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No one likes to think of terminally ill kids.
But the Make a Wish Foundation has made a difference in the lives of terminal children
and their families for years, helping kids live out their bucket lists.
In a bizarre twist, Make A Wish president and CEO Richard Davis made a video announcement
late last week stating that all kids and their families have to be vaccinated against Covid
before being allowed to take part in their final wishes.
This was incredibly cruel, because, number one, the CDC and WHO both advise against vaccinating
kids 12 and younger, and number two...well, there’s no nice way to say this.
These children are critically ill.
They are fighting critical illnesses and, in some cases, are already dying of a serious
illness and have compromised immune systems, and the Make a Wish foundation is going to
require them to receive an experimental vaccine that is shown to have some pretty serious
side effects in kiddos and people with pre-existing conditions.
I’m sorry, but that’s f*cked up.
The good news is, it caused such an uproar on social media, that the Foundation updated
their statement saying that they will no longer require anyone to get vaccinated to receive
their wish.
However, their statement still says that as of September 15th, wishes that require large
gatherings will still be for vaccinated kids and families.
A pretty epic economic experiment is underway in real time.
Both Morgan Stanley and the Wall Street Journal released reports this weekend, looking at
the last month of unemployment claims in red states that announced they’d be ending the
extra federal unemployment benefits early, vs the blue states that elected to keep them
going.
It turns out, that both continuous and initial jobless claims in the states ending the extra
benefits dropped dramatically over the last month as compared to the rest of the US.
In fact, initial claims even saw a small bump in the rest of the US.
States that elected to keep the benefits until September saw a roughly 6% decrease in unemployment
claims while the 22 mostly red states observed saw a 15% drop.
Note, that those states weren’t cutting off unemployment benefits completely - just
eliminating the extra $300 per week.
The Journal reported on a specific job fair in Missouri that only saw seven people come
in a few weeks ago.
Two weeks ago, that same job fair saw 40 people show up looking for work.
Most of the people in attendance had been out of work for over six months.
Meanwhile, some residents in Indiana are actually suing the state after Governor Holcomb announced
an end to the extra pandemic benefits.
The government stated they would connect low income individuals with various resources
for other financial help, job matching, and skills training, but workers advocates claim
that the state’s 116,000 job openings aren’t enough to go around.
One woman, when speaking to the local paper, stated she was joining the lawsuit because
she was refusing to go back to work, but also did not want her family to have to change
shampoo and toilet paper brands.
That being said, one week later, her Facebook does talk about training for a new remote
job, so she apparently changed her mind.
Well, the state of California was open and mask free for approximately...five minutes.
Just two weeks after Gavin Newsom lifted the statewide mask mandate, LA County is now telling
residents to mask up again, regardless of vaccine status, due to the new Delta variant.
The advise is a guideline, rather than a “mandate,” and goes against CDC advice for vaccinated
people, but does align with new advice from the World Health Organization.
The Delta strain is the variant that was first identified in India, as Covid is a virus and
viruses do tend to mutate.
The strain then jumped to the UK and now California.
As a result, Hong Kong announced it will ban all fights from the UK starting on Thursday.
Australia, South Africa, Germany, among others, are now also setting limits on travelers from
the UK, Russia, India, as well as several other South American and European countries.
South Africa extended a nightly curfew and has imposed a new round of 14 day lockdowns,
a number we’ve all heard before, Russia has ordered 60% of all workers who work with
the public to get vaccinated or else find new jobs, and Bangkok has now been ordered
into a month-long lockdown.
States unhappy with Biden’s handling of the border have taken upon themselves to fix
the problem.
As noted in a previous video, Governor Abbott announced state funds to construct its own
wall at the border.
Now, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Florida have all announced they are sending the National
Guard to Texas to assist in stopping the border crisis.
Florida has also announced they are sending guardsmen to Arizona as well.
Earlier in the month, Abbott joined Arizona in penning a letter requesting aid from other
states.
It is their hope that the wall and guardsmen can help slow down the tide of illegal immigration
as well as drug smuggling and human trafficking.
Alright folks, those are your major headlines so far this week.
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