pacino wrote:why are they traveling when she has covid

Tucker Carlson’s audience is booming — and so is chatter that the popular Fox News host will parlay his TV perch into a run for president in 2024.

Pedati wrote back to say she would be seeking onsite assistance, but didn’t provide any of the requested information on the Iowa outbreaks. Instead, she suggested she and the CDC official speak by phone.

Several hours after the phone call took place, Pedati wrote to the federal agency again, this time to say she wouldn’t be seeking the CDC’s assistance with the meatpacking plants, at least for now.

She wrote: “We are still working on gathering a little more information from our partners, and so are not quite yet ready to make a request but if it’s OK I would like to keep in touch as things evolve.” (“Partners” is a word frequently used by Gov. Reynolds to refer to the meatpacking industry.)

Five days later, on April 20, during her then-daily news conference, Gov. Reynolds said publicly she had “been on the phone with the CEO and the management team for all Tyson plants to talk about what they’re doing proactively to make sure that they’re protecting their workforce, the strategies that they put in place to mitigate, to let them know that we do have the capacity to do surveillance testing.”

Nine hours after Reynolds’ press conference, the same CDC official Pedati had spoken to earlier wrote to Pedati and again offered the federal agency’s assistance with the meatpacking plant outbreaks in Iowa.

The CDC official noted that in other states the CDC was helping in the meatpacking plants by coordinating the response and assisting with contact tracing, data entry, employee screening, foreign language barriers and other issues.

The available records give no indication of whether, or how, Pedati responded. An Iowa Department of Public Health spokesperson did not respond to questions from the Iowa Capital Dispatch about the CDC’s offer.

Within two weeks of Pedati’s exchange with the CDC, more than 1,600 workers at four Iowa meatpacking plants would be infected with COVID-19.

Within a few weeks of that exchange, the state began curtailing its reporting of outbreaks in the meatpacking plants. Initially, the Iowa Department of Public Health said it would announce outbreaks at any plant where more than 10% of the workers tested positive.

Gov. Reynolds then said such outbreaks would only be reported by her administration if reporters first asked about them.

“I trust the media to do their job and continue to ask the questions,” she said at a May 26 press conference. “We’re being as transparent as we can in providing Iowans with about as much information as we can … The media will do their part, and we’ll do ours.”

In a Facebook post last week, Rep. Jon Cross, R-Kenton, campaigned on refusing to wear masks, let alone supportinng legislation requiring them.

“It’s my RIGHT not to wear a mask, and I do NOT support a government that tries to quarantine the healthy,” he wrote.

Rep. Nino Vitale, R-Urbana, takes to social media regularly to promote baseless conspiracy theories about masks limiting blood oxygen or how they “force virus into the brain.”

Rep. Candice Keller, R-Middletown, produced a Facebook video June 25 criticizing Ohio’s Bureau of Workers’ Compensation for distributing masks to Ohio businesses.

Despite the lawmakers’ claims, research suggests masks are an effective, inexpensive and uninvasive way to slow the spread of COVID-19.

No one is going to win a U.S. presidential election by 14 points,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said of the Times-Siena poll.

Stay_Disappointed wrote:

No one is going to win a U.S. presidential election by 14 points,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said of the Times-Siena poll.

Maybe maybe not. I could see it being close but I think there is a possibility of a blowout - that normal Americans finally see that trump is a fraud based on his performance in 2020. Plus maybe all the negatives stories over the past 4 years have a cumulative effect. Trump fatigue?

Anyway av14 point defeat may be the only thing that can push the republics party back towards normalcy

TenuredVulture wrote:and pretty much every Republican governor has shit the bed with Covid response.

jamiethekiller wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:and pretty much every Republican governor has shit the bed with Covid response.

I'd probably say the otherwise. 5 of 6 states that ordered NH patients who were positive in the hospital back to NH were run by Democrat governor's. Those 6 states all have over 50% of their total fatalities coming from NH.

Those 6 states account for over 50% of the nationwide fatalities to COVID.

pacino wrote:first, you mean DemocratIC, not 'Democrat'

second, this keeps being said but for most of them it was that nursing homes needed to accept patients that had COVID, not that governors forced covid patients into the nursing homes. for PA, staff got COVID and the nursing homes didn't have any testing or proper precautions for the staff to prevent exposure to the patients. wolf did not 'force' patients from hospitals onto nursing homes; they simply weren't allowed to deny someone due to their medical condition, same as any other condition. there's a huge difference and acting like it's not is just silly.

the major difference is that outbreaks happened here first and we didn't have a lot of stuff we have now.

also, it ain't over. this ain't over.