Want to protect yourself and your loved ones from getting COVID-19? Of course you do! Will you do anything in your power to do so? Then STOP HOARDING and SUPPORT first responders and healthcare professionals. My daughter is an ER doctor in Silicon Valley. As her mother, I want to protect her from the coronavirus and quite frankly, I wish she’d leave the profession.
She treated the first coronavirus patient in the Bay Area back in January, and she has been treating many patients since then. She and the selfless paramedics, nurses, doctors, and other healthcare professionals are risking their lives to save ours. Stop and think about that for a moment. Would you give your life to save a stranger’s?
When I hear that people are hoarding masks, disinfectant wipes, and hand sanitizers, I feel outraged. People are hoarding so many masks that HOSPITALS DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH MASKS TO PROTECT OUR FRONTLINE WORKERS. Selfish, stupid people.
If doctors, nurses, and first responders can’t protect themselves from very sick patients suffering from COVID-19 and other life-threatening diseases, our hospitals will close when they run out of staff. When doctors, nurses, and paramedics get sick, need to be quarantined, or die, WHERE WILL YOU GO WHEN YOU OR YOUR PARENTS GET SICK AND NEED HELP?
Listen to the healthcare professionals and help them set up and prepare for the biggest pandemic we have ever faced. Make sure they have access to masks, coronavirus test kits, and other life-saving devices and equipment they need NOW. Their voices are the ones you can trust and you need to support. They are not trying to win elections, make money on drugs or masks, or hide statistics from you.
When I hear that the government is DIVERTING FUNDS AWAY FROM PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF COVID-19, I feel even more outraged.
We need to ask why the Trump Administration has done the following:
- Submitted a budget that would:
- Eliminated the Pandemic Unit of the National Security Council [Source]
- Cut the Complex Crises Fund of $30 million that could deploy disease experts for this crisis. [Source]
- Forced CDC to slash the program to prevent global disease outbreak by 80% [Source]
- Downplayed the seriousness of COVID-19 by telling people it’s no worse than the flu and that they should go out to restaurants or go back to work when the doctors, WHO, and the rest of the world is quarantining. [Source] [Source] [Source] [Source] [Source]
- Postponed an annual intelligence report warning that the US is unprepared for a global pandemic. [Source]
- Asked for just $2.5 billion (half diverted from other programs) to deal with the coronavirus outbreak, when the congress instead authorized $8.3 billion in emergency funding. [Source]
- Made every step (albeit, delayed step) taken to contain the coronavirus all about Trump – it’s become his political campaign.
To take care of yourself and your loved ones, you need to make sure your healthcare professionals and frontline workers have all the personal protection, test kits, and equipment they need to save all of us. So stop hoarding, and start sharing. When you buy, buy for 2 weeks — not for 6 months. Pressure local, state, and federal agencies to protect our frontline workers and give them the tools they need to keep us safe. And, stay home no matter your age or vitality. Do your part to give our healthcare workers a chance to manage this pandemic.
Want to protect yourself and your loved ones from getting COVID-19? Of course you do! Will you do anything in your power to do so? Then STOP HOARDING and SUPPORT first responders and healthcare professionals. My daughter is an ER doctor in Silicon Valley. As her mother, I want to protect her from the coronavirus and quite frankly, I wish she’d leave the profession.
She treated the first coronavirus patient in the Bay Area back in January, and she has been treating many patients since then. She and the selfless paramedics, nurses, doctors, and other healthcare professionals are risking their lives to save ours. Stop and think about that for a moment. Would you give your life to save a stranger’s?
When I hear that people are hoarding masks, disinfectant wipes, and hand sanitizers, I feel outraged. People are hoarding so many masks that HOSPITALS DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH MASKS TO PROTECT OUR FRONTLINE WORKERS. Selfish, stupid people.
If doctors, nurses, and first responders can’t protect themselves from very sick patients suffering from COVID-19 and other life-threatening diseases, our hospitals will close when they run out of staff. When doctors, nurses, and paramedics get sick, need to be quarantined, or die, WHERE WILL YOU GO WHEN YOU OR YOUR PARENTS GET SICK AND NEED HELP?
Listen to the healthcare professionals and help them set up and prepare for the biggest pandemic we have ever faced. Make sure they have access to masks, coronavirus test kits, and other life-saving devices and equipment they need NOW. Their voices are the ones you can trust and you need to support. They are not trying to win elections, make money on drugs or masks, or hide statistics from you.
When I hear that the government is DIVERTING FUNDS AWAY FROM PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF COVID-19, I feel even more outraged.
We need to ask why the Trump Administration has done the following:
- Submitted a budget that would:
- Eliminated the Pandemic Unit of the National Security Council [Source]
- Cut the Complex Crises Fund of $30 million that could deploy disease experts for this crisis. [Source]
- Forced CDC to slash the program to prevent global disease outbreak by 80% [Source]
- Downplayed the seriousness of COVID-19 by telling people it’s no worse than the flu and that they should go out to restaurants or go back to work when the doctors, WHO, and the rest of the world is quarantining. [Source] [Source] [Source] [Source] [Source]
- Postponed an annual intelligence report warning that the US is unprepared for a global pandemic. [Source]
- Asked for just $2.5 billion (half diverted from other programs) to deal with the coronavirus outbreak, when the congress instead authorized $8.3 billion in emergency funding. [Source]
- Made every step (albeit, delayed step) taken to contain the coronavirus all about Trump – it’s become his political campaign.
To take care of yourself and your loved ones, you need to make sure your healthcare professionals and frontline workers have all the personal protection, test kits, and equipment they need to save all of us. So stop hoarding, and start sharing. When you buy, buy for 2 weeks — not for 6 months. Pressure local, state, and federal agencies to protect our frontline workers and give them the tools they need to keep us safe. And, stay home no matter your age or vitality. Do your part to give our healthcare workers a chance to manage this pandemic.
I went to see Trump’s WALL in El Paso, Texas, to understand what the locals think of the wall. Not being familiar with traveling across the Mexican border, I learned the hard way that once you pay 50 cents to enter Mexico on foot, you can’t return to the same place. That scared me because I didn’t expect to have to walk through the city of Juarez to get to the next bridge where immigrants have to wait in a long line to go through customs. I was definitely not prepared. I thought I would just interview a few people to get their take on the WALL to write this blog, and walk back over the border…
I expected to see Trump’s shiny, new wall protected by guards, but instead, all I saw was a completely rusty metal wall. It was shorter than I expected and it wouldn’t be hard for anyone to climb over it with a ladder and jump to the other side. I wondered why they used metal that rusts so quickly and would need a lot of maintenance to keep it from corroding.
As I waited in a long line to get back into the US, I interviewed a Mexican-American man who told me that the wall would never deter anyone from trying to smuggle in drugs or illegal things to America. He laughed at the thought. He said that they would just go around the wall. Then he confessed that he used to be a drug dealer and that he would bring in tons of drugs in trucks at night. The wall wouldn’t stop him or any of the drug dealers.
A Mexican woman with lung cancer who lives in the US said that she goes to Mexico for her cancer treatment because it’s only $500 (not thousands like in the US). She goes through customs with her boyfriend every week and it’s not a problem getting through. Not sure how Trump’s policies are supposed to be keeping people from coming into the US. Seems like he wants to build the wall just to stamp his name on it.
Another Mexican-American interviewee said that Trump’s wall is causing all kinds of environmental hazards. The wall intercepts the Rio Grande River, which diverts the water and is causing problems with the local farmers who need the water. The river was completely dry when I was there. It reminded me of the movie “Chinatown” with Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, where LA county water is controlled and diverted by corrupt officials in Chinatown.
Another guy said that if the US government installed surveillance cameras every 100 feet, they would deter people from coming through the border and it would be a fraction of the cost. Staff could monitor the cameras 24/7 and notify the authorities when people try to enter illegally. Hmm.
My take: Use the money (that is slated for the wall) to mitigate our carbon and gas problems and provide medical coverage for all Americans. The wall will not stop illegal immigrants or drugs from entering America. This vanity wall is simply another obsession by our narcissistic president.
In today’s podcast, TEDx speaker Sethumadhav Perumalla talks about his new book “Trumpists: The Art of the Tweet”. It’s a great interview that covers a lot ground, including how Generation Z responds to misinformation, and how this affects our democracy and our future.
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The number of students who took the LSAT (Law School Admission Test) increased by nearly 20% this year. That’s the biggest jump in over 15 years. So why the sudden interest in law?
TRUMP!
As students have watched the Trump administration flagrantly misuse the law since January 2017, these students are starting to see the necessity for laws. Hmm. So whether or not you’re wanting more government, we are going to have more lawyers in the future. I think environmental law is going to be a booming industry soon.