I’ll have to check into this. There’s always strings attached to government money that aren’t discussed in these articles. Kari Lake, one of the candidates for governor, is running on a platform of turning down lots of federal money saying it often isn’t worth the conditions associated with taking it and often ends up costing the state more than not taking it.
Pay-wall can’t read the article, but if the strings attached was “fire all your unvaxxed nurses”, I’d turn it down too. Better to have the nurses than the money.
A lot of federal funding is only a % of what’s needed for a project. They’ll fund 25% if the local government funds the rest. It appears to be a good deal. Then the project ends up being 3-6x the original budget, and the local government is on the hook for the overages.
So maybe the strings attached cost more than the money?
“But she said she rejected the $1.9 million — which originated with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services — because she was dubious about doing contact tracing, public health surveys and hiring a security guard at the health department.”
La Honda, CA used federal money to repair and reline its reservoirs. They barely broke even on the deal. It would have been a loss except for hundreds of uncompensated hours put in by HOA board members. Boilerplate contracts that were six pages long had to be expanded to over 100 pages. Some contractors tripled their rates when they read them. Others refused to bid at all.
Counterpoint.
Was just about to post that too! Also here, without the paywall:
"The pediatrics academy has repeatedly asked the CDC for an estimate on the contagiousness of a person infected with the coronavirus five days after symptoms begin — but Maldonado finally got the answer from an article in The New York Times in December.
We’ve been relying on Israel to make policy decisions apparently.
Also, you know something’s wrong when Dr. Offit is criticizing the CDC over failing to release vaccine data…
“The Pandemic Ends on Thursday”… At least in Great Britain. Happy End of Pandemic, Great Britain!
Interesting - John is a proponent of getting natural immunity while still recently vaccinated so that it’s a more mild case…
Media make mistakes. We all do. Question is, is it a rare occurrence? Did they try to tell the truth? Or is it that they just intend to spread lies from the get-go.
In the Kentucky gun range story, ABC made an honest mistake which they later apologized for. To err is human. We need to look at intent. And how often mistakes happen.
The sugar story is not even the media’s fault. What do you expect the media to do?
BTW the news part of Fox News is actually pretty decent. I’d put them in the “reputable media” pile. It’s their commentary shows that are deranged.
They make mistakes all the time. It used to be just Fox News was blatantly biased. Now they all are.
What’s worse than the mistakes is the cover up that Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter etc. do by preventing discussion on the issues. This is why everyone’s so paranoid. I’d rather have a rational discussion on what people call fake news (like the potential that Covid-19 came from a Wuhan lab… was “fake news”, now people are talking about it like it’s a real possibility) than ending up in Facebook jail for bringing up the subject at all.
Covid is so yesterday