CodyyyGardner Categories Government
Mike Pence @vp @mike_pence is disloyal to @realDonaldTrump. Mike is also a traitor to We The People.
— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) January 4, 2021
Mike is a good friend to CCP. Too good.
I don\u2019t trust Mike Pence at all. Do you?https://t.co/6NTUl3PDeq
Curious - do you think it doesn\u2019t work because it\u2019s obsolete in the social media era, or that it\u2019s impossible to enforce for Fox and Newsmax?
— SIMD Crawford (@omershapira) January 7, 2021
He knows what he is proposing. He knows it is a backdoor. He knows it can entrench and promote white supremacist fascist propaganda forever. He is counting on there being a backdoor when he takes the presidency.
Look at all the calls to police the social media companies for “bias” against conservatives. Look how it propped up the kind of speech that took us to yesterday. “Fairness” and “political neutrality” were euphemisms for forcing platforms to carry propaganda and incitement.
CDA 230 is a sideshow but it’s not an empty one.
There’s a lot of good-hearted and intelligent people who are going to fall for this shit in the coming days. Do not forget where Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz have stood on 230, fairness doctrine, and the like. Do not forget who they were when they took their masks off yesterday.
But American institutions are strong in significant part because we don't let politicians act like Donald Trump, particularly not when they get close to the white house. It's not a law of nature; it's something we're actively doing. If we stop doing it, we lose our immunity.
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) January 8, 2021
My right-wing followers, of course, understand why this won't fly: America borrowing in dollars, and under US law rather than some neutral third country, is not a law of nature. People with money could easily decide it was too risky to make us dollar-denominated loans.
(Or at least, at any price we'd want to pay.)
What would make them decide this? The fastest way would be for America to borrow a metric crap ton of money, and then default or let inflation eat away the value of our loans so we're repaying pennies on the dollar in real terms.
And since the "America can't have Greek-style debt crisis" talking point is genreallly only uttered by people who are urgin gus to do exactly the sort of thing that make it more likely we'll have trouble borrowing money in dollars, this is just deeply, deeply silly.
I mean it would probably work for a while--as Adam Smith said, "There's a lot of ruin in a nation". I am prepared to concede that the natural stopping point of this binge might be quite a few years away. I only say there is some stopping point.
I saw saw the proposed bill you presented at @HouseNGR. My question is simple: How is this bill going to change the ineffectiveness of the LGA? How will further disempowerment of the LGA get it closer to the people?
House of Reps considers bill to remove LGs as tier of govt https://t.co/6oeJcXcMln #vanguardnews pic.twitter.com/fRpnF41Bjb
— Vanguard Newspapers (@vanguardngrnews) December 25, 2020
Has the @HouseNGR ever challenged State Gvnors for not releasing funds to their LGA? If Gvnors do not give the funds that a constitutionally the right of the LGA, how then do you think they will fund it when it isn't a constitutional tier of Govt? These should be how we think
We should ask questions first when a problem exists, after which we can investigate one state in each region, then you have the appropriate committee brainstorm on d best cause for action that gets governance to the people. This eliminates any short sightedness in pushing a bill
Has d LGA elections been a reflection of the people's will? Why is the LGA election held by the SEC rather than by INEC? Why do we have all LGA in a state like Lagos owning a broom? Similarly some states having most LGA if not all using an umbrella? We should ask these questions
This brings me to the real reason why the LGA has continues to fail.
It has fail mainly because "The State Joint Local Government Account(SJLGA)"
When the LGA has revenue in its jurisdiction but the state govt fight them over jurisdiction. They can't get their own IGR.
Short cut to JCVI rationale behind extending interval between doses of #covidvaccine (thanks @mgtmccartney)
— Dr Mark Porter (@drmarkporter) January 1, 2021
Note efficacy is "calculated" rather than proven at this stage.https://t.co/EbZWcJYkFt
For the Ox/AZ vaccine, it's fairly simple. The trial demonstrated efficacy at a range of dose intervals. Antibody responses after the boost were significantly stronger with longer intervals - see table
(so in response to @drmarkporter's point, higher immune responses with a longer interval is proven & now public. I haven't seen a similar analysis for efficacy against disease but the data exists and I suspect the regulators & JCVI committee have)
For Pfizer, there isn't direct evidence of efficacy with a >3wk interval. But as widely publicised, efficacy in the period from 14 days after first dose to 21 days is high.
Can we extrapolate from this to a longer interval? It's a judgment call. On one hand is evidence-based medicine's scepticism of anything not directly proven 'beyond reasonable doubt' in an RCT; on the other is a 'balance of probabilities' approach based upon the biology.
Boris Johnson says 1.3m people have been vaccinated across UK, 1.1m in England.
650,000 of them are over-80 which is 23% of that cohort.
DAILY UPDATES ON VACCINATION FIGURES ARE COMING FROM MONDAY!
It's @olyduff wot won it.
Today @theipaper, @thetimes & @TheSun all call on the government to start publishing daily data on how many people in the UK have been vaccinated.
— Hugo Gye (@HugoGye) January 5, 2021
The figure of 'nearly/around a million' currently being bandied around relates to 9 days ago. We won't get an update till Thursday. pic.twitter.com/xNR5UVXrxO
PM says there are 107 hospital hubs open for vaccinations now, plus 595 GP-led sites. This week another 100 hubs are coming on stream and 180 GP sites - next week the first seven mass vaccination centres open in stadiums and exhibition centres.
NHS refusing to give out the locations of the seven new mass vaccination centres 🤔