Ching Dow finally admits it. All gubs lie - DeSanity is no better no worse ........... yet he goes on and on defending DeSanity as if the gub is better and doesn't lie and manipulate. We got Trump to thank for blurring the lines and fogging the brains of so many wingers. While Ching Dow also once again displays his lack of basic reading comprehension or how to reply logically. Oh and we past 25,000 deaths everyone - have a nice weekend.
Here’s who you need to be discussing, California ignores public records request, keeps coronavirus data hidden State health officials have said releasing the data would confuse the public Gov. Gavin Newsom, despite months-long promises of transparency in his coronavirus decisions, has been keeping secret the data his administration is using to drive state-implemented lockdowns. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ca...records-request-keeps-coronavirus-data-hidden
You have to deeply question the information in this article including the relevancy of the date range of information being demanded by Center for American Liberty (CAL). "On May 28, the Center for American Liberty (CAL) filed a public records request to the California Health and Human Services (CHHS) Agency seeking the science and data that Newsom used to drive lockdown decisions from Oct. 1, 2019 until that day." Coupled with that the "Center for American Liberty" (CAL) and its founder Harmeet Dhillion has a substantial history of making unsupported claims. As outlined their multiple re-open lawsuits that have been dismissed. Harmeet Dhillion has launched the majority of the re-open lawsuits in California amounted to over 15 of the 30 suits as of July. None of his suits had any success. Let's go read some text from the FOX News article - "CAL executive director Mark Trammell said the state had pointed the CAL back to the state website, and withheld other data under a "deliberative process" exception, used to exempt the state from its duty to release public records." Yes, the state did respond. They stated all the data is on the state website. CAL needs to outline what exact data they claim is not being provided by the state in their public record request or discovery process. Bottom Line: I would urge the mainstream press to did deeper into this California story and uncover more information using their own public record requests. Obviously CAL will continue their record of failure and is a completely biased organization. If Governor Newsom and his administration is hiding COVID data in the midst of the global public health crisis then this is unacceptable and they need to be held accountable. Lack of transparency regarding COVID information by government entities undermine basic trust in government.
"DeSantis for the win" -- Look who's lying again. Florida governor walks back claim over 1 millionth shot https://apnews.com/article/technolo...ron-desantis-f2e012b126ea7448ee65e23a6c679f98 Of course DeSantis is providing nearly no transparency over COVID vaccines in Florida despite demands for more information. All he does is make claims that never hold up. Florida lawmakers call for more vaccine transparency from DeSantis https://www.wesh.com/article/florida-desantis-transparency-vaccine/35294956#
I believe it’s a question of how the State interprets the data and bases their decisions. From the article But after Thanksgiving, the Newsom administration nixed the locally-focused tier system and instead created five regions whose reopening plans would be determined by a single measurement-- ICU capacity. Each region had to have greater than 15 percent ICU capacity in order to escape the stay-at-home restriction. But the new system was grayer than it seemed. Newsom had a month earlier enacted an "equity component." Aimed at tackling racial health disparities, local officials had to curb the virus not just county-wide but particularly in lower-income communities. Adding to the complexity, the state uses a weighted percentage to determine ICU capacity. COVID-19 patients tend to need longer care, penalizing regions like Southern California that have a higher proportion. So when the state says Southern California and San Joaquin Valley regions have 0% ICU capacity, it means the bulk of patients in the ICUs are COVID-19 patients, not that there are no ICU beds, Dr. George Rutherford, an epidemiologist and infectious-diseases control expert at University of California, San Francisco, said. Asked if he was clear how regional ICU percentages were determined, LA County Chief Science Officer Paul Simon told Deadline: "I can’t really comment. I haven’t seen the news. I’m not really sure what considerations were made in that threshold." At the start of last week, nowhere in the Golden State appeared likely to have restrictions lifted as their capacity was well below 15 percent. But suddenly the state announced that the Greater Sacramento region, comprising 13 counties, would have its lockdown order lifted. Outdoor dining and worship services were allowed again, salons and other businesses could reopen and retailers could allow more shoppers inside. Business owners wer blindsided, albeit pleasantly, by the reopening. State officials did not describe their reasoning other than to say it was based on a projection for ICU capacity. They said they’d relied on a complex formula to determine that while Sacramento’s ICU capacity was only at 9 percent, they projected it would climb above 15% within four weeks. "What happened to the 15%? What was that all about?" Rutherford said. "I was surprised. I assume they know something I don’t know." Even county officials weren’t aware of the data being used, according to San Bernardino County spokesman David Wert. At the moment the projections are not being shared publicly," Department of Public Health spokeswoman Ali Bay said in an email to The AP. CHHS spokeswoman Kate Folmar said projected ICU capacity is based on multiple variables, including available beds and staffing. "These fluid, on-the-ground conditions cannot be boiled down to a single data point — and to do so would mislead and create greater uncertainty for Californians," she said in a statement.
Yes... the problem in California as outlined in an earlier AP article (with a misleading headline) is that the state provides all of its raw COVID data but they do not provide good information on the process that drives the political decision to "open" or "close". At times the actual raw data is out-of-sync with the decisions based on the earlier criteria put forward by the state. And yes, the people in California should be demanding clarity from their public officials on how these decisions were made.
Says that the WI lawsuits were thrown out for "standing" which is something that Maddy is unqualified to argue... lol.
"DeSantis for the win" -- caught lying once again edition. What will it take to have Gov. Ron tell the truth... even just once. Also not to be missed... DeSantis using language favored by right-wing extremists. White House vs. DeSantis: Governor reverses position in explaining 1.3 million unused vaccines https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/p...0210126-o6hkkumbmbftlfrhtxmffho5eu-story.html Gov. Ron DeSantis responded Tuesday to a swipe from the White House over COVID vaccinations by rising to the defense of Florida’s seniors and defending their right to the required second shot. But the White House wasn’t questioning the need for second doses, and DeSantis’ response either reflected a sudden change in Florida’s policies or falsely implied the state was keeping unused shots in reserve for use as booster shots. At a news conference Monday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki answered a question about DeSantis’ attack on President Biden’s vaccine distribution plan by noting that Florida has administered only about half the shots received from the federal government. “I will note, because we’re data first here, facts first here, they’ve only distributed about 50% of the vaccines that they have been given in Florida,” she said. “So clearly they have a good deal of the vaccine. That supply will need to continue to increase as they are able to effectively reach people across the state.” Florida administered about 51% of the 3.1 million doses received so far from the federal government, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. But this is typical of other states, with some doing better than Florida, others doing worse. At a news conference Tuesday in Vero Beach, the governor said the reason the state hadn’t administered half the doses received from the federal government was that they had to be held in reserve as second doses. “We’re not going to divert second doses away from seniors,” he said. “Seniors want it, we’re going to do it. So the implication is you should be giving those doses away to other people. That’s not the way the FDA has prescribed it. So we are absolutely committed to that, and we’re going to continue doing it. ... If the White House is suggesting that we shouldn’t be doing that, I think that that’s not a good suggestion.” But Florida does not hold back half the doses for the booster shots. At least that’s what the governor said at news conference last week in Key Largo. “There is no major warehouse of vaccines sitting around,” he said. “The Department of Emergency Management keeps a small cache because what we don’t want to have happen is there be a situation where someone all of a sudden needs 200 doses for second doses or maybe they have people that are waiting in line and they just miscalculated. So we have a small amount just to be able to troubleshoot, but there’s not massive amounts. The feds hold back the second dose, but we don’t hold back the second dose. They send the second dose the week that it’s going to be due, and that’s when it’s done.” Asked to explain the contradiction between the governor’s two statements on whether or not the state was holding second doses in reserve, his spokeswoman Meredith Beasley did not address the question. Instead, she provided this statement: “Governor DeSantis is putting Seniors First and is working to ensure that all seniors who elect to receive the vaccine have access to the second dose to complete the series, which is necessary for maximum efficacy.” Despite all the controversy, Florida’s percentage of unused doses is not unusual. California, for example, has administered 45% of its doses, Pennsylvania 49% and Texas 57%. Other states have done much better than Florida, although these have typically been smaller states. New Mexico, for example, administered 78%, South Dakota 70% and West Virginia 76%. The governor has also blamed a lag in reporting for the high number of unused doses, saying it can take three or four days for shots to be reflected in the state’s reports. The dispute began after DeSantis last week criticized a plan by President Biden to use the Federal Emergency Management Agency to set up vaccination clinics around the United States. “I saw some of this stuff Biden’s putting out, that he’s going to create these FEMA camps, I can tell you, that’s not necessary in Florida,” DeSantis said. “All we need is more vaccine. Just get us more vaccine.” The phrase “FEMA camps” has been used for years by right-wing extremists who claimed the federal government planned to use FEMA to detain dissidents after declaring martial law. The White House press secretary responded Monday with the observation about Florida’s unused doses, after a reported asked for a response to DeSantis’ statement.