John Hummel

2021-01-15 18:51:54

Operation ~~Warp Speed~~ Warped Sense of Reality

Vaccine reserve was already exhausted when Trump administration vowed to release it, dashing hopes of expanded access

States were anticipating a windfall after federal officials said they would stop holding back second doses. But the approach had already changed, and no stockpile exists.

[In typical Trump fashion, it was all lies.]

When Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced this week that the federal government would begin releasing coronavirus vaccine doses held in reserve for second shots, no such reserve existed, according to state and federal officials briefed on distribution plans. The Trump administration had already begun shipping out what was available beginning at the end of December, taking second doses directly off the manufacturing line.

Now, health officials across the country who had anticipated their extremely limited vaccine supply as much as doubling beginning next week are confronting the reality that their allocations will remain largely flat, dashing hopes of dramatically expanding access for millions of elderly people and those with high-risk medical conditions. Health officials in some cities and states were informed in recent days about the reality of the situation, while others are still in the dark.

... Operation Warp Speed, which is overseeing the distribution of vaccines, stopped stockpiling second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at the end of last year. The last shots held in reserve of Moderna’s supply, meanwhile, began shipping out over the weekend.

... “If true, this is extremely disturbing, and puts our plans to expand eligibility at grave risk,” Allen added. “Those plans were made on the basis of reliance on your statement about “releasing the entire supply” you have in reserve. If this information is accurate, we will be unable to begin vaccinating our vulnerable seniors on Jan. 23, as planned.”

#Covid-19 #OperationWarpSpeed #Trump #TrumpLies

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/01/15/trump-vaccine-reserve-used-up/

Vaccine reserve was already exhausted when Trump administration vowed to release it, dashing hopes of expanded access

States were anticipating a windfall after federal officials said they would stop holding back second doses. But the policy had already changed, and no stockpile exists.

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John Hummel

2021-01-11 20:51:39

I can't tell whether this counts as "taking the threat seriously" or not

Up to 15,000 National Guard members could be deployed in D.C. during inauguration

Up to 15,000 National Guard members could be deployed in Washington during the presidential inauguration, senior defense officials said Monday, part of a rapidly expanding response following a deadly insurrection at the Capitol last week.

Army Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, said in a call with reporters that about 6,000 guardsmen from six states already are in the nation’s capital, and that the military response will expand to about 10,000 by the weekend.

[This next bit struck me as... odd:]

... The National Guard will bring their weapons to Washington and carry them based on discussions with the FBI, police and other agencies.

“Obviously, we’re very concerned that we want our individuals to have the right to self-defense," the general said. “And so, that will be an ongoing conversation, and if the senior leadership determines that that’s the right posture to be in, then that is something that we will do.”

[Are you saying there is/was a chance they could be sent to DC unarmed? What kind of "guard" is unarmed? I think the word you're looking for is "target".]

... Just 340 D.C. National Guard members had been activated ahead of the riot, and none were posted outside the Capitol. Instead, they were assigned to traffic duty in other parts of the city, because the Capitol Police and the Pentagon had not worked out a plan in the event of a crisis at the home of Congress.

#NationalGrard #Inauguration #DomesticTerrorism #Trump #Terrorism

John Hummel

2021-01-11 20:51:39

I can't tell whether this counts as "taking the threat seriously" or not

Up to 15,000 National Guard members could be deployed in D.C. during inauguration

Up to 15,000 National Guard members could be deployed in Washington during the presidential inauguration, senior defense officials said Monday, part of a rapidly expanding response following a deadly insurrection at the Capitol last week.

Army Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, said in a call with reporters that about 6,000 guardsmen from six states already are in the nation’s capital, and that the military response will expand to about 10,000 by the weekend.

[This next bit struck me as... odd:]

... The National Guard will bring their weapons to Washington and carry them based on discussions with the FBI, police and other agencies.

“Obviously, we’re very concerned that we want our individuals to have the right to self-defense," the general said. “And so, that will be an ongoing conversation, and if the senior leadership determines that that’s the right posture to be in, then that is something that we will do.”

[Are you saying there is/was a chance they could be sent to DC unarmed? What kind of "guard" is unarmed? I think the word you're looking for is "target".]

... Just 340 D.C. National Guard members had been activated ahead of the riot, and none were posted outside the Capitol. Instead, they were assigned to traffic duty in other parts of the city, because the Capitol Police and the Pentagon had not worked out a plan in the event of a crisis at the home of Congress.

#NationalGrard #Inauguration #DomesticTerrorism #Trump #Terrorism

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/01/11/national-guard-protests-riots-capital/

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Doc Edward Morbius

2021-01-10 15:13:39

And sometimes their eyes open, if but briefly

One of the alt-right hangers-on on Diaspora, @Robbie, ... sees an inconsistancy and begins to wonder, if but for a moment:

Mike #Pence is probably the most honorable man in politics. He simply did not agree with the President #Trump that “the VP can single-handedly reject the Electoral College votes.” Pence followed the #Constitution and Trump betrayed him. I’m really surprised and disappointed to see so many people attacking Mike Pence, who has served with uncompromising devotion to #God and the Constitution of the United States.

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/9b27191034a30139253e7085c2fdcc0b
https://diasp.org/posts/17542961

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Robbie follows up with:

Really. It’s like they treated Christ in Jerusalem: Hosanna one day and Crucify him! the next day. I hate to see otherwise sane, thinking people act like that.

Naturally the rest of that small group immediately attempt to steer him to the New Orthodoxy, most especially ringleader @Theaitetos (テアイテトス)

Robbie, trust your gut, your memory, and the evidence of your own eyes here. And ask yourself what it is your "friends" here are telling you, and why. And trust that they'll crucify you just as they did Christ and Pence should they realise they've lost you to their lie.

What you are experiencing right now is Revelation. Enlightenment. And it is painful:

Make no mistake about it -- enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or becoming happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretense. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.

I'm unable to comment on the post. Others might care to, and I suggest they do, sharing this link.

How do we encourage moments of lucidity? Because we'll likely see more of them.

#BreakingTheSpell #deprogramming #revelation #enlightenment #trumpism #trumpists #fascism #fascists

John Hummel

2021-01-09 18:10:03

From the Please, please, please let this be true files:

How the Capitol siege has crippled Trump kids' political futures

According to Daily Beast columnist Molly Jong-Fast, any hopes that Donald Trump's family might have had about becoming a political dynasty likely came crashing down last Wednesday when the president incited a riot that sent Congressional lawmakers fleeing for their lives from the pro-Trump mob.

With reports that first daughter Ivanka Trump is moving to Florida with an eye on primarying Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Don Jr. considering running for office somewhere, and daughter-in-law Lara Trump considering running for office in North Carolina, Jong-Fast said the Trump family brand was likely fatally damaged the day the country watched the U.S. Capitol being overrun with the president's encouragement.

... "We know the Republican Party is done with Trump and his failsons because of what the biggest opportunist in the Senate said on the day of the coup. Lindsey Graham, Mr. Whatever Way the Wind Is Blowing, who's practically been Trump's caddy for the last four years, pronounced he was done pretending to like Trump so that he could get reelected," she wrote. "Trump may still be able to command his millions of white supremacists and Confederate fetishizers. But change is in the air, and as we know from the last four years of Republicans losing the House and the Senate, Trumpism isn't transferable. Trumpism doesn't scale. Will Ivanka be able to win a primary against little Marco? Theoretically. Junior might be able to win Matt Gaetz's Florida House seat, but he's not going to be able to ride Daddy's racism to the White House now or ever, and I for one am pretty f*cking glad of that."

... friends of the Trump kids have also been turning on them...

#Trump #TrumpKids #PoliticalFuture

How the Capitol siege has crippled Trump kids' political futures

According to Daily Beast columnist Molly Jong-Fast, any hopes that Donald Trump's family might have had about becoming a political dynasty likely came crashing down last Wednesday when the president incited a riot that sent Congressional lawmakers fl…

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