Corona virus, China major city lockdowns, etc.

[FunkyDexter]

OK, so I though I'd do some research on Pelosi's links to the health insurance industry and I really can't find anything substantive. This may be a failing in my google-fu or it may be that there's simply nothing substantive to find.

I should say that this has just been a general scout round the internet and I haven't checked the political leanings of the sources I found (to be honest, I found so little of interest it didn't seem worth chasing them down).

About the most interesting thing I found was this article on Politico which cites OpenSecret.org as it's source. It's old (2008 old so likely not reflective of the current situation) and it states that she received $218, 000 from insurers in the 08 and 10 cycles (not 100% sure what that means so I assume we're talking about the financial years from 2008 to 2010). It does say that this is from all insurers, not just health but I guess it's an indicator.

Now, I'll admit, that sounds like a shed-ton of money to me (though not that much - an IT contractor can make that in a year) so I wanted to find some context. Turns out the highest contribution of this type by a democrat was roughly double that at $400, 000 by Steny Hoyer. In case this leads us to the false conclusion that this is a Democrat conspiracy, the top two Republicans, John Boehner and Eric Cantor received $530, 000 and $560, 000 respectively.

That was the worst thing I could find about her on the subject and it reads like a whole, heapin' pile of nuthin' to me. I can see there were some stories at the time saying that she should give the contributions back so I guess it was a bit of a scandal at the time but, I'm sorry, I just don't see it from where I'm standing. And it's over a decade old so not really relevant to the current discussion anyway.

So where are the sources I'm missing?

For comparison I went looking for Trump contributions from the health industry. Unfortunately, due to Trump's whole fiasco where he falsely claimed that he'd got the insurance companies to waive co-pays (I guess that your equivalent of an excess?) I just kept getting presented with a wall of noise around that instead. Now, I do get the impression that Trump pulled in the right direction on that one but claiming a negotiation victory that he hadn't actually achieved does rather play into the ongoing rhetoric that you can't believe a word the man says.

I'm willing to bet sometime today we hear about somebody ingesting or injecting some kind of chemical disinfectant

He went on to suggest heating the body up to kill the virus. For context: the virus is killed at roughly 60 degrees. So nothing wrong with that plan then.

Anyway, the Germans tried out injesting chlorine bleach into lungs way back in 1917. That was 2 years before the Spanish Flu even hit so they were well ahead of the curve. Very few of the people they treated in this way ended up dying of the flue so it appears to have worked