.

Δεύτερο quote:
Λίγες μέρες μετά και η Καλιφόρνια άρει τις αυστηρές απαγορεύσεις. Αποτυχημένη προσπάθεια να κρατήσουν τα προσχήματα, αλλά τουλάχιστον αυτοί προσπάθησαν.

Τρίτο quote:
Σχεδόν δύο εβδομάδες μετά, τα κρούσματα πέφτουν. Βρε παιδιά ανοίξτε την εστίαση να πέσουν τα κρούσματα.


Indoor Dining Returns in DC

CORONAVIRUS IN DC
Indoor Dining Returns in DC
Libraries and recreation facilities will remain on pause, Mayor Bowser said
By Sophia Barnes • Published January 21, 2021 • Updated on January 22, 2021 at 3:58 pm

D.C.'s ban on indoor dining expired at 5 a.m. Friday, which allowing restaurants to welcome diners inside for the first time since before Christmas.
Restaurants can serve customers until they reach 25% of regular indoor capacity, Deputy Mayor John Falcicchio said.

Mayor Muriel Bowser shut down indoor dining to combat the potential for more virus spread over the holidays, then extended the ban until after Inauguration Day over security concerns, she said.

Many restaurants are jumping at the opportunity to drum up business.

The Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington will begin its Winter Restaurant Week promotion on Monday. This year, dine in and takeout specials will be available.

Bowser said Thursday public libraries will continue offering only pickup and drop-off services.

Indoor operations at Department of Parks and Recreation facilities are limited to individual reservations for swimming and fitness rooms. Socially distanced, non-high-contact activities are allowed outside for adult and youth sports groups and individual exercise.

The DC Circulator Route to the National Mall remains canceled for now, she said.

Bowser's administration expects to give more guidance on museums soon. Museums were also directed to close over the holidays and during the inauguration.

California lifts statewide Covid stay-at-home order, allowing restaurants to reopen

California lifts statewide Covid stay-at-home order, allowing restaurants to reopen
PUBLISHED MON, JAN 25 202112:47 PM ESTUPDATED TUE, JAN 26 20217:32 AM EST
California will lift its stay-at-home order in every region of the state Monday, paving the way for restaurants and gyms to reopen with modified outdoor services.
The stay-at-home order, announced Dec. 3, split the state into five regions and was based on the area’s intensive care unit capacity.
State health officials now project that available ICU capacity in every region will reach above 15% in four weeks, allowing the order to end across California.

California will lift its stay-at-home order across the state on Monday, paving the way for restaurants and personal care services to reopen with modified operations for the first time in weeks, according to a statement from the state’s health department.

The stay-at-home order, which Gov. Gavin Newsom first announced on Dec. 3, split the state into five regions and was based on an area’s available intensive care unit capacity. Three of those regions — San Joaquin Valley, Bay Area and Southern California — were still under the order before it was lifted Monday.

Under the order, restaurants were allowed to offer take-out and delivery services only, and personal care businesses like hair salons and barbershops were ordered to close. Retailers were allowed to remain open with limited capacity. The state is expected to move back to its county-by-county tiered system, which will allow businesses to reopen depending on the level of Covid-19 spread in their area.

Nearly every county will start off in the most widespread, restrictive reopening tier, meaning that many businesses, including restaurants and gyms, will be allowed to reopen for outdoor services only, according to the California Department of Public Health. Retailers will be allowed to reopen their businesses at a quarter of their capacity under the most widespread tier.

State health officials now project that ICU capacity, the percentage beds in use, in every region will drop below 85% in four weeks after running at or close to max capacity for weeks. That allows Newsom to lift the stay-at-home order across California. The Sacramento region already exited the order on Jan. 12 and the Northern California region never entered the order, the state’s health department said.

“California is slowly starting to emerge from the most dangerous surge of this pandemic yet, which is the light at the end of the tunnel we’ve been hoping for,” California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said in a statement.

“Seven weeks ago, our hospitals and front-line medical workers were stretched to their limits, but Californians heard the urgent message to stay home when possible and our surge after the December holidays did not overwhelm the health care system to the degree we had feared,” Ghaly said.

California is reporting roughly 25,256 new Covid-19 cases a day on average, a more than 35% decline compared with a week ago, according to a CNBC analysis of data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

There are now 18,638 people hospitalized with Covid-19, a recent dip across the state but still more than double the number of patients on Dec. 1, according to data from the COVID Tracking Project, which is run by journalists at The Atlantic.

Just because the state has lifted the order, however, doesn’t mean that every county has to allow the businesses to return. Under California’s reopening plan, local jurisdictions are allowed to implement tougher restrictions if necessary.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who at times has implemented tougher restrictions on San Francisco County, said on Monday that the area will allow most of the businesses to reopen under the tiered reopening plan beginning Thursday. Restaurants can offer outdoor dining with limits on customers per table, hotels will be allowed to accept reservations from tourists again and personal care services can resume for indoor and outdoor services.

An order that limits non-essential businesses and gatherings from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. will remain in effect, even though the state order will expire, according to a statement from the mayor’s office.

Los Angeles County health officials said they would announce a new order on Friday which would allow outdoor dining with safety modifications after Newsom canceled California’s stay at home orders.

Covid Deaths Are Starting to Drop in Every Part of the U.S.

Covid Deaths Are Starting to Drop in Every Part of the U.S.
By Jonathan Levin
1 Φεβρουαρίου 2021, 8:58 μ.μ. EET

Covid-19 deaths have begun to decline in every section of the U.S., the latest sign of relief as cases continue to drop and the vaccination push accelerates.

The virus has been receding in the U.S. for about three weeks, but reported deaths -- the lagging indicator that’s the ultimate measure of Covid’s impact -- had remained near record levels.

Now, the seven-day average has shown signs of having peaked in all four U.S. Census Bureau regions, even the laggard South. The declines will buy states time as they attempt an unprecedented vaccination effort to get shots to most of the country’s 330 million people.

Deaths reflect infections that happened weeks and sometimes months ago, and it’s unclear how much of the shift is the result of the vaccination push, which has reached less than a tenth of Americans. But by first directing shots to the most vulnerable Americans, including those in nursing homes and people 65 and over, states hope resurgences will be less lethal.

In the past week, the U.S. has administered about 1.35 million doses of Covid vaccines a day, according to the Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker. There have been 31.8 million doses given in the country overall.

The U.S. reported 116,999 new cases Sunday, pulling the seven-day average down to 151,487, the lowest since Nov. 14, according to Johns Hopkins University data. As of early Monday, there had been more than 441,000 reported deaths, Johns Hopkins data show.

According to Covid Tracking Project data:

The number of people currently hospitalized in the U.S. with Covid-19 fell to the lowest since Nov. 29.
Arizona has the most people hospitalized with the virus per capita.

[independent_44]

Διαφημίζουν την πτώση των νέων κρουσμάτων και ....κάπου κρυμμένη στο τέλος έχουν και την ακριβώς αντίστοιχη απότομη πτώση των τεστ

[Juno]

Βρε τον Κουόμο!!!
Μετά την Πενσυλβάνια και η Νέα Υόρκη είχε στείλει στα γηροκομεία ηλικιωμένους ασθενείς με Covid-19 και φυσικά τις εκατόμβες των θυμάτων τις χρεώθηκε ο Πρόεδρος Trump.
Δεύτερο σκάνδαλο, τον έπιασαν να ανακοινώνει τους μισούς από τους Covid-19-θανάτους τώρα που κυβερνούν οι Δημοκρατικοί γιατί η αγορά πρέπει να ανοίξει. Όταν δεν την έκλεινε ο Trump, ήταν κακός.


Cuomo at bay as Covid nursing home scandal taints reputation

Cuomo at bay as Covid nursing home scandal taints reputation
The New York governor was hailed as a hero last spring when his forthright leadership contrasted with Trump’s but now faces claims of a cover-up
by Tom McCarthy
Tue 16 Feb 2021 19.24 GMT

Eleven months ago, Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York was hailed as one of most effective US leaders in confronting the coronavirus, idolized in online fan videos and lionized in the pages of the New York Times.

But Cuomo’s pandemic performance – and his career more broadly – has suddenly come under harsh review with the revelation that as recently as last month, New York state was underreporting deaths from Covid-19 in nursing homes by as much as half.

Deepening the crisis, a top Cuomo aide admitted to fellow Democrats in a private call obtained by the Times that the state withheld the data out of political concerns – specifically that Donald Trump’s justice department would open an investigation.

Cuomo has dismissed accusations of a cover-up but he admitted on Monday that the state had held back nursing home data, telling reporters: “There was a delay.”

While Cuomo appeared secure in his post, state legislators on both sides of the aisle have called for an investigation. Antonio Delgado, a Democrat from an upstate district, called the episode “beyond troubling”.

As the scandal continued to build, Cuomo, a third-term Democrat, came under attack from his own party and faced calls that he be stripped of emergency powers.

“The governor is not entitled to his own facts or alternate timeline of events,” tweeted Carolina Rodriguez, a spokesperson for Democrats in the state senate. The New York Post, a Rupert Murdoch tabloid, slapped Cuomo on its cover under the headline “Tailspin”.

Wherever the crisis lands, it has seen a steep fall for the son of a political dynasty whose tangles with progressives in New York City and reputation for ruthlessness were temporarily set aside last spring as the city faced the world’s worst surge in Covid-19 cases.

Early last April, New York state passed 162,000 confirmed cases, more at the time than any country outside the US. Hospitals in New York City were overwhelmed, morgues rented freezer trucks to store bodies and public applause for healthcare workers each evening was replaced by the sound of ambulance sirens running through the night.

Cuomo’s leadership was held up as exemplary. In daily news conferences delivered with a frank tone, he summarized data on total cases and hospital capacity and offered blunt projections about the course of the outbreak. To his clear advantage, he was cast as a foil to Trump, whose incoherent news conferences projected a vacuum of leadership.


A sad and tired healthcare worker is seen by the Brooklyn hospital center in New York
on 1 April 2020, when the state was the worldwide center of the pandemic.

But by April, New York state had taken an ominous decision, with fallout just now becoming clear. With Cuomo’s approval, the state ordered more than 600 nursing homes to readmit residents who had been sent to hospital with Covid-19, as long as they were judged to be “medically stable”.

The policy was meant to relieve overcrowding in hospitals. But nursing home residents and senior advocates expressed alarm that returning Covid patients to elder-care centers would produce terrible outbreaks.

It was not until late last month that the state attorney general, Letitia James, revealed just how bad the situation became – and how misleadingly the state handled it.

Based on a sample survey of 10% of nursing homes in the state, James’s office announced that “nursing home resident deaths appear to be undercounted by [the state department of health] by approximately 50%”.

After the announcement, the state immediately updated its public count of nursing home deaths, which went from 8,500 in late January – a few weeks ago – to more than 15,000 on Tuesday, or about a third of all confirmed Covid deaths in New York state.

In the leaked call with Democrats, the top Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa explained that when the Trump justice department requested updated data last summer, “basically, we froze”. State lawmakers also requested the data, but were stonewalled.

Cuomo’s office has said the figures were under audit and denied untoward motivations for the delay in their release.

“These decisions are not political decisions,” the governor said.

That language stood in sharp contrast with his earlier prideful tone about how New York handled the pandemic. In a hastily published memoir, American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic, the son of former governor Mario Cuomo who became the US housing secretary under Bill Clinton ticked off steps taken that even his critics conceded had distinguished New York’s coronavirus response.


Cuomo speaks to reporters at a Covid-19 pop-up vaccination site in Brooklyn
on 23 January 2021. He won praise for his leadership during the coronavirus crisis,
which he himself celebrated in a hastily published memoir.

Under Cuomo’s leadership, the state rolled out the nation’s most extensive testing regime, implemented social distancing and mandatory masking policies, shifted healthcare workers and patients to spread out hospital capacity, took an incremental approach to shutdown and stay-at-home orders and set a global standard for communicating with the public.

Even Cuomo’s critics on the left, from teachers’ unions to tenants’ associations, who in the past had grated at the governor’s unaccommodating political style, admitted his effectiveness amid the crisis.

“In ordinary times, Mr Cuomo’s relentlessness and bullying drive New Yorkers crazy,” the Times summarized. “In the age of the coronavirus, they soothe our battered nerves.”

But for progressives who have battled Cuomo for years over quality of life in prisons, subway fares and maintenance, tenant laws, fiscal policy, his aborted plan to drop an Amazon factory in Queens or his infamous reference to Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as “a fluke”, the nursing home scandal is merely a reminder of the bad old days.

Despite such intra-party fractures, Cuomo was invited to address the Democratic national convention last summer, as a representative of what good leadership on the coronavirus looked like.

“We climbed the impossible mountain, and right now we are on the other side,” he said.

Depends who’s counting.

[Juno]

Από τον περασμένο Μάιο. Όταν ο Κουόμο ήταν ακόμα καλός, αλλά κάποιοι θρηνούσαν τους δικούς τους.