Government Response to Coronavirus 6: Dr. MyPillow and Demon Sperm

[47of74]

More of the #CovidKim government in action

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The Iowa Department of Public Health has released one heavily redacted, two-page document in response to a public-records request for information tied to the state’s response to COVID-19.

The department says it is still working on a request for 1,394 email exchanges between the state medical director and the governor’s office.

The redacted document, authored by State Medical Director Caitlin Pedati, appears to be an undated update on the department’s tracking of COVID-19 infections in Iowa nursing homes and assisted living centers.

Although the department discloses on its website the names of Iowa nursing homes with outbreaks involving three or more people, and publishes the number of positive, confirmed cases in each of those homes, the number of confirmed cases in these same facilities is redacted from the document turned over by the department. The department did, however, leave unredacted the number of negative tests in those nursing homes.

Iowa needs to send hard, pipe hitting liberals to the Legislature who are going to clean the whole fucking house and then fumigate the place.  Including the governor's office.  #CovidKim needs to be impeached. 

[47of74]

Jesus Fucking Christ Iowa has one of the most corrupt governments in the country

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Governor Kim Reynolds directed that nearly $450,000 in federal funding the state of Iowa received through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act be used to cover salaries and benefits for staff working in her office.

According to documents Bleeding Heartland obtained from the Iowa Department of Management through public records requests, the funds will cover more than 60 percent of the compensation for 21 employees from March 14 through June 30, 2020.

Reynolds has not disclosed that she allocated funds for that purpose, and reports produced by the nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency have not mentioned any CARES Act funding received by the governor’s office. Nor do any such disbursements appear on a database showing thousands of state government expenditures under the CARES Act.

The governor’s communications director Pat Garrett did not respond to four requests for comment over a two-week period.

 

[47of74]

Fucking ugh. 
 

 And this is after ISU banned tailgating on the property. 
 

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[47of74]

#CovidKim really is an awful person

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Plenty of Republican governors initially rejected mask mandates, but few have held to their skepticism amid soaring coronavirus cases with the tenacity of Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds.

Reynolds scoffs at calls for a statewide mask order, calling them “feel-good” actions, and refuses to let city officials enforce local mandates, even as the small, largely rural state maintains one of the highest COVID-19 positivity rates and has topped 1,200 dead. While she implores residents to wear masks while indoors when social distancing isn't possible, she has said not everyone believes they're effective and frequently is photographed mingling at crowded events without a mask.

“I think the goal is to do what we can to reduce the spread of the virus,” Reynolds said last week. “I believe that is the end goal and that we can get there without a mask mandate. I believe that and that’s what I’m going to consistently do.”

It's a stand that has frustrated public health experts and exasperated some mayors, but unlike governors in other states, Reynolds has made clear she's not budging.

If we can turn over the legislature (doubtful) I'd want to have her impeached.  She can join Blago in that house of shame.

[47of74]

A poll shows that Iowans outside of Vichy Iowa are not in love with #CovidKim or Fuck Face regarding their handling of the pandemic.

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Only 26 percent of Iowans approve of Governor Reynolds' handling of the coronavirus pandemic in Iowa.

It also found 34 percent of Iowans approve of President Trump’s handling of the pandemic.

 

[Alisamer]

The most ridiculous thing to me is that the Obama administration left a comprehensive pandemic response plan and a pandemic response team. Trump could have simply said "OK, trigger the pandemic plan!" then mostly just stood back and let the experts work. There would have been adjustments needed, I'm sure, but at least there'd be a plan.

Instead, he fired the team, ignored the plan, and actively lied about the virus all while denying responsibility and doing what he could to undermine the governors actually trying to coordinate a response for their own states. 

[Cartmann99]

5 hours ago, 47of74 said:

She can join Blago in that house of shame.

Speaking of Blagojevich, did you see this last month?

 

[47of74]

The Des Moines school district is still standing up to #CovidKim

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Students in Iowa’s largest school system are facing the possibility that this most unusual school year could stretch into next summer, and the district could be hit with crippling bills because of a dispute with the governor over the safety of returning to classrooms during the coronavirus pandemic.

Des Moines school officials have repeatedly refused to abide by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds’ order requiring the state’s 327 school districts to hold at least half their classes in-person rather than online. For Des Moines, it’s a question of trying to keep its more than 33,000 students and 5,000 staffers from contracting the disease. But after the school board last week again voted to violate Reynolds’ order, the governor called the action “unacceptable” and began the process for punishing the district.

Reynolds has dismissed Des Moines' officials' concerns, noting that nearly all other Iowa districts have reopened their classrooms despite some virus outbreaks and the occasional need to quarantine students, saying, “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”

School districts across the country have struggled with the decision of whether to return to classrooms despite the risk of coronavirus infections or shift to online learning, and the choice is especially stark for Iowa's capital city. Des Moines has had one of the nation's highest rates of people testing positive for COVID-19, and school board members ask how it would be possible to enforce social distancing rules in their crowded classrooms and packed school buses.

 

[clueliss]

And Missouri First Lady tests positive for Covid.  Not that I think think this will change a darn thing in how The Accidental Governor is acting.
 

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[clueliss]

AND - the Accidental Governor (Missouri Governor Mike Parsons) has now tested Positive.

 

[47of74]

Yeah #CovidKim could test positive and she’d still be a fucking idiot about this so I don’t see the Missouri accidental idiot singing a different tune. 

Edited September 24, 2020 by 47of74
Hey fucking autocorrect TUNE NOT TUBE

[thoughtful]

Governor Kristi Noem being an asshole, as usual (I found this on Bro Gary Hawkins' Facebook - he and his peers worship this woman):

 

[47of74]

A Tennessee mayor stepped in it 

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Tennessee Mayor Glenn Jacobs came under fire from his own public health officials this week after he narrated a video that attacked them as “sinister” bureaucrats who were linked to “violent mobs” trying to install a “socialist utopia.”

Knox News reports that during a Knox County Board of Health meeting on Wednesday night, several members of the board ripped Jacobs to his face for narrating and posting a right-wing propaganda video that claimed scientists were working with left-wing anarchists to bring down the United States.

The board members in particular were upset that their own faces were shown in the video while Jacobs described them as “unelected bureaucrats who cast down edicts which carry the force of law with no accountability.”

Jacobs said he was sorry if any board members felt threatened by his video, but did not apologize for making it

Assholes like this are going to get medical professionals killed.

[clueliss]

Virginia's Governor joins Missouri's Governor on the "We got Covid while in office" list.

 

[quiversR4hunting]

Can anyone help explain this court ruling in Michigan? Is Michigan soon to be the next state to have mask anarchy? (The order doesn’t go into affect for 21 days, per Michigan court rule, that I understand.)

 https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2020/10/gov-has-no-authority-to-continue-state-of-emergency-michigan-supreme-court-rules.html

[clueliss]

They just keep popping up.  McEnany has it.

 

[Penny]

How long before Pence has it? 

[47of74]

1 hour ago, Penny said:

How long before Pence has it? 

Maybe already?  Has anyone seen him since the news broke?  

[clueliss]

He's prepping for the VP debate and announced at least one negative test.

[clueliss]

The Rose Garden keeps on giving (although I did hear something over the weekend about some pre- rose garden meeting a lot of these folks were all at that could be the real culprit) (also is this The Rose Garden's divine retribution for that redesign earlier this year?)

Greg Laurie - Harvest Church has Covid.

 

[JMarie]

Dr. Sean Conley is giving an update on tv. His lab coat is very clean and starched. That's the most notable thing about his appearance to a worried nation. That, and he walked away from the microphone and didn't put his mask back on, unlike other speakers who appeared at the update.

[clueliss]

speaking of the doc and the mic.

 

[JMarie]

Why is it that Dr. Conley was able to give specific information about Trump's blood pressure and oxygenation levels, but claims a HIIPA violation if discussing the lung scan results?

[mamallama]

To be fair it would make sense if they cleared information to be released that mentioned vitals but not ct scans.  If they don't have specific clearance to discuss that they shouldn't.

[thoughtful]

If we had a normal president and administration, I would be fine with knowing they are holding back some information. It is the kind of thing historically done for security reasons, not showing weakness or disorganization to either allies or foes, and not releasing incomplete or confusing information.

In this case, I want to broadcast it all. Their inability to get their act together just makes the US government look even worse (if that is even possible at this point). Since there's no dependable information forthcoming, I want foreign nations of all stripes to know he (and his crew, as Sarah Maxwell would say) could be gone soon, whether by illness, death or elections, and that we may actually have a country again, run by grownups, not a greedy corporation manipulating a bunch of whiny toddlers.

I am fine with the fact that there is a suite at Walter Reed that accommodates a president, the people who guard him or her, and staff. I just hate seeing that orange thing use it.