EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for December 21, 2020
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for December 21, 2020! Pick an action or two and commit yourself to doing them. As President Obama said in his farewell speech: Believe in your ability to bring change. Show up, dive in, stay at it. Stay safe and healthy!
Trump Abuse of Power
- Listen to A Conspiracy of Silence (segment on Trump is in the last half of the episode).
- Read-up on Trump is reportedly considering making Sidney Powell an election fraud special counsel and Trump's Attempted Coup Is Dangerous.
- Read-up on Kushner OK'd Trump campaign shell company that secretly paid family members and Kushner Helped Launch Shell Company That Paid Campaign Funds To Trump Family: Report.
Local COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on California Hospitals Struggling As Coronavirus Cases Explode and As COVID-19 Cases Soar, Overwhelmed California Hospitals Worry About Rationing Care.
- Contact the Board of Supervisors and express support for the regional stay-at-home order. Tell them that you’re concerned about increased community spread of COVID-19 (we’re at 29.5 case rate, 10.9% testing positivity rate, 40 community outbreaks, ICU capacity down at 19%, and 4-6% upward trajectory of influenza-like illnesses and COVID-like syndromic case).
Federal COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on How Trump’s denial and mismanagement led to the covid pandemic’s dark winter and ‘Like a Hand Grasping’: Trump Appointees Describe the Crushing of the C.D.C.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and urge her to also pass additional COVID-19 relief such as proposed by the HEROES Act. See Relief Can’t Wait: Demand Congress Pass a COVID Relief Bill and Urge Congress to Pass Additional Coronavirus Relief Measures.
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