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The Hartmann Report - The massive incompetence and malice of the Trump administration in 2020 led... to the unnecessary deaths of an estimated half-million Americans. And now we may well be facing a repeat that could be even worse.The flu pandemic of 1918-1920 was the result of a bird flu (H1N1) that mixed, presumably in a pig, with a human-adapted flu virus and then killed over 50 million people worldwide and almost 700,000 in America (when our population was only 100 million people; it’s 334 million today).

So far, every person in America who’s become infected with this generation’s bird flu (H5N1) has gotten it from an animal, mostly birds (particularly chickens). It’s so widespread in the US chicken population, in fact, that it’s largely responsible for the high price of eggs leading up to the election and today (so much for the GOP/media inflation talking point).

Good Good Good  -  This year, at least 16 states have adopted 22 PFAS-related measures to either reduce or ban them from products or hold companies to account for the harm their products have caused. Of those 16 states, at least 11 have enacted laws to restrict the use of “forever chemicals” in everyday consumer products or firefighting foam. This includes bans on PFAS in apparel, cleaning products, cookware, cosmetic products, and menstrual items.  In other states, lawmakers have passed measures that require companies to pay for testing or cleanup of these chemicals, disclose the use of PFAS in their products, and mandate the development of PFAS alternatives, according to reports from Stateline.  States involved