Tag: COVID-19

If you live in the Milwaukee area and you have not yet received your COVID-19 vaccination, there are COVID-19 vaccination appointments available as soon as tomorrow through Walgreens. If you haven’t yet gotten your vaccine, please consider doing your part to help put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic. Sign…

Remember that scene in Jaws where the Mayor of Amity Island opens the beaches while there remains a very large, very carnivorous, and very deadly shark roaming the waters? Cue Dan O’Donnell, apparently the staff epidemiologist over at the MacIver Institute who last week wondered aloud why the Evers and…

Despite “Our Dumb Senator” Ron Johnson’s attempts to stall it, President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus bill appears poised to pass in the United States Senate. In their attempts to delay financial relief for millions of Americans Sen. Johnson and his Republican allies filed over 500 amendments to the…

Yes please… More than 50 House progressives are pushing President Joe Biden to prioritize recurring direct checks instead of one-time payments in the next rescue package, upping the demands on Democratic leaders in their race to draft a bill. The group of House Democrats, led by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.),…

It’s going to be really nice to have a president who’s willing to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic head on… President-elect Joe Biden introduced a $1.9 trillion spending package Thursday that aims to speed distribution of the coronavirus vaccines and provide economic relief caused by the pandemic. The package proposal includes…

With the coronavirus vaccine rollout underway public health officials nationwide are justifiably worried about the percentage of Americans who have stated on social media platforms, (which is where all the best information comes from, by the way) that they don’t intend to be vaccinated against the virus for a variety…

As the United States has struggled with lock downs, stay at home orders, and other socially and economically disruptive actions taken to prevent the spread of the coronavirus…decisions were made about who is/isn’t an essential worker in an essential business. Obviously health care workers are essential, as are police and…

So Congress passes a relief bill and the President torpedoes it and the House Dems take him at his word and then, the House GOP kills the new current version of the relief bill. I think the President needs to call House GOP leadership and Senate Majority Leader McConnell and…

Although many on the left (including myself) question why naysayers, anti-maskers, and virus hoaxers electeds in the Republican Party got vaccines ahead of front line medical personnel…Vice-president-elect Kamala Harris wants a word. Amid growing anger as some Republicans who have spent the pandemic downplaying COVID-19 become some of the first…

Pennsylvania finds one case of a dead person voting…a man requested an absentee ballot in his late mother’s name and….voted for Trump. And then Congress did this: