The drama, the irony... the hysterics. Right now I am sitting on 3 positions (today they are in the green at the moment) I am typing here instead of moving my stops up. That is primarily how I use this board during the trading day over the past 20 years... (minus a few years when I was only position trading... but still using this as a diversion.) If you don't believe in freedom or you don't enjoy the way I argue for it, you can always put me on ignore.
It was looking good for a while there. Well, I should have moved up my stops. I sort of knew it... when you start talking about you positions... its over. (in my experience for me anyway) Just gave back about half my day.
Ron DeSantis, the story of a useless 'TiT' https://www.jacksonville.com/story/...-desantis-transparency-technology/4369726001/ Make no mistake: The Transparency in Technology (TiT) Act is no laughing matter for Gov. Ron DeSantis and his stalwart partners in the Florida Legislature. DeSantis championed the TiT Act on Tuesday as a tool to combat a threat so apparently existential he described it with the language of dystopian fiction and even reworked a famous quote about Nazi terror: “Today they may come after someone who looks like me. Tomorrow they may come after someone who looks like you,” he said. These remarks, it should be noted, had an emotional edge DeSantis has rarely displayed when discussing the mass disease and death that have upended the lives of his constituents during the past year. So given his provocative language — and the fact that the nation is just weeks removed from watching a band of criminals storm the nation’s Capitol — one could be forgiven for perhaps thinking, or hoping, DeSantis’ TiT Act is a bill designed to crack down on domestic terrorists, white nationalists and the elected officials who abet them — the Terrorist in reTreat Act. Fat chance of course, given many of those complicit elected officials live right here in sunny Florida. DeSantis was basically just talking about Twitter, and the company’s great sin — the atrocity DeSantis was describing Tuesday — was to have recently banned the deposed authoritarian and DeSantis sugar-daddy Donald Trump (who, not to be forgotten, provoked the violent insurrectionists before beginning his exile in his South Florida palace). The particulars of the TiT Act are not terribly important. It is performative, largely unenforceable and almost certainly unconstitutional. Wilton Simpson, president of the Florida Senate, acknowledged as much Tuesday. And DeSantis, Politico reporter Gary Fineout noted, was cool toward a suggestion the state divest itself of the $8 billion it holds in tech stocks, lest the TiT Act becomes something more than deranged theater. To the extent there are legitimate issues with “Big Tech,” they are not controversies for a state legislature run by bumpkins and conspiracy theorists to hash out. That’s how you end up with the TiT Act, a bill with no ideological underpinnings and little practical effect that is about pleasing a single Florida constituent: Trump. It's not even a particularly conservative fantasy: Dictating how private companies must operate, down to the details of their terms of service. In another corner of the state, Florida’s beating cultural heart, the Republican mayor of Miami has been feverishly working to attract tech firms to re-locate to his city. So fractured is the mayor’s own party, however, that his efforts are being undermined by a bunch of nitwits from the former cotton fields of Tallahassee nearly 500 miles away. Business friendly, indeed. If DeSantis were legitimately concerned about a technology crisis in his state, he might have shown a bit more outrage over Deloitte, the company that built Florida’s supposed-to-fail, glitchy unemployment system that has left tens of thousands of Floridians high and dry during the pandemic. Instead, though, Florida awarded the company another lucrative contract last year. And in any case Trump was fired for cause, making him ineligible to collect state unemployment, so his MAGA-crazed spawn in Tallahassee couldn't care less about the busted system. He is the new constituent who matters. The rest of us are left with a useless TiT.
Who needs Biden plan? DeSantis vaccine plan super https://www.yoursun.com/column-who-...cle_259d244e-6497-11eb-b2a2-bb2f1e70c77a.html Florida’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout is more like a flaming ant farm, only less organized. Day after day, millions of exasperated seniors armed with laptops, cell phones, iPads and tech-savvy grandchildren try to penetrate swamped local websites that fleetingly offer appointments. Meanwhile, in the blue-sky parallel universe accessible only to the mind of Gov. Ron DeSantis, the state’s distribution networks are humming along like well-oiled machines. The only problem is a shortage of vaccines. Space limitations prevent recapping all the governor’s boasting, bungles and deceptions since the pandemic began. Now that his hero Donald Trump is out of office, there’s nobody at the White House to give DeSantis cover when he equivocates. The result is a daily display of doubletalk that would be comical if so many lives and jobs weren’t at stake. The governor never had a master plan for getting out the vaccine, but he’s determined to ignore and discredit Joe Biden’s. As soon as the new administration began discussing the use of FEMA to set up mass inoculation sites, DeSantis curtly blew off the idea, saying we don’t need federal help in Florida; just send more vaccines! A White House spokesman responded with interesting supply statistics that DeSantis had either overlooked, or hidden from the public — the state had administered only about half of the 3.1 million doses it had been sent. Snap! Trump would never have burned the governor so bluntly, and with actual facts. DeSantis then commenced to pivot like a palm rat on a hot roof, claiming the state has been withholding all that vaccine for use as second doses — a 180-degree flip from three weeks earlier, when he’d threatened to cut off hospitals for doing the same thing. One number that DeSantis hasn’t been able to hide is Florida’s toll of COVID-related deaths, which after only a year is approaching 26,000. Who knows how many of those people wouldn’t have gotten infected if DeSantis had been courageous enough to impose a statewide mask mandate ahead of the deadly and predictable surges. Now, while older Floridians from the Panhandle to the Keys desperately scramble to line up their first shots, DeSantis labors to appear competent by holding media conferences at various Publix, where grandstanding is a pleasure. The governor’s nightmare is that Biden will overshadow him by dramatically accelerating the local pace of vaccinations, something that pouty Trump never tried to do during his final days. A photo-op embodying DeSantis’ perpetually premature claims of victory over COVID-19 happened in Tallahassee when a 100-year-old World War II veteran received his first vaccination dose. DeSantis was there proudly declaring that the man was the one millionth Florida senior to get a shot in the arm. Big surprise: It wasn’t true. The governor’s own health department had just published data showing that fewer than 840,000 residents 65 or older had gotten their first vaccinations. On a positive note, DeSantis embellished the truth by only 20 percent that time, so maybe he’s getting better. Partnering with Publix pharmacies isn’t a bad thing, as long as it doesn’t hinder rural communities from receiving shipments of vaccines. But that’s what DeSantis is doing in Palm Beach County, a move that has surprised — and angered — many officials there. He abruptly decided that 67 Publix stores would be the only source of vaccine for the county’s 1.5 million residents, bypassing not only the health department but minority farm communities with no nearby Publix and many elderly folks who don’t drive. The mayors of Belle Glade, Pahokee and South Bay immediately wrote to DeSantis, urging him to reconsider his “unconscionable” decision. On Friday, the state decided to give some of the vaccines to two Palm Beach County health agencies to distribute them in areas not served by Publix. It would be cynical to think DeSantis chose Publix because the company gave $100,000 to the Friends of Ron DeSantis political action committee last month. It would also be naive to think it wasn’t a factor. On Saturday the Wall Street Journal reported that Julie Jenkins Fancelli, an heiress to the Publix chain, gave $300,000 through a GOP connection to help bankroll Trump’s ill-fated “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington on Jan. 6. Whatever his motive for favoring Publix, DeSantis is morally obligated to reveal exactly how many doses of vaccine have been stockpiled, and where (and when) he plans to distribute them. Don’t hold your breath. And don’t hold your breath while you’re trying crack open the Publix coronavirus web page for a vaccine date. Seriously, do NOT hold your breath. It took weeks of chaotic online bottlenecks for the DeSantis administration to announce that it’s finally creating a statewide website where seniors will be able to put their names on an actual waiting list for inoculation. And if that website works as well as the governor’s COVID-19 unemployment website, everyone who doesn’t die first might be vaccinated by the year 2045. By the way, about those FEMA sites that DeSantis claims Florida doesn’t need — can we please take a vote on that?
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Let's see what the AARP thinks of the Florida state senate bill that gives nursing homes immunity in neglecting and killing their residents that is being pushed by Ron DeSantis and his cronies in the legislature... AARP Florida strongly opposes legislation that gives nursing homes immunity related to COVID-19 2/8/2021 Senate Bill 74 would strip away resident rights and give nursing homes a go-ahead to neglect residents with impunity Tallahassee, Fla. – AARP Florida State Director, Jeff Johnson, issued the following statement today urging members of the Florida legislature to stop efforts to give nursing homes and other long-term care facilities immunity related to COVID-19. “The death toll from COVID-19 in our nursing homes is a national disgrace. More than 9,000 Florida long-term care residents have already died—alone and afraid, without family by their sides. In numerous cases, facilities may have contributed to those deaths and other harms by their lack of care or abuse. “Now the Florida Legislature would strip from grieving families the right to seek justice for deceased and injured loved ones who may have been hurt or killed by negligent care. Legislation filed by Senator Jeff Brandes (R-St. Petersburg) would further erode the rights of older Floridians to seek redress for negligence and abuses endured in these facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Tampa Bay Times reported on examples of shameful atrocities occurring in Senator Brandes’ own district. “Disregard for Florida’s nursing home residents and their loved ones is appalling. At a time when consumer confidence in Florida’s long-term care system is at an all-time low, lawmakers would make things worse by letting nursing homes off the hook. “Let’s be clear: stripping away the rights of older Floridians and their families is careless and irresponsible. Long-term care facilities must be accountable when their wrongdoing threatens the health—and lives—of residents and staff. Especially when isolated residents are vulnerable and often unable to advocate for themselves. “AARP Florida continues to believe that our state must embrace a new vision for long-term care that addresses the real issues facing our nursing homes and long-term care facilities. We will never stop fighting for our members and all Floridians who use long-term care services. They deserve better, and this legislation is a shameful step backwards.” More resources for the families of nursing home residents are available at www.aarp.org/nursinghomes. AARP is the nation’s largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering Americans 50 and older to choose how they live as they age. With nearly 38 million members and offices in every state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, AARP works to strengthen communities and advocate for what matters most to families with a focus on health security, financial stability and personal fulfillment. AARP also works for individuals in the marketplace by sparking new solutions and allowing carefully chosen, high-quality products and services to carry the AARP name. As a trusted source for news and information, AARP produces the nation's largest circulation publications, AARP The Magazine and AARP Bulletin. To learn more, visit www.aarp.org or follow @AARP and @AARPadvocates on social media.
Who cares? Lets see the latest AARP data that shows how Florida is leading the nation in some of the best (least fatalities and infections) in the nation in nursing homes! Right here, baby! Sixth best in the nation. BEST in the nation.
Ah. Please provide the latest data. Because the official AARP Dashboard goes through the end of December.