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Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon
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This was the study group that went against federal government instructions and tested samples for coronavirus snd found the earliest case of community spread in Washington state - their actions could well have saved Seattle from an outbreak like New York’s. Testing does need overview and outside verification to be accurate but this seems like excess bureaucracy at best - seems pretty useful that someone can do a home test and find out of they have coronavirus rather than going through a doctor/testing station.
www.nytimes.com
SEATTLE — An innovative coronavirus testing program in the Seattle area — promoted by the billionaire Bill Gates and local public health officials as a way of conducting wider surveillance on the invisible spread of the virus — has been ordered by the federal government to stop its work pending additional reviews.
The program involved sending home test kits to both healthy and sick people in the hope of conducting the kind of widespread monitoring that could help communities safely reopen from lockdowns. Researchers and public health authorities already had tested thousands of samples, finding dozens of previously undetected cases.
But the program, a partnership between research groups and the Seattle and King County public health department that had been operating under authorization from the state, was notified this week that it now needs approval directly from the federal government. Officials with the Food and Drug Administration told the partnership to cease its testing and reporting until the agency grants further approval.
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An F.D.A. spokesperson said home collection kits raised additional concerns about safety and accuracy that required the agency’s review. The issue in the Seattle case appears to be that the test results are being used not only by researchers for surveillance of the virus in the community but that the results are also being returned to patients to inform them.
F.D.A. Halts Coronavirus Testing Program Backed by Bill Gates (Published 2020)
The program allows people in the Seattle area to easily take a coronavirus test at home. Researchers say such testing is essential for future monitoring of the virus.
The program involved sending home test kits to both healthy and sick people in the hope of conducting the kind of widespread monitoring that could help communities safely reopen from lockdowns. Researchers and public health authorities already had tested thousands of samples, finding dozens of previously undetected cases.
But the program, a partnership between research groups and the Seattle and King County public health department that had been operating under authorization from the state, was notified this week that it now needs approval directly from the federal government. Officials with the Food and Drug Administration told the partnership to cease its testing and reporting until the agency grants further approval.
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An F.D.A. spokesperson said home collection kits raised additional concerns about safety and accuracy that required the agency’s review. The issue in the Seattle case appears to be that the test results are being used not only by researchers for surveillance of the virus in the community but that the results are also being returned to patients to inform them.
TheBigIguana
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It isn't really a consolation because he's dangerous and harmful, but I actually agree, there are times when he is genuinely hilarious. But this crisis has made it impossible to appreciate that anymore. Now it's just shameful.
Global whip round? I reckon the Chinese might throw in a few quid, great bunch o' lads.
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Trump says US will beat out Russia and China with 'super duper missile'
Development of missile comes as US president’s rhetoric has fueled fears of a new nuclear arms race
'Space Force' flags, 'Super Duper' missiles.... 'kin infant.
For me, that's how you criticise Trump - go above the fray, don't drop to his level, beat the crap out of him with facts.
Journalists should learn a thing or two from it.
tsubaki
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It is a great article, but you do sort of fall into the trap (as almost all journalists do tbh) of thinking that there is, somewhere, a set of rules by which Trump and his ilk operate - a basic level of morality, a line which even they won't cross, a number of lives put at risk that he would recoil from.
The reality is all he (and his rich support, and his base) cares about is them staying in power (or thinking that they are in power, in the case of his ordinary followers) and they'll gut anything that they think might oppose that, even if its something as blatantly necessary as the CDC is. If he reopens the country and ends up costing a million plus lives in the process, he will be absolutely fine with that if he wins. The usual people will come here and crow endlessly about it, too.
Once they started putting X's and Y's in it that was twisty enough for me.
You aren't going to convert his base, ever, so there's no point playing to them.
To get rid of him you need to enthuse the swing voters and you do that by making it obvious he's the idiot he is.
For me, the correct course of action is to highlight exactly why his actions or inaction is exacerbating the domestic issue so that he's consistently held to account for it - this happened, here are the figures, here's the causation etc.
His base won't care for facts (we learned that too well with Brexit over here) but there will people on the fringe who may have voted for Trump who'd be swung the other way by relentless facts about him, which would give him enough rope to hang himself with - he can't take criticism, so just let him react to it. Instead, we have crap journos engaging in shouting matches with him at press conferences.
tsubaki
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TBF its really difficult to see how any swing voters still exist at this point.
I am not a fan of Biden at all (or the faction who remain in charge of the Dems) but really how anyone can look at a gropey elderly man on one hand, and an even gropier elderly man who tells people to take untested meds, to inject themselves with bleach, was talking about super-duper missiles last night and has presided over the worst disaster in US history whilst enriching himself, and think there is any thought required to distinguish the two is a mystery to me.
I think a swing voter would largely be someone with republican values or someone who has found themselves a lot better off over the last 3 years but understand that Trump’s behaviour is unacceptable.
Im worried about the reaction of many of his die hard base should he lose this election after he’s been promoting these ideas of deep state etc.
The Iraq war was cool
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