Some Covid-19 thoughts
POSTED BY: captaincrunch
UPDATED: Monday, September 29, 2025 18:59
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Quote:"Every day over 450,000 Americans sit in jail not because they've been convicted of anything, but because they are too poor to pay bail & don't have high powered attorneys."
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yup. I'm sure there are just thousands upon thousands of people sitting in jail without ever having been convicted of a crime.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The 450,000 number counts how many people are detained before their trials each year in America. However, Lieu uses it incorrectly here: included in that number are not only unconvicted inmates who are too poor to pay bail, but also unconvicted inmates who are being detained preventively and held without any bail.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/jun/29/ted-lieu/do-more-450
000-americans-sit-jail-because-they-are/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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COVID-19 Hospitalizations Surge In Dakotas: 'It's Like We Opened Up A Spigot'
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/14/934185297/covid-1
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Hospitals are nearing capacity in North and South Dakota, two states where coronavirus has hit disproportionately hard for their small population size and where cases continue to rise daily.
The Dakotas have the most new daily cases per capita of any other state this week — a record they've held or been close to for many weeks. They're also among the worst in the country for two other grim metrics: per capita deaths and per capita hospitalizations.
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Racist.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Doesn't Texas have a lot of private prisons? Yanno, going through this list
80 percent of those who died of Covid-19 in Texas county jails were never convicted of a crime. ... at least 231 people have died of Covid-19 in the state’s correctional facilities between March and October. This report only looked at state-operated prisons and county-operated jails ...
https:// en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/List_of_Texas_state_prisons#Privately_operated_facilities
and doing a back-of-the-envelope calculation, I got a total capacity of just over 22,000 in private correctional facilities.
And it looks like they weren't included, making the 80% 'unconvicted' figure completely meaningless.
It's always frustrating when a reporter can't seem to get a meaningful piece of information out. This article is like me saying "I ran for 20." 20 ... what? Leagues? Angstroms? Milliseconds? When they start out addressing "the state’s correctional facilities" it sure sounds like they mean all of them. But then they say it only addresses "state-operated prisons and county-operated jails". And that sure leaves a lot of inmates out of the picture who were convicted!
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Deaths___248,833
TOO LITTLE TOO LATE
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Until the Trump administration formally recognizes Biden as president-elect, officials cannot share COVID-19 vaccine distribution plans with the incoming team.
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They don't have a plan. I read elsewhere that Trump hasn't attended a COVID meeting in 5 months.
They just want to let people die. They don't seem to understand that most of the dead are their own supporters.
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Maybe Trump wuz hired by the Demz to destroy the Republican party! And he'z going total Pied Piper on their voterz!
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