Current Events > Trump admin's hastened executions likely acted as superspreader events

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Antifar
02/05/21 9:40:20 PM
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https://apnews.com/article/public-health-prisons-health-coronavirus-pandemic-executions-956da680790108d8b7e2d8f1567f3803
As the Trump administration was nearing the end of an unprecedented string of executions, 70% of death row inmates were sick with COVID-19. Guards were ill. Traveling prisons staff on the execution team had the virus. So did media witnesses, who may have unknowingly infected others when they returned home because they were never told about the spreading cases.

Records obtained by The Associated Press show employees at the Indiana prison complex where the 13 executions were carried out over six months had contact with inmates and other people infected with the coronavirus, but were able to refuse testing and declined to participate in contact tracing efforts and were still permitted to return to their work assignments.

Other staff members, including those brought in to help with executions, also spread tips to their colleagues about how they could avoid quarantines and skirt public health guidance from the federal government and Indiana health officials.

The executions at the end of Donald Trumps presidency, completed in a short window over a few weeks, likely acted as a superspreader event, according to the records reviewed by AP. It was something health experts warned could happen when the Justice Department insisted on resuming executions during a pandemic.

They just loved killing people

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DDirtyDastard
02/05/21 9:42:16 PM
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k
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Thighon
02/05/21 9:44:01 PM
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DDirtyDastard posted...
k
why would elucidating the abhorrent actions of the prior administration make you rage
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Xatrion
02/05/21 9:45:04 PM
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Idiot goppers: "We're pro life!"
Also idiot goppers: "Yay death penalty!"


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Shut your BF28/9 sound hole and listen up.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice? Strike three.
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BobLoblaw_
02/05/21 9:47:14 PM
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More blood on trumps fat orange terrorist hands

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hockeybub89
02/05/21 9:48:06 PM
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Yeah, but at least we killed guilty people purposefully while we hurt and killed innocent people accidentally.

Can you really put a price on vengeance?

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Flauros
02/05/21 9:48:14 PM
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Xatrion posted...
Idiot goppers: "We're pro life!"
Also idiot goppers: "Yay death penalty!"
Pro life for babies
Pro choice for adults

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hockeybub89
02/05/21 9:54:19 PM
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Xatrion posted...
Idiot goppers: "We're pro life!"
Also idiot goppers: "Yay death penalty!"
Pro-life has always been a bad label.

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