It's wild to me that my backwards ass state of Idaho beat Florida to the punch. Earlier this week we finally made it harder for old men to coerce child brides to marry them by raising the marriage age to 16, and only if your spouse is three years older or less.
The Blue states (mostly are).
Pretty damn late.
Call me cynical, but red states will obfuscate the data by not testing and recording nonspecific causes of death.
They cannot hide something like this in this day and age they can try but people going to start asking questions.
It seems that everybody is doing this to one extent or another. Sometimes the limitations are real (even in places where we want to test, we still don't have sufficient capacity), but others are certainly self-imposed.
Sure, you can. If you don't test somebody, you don't know they're positive, and their death doesn't have to be attributed to the virus. I highly suspect some countries with absurdly low death rates are already fudging the data to some degree.
Depends if they expect restaurants just to only deal with a small business loan. I can only imagine the amount of ethnic restaurants that don't have the resources or U.S. SBA knowledge to apply for help too.
Highly suspect their next note will be saying that number was "somewhat optimistic".
I wonder if that's her maiden name or her married name. Because either her parents had a good laugh, or she lucked into a great last name.
I'm not really sure what's left to verify. She's been an accuser for months now and is only expanding on an accusation that she made before. Either way, hopefully major news sources start running it.
The same process we went through with Ford.
Yeah, I just totally see some conservative governors playing games to reduce and obfuscate the numbers for as long as possible to avoid political repercussions. Make researchers and reporters have to dig long enough and hope you're beyond political accountability when the shit hits the fan, or maybe the public loses interest or simply assume that the ProPublic deep-dive doesn't penetrate public consciousness. Whatever it takes to keep the appearance of good health and economic news in the short term.
The process where her accusations were buried because "no evidence"?
Where we investigate and try to back it up as best we can.
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We'll find out if there's any real difference between dems and republicans in this regard. Or if silencing, shaming and blaming victims is bipartisan at this level.
I mean, we already did with Senator Frankin. We asked him to leave.
Yeah, but he wasn't running for fucking president. And there have since been a lot of people, including Franken, who have regretted his resigning.
That is ultimately up to the voters to decide right or wrong.
Probably help if we just waited and let this play out however it does. It seriously seems like a ton of people have made their minds up already and I can't help but think a ton of it relates to people hating Joe Biden's guts vs supporting a rape victim.
Well yeah that's my point. Time to see if dem voters have a moral backbone in regards to voting for a rapist.
As someone who was completely prepared to vote for Biden but has dumped him based on this allegation of rape, nah, this ain't it. And as a victim of sexual assault I don't fucking appreciate the sentiment here. I believe her and the other women who have accused him of inappropriate conduct.
There's literally nothing controversial about saying let's wait more than 8 hours before we crucify somebody over allegations they haven't even gotten the chance to respond too.
She's not some newcomer, she's someone who has levied allegations months prior. She's now expanding upon those allegations in terms of being raped. It's her word against his.
We want people to not have to work! There's a pandemic outside.
