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James Mattis Denounces Trump as Threat to Constitution - The Atlantic

This is one helluva broadside from Mattis who declined to openly criticise the Trump admin last year saying it had to be given a chance to deliver.

That is now well & truly over.

theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
He specifically says that Trump actively seeks to divide..doesn’t even pretend to Unite - but the rest of America can choose to unite and uphold the best values of the USA “confident that we are better than our politics”

There’s a message for the U.K. in that.
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Who has been deployed on the streets of Washington? | Financial Times

Many of us have been looking, with concern at the deployment of supposed law enforcement troops in the US who wear no distinguishing marks.

Some answers here.
ft.com/content/a0d25f…
Rather a lot are from the National Guard - a 450k strong part time civilian soldiers drawn from local communities & trained to support disaster response (well Trump and Barr sure are disasters)

In Washington they (unlike federal troops) do not bear lethal or non lethal weapons
The Bully In Chief has threatened to “federalise” them (which hasn’t gone down so well) and also invoke the Insurrection Act sending federal troops into states.

That hasn’t gone down so well either with federal troop generals or his Defence Secretary, Mark Esper.
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How Germany got CV right | Free to read

Early intervention was seen as crucial - not just in trace and track but also in the management of (rather than the abandonment of sick patients, as in the U.K.)

GPs played key roles in testing and in care

ft.com/content/cc1f65…
They also engaged their 400 local authorities putting them at the centre of their local tracing and containment measures, not just identifying contacts but also supporting people through isolation.

They had been neglected over the years so recruitment for more staff was early
So whilst the U.K. Gov was busy lying about our testing and abandoned comprehensive tracing, excluding GPs, our depleted local authorities and local public health, Germany faced the consequences and got recruiting and including.
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Genes May Leave Some People More Vulnerable to Severe Covid-19 - The New York Times

This caught my attention as it is the 3rd study I have seen that identified a correlation between severe disease and Blood Group A.

This study went a bit further. nytimes.com/2020/06/03/hea…
Yes. Why do some suffer only mild symptoms and other severe requiring oxygen?

Patients with Blood Group A had a 50% increase in likelihood in needing oxygen or a ventilator.

This makes me quite cautious as I am blood group A.
But, quite apart from the other risk factors already identified (age, diabetes, Male, coronary heart disease, high BP, BAME, this finding is quite striking.

Scientists are hoping that DNA tests will identify who needs the most aggressive treatments
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