Charge Trump Death Cult Governor Doug Ducey With Criminal Negligence And Be Done With Him

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The insurrectionist Sedition Party that tried to overthrow American democracy is also sabotaging the nation’s efforts to recover from the Coronavirus pandemic. This Trump death cult is even willing to sacrifice the lives of children, and to inflict economic harm on the nation just to “own the libs” in their own sick mind. U.S. Hiring Slows Sharply As Latest Coronavirus Surge Slams The Brakes On The Economy. And for this they expect to be rewarded by voters? They are traitors to this country and domestic terrorists waging a “soft civil war” against America who need to be punished.

This soft civil war is being led by Trump death cult governors with designs on running for president in 2024, in the event that the orange devil is convicted for some of his crimes before then. These criminally negligent Republican governors should be joining “Mafia Don” Trump on his cell block, convicted for their own crimes.

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The latest surge number: U.S. covid death toll hits 1,500 a day amid delta scourge.

Earlier this week, National Advocates Urge the White House, Congress, American People to Support Children’s Hospitals as ‘Perfect Storm’ Hits:

Our children’s health care safety net is under unprecedented strain”

WASHINGTON, DC — With pediatric COVID-19 cases increasing, hospitalizations for respiratory illness spiking and demand for acute mental health services expected to rise with return to school, Children’s Hospital Association (CHA) is raising awareness through a multi-tiered campaign about the challenges children’s hospitals are facing as they care for kids. These hospitals are urging immediate action by the Biden administration, Congress and the American people to prevent further weakening of the pediatric safety net supporting all children.

“Our children’s health care safety net is under unprecedented strain. Children’s hospitals and their dedicated staffs are doing their part, and we hope every American, the White House and Congress can help,” explained CHA’s CEO Mark Wietecha. “Given the situation on the ground, we are reaching out to draw further attention to the challenges we face that affect our kids. Our children’s hospitals provide care to all children who need it, and with support directed to pediatric capacity, they can continue to meet that commitment.”

In response to this ‘perfect storm’ of pediatric health challenges, Wietecha sent President Biden a letter on behalf of the nation’s children’s hospitals asking the administration for immediate support through the release of provider relief funding and any other federal workforce support that can be quickly distributed and targeted to pediatric crisis response. He echoed that message in a USA Today opinion piece published Friday, Aug. 27, in which he wrote, “As a nation, our federal government has the power and authority to ensure our children’s health system is not upended, and the pediatric safety net is strengthened, not further strained.”

In addition, CHA ran an open letter signed by children’s hospital leaders as full-page advertisements in the Sunday New York Times and Los Angeles Times encouraging all eligible Americans to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, mask responsibly and adhere to the proven practices of social distancing and handwashing in an effort to better protect children.

Complementing this effort starting this week, CHA and The Hill will run multi-week digital content urging Congress to help children’s hospitals help kids.

Here in Arizona:

The Arizona Mirror reports, Maricopa County health care workers ask for school mask mandate as COVID pediatric cases rise:

Physicians, health care workers and public health professionals in Maricopa County this week urged the county Board of Supervisors to enact a universal mask mandate for K-12 schools as the number of kids hospitalized for COVID-19 continues to rise at an “alarming” rate.

More than 1,000 health care workers signed a letter asking supervisors to adopt a resolution requiring masks to protect students, many of whom are too young to be vaccinated.

“The need for action is urgent, it’s immediate and it’s right now,” said Dr. Christina Bergin, a physician at a Phoenix hospital. “Every day that we fail to act, to require universal masking or take significant action to improve the air quality and filtration in classrooms, many additional children and teachers become infected.”

The letter outlines the growing number of child hospitalizations.

“Children now represent 22.4% of the weekly reported COVID cases in the United States,” it said. “The dramatic increase in pediatric COVID infections directly corresponds to schools reopening without mask mandates or the ability to provide the same level of physical distancing as last year.”

Supervisors received the letter after the board’s Wednesday meeting agenda had been created, so they couldn’t address it during the session, a spokesman said in an email. He said the board appreciates the letter and shares some of the same concerns about the rise in cases and continues to monitor the data.

“Members have encouraged residents to use mitigation tactics to protect themselves and others, and they will continue to support the role Public Health plays as the department works with schools, health care professionals and the broader community,” the email said.

Bergin and Dr. Ruth Franks Snedecor, who asked their hospital affiliations not be disclosed because of safety concerns, have been working in hospitals throughout the pandemic.

The Trump death cult mob has been terrorizing school boards, hospitals, doctors and nurses, and other public health care professionals with violence and threats of violence. They are domestic terrorists.

“We already know that the best place for kids to learn is, in fact, the classroom,” said Franks Snedecor, who hopes the board will stand up for the health and safety of the public and “implement a resolution or adopt a resolution requiring universal mask mandates in K-12 schools.”

There were 227 active school outbreaks in Maricopa County, according to the COVID-19 dashboard, with 1,661 students infected as of Wednesday, Sept. 1. The letter says schools without mask mandates are twice as likely to have a COVID-19 outbreak among school and staff compared with those that require universal masking.

“Children are good super spreaders because they are not vaccinated right now,” Franks Snedecor said. “Study after study shows that masking in the classroom, or masking in general, really reduces the risk of contagion and the risk of spread.”

In August, Banner Health admitted 412 pediatric patients into its hospitals or placed them under observation with suspected COVID-19 symptoms, according to information released at a news conference Wednesday. This is a significant increase compared to July, when 174 pediatric patients were admitted.

Dr. Marjorie Bessel, chief clinical officer at Banner Health, said, “Our pediatric population is experiencing a high level of COVID, higher than what we’ve seen previously,” but most pediatric patients do not require intensive care.

Bessel said levels of RSV – respiratory syncytial – also are on the rise much earlier than normal this season, causing some concern for what the upcoming fall and winter months could bring.

She had three recommendations for students, faculty and parents to prevent further spread of COVID-19: Children should wear masks in school, everyone who is age eligible should get vaccinated and anyone who is experiencing symptoms should not go to school.

“We see some signs that our numbers are not exponentially increasing over the last week or so,” Bessel said. “Our ICU cases are increasing, however. We will continue to see increases, which is why we’re here to ask you to do your part and get a COVID vaccination.”

Bergin and Franks Snedecor also are a part of an organization of parents and physicians that provides resources to families who want to advocate for safer pandemic practices in schools.

Aside from the letter to the board, Bergin said they are both advocating for their own children’s schools and school boards and have found success in asking for a universal mask mandate within schools. She also said it’s within the jurisdiction of the Board of Supervisors to enact masks in schools before the state ban on mask mandates takes effect later this month.

Bergin said they “really hope to get as much information out there to the public and other leaders in our state and country to raise awareness of how devastating the delta variant has been in schools.”

You can’t spell “crazy” without “R-AZ,” and Arizona’s Trump Death cult governor finally got the attention he deserves from the New York Times. Arizona Banned School Mask Mandates. Now Some Kids Are Sick and Parents Are Angry.

Only weeks after Arizona’s students went back to school, coronavirus infections are forcing thousands of children and teachers into quarantine. Outbreaks around Phoenix are surging. In one suburban district, so many drivers are sick that school buses are running 90 minutes late.

All this in a state that ignored C.D.C. recommendations and banned school mask mandates weeks before classes resumed.

Now the back-to-school turmoil has cascaded far beyond Arizona’s classrooms, igniting a political uproar for Gov. Doug Ducey and other Republican leaders in this fast-changing desert battleground. The tumult underscores the perilous decisions facing governors in swing states where voters are divided over Covid-19 safety measures and personal freedoms.

Gov. Ducey, a business-minded Republican, spent much of the past year getting attacked by conservatives angry about pandemic restrictions and his defense of the 2020 election results. But he has since doubled down on anti-mask-mandate measures passed by Arizona’s Republican-run Legislature.

He pledged to [unlawfully] withhold millions of dollars in federal pandemic relief from schools that pass mask mandates in defiance of a state law that takes effect at the end of September. He offered $7,000 vouchers to families that opt to leave districts that require face coverings. Masking decisions, he said, belonged to parents, not school officials.

What about school dress codes? A Texas school gets around mask mandate by using dress code loophole, snubbing Gov. Abbott’s order.

“In Arizona we are pro-parent,” Mr. Ducey said at a recent news conference. “I want parents to do what they think is the right thing to do.”

Would this be the Trump death cult parents terrorizing school boards à la their seditious January 6 insurrection? Police on-scene at Vail elementary school after group threatens to zip-tie principal over COVID-19 protocols:

TUCSON (KVOA) – A conflict over the COVID-19 quarantine policy at a Vail Unified School District elementary school has been resolved shortly after protesters threatened to make a citizen’s arrest on the principal Thursday morning.

According to VUSD officials, a student at Mesquite Elementary School was asked to quarantine after he reportedly was in close contact with an individual who tested positive for COVID-19.

VUSD said this decision was made per state policy, citing that when a school in Arizona experiences a positive case of COVID-19, it is required to report the case to its county health department – in Vail’s case, Pima County Health Department. Then, the county decides which individuals need to quarantine in order to prevent a potential outbreak in the community.

However, after hearing the quarantine request, three individuals and the child involved drove over to the school in order to protest the decision. The three individuals were later identified as one of the child’s parents, another community member and a local business owner, who live-streamed the confrontation over his business’ Instagram account.

Over the Instagram live, the business owner reportedly shared his discontent over the situation and threatened to use zip ties to arrest the principal of Mesquite Elementary School. The zip ties could also be seen in the video.

According to school officials, when the group went into the principal’s office, the school’s principal, Diane Vargo listened to their concerns. After a conversation, Vargo asked them to leave the school grounds.

After the group refused her request, the principal left her office without incident.

The [thugs] left the scene before Tucson Police Department officers arrived at the school.

So, NO, governor douchebag, Trump death cult parents do NOT know what is best for their children. They are willing to sacrifice the life of their own child, and everyone else’s child as well. They are as criminally negligent as the example you have set as governor. Arrest these domestic terrorists and prosecute them to the hilt. Note that they also involved the child in their crime – contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

On the ground, schools say they are facing a no-win choice.

In the Phoenix suburb of Chandler, the school board called an emergency meeting in August to decide whether students and staff should be required to wear masks. School officials said violating state law could prevent the district from receiving $11 million [thanks to Ducey unlawfully withholding funds] to hire staff and help students catch up after so much lost school time.

The mask mandate failed, three votes to two.

Disheartened Chandler parents who supported the requirements said the board had put money above their children’s health. [Ducey’s extortion threat worked with this school district.]

“They’re not protecting our kids,” said Sandy Kirby, a Chandler parent and nurse.

But Kelli Wilson, a devoted Trump voter death cult member in Chandler whose 13-year-old son is unvaccinated and does not wear a mask to school, was gratified. Ms. Wilson, who had soured on Mr. Ducey when the gym she runs [is your name really Marjorie “Q” Greene?] was forced to close down early in the pandemic, credited the governor with letting parents decide about masks.

“Finally Doug Ducey’s doing something right,” she said.

You can’t cure stupid.

Gov. Ducey had kept a lower profile throughout much of the pandemic compared with the Republican governors of Florida, South Dakota and Texas, who built national reputations as combative opponents of Covid restrictions. [Ducey is “Mr. Irrelevant” to the national media because he has no political future.]

But as he looks to his political future after he leaves office next year [he has none; he is “dead meat” in the GQP] because of term limits, Gov. Ducey is moving to the front of the volatile new battle over personal freedoms, children’s health and the politicization of pandemic relief money [in violation of federal law.]

Education groups have sued to overturn the mask-mandate ban, and more than a dozen school districts across Arizona have passed mask mandates despite the ban. The Biden administration warned governors like Mr. Ducey and Ron “DeathSantis” of Florida not to block federal money from pro-masking schools.

The conflict is unfolding in a onetime Republican stronghold now torn in opposite directions, pulled to the left by growing numbers of young, college-educated voters and moderates in the booming Phoenix suburbs, and to the right by vocal Trump loyalists [cult members].

With virus hospitalizations climbing to about 2,000 people from about 520 in early July, many parents, teachers’ unions and public health officials said Mr. Ducey’s actions punished schools that were following scientific advice. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends masks for all students, staff and visitors inside schools.

“It puts people’s lives at risk,” said Jann-Michael Greenburg, president of the board of the Scottsdale Unified School District, which has faced threats since passing a temporary mask mandate. “I wonder if we would have won the battle against polio if this is how our governments behaved.”

Gov. Ducey, a vocal supporter of vaccinations, has been battered from several sides throughout the pandemic. Democrats criticized him for not imposing a statewide mask mandate and loosening restrictions prematurely.

Many of the loudest attacks, however, have come from the right wing of Arizona’s splintered Republican Party. In January, the state party censured him for taking emergency actions such as closing gyms and bars at the outset of the pandemic.

Gov. Ducey has also endured months of attacks from his Republican base in the wake of the 2020 election. Mr. Ducey had campaigned for President Donald J. Trump but declined to embrace Mr. Trump’s false claims about a rigged election. He certified President Biden’s 10,500-vote victory in Arizona but has kept largely quiet as a polarizing audit of the votes ordered by state Republican leaders drags on. [He is an amoral coward.]

Some political observers saw Mr. Ducey’s moves against mask mandates as an effort to patch a rift with conservatives the GQP crazy base eating horse paste instead of getting vaccinated. [Unproven ivermectin gains popularity as alternative COVID treatment among vaccine skeptics].

“He’s trying to court that constituency to move back,” said Chuck Coughlin, a Republican political strategist in Phoenix. “He’s never going to recover with them. He can’t. Once Trump starts tweeting about you in a derogatory sense, the gloves are off.”

[L]ast year, Arizona let local governments write their own mask rules. But this summer, the State Legislature added a provision outlawing school mask mandates to a tax-cutting budget bill central to Mr. Ducey’s agenda. The governor signed the measure into law in late June.

Arizona’s huge and politically powerful public colleges and universities, which are not bound by the same rules that restrict local schools, have passed their own mask mandates in a potential challenge to the state. Arizona State University announced mask requirements in classrooms and labs where they can’t social distance, and the University of Arizona is also requiring masks indoors where people cannot socially distance.

Kathy Hoffman, the superintendent of Arizona’s public schools, said the barrage of executive orders and legal fights had been “demoralizing” to school employees. While Arizona has not seen nearly as severe a spike as Florida or Texas, health officials in Phoenix recently warned that children under 12 — who are not eligible to be vaccinated — make up one-sixth of Maricopa County’s Covid-19 cases, and that hospitalizations of children have doubled monthly.

“People are feeling pretty devastated right now,” said Ms. Hoffman, an elected Democrat.

The GQP crazy base of Trump death cultists are frothing at the mouth like a rabid dog:

“They should lose as much funding as the State Legislature allocates to them,” said the GQP Queen of Voter Suppression, State Senator Michelle Ugenti-Rita, a Republican who is running to replace Arizona’s Democratic secretary of state. [HELLS NO!] “What they are doing, the chaos they’re causing, is not only reckless but dangerous.”

What’s reckless and dangerous is knowingly exposing unvaccinated children to infection by Covid-19 because some dumbass adult does not want them to wear a mask, using children as pawns in their sick and twisted Trump death cult.

It is a charge that pro-mask school board members throw back at Arizona leaders. Lindsay Love, a Chandler school board member, said she had received death threats and been called racist slurs throughout the pandemic. She worried that the state’s threats of [unlawfully] withholding [federal] money from districts that impose mandates could have dangerous new consequences.

The state says “the health of our students doesn’t matter as much as those dollars,” Ms. Love said. “How much is a student worth to us if they die of Covid?”

Despite pleas from national and state pediatrician groups and the CDC, the Department of Education, school boards and educators, and parents concerned for the health of their child and other children, what is Trump death cult Gov. Doug Ducey’s response? “Meh, No need to revisit Arizona’s mask mandate ban“:

Gov. Doug Ducey says he’s not interested in revisiting the ban on mask mandates despite new data showing schools that don’t require face coverings are twice as likely to have an outbreak of COVID as those who have defied his edict.

Instead, he said, his advice is that everyone get vaccinated.

“That’s our tool, that’s our solution,” Ducey said.

You ignorant, incompetent fool.

The governor brushed aside the fact that this is not an option for many children in school. The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control has not yet approved the vaccine for children younger than 12.

Said the indifferent to children dying smarmy politician:

“That’s up to the CDC,” Ducey said. “They’re in a review process.”

But even among those who are eligible, the rate of vaccination has slowed. And only 56.0% of all Arizonans have gotten at least one dose; by contrast, the CDC puts the national average at 61.8%.

This is an epic failure on the part of Governor Ducey and his former ADHS Director Cara Christ.

The governor acknowledged his failure, that the state’s below-average vaccination rate. And that is despite an extensive state-funded multi-media campaign to convince people to roll up their sleeves.

The governor’s statements Tuesday came the same day that Dr. Francisco Garcia, chief medical officer for Pima County, said his agency has identified 1,235 school-related cases of COVID-19, with the “vast majority” of those among children younger than 12

The percentage of cases in schools that are requiring students and staff to wear face coverings is lower than those schools without a mask mandate.

“We do believe that mask mandates in schools actually have an impact,” Garcia said.

[As] of Wednesday, the health department reported 30 percent of all beds in intensive-care units occupied by COVID patients. The last time it was that high was Feb. 18.

There’s a similar pattern in the use of in-patient beds.

Ducey said that, as far as he is concerned, there really is only one answer.

“We are going to get our state vaccinated,” he said, leaving aside the fact that is not a possibility among those younger than 12.

This is the very definition of criminal negligence (criminal negligence means that an individual fails to realize that there is a considerable risk that the act being committed can result in serious harm or death to another person). Charge this Trump death cult governor with criminal negligence and be done with him.

How many more have to die because of the Trump death cult?





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2 thoughts on “Charge Trump Death Cult Governor Doug Ducey With Criminal Negligence And Be Done With Him”

  1. Wouldn’t attempted kidnapping be a more appropriate charge? Storming her office armed with law enforcement quality zip ties….

  2. UPDATE: “3 men who threatened a school principal with zip ties after one of their sons was told to wear a mask have been charged”, https://www.businessinsider.com/men-threatened-school-principal-zip-ties-mask-rules-charged-report-2021-9

    Three men who threatened an Arizona elementary-school principal with zip-tie handcuffs over the imposition of mask and quarantine rules have been charged, The Daily Beast reported Tuesday, citing the Tucson police.

    Last Thursday, Rishi Rambaran, Kelly Walker, and Frank Tainatongo entered the office of Diane Vargo, the principal of Mesquite Elementary School, to complain that Rambaran’s son had been told to wear a mask and enter quarantine after potential exposure to COVID-19.

    In a livestream of the altercation, shared by Walker on Instagram, Tainatongo was seen holding up zip ties in Vargo’s office. The video was later deleted.

    Rambaran was arrested and released on Thursday, and Walker and Tainatongo were arrested and released on Monday.

    The Tucson police have since charged Tainatongo, Walker, and Rambaran with third-degree criminal trespass, The Daily Beast reported.

    If convicted, the trio could spend 30 days in jail, the outlet said.

    In a video statement shared Friday, Vargo said the district plans to press full charges against the trio.

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