re: OT: Alabama Coronavirus Thread (see link in OP for case numbers and death totals in AL)

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Costa Rica sure takes millions of dollars in aid from this shitty country.

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Since the 1980’s, the USA has provided Costa Rica with over $1.1 billion dollars in financial aid through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), for programs to stabilize its economy and broaden and accelerate economic growth through policy reforms and trade liberalization. In 1989, the USAID provided funds to create a Costa Rican natural resource conservation plan to empower the National Forestry Department so that it could begin to regulate logging and consolidate and institutionalize financial incentives for environmental services. At the program’s outset, $120 dollars were paid for every hectare of forest conserved.


To date, $230 million dollars have been paid to a variety of entities, including rural and indigenous communities as well as individual land owners. In addition, the program directly contributed to the creation of 18,000 jobs and indirectly supported an additional 30,000 jobs. Furthermore, the USA has helped Costa Rica to renegotiate its foreign debt in 1989 and again in 2007, so that money could be reinvested through the Tropical Forest Conservation Act for conservation, restoration, and protection of Costa Rica’s tropical forests. Additionally, in 2001, USAID completed a $9 million project to support Costa Rican refugees of Hurricane Mitch.


In 2010, the U.S. and Costa Rican Governments and The Nature Conservancy concluded agreements that will provide more than $27 million dollars over 15 years for tropical forest conservation in Costa Rica. The USA is Costa Rica’s most important trading partner and it accounts for almost half of Costa Rica’s exports, imports, and tourism, and more than two-thirds of its foreign investment. Clearly, the majority of the economic aid from the USA has been in the form of humanitarian and environmental programs that continue to improve the lives of the Costa Ricans.

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Please, stay on topic TIA

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Try to avoid grocery stores the first week in April. Montgomery has approved a plan to issue an additional 40 million dollars of food assistance to food stamp recipients over the next two months. The first issuance will be 4-1-20. The stores have been warned that they're going to be slammed.

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Link? 

The city of Montgomery can’t legally do something like this and the state legislature wasn’t even in session today. House returns tomorrow and Senate on the 31st. 

There may be something in the yet to be passed federal legislation but otherwise I see no way for something like this to have happened.

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The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) reports the death of a patient who previously tested positive for COVID-19. This event marks the first death in an Alabama resident with a positive test. The patient had underlying health problems and passed away in a facility outside the state of Alabama. The patient was a resident of Jackson County.

“We express our deepest sympathy to the family and loved ones of the patient who died, as well as to the families of everyone who has been affected by this outbreak,” State Health Officer Dr. Scott Harris said. “The health of our residents and the community is our greatest priority, and we will continue working together to care for the patients, protect the safety of health care workers, and protect the people in our state.”

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Alabama Public Health
@ALPublicHealth
Alabama announces first death of a state resident who tested positive for #COVID19. Read our full #NewsRelease at LINK #coronavirus #PressRelease

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