Covid infections now represent the third leading cause of death in America. This is an extremely contagious, crippling and deadly disease.

On top of that, there's a growing legion of people who call themselves "long haulers," who have been seriously disabled by Covid and are unable to live a normal life because of severe chronic fatigue, screaming nerve pain, and other chronic conditions.

And that doesn't mention all the COVID survivors who've had strokes, heart attacks, and permanent heart, lung, kidney, and brain damage.

Facing this simple reality, every developed country in the world is encouraging social distancing and the use of masks to reduce the number of people who are injured, disabled, or killed by this disease. Every country, of course, except America.

Read more here.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Trump trails Biden with two weeks to go - but there could yet be surprises" by David Smith.

Article: "Statistics: COVID-19 Is Now the Third Largest Cause of Death in the US" by Robert Root-Bernstein.

Article: "'Long-haulers' battle Covid-19 for months, but research into why is scant" by Lauren Serrato.

Article: "Heart Attacks, Heart Failure, Stroke: Covid-19's Dangerous Cardio Complications" by Josh Barney.

Article: "How the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally may have spread coronavirus across the Upper Midwest" by Brittany Shammas and Lena H. Sun.

Book: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump Ph.D..

Article: "Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump involved in 3,500 lawsuits: report" by Jesse Byrnes.

Article: "Herd immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Adviser Scott Atlas Pushing For 'Herd Immunity' Strategy For COVID-19" by uPolitics.com.

Article: "Measles" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What is herd immunity and how many people need to be vaccinated to protect a community?" by Hassan Vally.

Article: "'No Wonder the US Leads the World in Covid Deaths': Trump Mocks Biden for Vowing to 'Listen to the Scientists'" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Church Committee", 1975-6.

Article: "Pike Committee", 1975-6.

Article: "Rally to appreciate law enforcement in Huntingdon County".

Article: "Trump attacks Dr. Fauci and 'these idiots' who keep talking about COVID-19 in campaign call" by Brad Reed.

Article: "Pardon of Richard Nixon" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Watergate Casualties and Convictions" by Watergate.info.

Article: "The legal reckoning awaiting Donald Trump if he loses the election" by Kara Scannell and Erica Orden.

Article: "Trump's den of dissent: Inside the White House task force as coronavirus surges" by Yasmeen Abutaleb, Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey and Robert Costa.

Article: "White House sitting on $9 billion for COVID-19 testing: report" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sets deadline for COVID-19 stimulus deal" by CBS News.

Article: "How The CARES Act Became A Tax-Break Bonanza For The Rich, Explained" by Terry Gross.

Article: "Pelosi, Mnuchin forge ahead with COVID-19 relief negotiations with new deadline" by Joan McCarter.

Article: "'It's insane': This is what happened when schools reopened in a virus-hit community." by Kate Taylor.

Article: "'Out of Control': When Schools Opened in a Virus Hot Spot" by Kate Taylor.

Tweet: "So just so I follow this story:
Hunter Biden, who lives in Los Angeles, decides to fly 3000 miles across country, to drop off 3 MacBook Pros at a repair shop run by a blind guy who charges the insanely low price of $85..." by Dan SIoan.

Article: "As Local News Dies, a Pay-for-Play Network Rises in Its Place" by Davey Alba and Jack Nicas.

Article: "History of syphilis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gonorrhea" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Schwarzenegger: California Republicans 'off the rails' with 'fake' ballot boxes" by Politico.

Article: "Trump never actually banned flights from China or Europe. Why?" by Ethan Epstein.

Article: "430,000 People Have Traveled From China to U.S. Since Coronavirus Surfaced" by Steve Eder, Henry Fountain, Michael H. Keller, Muyi Xiao and Alexandra Stevenson.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS, MERS-CoV)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Severe acute respiratory syndrome" (SARS, SARS-CoV-1) by Wikipedia.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern wins second term in landslide election victory" by Julia Hollingsworth.

Article: "Tucson mayor demands Trump pay bill from 2016 event before campaign returns with 'super-spreader' rally" by Harriet Alexander.

Article: "Trump Asks Supreme Court To Block Tax Records From NYC Prosecutor - Again" by Nicholas Reimann.

Article: "Proposal to hasten herd immunity to the coronavirus grabs White House attention but appalls top scientists" by Joel Achenbach.

Hour Two: More Radioactive Fukushima Water to be Released Into the Pacific Ocean and a Potentially Serious Problem Brewing w/a Nuke Plant on the Shores of Lake Michigan
- Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist - Beyond Nuclear

Article: "Japan plans to release Fukushima water into Pacific Ocean" by Robin Harding.

Article: "Tritium" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nuclear Utility Refuses To Investigate Possible Damage at D.C. Cook; Similarities to Near-Accident in 2002" by Michael J. Keegan, Kevin Kamps, Terry J. Lodge.

Article: "Current Power Reactor Status Report for October 19, 2020" by NRC.

Article: "Nuclear Power Safety Concerns in Michigan amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic; Three-Dozen Groups and 62 Individuals Write Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist II" by Michael Keegan, Terry Lodge, Kevin Kamps.

Article: "Heard About the Near-Accident at the Ohio Nuclear Plant? I'm Not Surprised" by Victor Gilinsky.

Article: "Federal judge strikes down Trump plan to slash food stamps for 700,000 unemployed Americans" by Spencer S. Hsu.

Article: "Trump Will Have $900 Million Of Loans Coming Due In His Second Term If He's Reelected" by Dan Alexander.

Article: "Damage control? Trump hints at leaving the country if he loses the election" by Meaghan Ellis.

Article: "David Perdue attacked Kamala Harris with a racist trope. These corporations are still backing his Senate campaign." by Judd Legum.

Tweet: "#MyNameIs Rohit, and my friends call me Ro. It means bright light in Sanskrit. This election, #IWillVote for an inclusive America by voting for @joebiden & @kamalaharris" by Ro Khanna.

Tweet: "#MyNameIs Thomas, & my friends call me Thom. It means "leader" or "twin" from אמואמ in Aramaic and Θωμάς in Greek, and was the name of one of Jesus's disciples and my grandfather's brother. This election, #IWillVote for an inclusive America by voting for @joebiden & @kamalaharris" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Let history, not partisans, prosecute Trump" by Jill Lepore.

Article: "Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ratcliffe says Hunter Biden laptop, emails 'not part of some Russian disinformation campaign'" by Brooke Singman.

Article: "President Ford explains his pardon of Nixon to Congress" by History.com.

Article: "Collapsing passengers and a contentious plan: The COVID flight from hell" by Sharyn Alfonsi.

Article: "Terminal crush: Air passengers caught in Trump's travel ban" by Sam Mintz, Tanya Snyder, Brianna Ehley.

Article: "As Paul Singer Donated Millions To Republican Governors Association, Public Funds Flowed Into His Hedge Funds" by Matthew Cunningham-Cook.

Article: "Paul Singer Warned Employees on Feb. 1 to Prepare for Quarantine" by Katia Porzecanski.

Article: "Conservative Billionaires Sheldon & Miriam Adelson Give $75 Million To Trump Campaign" by uPolitics.com.

Article: "Ebola virus disease" (a viral haemorrhagic fever) by Wikipedia.

Article: "American doctor possibly exposed to Ebola brought to U.S. for treatment" by Caroline Linton.

Article: "Quarantined Ebola nurse settles case against Gov. Christie" by Lindy Washburn.

Article: "Biden, Trump campaigns release staff diversity data" by Marianna Sotomayor and Benjamin Pu.

Article: "Esper promised more diversity at the Pentagon. The White House had other ideas." by Lara Seligman and Sarah Cammarata.

Article: "Trump and McConnell's mostly white male judges buck 30-year trend of increasing diversity on the courts" by Rorie Solberg and Eric N. Waltenburg.

Article: "Trump calling Omarosa a "dog" isn't just racist or sexist. It's part of a pattern." by P.R. Lockhart.

Hour Three: The United States of War
- Professor David Vine, Professor-Department of Anthropology, American University / Author of the new book (just out last week), The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State

Article: "War in Afghanistan (2001-present)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "List of wars involving the People's Republic of China" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "As a matter of fact, in interviews in 1999 with respected journalist, and long time Bush family friend, David Herskowitz, then Governor George Bush stated: 'One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade... if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency." - My Testimony for the Downing Street Memo Hearings" by Cindy Sheehan, June 16 2005.

Book: "A Charge to Keep: My Journey to the White House" by George W. Bush, Mickey Herskowitz.

Tweet: "@BarackObama will attack Iran in the not too distant future because it will help him win the election. If the... (cont) http://deck.ly/~RSKCl" by Donald J. Trump, Nov 14, 2011.

Tweet: "@BarackObama will attack Iran in order to get re-elected." by Donald J. Trump, 17 Jan 2012.

Tweet: "Just as I predicted, @BarackObama is preparing a possible attack on Iran right before November." by Donald J. Trump, 3 Jul 2012.

Tweet: "I always said @BarackObama will attack Iran, in some form, prior to the election." by Donald J. Trump, 16 Aug 2012.

Tweet: "Now that Obama's poll numbers are in tailspin - watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate." by Donald J. Trump, 9 Oct 2012.

Speech: "Farewell Address", by Dwight David Eisenhower, January 17, 1961 (transcript). "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex."

Article: "Military budget of the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Total budgetary cost in the U.S. of the war on terror by category FY 2001-2020" by Statista.

Article: "China beefing up coastal missile deployment to target Taiwan: report" by CNA.

Article: "Trump got the National Enquirer to bury his secrets. Did he do the same with Putin?" by Alex Finley.

Article: "Florida Felon Purge Would Be Too Late for This Election" by AP.

Article: "Federal appeals court blocks Florida's felons from voting until fees and fines are paid" by Richard Wolf.

Book: The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Barrett Overturned Ruling for Pregnant Teen Raped by Prison Guard Because Rape Fell Outside Guard's Official Duties" by Accountable.US.

Article: "In Ohio, a Printing Company Is Overwhelmed and Mail Ballots Are Delayed" by Reid J. Epstein.

Article: "George Washington and the First Mass Military Inoculation" by Amy Lynn Filsinger, Raymond Dwek.

Article: "Harvard Law professor says early Congress mandated health insurance for seamen and gun ownership for most men" by C. Eugene Emery Jr.

Article: "Enrique Ruiz-Williams" by John Simkin.

Article: "Bay of Pigs Invasion" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Juan Almeida Bosque" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Democrats push to repeal state and local tax limits" by Robert Frank.

Article: "Absentee ballots on the way to more than 55,000 Lucas County voters" by Tricia Ennis.

Article: "Company that fell behind on mailing ballots draws national attention for flying Trump flag" by Camryn Justice.

Site: Indivisible

Site: I Will Vote.

Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

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