I came across this is little story today, it's not breaking news. I suspect that a member of the housekeeping staff knows something about the bomb threat that required the sweep for weapons.
According to police in Secaucus, the bomb threat — which later was determined to be bogus — was called in to Hudson Regional Hospital on July 18. During a search, bomb detection dogs led investigators to an unlocked office closet containing dozens of firearms.
Among the weapons were 11 handguns and 27 rifles or shotguns, according to police. The closet also contained a .45 caliber semi-automatic rifle with a high-capacity magazine that was determined to be an assault rifle, and a 14-round high-capacity handgun magazine.
The arrested the guy the next day.
What the heck do you think this guy was doing? It sounds very ominous that he was keeping those weapons there.
I am having trouble providing a link on my phone, but the governor of Florida is announcing his own public health organization, to refute the CDC, the Public Health Integrity Committee. And his surgeon general is looking for proof of myocarditis is people who die within 2 weeks of immunization. Seems like a small pool to draw from.
And every time that governor brags about keeping the state open, I wish he would on number of deaths.
I agree, we are failing at all level of government. Whether you think the immigration issue is appropriately manage or a crisis situation, immigrants are arriving in large numbers. This past October, at least 50,000 immigrants arrived to El Paso, nearly a 7.5% increase in the city's population, and some estimates are reported as high as 2,500 per day. While some have likely moved on to other areas, this still represents a huge increase on available services.
What exactly do you think we should do?
I have thrown my mental "hands" up in the air on immigration. It's as existential and unattainable as peace in the Middle East. My city has no housing for more than the handful of immigrants that we do take. Housing here, like most other places is always unattainable for too many. It's hard enough to take care of our own homeless people and keep them out of the brutal cold in the Winter. Oh yeah. Another existential crisis:( They are piling up.
The emperor is having a real snit hissy. If the taxpayers of Florida want to pay for all this silliness then I guess they deserve him. Just another good reason to give Florida back to Spain as a form of reparation.
In the petition filed with the Florida Supreme Court, the Republican governor requests the empaneling of a grand jury to investigate a broad group of entities associated with the development, distribution and promotion of the vaccines, including pharmaceutical manufacturers and their executive officers, as well as medical associations.
DeSantis also said Tuesday he was launching a public health integrity committee – a panel that would counter the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which DeSantis said “is not serving a useful function; it’s really serving to advance narratives rather than do evidence-based medicine.” The panel would assess guidance and actions from federal agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health, US Food and Drug Administration and the CDC.
DeSantis seems to be politicizing vaccine recommendations by saying it's serving to advance narratives. Also engaging the Florida Supreme Court to investigate isn't all together a medical topic. So perhaps this is why we're discussing in the political forums. Plus we've gone off political topics before.
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In the petition filed with the Florida Supreme Court, the Republican governor requests the empaneling of a grand jury to investigate a broad group of entities associated with the development, distribution and promotion of the vaccines, including pharmaceutical manufacturers and their executive officers, as well as medical associations.
DeSantis also said Tuesday he was launching a public health integrity committee – a panel that would counter the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which DeSantis said “is not serving a useful function; it’s really serving to advance narratives rather than do evidence-based medicine.” The panel would assess guidance and actions from federal agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health, US Food and Drug Administration and the CDC.
So you can look at the above narrative and think it's either anti-vaccine as CNN obviously does, or simply at face value. DeSantis is attempting to keep vaccine manufacturers on the up and up about their risks. Even though as the last paragraph (not posted above but in the article) says Florida is the outlier in not recommending vaccines for healthy children, perhaps he really wants truthful evidence.
I'm really weary of his "I kept Florida free" when he locked us down and people suffered and got pathetic unemployment whenever they were able to get it. But he does get bragging rights for opening up long earlier than other states. Then there's the deaths. Death rates per 100,000 aren't as high as some states like Michigan, Arizona, a good deal of the southern states above and New York, but still hefty.
But we can keep that in perspective in a state with 20 million people. He should do that with things like myocarditis: how much about of the billions of vaccines given did people get myocarditis and is it statistically significant enough to warrant a recommendation against vaccination.
Some of you might remember the seat belt debates. Everyone can point to an example of how not being seat belted saved a person in an accident, but they still went with the recommendation to buckle up.
I can't always say the CDC bats 1,000 and isn't under outside influences, but I also most of my looked to them as a trustworthy source of data and information. Covid, the media, and politicians seems to have destroyed that for many of us.
And interesting that the story is under "politics".
Why not? He’s likely to be the next president. I think he can defeat Biden. I’m surprised though, that the tax payers of Florida are will to pay for all his phony, headline-grabbing schemes.
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3 hours ago, nursej22 said:
I am having trouble providing a link on my phone, but the governor of Florida is announcing his own public health organization, to refute the CDC, the Public Health Integrity Committee. And his surgeon general is looking for proof of myocarditis is people who die within 2 weeks of immunization. Seems like a small pool to draw from.
And every time that governor brags about keeping the state open, I wish he would on number of deaths.
Specializes in NICU, PICU, Transport, L&D, Hospice.
8 hours ago, chare said:
I agree, we are failing at all level of government. Whether you think the immigration issue is appropriately manage or a crisis situation, immigrants are arriving in large numbers. This past October, at least 50,000 immigrants arrived to El Paso, nearly a 7.5% increase in the city's population, and some estimates are reported as high as 2,500 per day. While some have likely moved on to other areas, this still represents a huge increase on available services.
What exactly do you think we should do?
Address our outdated laws. Here's a discussion from a couple years back.
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Maybe, like our president, they had other more important things to do.