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Fuel holding tanks are seen at Colonial Pipeline s Linden Junction Tank Farm in Woodbridge, N.J. | Getty Images
AND WHY THEY WON’T HAPPEN
If you’re only just learning about the existence of the malicious computer code called ransomware because of news stories about the Colonial Pipeline hack, you’re not alone. Many of the companies that provide your power, water, food, clothes and other essential products and services are just as ignorant about the issue.
Biden boasts about equitable senior vaccination rate by race without data to back it up
During May 3 remarks on the American Families Plan, President Joe Biden boasted that there was not much disparity in the vaccination rates for white Americans and Americans of color who are at least 65. And what s happening now is all the talk about how people were not going to get shots, they were not going to be involved look at what that was we were told that was most likely to be among people over 65 years of age, said Biden. But now people over 65 years of age, over 80%, have now been vaccinated, and 66% fully vaccinated. And there s virtually no difference between white, Black, Hispanic, Asian American.
According to the American Public Health Association (APHA), more than 38,000 people are killed and nearly 85,000 injured each year from gun violence, making this a leading cause of premature death in the US. The APHA is a longtime advocate for a comprehensive public health approach to this crisis, including more federally funded research into gun crime data and the causes of gun violence.
Critics of gun reform invoke the Second Amendment, defend the personal ownership of military-strength weapons, dismiss provisions for background checks, make false claims that stronger measures would take guns away from responsible owners and attribute mass shootings solely to mental illness while opposing expanded government funding of health care. This has obstructed constructive action and endangered the safety of the community.
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