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Red
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And the Littlest State Shall Lead the Way on Covid-19
And the Littlest State Shall Lead the Way on Covid-19
“Sometimes, when I’m particularly discouraged about how the U.S. is losing the battle against the coronavirus, I daydream about how much better off we’d be if Gina Raimondo, the hard-charging two-term governor of Rhode Island, were the one leading the nation’s response to the pandemic instead of Mike Pence. She has wrestled Covid-19 to the ground in her state and demonstrated ideas and resolve that could help guide the rest of the country in moving forward.”
“The coronavirus crisis wasn’t exactly something Raimondo — or any other governor — planned for. But it very much played to her strengths. She believes that you gather good information wherever you can find it; “not invented here” is not in her vocabulary. Thus she studied countries such as South Korea and New Zealand, which had early successes against the coronavirus, and adopted their strategies.
“I had this moment of clarity very early on, at 2 a.m. when I was working in my home alone,” she told Politico last week. “There’s no way you can outrun this thing. You have to stay a step ahead. That’s when we said we need aggressive testing, very aggressive contact tracing and social distancing. We came to the realization earlier than some other places, because it seemed like the only way to keep a lid on the virus”.
Then she would have — and these are her words, describing what the president should have done — “immediately gotten CEOs into the Oval Office early in the year, and used the Defense Production Act to mobilize all the best of what America has to offer — innovation, testing, PPE, medical products.” But with the White House missing in action, she had to figure out how to mobilize with the resources available to her”.
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NAOS
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****ing lol at this
He already had plenty of power to deal with this effectively. He did not use it for good. As usual.
Red
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Trump wouldn’t do this to suppress the truth if it doesn’t suit him, would he? Lol, just kidding. Of course he would. It’s his MO. Reshape reality until it suits him. Go over his entire time in office. Has he not spent most days reshaping reality to suit himself? At some point nearly every single day? In tweet after tweet?
Come November, we vote to restore reality.
Come November, we vote to restore reality.
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Archie Moses
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My mom passed yesterday morning unexpectedly.
I think it was COVID-19.
I think it was COVID-19.
jazzVA
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omg that’s awful, so sorry...My mom passed yesterday morning unexpectedly.
I think it was COVID-19.
Sorry
Sorry to hear that. I know you weren't super close but that's really hard to deal with and sad.My mom passed yesterday morning unexpectedly.
I think it was COVID-19.
Red
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Trump Now Has Free Rein to Cook the Books When It Comes to COVID
If Trump’s brazen action is not thwarted, we could enter this dangerous winter deeper in the dark about COVID’s spread.
truthout.org
My mom passed yesterday morning unexpectedly.
I think it was COVID-19.
That's always a difficult thing. My deepest sympathies.
Safetydan
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So this happened in Provo, yesterday.
Fantastic:
www.sltrib.com
Fantastic:
In separate rallies, Utahns protest mask mandate and demand in-person classes
<b>Provo •</b> As she walked up to the podium to speak, one of the moms grabbed a face mask and spit her gum out into it. “It’s garbage,” she shrugged, wadding it up. “It doesn’t work anyway. Not for me and not for my kids.”