The Thriller
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Joe Rogan is just so thought provoking. Both he and Ben Shapiro are so interesting I listen to them everyday!
These tribes in Brazil are absolutely being gutted by this unabashed state of waves of wildfire uprooting everything they live for and end up dying for. It’s a sad thing to witness.”
With wildfires raging and smoke choking the West Coast’s cities and towns, President Donald Trump has repeatedly blamed state officials in California, Oregon and Washington for the conflagrations, suggesting they have done a poor job of managing their forests—even suggesting that they somehow rake the forests to prevent fire.
But when Trump met California officials this week for a briefing on the wildfires, CalFire director Thomas Porter showed him a map of California’s fires, most of which were located on territory the map colored green.
“All of the green," Porter told him, "is federal lands.”
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Forest fire management is a complex issue, but one thing is clear: the federal commitment to it has been declining for years, and Trump has done little to reverse it. The federal government’s spending on fire prevention has been shrinking; the budget for vegetation management fell from approximately $240 million in 2001 to $180 million in 2015, a decline of 24 percent.
It's not because the need has decreased. According to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) in Boise, Idaho, of the 10 years on record with the largest acreage burned, nine have occurred since 2000, including the peak year in 2015. With the increase in the number and intensity of wildfires, the cost of fighting them has grown substantially. A 2015 report by the Forest Service points out that “as more and more of the agency’s resources are spent each year to provide the firefighters, aircraft, and other assets necessary to protect lives, property, and natural resources from catastrophic wildfires, fewer and fewer funds and resources are available to support other agency work—including the very programs and restoration projects that reduce the fire threat.”
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Recognizing the problem, the Obama administration went to Congress to fix it. The ask was simple—stop forcing the Forest Service to pay for firefighting with the money intended for forest management and other programs designed to protect fish and wildlife, provide outdoor recreation, and manage rangelands and wilderness areas—all part of the agency’s legislated mission—and, instead, treat these extreme fire events like the disasters they are, and pay for them out of disaster assistance funds.
Another example of the failure of the current Republican government
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/t...they-re-on/ar-BB194Nue?ocid=spartan-dhp-feeds
Omg. Donald it's herd immunity, not herd mentality.Man Biden is really losing it. Herd Mentality?
The reinfection thing is scary as hell imo.Omg. Donald it's herd immunity, not herd mentality.
Oh and btw, you can get the covid more than once.
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And I still have questions about it other than can a person test positive, then negative and then positive again at some point.The reinfection stuff I've seen doesn't seem too scary/bad. It really does seem quite rare.
And I still have questions about it other than can a person test positive, then negative and then positive again at some point.
Has anyone survived initial infection, been deemed "recovered" and then gotten infected again and died from COVID-19? Or been confirmed to have spread it on the second infection? Or been hospitalized for the second infection?
And I still have questions about it other than can a person test positive, then negative and then positive again at some point.
Has anyone survived initial infection, been deemed "recovered" and then gotten infected again and died from COVID-19? Or been confirmed to have spread it on the second infection? Or been hospitalized for the second infection?
I also wonder what “Recovered” even means. Not dead? No longer showing most symptoms but still haven’t regained pre-covid energy? No longer showing symptoms but damaged lungs or heart? I have two colleagues who have “recovered.” They still tire easily and say at times at night they can feel their heart racing. That’s recovered?
What a buttholeBut Democrats are accused of dividing the nation? Good grief