Why are the COVID-19 spikes in Florida and Texas getting attention but not California?

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    What the hell do you mean "dumped on the science?" If you're claiming that Trump somehow prevented the CDC from doing it's job, you're going to have to present more than just your baseless speculation! Funny how there were no leaks coming out of the CDC complaining that Trump has stopped it from doing it's job! :roflol:
     
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    It's been front page news for months.
     
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    Then you should have no trouble whatsoever linking to a relevant source! However, I'm guessing that you're going to have REAL trouble! :roflol:
     
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    Nearly 700 vacancies at CDC because of Trump administration’s hiring freeze
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ecause-of-trump-administration-hiring-freeze/

    The Trump administration must stop sidelining the CDC
    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02231-6

    (CNN)New US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines on education and child care come down hard in favor of opening schools, saying children don't suffer much from coronavirus, are less likely than adults to spread it and suffer from being out of school.

    But the new guidelines posted Thursday do recommend that local officials should consider closing schools, or keeping them closed, if there is substantial, uncontrolled transmission of the virus.
    The CDC has been promising new guidelines for more than a week, after demands from President Donald Trump that the agency alter its recommendations for opening schools.
    https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/23/health/cdc-coronavirus-school-guidelines-new/index.html
     
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    Then I assume that you blame Obama for the IRS scandal which targeted conservative non-profit organisations.
     
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    Sorry, that was fake.
     
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    Yeah, so fake that you were unable to stand by your unfactual position when challenged! :roflol:
     
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    So you're against the DNC being held then?
     
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    None of this is preventing the CDC from doing it's job. Also, changing the level of the CDC's involvement - is that a BAD thing? Has the CDC been PERFECT during this pandemic?

    Okay, so in both versions of the guidelines, the CDC is in favour of opening schools. And in the second version, after these so called "demands from President Donald Trump that the agency alter its recommendations for opening schools", they say the EXACT same thing, but adding the recommendation "that local officials should consider closing schools, or keeping them closed, if there is substantial, uncontrolled transmission of the virus." What is your point exactly? Are you interpreting it as, local officials should NOT consider closing schools, or keeping them closed, if there is substantial, uncontrolled transmission of the virus? You and CNN seem to think that the CDC initially said that it's unsafe to open schools, but NOW after Trump's so called 'demands', they have caved, and now say the opposite. You and CNN are totally confused, but to be fair to you, maybe it's only because you read that trash from CNN.
     
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    From your link:

    "In late September 2017, an exhaustive report by the Treasury Department's Inspector General found that from 2004 to 2013, the IRS used both conservative and liberal keywords to choose targets for further scrutiny."

    Right wing groups were not singled out, they were simply corrupt. Which is hardly a surprise. Been following the NY lawsuit against the NRA?

    Ouch!

    (Unfactual is not a word)
     
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    Yeah, I knew that, but it was still one sided: Referring to the same September 2017 report: "The 115 page report confirmed the findings of the prior 2013 report that some conservative organizations had been unfairly targeted."

    What, ALL of them?
     
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    That's politics at work.

    Corruption needs to be rooted out, and that simply did not happen.
     
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    What, the corruption being "rooted out" did not happen?
     
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    That undermines your own argument. The CDC HAS been stymied and stifled.

    And the head of the CDC (Redfield) was a controversial Trump appointment from the beginning. He has been trying to placate Trump from the all along
     
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    There were, and are, a bunch of Right wing organisations breaking the law.
     
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    But not LEFT wing organisations?
     
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    And yet you can't say HOW!

    Are you promoting a conspiracy theory?
     
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    The IRS looked at them, didn't find much.

    That's the problem with loving lies, you miss the obvious.

    So next you will try to move the goalposts.
     
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    So is the idea that because right wing groups have been the majority offenders in the past, they are targeted more because of the sins of unrelated groups? I totally understand why offending groups would be targeted, but not unrelated groups. This would seem no more acceptable than racial profiling based on the crime stats of a particular race. Call it, ideological profiling.
     
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    You babble, unless you know better, in which case it's fiction.

    The IRS backed off, the world is safer now for dirty politics.
     
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    You don't support racial profiling, so why support ideological profiling?
     
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    The IRS caught them breaking the law, hell, they're still doing it...
     
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    And I suppose that you blamed Obama for ANYTHING which went wrong in his administration! :roflol:
     
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