“Trends have dramatically worsened since June 2021 and transmission is rapidly accelerating in the United States,” CDC Director Walensky writes.
The rubber hits the road in this CDC order in the “covered person” definition, which obliges people under threat of eviction to provide a six-point declaration to their landlord under penalty of perjury—including that they live in a substantial or high transmission area.
As an indication of how quickly and haphazardly this came together, here’s what happens when you click on the link for a declaration form in the *new* order:
1- you get a notice the form is not being updated and a further link for “more recent info,” which leads to…
2- A bare page that says the eviction moratorium expired on 7/31
Not ideal.
Beyond what it reveals, the unavailability of updated forms strikes me as a significant problem for people with imminent need to produce one of these declarations and without the means to hire a lawyer to draft one for them, so I hope @CDCgov is working to fix it ASAP.
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The long awaited OIG report into the FBI New York Office is out, and it’s a nothingburger.
In capsule form, so many FBI agents talked to reporters that they couldn’t figure out who leaked anything specific, and they let Giuliani blatantly lie to them. oig.justice.gov/sites/default/…
This guy.
Just to remind people how serious this once was, an old thread:
It’s the little details, like @RichAzzopardi getting Wite-Out to obscure everyone else’s name, that can go so far to establish consciousness of guilt. ag.ny.gov/sites/default/…
Not every day you see a running world record fall by almost a full second.
The bronze medal guy from Brazil p much ran the old world record and wasn’t even in the picture at the finish.
Rye Benjamin was really broken up in the post race interviews because he didn’t get the gold, but he did amazing! The Brazilian bronze medalist did amazing! And Rye beat him by more than half a second!
The AP decided to take an extremely pro-factory farm angle on this, but it’s notable that veal and egg producers—not widely known for tender care of their animals—were able to comply with California’s 2018 law while pork producers are at 4% compliance. apnews.com/article/lifest…
The draconian requirement at issue here is giving “breeding pigs enough room to turn around and to extend their limbs.”
This is clearly the disposition of the Associated Press team that produced the story.
the NYT reporter and the fat cat McConnell lobbyist chuckling and throwing popcorn at the screen
It’s a communications challenge bc you have to get across several nuanced concepts: The distinction between breakthrough infections and severe disease, the still-not-fully-understood potential of breakthrough infections to fuel community spread, and the risk to the unvaccinated.