I'm talking specifically about Jemele's tweet.
Sports Media Pass/Fail: Jemele just attacked Pats owner Kraft for being pro Trump after he donated over million masks
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I'm talking specifically about Jemele's tweet.
Lol I just blocked that dude.
Ummm Rihanna just personally donated millions of dollars a few days ago mr Governor
And Knicks players have been donating meals
Just to name 2 the past week
The same post you found interesting is the same post where I had enough of his stupidity.What?
@playahaitian its interesting that it’s ok for Robert Kraft to go get masks and bring them back, but they questioned Marbury for trying to send 10 million masks over
Interesting...
yall MAD at Jemele?
How did you feel about Gayle and her Kobe questions?
Just asking.
Cause now this is just about time?
Or the inability for most to deal with difficult issues simultaneously?
yall MAD at Jemele?
How did you feel about Gayle and her Kobe questions?
Just asking.
Cause now this is just about time?
Or the inability for most to deal with difficult issues simultaneously?
My brother from another
I was JUST ABOUT TO POST THIS
And Marbury a god over there
China love HIM way more than some bob Kraft
all of what could have been handled, specifically?
Italy?
the lack of decent healthcare, hospitals and big pharma here?
yep all trump!
Italy?
the lack of decent healthcare, hospitals and big pharma here?
yep all trump!
Jamele Hill is a sellout just like Gayle King and Oprah Winfrey.
Don't ever let the plague stop you for tweeting for likes.
He is a habitual cheater, paid and voted for a debacle of a president, got away with paying for pussy when it is illegal, helped whiteball kaepernick. It aint like she is lying on a great man. If he loved this country, he would have done this shit already MONTHS ago. Why go hard on Hill over this flawed motherfucker? He is just trying to cover for the asshole who has helped him save billions in tax cut savings.
WTF is this hate a Black women to cover for fake billionaire love?
WTF is this hate a Black women to cover for fake billionaire love?
putin took his ring and he had to wait 10 years to get it back .
The more folks like Jemele does this, the more likely Trump will get four more years. So keep it up. ...
Trump administration ended pandemic early-warning program to detect coronaviruses
The program had worked with labs in Wuhan, China, and around the world to detect deadly viruses that could jump from animals to humans.
Trump administration ended pandemic early-warning program to detect coronaviruses
Emily Baumgaertner, James Rainey
LA TimesApril 2, 2020, 7:35 PM EDT
Months before the discovery of the deadly coronavirus in China, the Trump administration ended a program that helped laboratories around the world detect viruses that could spread from animals to humans and cause the next global pandemic. (AFP/Getty Images)
Two months before the novel coronavirus is thought to have begun its deadly advance in Wuhan, China, the Trump administration ended a $200-million pandemic early-warning program aimed at training scientists in China and other countries to detect and respond to such a threat.
The project, launched by the U.S. Agency for International Development in 2009, identified 1,200 different viruses that had the potential to erupt into pandemics, including more than 160 novel coronaviruses. The initiative, called PREDICT, also trained and supported staff in 60 foreign laboratories — including the Wuhan lab that identified SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
Field work ceased when the funding ran out in September, and organizations that worked on the PREDICT program laid off dozens of scientists and analysts, said Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, a key player in the program.
On Wednesday, USAID granted an emergency extension to the program, issuing $2.26 million over the next six months to send experts who will help foreign labs squelch the pandemic. But program leaders say the funding will do little to further the initiative's original mission.
“Look at the name: Our efforts were to predict this before it happens. That’s the part of the program that was exciting — and that’s the part I’m worried about,” Daszak said.
“It's absolutely critical that we don’t drop the idea of a large-scale, proactive, predictive program that tries to catch pandemics before they happen. Cutting a program that could in any way reduce the risk of things like COVID-19 happening again is, by any measure, shortsighted," he added.
It is unclear whether another five-year grant would have dulled the impact of the current pandemic. But the Trump administration has come under increased criticism for its past moves to downgrade global health security, including proposals to slash funding to science agencies and the elimination of the National Security Council's key global health post.
A spokesman for USAID said PREDICT was “just one component of USAID’s global health security efforts and accounted for less than 20% of our global health security funding.” He also said a new initiative to stop the spillover of viruses from animals to humans is scheduled to be awarded in August.
The PREDICT project, which operated on two five-year funding cycles that formally concluded last September, enrolled both epidemiologists and wildlife veterinarians to examine the types of interactions between animals and humans that researchers suspect led to the current outbreak of COVID-19.
The pandemic "didn’t surprise us, unfortunately,” said Jonna Mazet, executive director of the One Health Institute in the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, who served as the global director of PREDICT for a decade. “The work had been ongoing for some time. And when the crisis hits, everybody stands up and takes notice and says, ‘OK, we believe you.’”
The PREDICT project, launched in response to the 2005 H5N1 "bird flu" scare, gathered specimens from more than 10,000 bats and 2,000 other mammals in search of dangerous viruses. They detected about 1,200 viruses that could spread from wild animals to humans, signaling pandemic potential. More than 160 of them were novel coronaviruses, much like SARS-CoV-2.
They also took blood samples from people in rural China, and learned that, in living among wildlife, they had been exposed to coronaviruses — a clear sign that, if those viruses spread easily among humans, they could take off. That “raised the red flag,” said Mazet.
“Coronaviruses were jumping easily across species lines and were ones to watch for epidemics and pandemics,” she said.
The program also trained nearly 7,000 people across medical and agricultural sectors in 30 countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East to help them detect deadly new viruses on their own. One of those labs was the Wuhan Institute of Virology — the Chinese lab that quickly identified SARS-CoV-2, Mazet said.
The Wuhan lab received USAID funding for equipment, and PREDICT coordinators connected the scientists there with researchers in other countries in order to synchronize tracking of novel viruses before SARS-CoV-2.
The project's second funding cycle concluded on Sept. 30, 2019, less than two months before the new coronavirus probably began spreading. It was granted a zero-dollar six-month extension — through March 2020 — to write up final reports.
Dennis Carroll, a widely respected scientist who headed USAID’s emerging threats division, oversaw the initiative for its duration, but retired around the time it was shut down. Carroll did not respond to an inquiry from The Times, but told the New York Times last year that by January 2019, the program had "essentially collapsed into hibernation," and that its conclusion was due to "the ascension of risk-averse bureaucrats."
Other members of the consortium included Columbia University’s Center for Infection and Immunity and several institutes that manage major U.S. zoos.
Earlier this year, as COVID-19 took off, U.S. lawmakers expressed frustration over the program's end.
“Addressing and preventing the spread of coronavirus and potential pandemic disease outbreaks is a serious matter that requires adequate resources for and cooperation between experts throughout the federal government,” Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Angus King wrote in a letter to USAID's administrator earlier this year, asking for details on the decision.
On Wednesday, the PREDICT program was extended through September to offer emergency technical assistance to foreign labs battling the coronavirus pandemic. To date, PREDICT-supported labs in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia are actively testing for coronavirus cases, Daszak said, and he has been sending reagents and other supplies to assist them.
Meanwhile, in Rwanda, scientists who had been trained in the PREDICT program triggered early social distancing measures, Mazet said. “I do think that what we were doing has changed the outcomes for a lot of countries,” she said.
“But unfortunately, not our own," she added.
Daszak said he’s eager to further examine the hundreds of wildlife samples collected during the PREDICT initiative over the years, looking to identify whether any of them could have been intermediate hosts for the virus currently sweeping the globe.
But with the limited budget and timeline, efforts to continue in-depth field work under PREDICT will be minimal. Most of the extension funding will be focused on squelching the current outbreak, not preventing the next.
“It’s common sense to know your enemy,” Daszak said. "Instead, we’re all hiding inside our houses as we wait around for a vaccine — that’s not a good global strategy to battling a dangerous virus."
I stopped fucking with her ugly ass long time ago
For your voice to ring true you must always be fair. You criticize when needed but give credit when something correct
She look like a clown for this
I’m fine with it. When she worked for espn she could speak truth. She’s free now and I don’t care if this was poorly timed because we all say this shit in private. Fuck Hooker Kraft, Tom Brady and Trump. You can’t be an asshole, wallow in racism and support a known bigot, cheater and moron and get a pass because you used your private plane for points. If Jay-Z sent a plane over America would boycott beyond somehow blame Obama
Right now people need to worry about a solution not politics. We already know Trump ain’t the brightest crayon in the box. I’m tired of watching CNN and all they could talk about is what Trump has sone wrong. We need to figure out what we can do to live.
The Black people President Barak Obama needs to lead us just like Cuomo is doing in NY State. I tell my girl all the time focus on the solution not the problem. People are dying everyday by the hundreds. If Kraft wants to fly his plane as a Cargo ship who cares. The US Airforce has plenty of cargo planes that could have made the same trip. Sometimes a voice giving a solution is all we need and that’s free.
The Black people President Barak Obama needs to lead us just like Cuomo is doing in NY State. I tell my girl all the time focus on the solution not the problem. People are dying everyday by the hundreds. If Kraft wants to fly his plane as a Cargo ship who cares. The US Airforce has plenty of cargo planes that could have made the same trip. Sometimes a voice giving a solution is all we need and that’s free.
I don’t believe anyone’s “Mad” at Jemele, just stating to was the wrong time.
And how do we feel about Gayle and her Kobe questions?
We feel the exact same way if not more strongly about it, Wrong Time to ask those questions.
Bingo.
Reading Jemele's tweet makes it come off as if she's starving for attention.
We know who Kraft is.
We know they supported Chump.
We also know people are dying and those million and a half or so masks can help quite a few people.
How many masks has Jemele bought/donated and shipped?
If none, she needs to fall back.
I wish these celebrities and "news heads" understood they don't have to send a Tweet about every damn thing.
This is backfiring against her.
word.
i cannot stand jemele's big, fat ass or her big, fat-assed mouth.
in dubai, i was unfortunately tourmates (fat bamas - including our guide, who was alexandrian) with several of her ilk.
i ALWAYS kept my distance from them heffas.
i cannot stand jemele's big, fat ass or her big, fat-assed mouth.
in dubai, i was unfortunately tourmates (fat bamas - including our guide, who was alexandrian) with several of her ilk.
i ALWAYS kept my distance from them heffas.
Don't ever let the plague stop you for tweeting for likes.
Exactly!
300k more masks are coming to NY that wasn’t there before. If she wants to call him out for who he is, it doesn’t change the purpose of the donation.
She’s a journalist, part of here job is to point things like this out.
She is a journalist, however this wasn't an article, this was a Tweet.
Journalists should show objective views. Her tweet was far from that.
I don't disagree with the point she was making BTW, just don't agree with her sending it, as it tells us more about her than it does about Kraft.
Timing is fine....execution is poor
Don't ever let the plague stop you for tweeting for likes.
Its been sad watching the sjws and virtue signalers starving for attention these past few weeks.
Wrong time, she needs to stand down. Almost 63 million people voted for trump, he's just one of them like many other white people.
I see what you mean but America has a certain kind of dementia when it comes to the truth. When the worst of this is over people will start back-slapping and glad-handing and singing that"Aint 'Merica Great" bullshit and then some will try to rewrite history. You need people like Hill. They put the truth in front of your face when you least want to see it. Frankly, we need more of that. Especially during an election year.
What exactly is telling you about her? It was tweet but where in a day age where tweeter has being used to break news, and it’s where a lot people get there news from. Could she had put her disdain for trump aside because of this pandemic, maybe. But fuck it, call it when it’s needed to be called out let people know he help put this person in office that had no business being there and Some people are feeling the repercussions.
If she’s being petty to you, what the fuck is trump being during much of his press conferences? If he won’t put bullshit aside why should she?
It comes off as attention whoring.
She wasn't breaking news with her tweet.
Like I said, we all know who Kraft is.
Jemele just wanted to remind her followers that she was still tweeting.
It has been well documented that trump fucked up with the handling of the Coronavirus. The news and media outlets state that he didn’t take it serious and was late to respond. He’s on tape saying it’s just like the flu.
A week or so ago he was talking about trying to open things up in two weeks to help the economy and the media murdered him!
We know Kraft’s a trump supporter, we’ve seen him him at the Whitehouse cheesing with Brady. That’s not news or information that we didn’t know.
I’m not upset, angry or mad at what she said. I read the tweet and thought that it wasn’t the right time to let us know that Kraft was a trump supporter. Not to mention, that we already know that.
I hear what you saying and I can;t say you all the way wrong
but I do NOT think you want to start bringing stuff like THIS into the discussion
first you or I have NO IDEA what she has or has not done.
And aint none of have no plane
And also a WHOLE lot of people more important influential and actually responsible for this country's well being ain't done sh*t.
You can criticize her tweet and timing etc
but I don't think you want to do the "well what have you done" thing
Cause I got family who done more than Kraft done with this one plane ride who actually working in hospitals labs shelters and EMTs.
sidebar...
Marbury was trying to do the SAME thing a few days ago and was held up by politics.
interesting.