If you actually spent time reading the article, you'd realize they were writing about the government being unprepared for a pandemic and prioritizing their allotted budget on a much much much less likely occurrence of a very specific terrorist attack.
its not a 'specific' type or terrorist attack. that shit is terrifying as fuck. and its not that hard to accomplish either. the article is just weird because instead of playing either/or when it comes to preparedness it should be both.
mass cas risk management is a huge field all to itself. countering numerous attempts to acquire chem/nerv agents for decades is a hell of a lot more pertinent, concerning, and actionable than focusing on a threat that doesn't exist at all yet - and could've been countered normally at earlier stages if the point of origin didn't deliberately conceal/discourage the typical preventative measures that are required internationally.
By diehard Go To PostSeems like a strange time to be writing articles about criticizing the government for being overly prepared. Wonder how long they have been waiting to hit the submit button on that one.im saying...
By reilo Go To PostStockpiling 10mil doses of an unapproved vaccine because 5 people died 20 years ago seems a bit overboardits overboard til it isn't. i think we've established that people don't really care about stringently tested vaccines when there's a medical emergency either... and you don't just jumpstart production
mass cas risk management is a huge field all to itself. countering numerous attempts to acquire chem/nerv agents for decades is a hell of a lot more pertinent, concerning, and actionable than focusing on a threat that doesn't exist at all yet - and could've been countered normally at earlier stages if the point of origin didn't deliberately conceal/discourage the typical preventative measures that are required internationally.
So spending half of your stockpile budget on an anthrax vaccine isn't overboard when we know we've had PPE shortages for well over a decade? k
Priorities are all fucked up but gotta keep the brown terrorist boogeyman alive, I guess
Priorities are all fucked up but gotta keep the brown terrorist boogeyman alive, I guess
its not a boogie man. you don't need shit to hit the fan to take it seriously.
which should be the lesson learned from 2020 but instead this is a finger pointing spin that's just.... tiring
which should be the lesson learned from 2020 but instead this is a finger pointing spin that's just.... tiring
Man I hate to be that guy but bioweaponry terrorism is actually more of a domestic threat than a ME related thing, and it's a very real and scary thing. Last time we had an anthrax scare it was homegrown. So I'm not really gonna throw stones about ensuring we can deal with like some shit someone exposes a bunch folks on the subway to.
At least 17 people have died and hundreds more have been injured in a series of explosions in Equatorial Guinea, the health ministry says.Mm ok
Some 420 people were injured following the blasts, which happened near a military barracks in the main city of Bata on Sunday.
The blasts were caused by "negligence" relating to the storage of dynamite at the barracks, the president said.
Chris Cuomo, CNN News anchor and brother of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, was criticized on Twitter this weekend after he joked that he's "black on the inside" while talking to journalist and CNN colleague Don Lemon.The Cuomos have got to go
By Fenderputty Go To PostI figured Manchin would hate the minority
Talking filibuster?
This asshole loves being the center of attention it seems
By reilo Go To PostThe Cuomos have got to goAre we sure he wasn’t just flirting with Don?
Cuomo; “I’m black on the inside, at least, I will be if you come ‘round my place tonight”
Swiss voters approved a proposition Sunday banning facial coverings in public. Niqabs and burqas, worn by almost no one even among the country's Muslim population, will be banned outside of religious institutions. The new law doesn't apply to facial coverings for health reasons.Progressive, tolerant, Europe
Switzerland will join several European countries that have implemented a ban on facial coverings, including France, Denmark, the Netherlands and Austria.
By reilo Go To PostThe Cuomos have got to go
I've only been saying this. They're both trash.
Chris faked his COVID diagnosis for the ratings. Claimed he never stepped foot outside his house...but neighbors spotted him and his wife walking around and inspecting their new home under construction. One neighbor even confronted him. Dude's a royal cunt.
By reilo Go To PostProgressive, tolerant, EuropeThis xenophobia thing some politicians are using seems to be working
By cRrusheR Go To PostEverybody involved in this royal madness stinks, and that includes Meghan and Harry.No no please support one rich and privileged side over the other! It's woke!
By Pedja Go To PostI knew there was something about her I didn't like.
By Perfect Blue Go To PostNo no please support one rich and privileged side over the other! It's woke!I just don't have the energy for any of this 🤷🏾♂️
Some of these takes, ain't it...
Absolutely.
Madea in the cut, with the iron, running security. Whole situation is nutty af.
By DY_nasty Go To PostI'm enjoying the Brits having an absolute meltdown over this interview
Absolutely.
Madea in the cut, with the iron, running security. Whole situation is nutty af.
By Lunatic Go To PostI just don't have the energy for any of this 🤷🏾♂️For real. I can't imagine giving one ounce of shit for what's going on with the royals in general, let alone right now while the rest of the world is on fire.
Hopefully when Liz croaks, Canada can sever its ties to the monarchy. Honestly it's absurd we still have her as our sovereign when the UK is a husk of its former self and getting even weaker each day.
By Perfect Blue Go To PostFor real. I can't imagine giving one ounce of shit for what's going on with the royals in general, let alone right now while the rest of the world is on fire.When she dies you and I will get a public holiday so there is that to look forward to.
Hopefully when Liz croaks, Canada can sever its ties to the monarchy. Honestly it's absurd we still have her as our sovereign when the UK is a husk of its former self and getting even weaker each day.
Not looking forward to the wall to wall, ceiling to ceiling coverage, lamentations and cannonization.
Oh god, at this rate she will outlive us all. Her husband is being kept alive through some sort of ancient sorcery.
Oh god, at this rate she will outlive us all. Her husband is being kept alive through some sort of ancient sorcery.
By DY_nasty Go To Posteverything i know about the royal family i learned against my will
TBH. Only reason I gave this a passing glance, is because of the old timey racist element. I know all about the nonsense that comes from relationships that look like this...hell, friendships too.
Also, getting to dunk on Euro lads that always act like their country isn't as racist, is never a missed opportunity. lol
By Lunatic Go To PostThe British never considered themselves European so the jokes on you.
Most European countries really don't think of themselves as 'European', or feel like we have much in common with the rest of the countries, which I always see lots of uk papangus assuming. Scandinavia sure as fuck doesnt either, which I guess is also why Norway said no to the EU, and Denmark had to go through several votes for the public to finally accept it (and even then, there was huge riots, and lots of parties both left and right wing want us out still).
By cashman Go To PostJust a follow up on this, after DSA/Bernie Organizers actually managed to change the Democratic party from within, the incumbents are basically trying to gut the state party
One state down, 49 more to go!
Not long after Judith Whitmer won her election on Saturday to become chair of the Nevada Democratic Party, she got an email from the party’s executive director, Alana Mounce. The message from Mounce began with a note of congratulations, before getting to her main point.
She was quitting. So was every other employee. And so were all the consultants. And the staff would be taking severance checks with them, thank you very much.
On March 6, a coalition of progressive candidates backed by the local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America took over the leadership of the Nevada Democratic Party, sweeping all five party leadership positions in a contested election that evening. Whitmer, who had been chair of the Clark County Democratic Party, was elected chair. The incumbents had prepared for the loss, having recently moved $450,000 out of the party’s coffers and into the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s account. The DSCC will put the money toward the 2022 reelection bid of Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, a vulnerable first-term Democrat.
The Left Caucus and DSA organizers ran a slate of candidates for state party leadership under the name “The NV Dems Progressive Slate.” All but one candidate on the slate was a dues-paying member of a local DSA chapter. The Democratic Party ran candidates on a slate titled “The Progressive Unity Slate,” playing on a theme they’d been pushing the entire cycle: The groups angling for change from the left were trying to divide the party, they said, while they were trying to save it.
After the results, Mounce sent the email making clear that everyone on the small staff had resigned, including the party operations director, communications director, research director, and finance director.
The mass exodus of party staff, despite the rhetoric around unity, wasn’t a shock, Whitmer told The Intercept. “We weren’t really surprised, in that we were prepared for it,” she said. “But what hit us by surprise and was sort of shocking is that for a slate that claimed that they were all about unity, and kept this false narrative of division going on throughout the entire campaign — in fact they kept intensifying that — that’s what was surprising about it, was the willingness to just walk away, instead of working with us.”
https://theintercept.com/2021/03/08/nevada-democratic-party-dsa/