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Coronavirus verspreiding door ziekenhuisverpleegkundigen en de onmogelijkheid voor velen in de VS om te stemmen vanwege het virus

Posted on by Telmo Claro
Brascheck TV komt met een verontrustende video waarin aandacht voor het feit dat ziekenhuispersoneel een bron van Coronavirus verspreiding is.
Verpleegkundigen werken veilig binnen de ziekenhuismuren, maar behoeven zich niet te ontsmetten voor ze naar huis gaan en ze in aanloop daarvan nog even boodschappen gaan doen….
Het gaat hier om een zaak die men in de VS heeft geconstateerd, maar ik vraag me af hoe het in Nederland gaat en gezien al het geblunder van VVD oplichters Rutte en Bruins, CDA plorken de Jonge en Grapperhaus, plus het zwaar wanpresterende RIVM, vrees ik het ergste…..*
Dan nog het volgende: hoorde gistermorgen dat 8 op de 10 Nederlanders het disfunctionerende beleid steunen van voornoemde figuren en organisatie…..* ha! ha! ha! ha!
Onder het schrijven van Brasscheck nog een bedelschrijven van de Democraten, daar Trump weigert om iedereen in de VS de kans te geven om te stemmen, let wel: waar men recht op heeft als VS burger zonder strafblad….. Het gaat hier om stemmen bij volmacht dan wel stemmen via het internet. Trump gaf na een gesprek met Democraten geld voor een betere kans om te stemmen, maar veel te weinig…….
Na het overleg met Democraten stelde het beest Trump in het openbaar dat wat hij had besproken met deze Democraten te zot voor woorden was, immers als iedereen die in de VS het recht heeft om te stemmen en dat zou kunnen doen, er geen Republikein zou worden gekozen……

More unreported clues to CoVid-19 transmission

Post-shift hygiene by hospital workers…

There is none

More unreported clues to CoVid-19 transmission.

I have suggested that hospitals themselves are a major if not the major source of the spread of CoVid-19 infections. (See previous pages on this subject.)

If that’s true, what would be the mechanism?

I asked a logical question and got a frightening answer:

What about post-shift hygiene by hospital workers before they hit the streets, stores, and go home.

There is none.

Don’t take my word for it.

What follows is Standard Operating Procedure for hospital workers in their own words and one colleague just told me he saw a worker in scrubs shopping today (March 27, 2020) in Los Angeles.

* Should scrubs be worn only inside hospitals to limit the spread of germs? (January 2015)
https://whyy.org/segments/should-scrubs-be-worn-inside-hospitals-only-to-limit-the-spread-of-germs/
* Hygiene after hospital shift (November 2014)
https://allnurses.com/hygiene-after-hospital-shift-t551789/
* What kind of post-shift facilities do workers have at hospitals? (November 2008)
https://allnurses.com/change-room-staff-room-gym-t250538/
CoVid-19 may stick to clothes and foot soles
https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronavirus/how-long-does-coronavirus-live-on-clothes
You can find your own sources too. There are plenty of them.

Click here to support Brasscheck

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… AND they’re trying to keep people from voting! (of course)

People for the American Way

I had to add an important addendum to the list I emailed earlier of ways the Right is trying to exploit this crisis to push their agenda and for their own political benefit.

As Aaron Black at the Washington Post pointed out today, Republicans are also enjoying that this crisis could cause problems for ballot access this year, and they’re trying to thwart efforts to make it possible for people to vote! Trump himself was clear that the motive is the same as the one that’s always behind the Right’s voter suppression efforts:

In an interview on “Fox & Friends,” Trump referenced proposals from Democrats in the coronavirus stimulus negotiations that would have vastly increased funding for absentee and vote-by-mail options. The final package included $400 million for the effort, which was far less than what Democrats had sought.
“The things they had in there were crazy,” Trump said. “They had things — levels of voting that, if you ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”

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We’re watching the Right Wing very closely – as we always do, with PFAW’s Right Wing Watch – and the trends we’re seeing from the Trump administration and its Republican allies amidst this global health crisis are beyond disturbing.

Conspiracy theories and dangerous disinformation from the Right have exploded, which, unfortunately, is not unexpected. But what’s arguably just as dangerous – especially over the long term – is the naked opportunism we’re seeing from right-wing officials, from Trump all the way on down.

  • Republican state officials are trying to use the pandemic as an excuse to shut down access to abortion…
  • Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is exploiting the crisis to push education privatization schemes in the form of more school vouchers that would take money from public schools…
  • Trump has announced a freeze on the enforcement of all federal environmental regulations and protections, including rolling back the fuel emissions standards that have been the centerpiece of the U.S. effort to combat climate change …

And the list continues to grow…

If they are able to get away with these infringements on the rights and interests of the public, does anyone really think they’ll reinstate the protections they’re now trying to deny without a fight?

We need to fight back to stop the erosion of our liberties during this crisis and continue our push to hold Trump Republicans accountable by defeating them up and down the ballot.

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And there is so. Much. Work. To. Do.

All of the exploitation of this crisis by the Right that we’re seeing so far is bound to get worse, so we need your help to keep sounding the alarm.

And, of course, the Trump administration – mostly through the Treasury Department, headed by Trump lackey Steve Mnuchin – will be in charge of dispersing the half a trillion dollars to corporations that Congress just authorized with its coronavirus relief legislation … so we need to be extra vigilant in making sure the Trump administration doesn’t use that money for corrupt corporate kickbacks and shameless self-enrichment.

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* Zie: ‘Coronavirus: Rutte’s beleid krijgt steun van 8 op de 10 Nederlanders……‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht voor meer artikelen over het Coronavirus)

Zie ook:
‘Coronacrisis: de grootste internationale oefening ooit van politie, geheime diensten en de landstrijdkrachten‘

‘Politie schiet 13 jarige jongen dood bij handhaven avondklok i.v.m. Coronavirus‘

‘Coronavirus: VS sancties tegen andere landen zijn zeker nu met de Coronacrisis sadistisch en barbaars‘

‘Nederland zou deel moeten uitmaken van de landen die tekenen voor een wereldwijde wapenstilstand‘

‘NAVO uitgaven gaan ten koste van de gezondheidszorg, één van de redenen dat het Coronavirus zo hard kan toeslaan‘
‘Brekend Coronanieuws: eerste Nederlandse Coronapatiënten naar Duitsland‘

 ‘Viktor Orbán misbruikt Coronacrisis om het Hongaarse parlement en daarmee de democratie buitenspel te zetten‘

‘Coronavirus: Rutte’s beleid krijgt steun van 8 op de 10 Nederlanders……‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht voor oudere artikelen over het Coronavirus)

Voor meer berichten over de verkiezingen in de VS klik op verkiezingen, direct onder dit bericht. (je krijgt dan ook berichten te zien over verkiezingen elders, echter berichten die gaan over de verkiezingen in de VS, pik je er zo uit)

Bedrijven maken veelal de dienst uit, ten koste van de democratie, op naar de nieuwe fascistische orde!!

Posted on by Telmo Claro

Het volgende artikel van Chris Hedges (en Matt Taibbi in de bijgevoegde video) op Information Clearing House (overgenomen van ‘Truth Dig’) handelt over de neergang van de democratie en haar instituties t.b.v. grote bedrijven, banken en het militair-industrieel complex, noodzakelijk voor de uiteindelijk beoogde fascistisch machtsovername…… (Bedrijven functioneren uitstekend in een fascistische staat….)

De vakbonden zijn verworden tot grote instituties waar kapitalen worden verspild en die nog amper van enige betekenis zijn. De reguliere (massa-) media zijn in handen van enkele figuren en dienen als eerste het belang van die topgraaiers en vervolgens het belang van de zittende neoliberale regering (althans als die goed voor de bedrijven werkt….). Wat betreft de publieke zendgemachtigden, zoals de BBC (en de NOS in ons land), is het dienen van het belang van de zittende regering overduidelijk….. Ach ja, wiens brood men eet……….

Het is in ons land al zo zot, dat men het normaal vindt, dat de Eerste Kamer bestaat uit figuren die in het (grote) bedrijfsleven werkzaam zijn en uiteraard lobbyen voor die bedrijven (bedrijven inclusief de financiële maffia en het militair-industrieel complex….). Een zienswijze die wordt gedeeld door de reguliere massamedia……..

In de VS gaat men zover, dat kritische studenten worden weggezuiverd van de universiteiten……. Ook de rechterlijke macht fungeert, meer en meer als een klassen-justitieel systeem, waar de belangen van het neoliberalisme worden gediend…… Dat geldt overigens ook voor een groot deel voor Nederland, zo besloot vanmorgen de hoogste bestuursrechter in Nederland, de Raad van State, dat er naar gas mag worden geboord bij Terschelling……..* (klik ook op het label ‘klassenjustitie’, dat u onder dit bericht terugvindt).

Lees dit uitstekende artikel en zie de bijgevoegde video (onder het artikel kan u klikken voor een ‘Dutch’ vertaling, dit neemt wel enige tijd in beslag):

The Elites Won’t Save Us
By Chris Hedges
February 13, 2017 “Information Clearing House” – “Truth Dig” – The four-decade-long assault on our democratic institutions by corporations has left them weak and largely dysfunctional. These institutions, which surrendered their efficacy and credibility to serve corporate interests, should have been our firewall. Instead, they are tottering under the onslaught.
Labor unions are a spent force. The press is corporatized and distrusted. Universities have been purged of dissidents and independent scholars who criticize neoliberalism and decry the decay of democratic institutions and political parties. Public broadcasting and the arts have been defunded and left on life support. The courts have been stacked with judges whose legal careers were spent serving corporate power, a trend in appointments that continued under Barack Obama. Money has replaced the vote, which is how someone as unqualified as Betsy DeVos can buy herself a Cabinet seat. And the Democratic Party, rather than sever its ties to Wall Street and corporations, is naively waiting in the wings to profit from a Trump debacle.
“The biggest asset Trump has is the decadent, clueless, narcissistic, corporate-indentured, war-mongering Democratic Party,” Ralph Nader said when I reached him by phone in Washington. “If the Democratic strategy is waiting for Godot, waiting for Trump to implode, we are in trouble. And just about everything you say about the Democrats you can say about the AFL-CIO. They don’t control the train.”
The loss of credibility by democratic institutions has thrust the country into an existential as well as economic crisis. The courts, universities and press are no longer trusted by tens of millions of Americans who correctly see them as organs of the corporate elites. These institutions are traditionally the mechanisms by which a society is able to unmask the lies of the powerful, critique ruling ideologies and promote justice. Because Americans have been bitterly betrayed by their institutions, the Trump regime can attack the press as the “opposition party,” threaten to cut off university funding, taunt a federal jurist as a “so-called judge” and denounce a court order as “outrageous.”
The decay of democratic institutions is the prerequisite for the rise of authoritarian or fascist regimes. This decay has given credibility to a pathological liar. The Trump administration, according to an Emerson College poll, is considered by 49 percent of registered voters to be truthful while the media are considered truthful by only 39 percent of registered voters. Once American democratic institutions no longer function, reality becomes whatever absurdity the White House issues.
Most of the rules of democracy are unwritten. These rules determine public comportment and ensure respect for democratic norms, procedures and institutions. President Trump has, to the delight of his supporters, rejected this political and cultural etiquette.
Hannah Arendt in “The Origins of Totalitarianism” noted that when democratic institutions collapse it is “easier to accept patently absurd propositions than the old truths which have become pious banalities.” The chatter of the liberal ruling elites about our democracy is itself an absurdity. “Vulgarity with its cynical dismissal of respected standards and accepted theories,” she wrote, infects political discourse. This vulgarity is “mistaken for courage and a new style of life.”
“He is destroying one code of behavior after another,” Nader said of Trump. “He is so far getting away with it and not paying a price. He is breaking standards of behavior—what he says about women, commercializing the White House, I am the law.”
Nader said he does not think the Republican Party will turn against Trump or consider impeachment unless his presidency appears to threaten its chances of retaining power in the 2018 elections. Nader sees the Democratic Party as too “decadent and incompetent” to mount a serious challenge to Trump. Hope, he said, comes from the numerous protests that have been mounted in the streets, at town halls held by members of Congress and at flash points such as Standing Rock. It may also come from the 2.5 million civil servants within the federal government if a significant number refuse to cooperate with Trump’s authoritarianism.
“The new president is clearly aware of the power wielded by civil servants, who swear an oath of allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, not to any president or administration,” Maria J. Stephan, the co-author of “Why Civil Resistance Works,” writes in The Washington Post. (WaPo) “One of Trump’s first acts as president was a sweeping federal hiring freeze affecting all new and existing positions except those related to the military, national security and public safety. Even before Trump’s inauguration, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives reinstated an obscure 1876 rule that would allow Congress to slash the salaries of individual federal workers. This was a clear warning to those serving in government to keep their heads down. Trump’s high-profile firing of acting attorney general Sally Yates, who refused to follow the president’s immigration ban, sent shock waves through the bureaucracy.”
A sustained, nationwide popular uprising of nonviolent obstruction and noncooperation is the only weapon left to save the republic. The elites will respond once they become afraid. If we do not make them afraid we will fail.
The four-decade-long assault on our democratic institutions by corporations has left them weak and largely dysfunctional. These institutions, which surrendered their efficacy and credibility to serve corporate interests, should have been our firewall. Instead, they are tottering under the onslaught.
Labor unions are a spent force. The press is corporatized and distrusted. Universities have been purged of dissidents and independent scholars who criticize neoliberalism and decry the decay of democratic institutions and political parties. Public broadcasting and the arts have been defunded and left on life support. The courts have been stacked with judges whose legal careers were spent serving corporate power, a trend in appointments that continued under Barack Obama. Money has replaced the vote, which is how someone as unqualified as Betsy DeVos can buy herself a Cabinet seat. And the Democratic Party, rather than sever its ties to Wall Street and corporations, is naively waiting in the wings to profit from a Trump debacle.
“The biggest asset Trump has is the decadent, clueless, narcissistic, corporate-indentured, war-mongering Democratic Party,” Ralph Nader said when I reached him by phone in Washington. “If the Democratic strategy is waiting for Godot, waiting for Trump to implode, we are in trouble. And just about everything you say about the Democrats you can say about the AFL-CIO. They don’t control the train.”
The loss of credibility by democratic institutions has thrust the country into an existential as well as economic crisis. The courts, universities and press are no longer trusted by tens of millions of Americans who correctly see them as organs of the corporate elites. These institutions are traditionally the mechanisms by which a society is able to unmask the lies of the powerful, critique ruling ideologies and promote justice. Because Americans have been bitterly betrayed by their institutions, the Trump regime can attack the press as the “opposition party,” threaten to cut off university funding, taunt a federal jurist as a “so-called judge” and denounce a court order as “outrageous.”
The decay of democratic institutions is the prerequisite for the rise of authoritarian or fascist regimes. This decay has given credibility to a pathological liar. The Trump administration, according to an Emerson College poll, is considered by 49 percent of registered voters to be truthful while the media are considered truthful by only 39 percent of registered voters. Once American democratic institutions no longer function, reality becomes whatever absurdity the White House issues.
Most of the rules of democracy are unwritten. These rules determine public comportment and ensure respect for democratic norms, procedures and institutions. President Trump has, to the delight of his supporters, rejected this political and cultural etiquette.
Hannah Arendt in “The Origins of Totalitarianism” noted that when democratic institutions collapse it is “easier to accept patently absurd propositions than the old truths which have become pious banalities.” The chatter of the liberal ruling elites about our democracy is itself an absurdity. “Vulgarity with its cynical dismissal of respected standards and accepted theories,” she wrote, infects political discourse. This vulgarity is “mistaken for courage and a new style of life.”
“He is destroying one code of behavior after another,” Nader said of Trump. “He is so far getting away with it and not paying a price. He is breaking standards of behavior—what he says about women, commercializing the White House, I am the law.”
Nader said he does not think the Republican Party will turn against Trump or consider impeachment unless his presidency appears to threaten its chances of retaining power in the 2018 elections. Nader sees the Democratic Party as too “decadent and incompetent” to mount a serious challenge to Trump. Hope, he said, comes from the numerous protests that have been mounted in the streets, at town halls held by members of Congress and at flash points such as Standing Rock. It may also come from the 2.5 million civil servants within the federal government if a significant number refuse to cooperate with Trump’s authoritarianism.
“The new president is clearly aware of the power wielded by civil servants, who swear an oath of allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, not to any president or administration,” Maria J. Stephan, the co-author of “Why Civil Resistance Works,” writes in The Washington Post. “One of Trump’s first acts as president was a sweeping federal hiring freeze affecting all new and existing positions except those related to the military, national security and public safety. Even before Trump’s inauguration, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives reinstated an obscure 1876 rule that would allow Congress to slash the salaries of individual federal workers. This was a clear warning to those serving in government to keep their heads down. Trump’s high-profile firing of acting attorney general Sally Yates, who refused to follow the president’s immigration ban, sent shock waves through the bureaucracy.”
A sustained, nationwide popular uprising of nonviolent obstruction and noncooperation is the only weapon left to save the republic. The elites will respond once they become afraid. If we do not make them afraid we will fail.
Chris Hedges, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years.
The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Information Clearing House.
“Insane Clown President”

Chris Hedges and Matt Taibbi

Video

How a reality TV star became our president.

Chris Hedges examines the spectacle of the 2016 presidential election and the system that created President Donald Trump with Matt Taibbi, author of “Insane Clown President”.




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* Lees en teken a.u.b. de petitie tegen gasboringen bij Terschelling!

Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het voorgaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden, dit geldt niet voor de labels: Arendt, Nader, M.J. Stephan en Taibbi.