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Over 3 million positive c****-** cases in the U.S. and Trump wants to force children back to public school to get infected. A malignant narcissist and sociopath have no empathy. Trump understands that (as it now stands) he will not be re-elected.
Reporter CHAUNCEY DEVEGA:
What do you think Donald Trump will do if, shortly before Nov. 3, it appears clear that he is going to lose the e******n?
Psychologist John Gartner:
Rather than making a prediction as to Trump's specific actions, it is more helpful to describe the type of actions he will take. Rather than trying to say, "This is the move he'll make." Like in a relationship, Donald Trump is the abuser. He is the husband or father who is abusing his partner or children or other relatives. The American people are like a woman who is leaving her abuser. She tells her abuser, "That's it! I am done with you!" She has her keys in hand and is opening the door of the house or apartment to finally leave. What happens? The democidal maniac Donald Trump will attack us, badly. Make no mistake. Donald Trump is going to find a way to attack and cause great harm to the American people if he believes that he will lose the 2020 e******n.


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Trump Leans on Schools to Reopen as V***s Continues Its Spread
President Trump spearheaded an administration-wide push to pry open the nation’s elementary and secondary schools, the next phase of his effort to get the economy on its feet.

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President Trump, seen here at a roundtable discussion at the White House on Tuesday, rebuked the CDC for its guidelines on reopening schools in a tweet Wednesday.
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In the latest move from the Trump administration to push for states to reopen schools this fall, Vice President Pence couched guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to safely reopen schools, saying it shouldn't be used as a "barrier" to students returning to classrooms.

Speaking to reporters during a White House C****av***s Task Force meeting at the Department of Education on Wednesday afternoon, Pence stressed that states and local governments should "tailor their plans" to enable to students to return to in-person instruction.

"None of the CDC's recommendations are intended to replace state and local rules and guidance," Pence said.

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Pence was joined by CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield, who emphasized that it is not the intent of the CDC to provide a "rationale to keep schools closed" and that existing guidelines aren't meant to be prescriptive.

Pence and Redfield's comments come after President Trump slammed the CDC Wednesday morning, calling its guidelines for reopening schools in the wake of the c****av***s p******c "impractical" and "expensive."

"I disagree with the @CDCgov on their very tough & expensive guidelines for opening schools. While they want them open, they are asking schools to do very impractical things. I will be meeting with them!!!" Trump wrote on Twitter.


Health officials' guidance

Existing CDC guidance includes temporary school dismissals if there is a substantial spread of C****-** within the community and, in cases of mild to moderate community t***smission, modifying classes where students are in close contact, staggering arrival/dismissal times and enforcing social distancing.

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The CDC continues to update its website with best practices, including this checklist for schools. It's unclear which specific guidance the president was rebuking.

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Pence said the CDC will be issuing new documents next week about how to reopen schools, including guidance on screening for C***D symptoms.

The American Academy of Pediatrics issued a strong statement in June in favor of bringing children back to the classroom in the fall wherever and whenever they can do so safely. The statement included recommendations about physical distancing, cleaning and disinfection, hand-washing, and using outdoor space whenever possible.

Emily Oster, an economist at Brown University, told All Things Considered's Mary Louise Kelly that one of the biggest challenges of reopening schools safely is taking into account the fact that some teachers may not be comfortable returning, which could result in a limited workforce.

"Even if we think kids tend to not get sick and they don't t***smit very much, the process of opening a school involves a lot of adults interacting with each other and there definitely are many teachers, given the age of our teaching workforce, who are at higher risk for C***D," Oster says.

Oster said there's no "best" option when it comes to reopening.

"There is no way to do this in a way that means no one will get the c****av***s, and also means everyone will be in school," she explained. "I don't know how you trade off the risk of serious illness or death among staff against the kind of learning outcomes of a very large number of kids. That's the choice you have to make but that seems like an impossible choice."

Funding threat confusion

Trump on Wednesday went as far as to threaten to cut off federal funding if schools do not reopen and suggested that his political opponents are somehow interfering with the reopening process, saying Democrats think reopening would hurt them politically in the November e******n.


However, the decision to reopen schools — like the decision to close them in March — is not top-down. Rather, it is made by thousands of local and state school leaders and public health officials.

Still, Trump has made his desires clear.

"We're very much going to put pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools," he said during a roundtable discussion on the subject Tuesday.

Meanwhile, senior administration officials told reporters on a background call Tuesday morning that while the White House will provide states with "best practices" on reopening, the decision remains a local one.

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Hours after the threaten to withhold funding to states that choose not to reopen, Pence assured reporters that the White House would be "very respectful" of state and local communities who can't fully reopen schools because of "certain limitations."

Trump's comments and tweets and the subsequent clarifications from other members of the administration reflect the dissonance in the White House's messaging on this issue.

How school funding works

On average, public schools receive less than 10% of their funding from the U.S. government. That money is largely dev**ed to helping schools serve low-income students and children with disabilities — in short, the nation's most vulnerable students.

For decades, that funding stream has flowed through Congress with bipartisan support, and Trump has no authority to cut it off or add requirements to funding lawmakers have already allocated.

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Following Trump's tweet, Evan Hollander, communications director for the House Appropriations Committee, underscored that the power of the purse rests with Congress, not the president.

"Congress provides federal education funding to support some of the most vulnerable young people in our country. The President has no authority to cut off funding for these students, and threatening to do so to prop up his flailing campaign is offensive," Hollander told NPR in a statement.

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In fact, public schools are facing a financial crisis as states slash education budgets in response to the p******c-driven recession, and the federal government has so far done little to help them make up for those cuts or shoulder the expensive, new burdens of following public health guidance: deep-cleaning schools, hiring nurses, creating socially distanced classrooms.

During Wednesday's briefing, Pence suggested that the administration is considering a new relief package for schools and could potentially create incentives in such a bailout for states and/or districts that reopen schools more broadly.

Congress set aside roughly $13 billion for schools as part of the CARES Act, but Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has complicated the distribution of that money by insisting that public schools use a far larger share of the aid to help students attending private schools. A bill passed by the House to provide school districts with another $58 billion has languished in the Senate.

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Since you are a Liberal, I will try and explain this to you without using big words. Since May, the death rate from C****a v***s had been going down. Right now it is about the same as it was in March after peaking in late April/early May. Have you ever heard of the CDC? They have this really neat website that explains stuff about all those icky diseases. There is a reason why "new cases" are up. Every C****a v***s test with a positive result is listed as a new case. Florida has reported some 33,000 false positives, because multiple tests done on the same person were listed as multiple new cases. The CDC says that people who die of heart attacks, gunshot wounds and auto accidents have been listed as c****a deaths because they tested positive. In short, both deaths and new cases are inflated because of the misleading way they are listed.
In my county of some 60,000 residents and t***sients, the lockdown has been mostly ignored. The result? We had ONE C****a death. Count 'em, ONE. This was a patient in her late eighties with advanced heart disease that likely would have k**led her in another six months, v***s or not. In the same time period we have had four deaths from the plain old everyday flu that comes calling every damn year. Which one should we be worried about? The one with a death rate of a tiny fraction of one percent, or the one with an even tinier death rate? In New York, some 40% of C****a deaths occurred in nursing homes, patients sent there without proper protective equipment into an environment of susceptible people.
I will leave you to obsess about c****a v***s, monsters under your bed and woolly boogers in your closet.