A new Harvard report shows that testing needs to be immediately ramped up by at least three times beyond its current level. The difficulty ofContinue Reading
#COVIDIOTS — because irony ain’t dead, it’s just not wearing a surgical mask. Here is the conclusion of one of the most unhinged and bizarre rantsContinue Reading
How many deaths would you condone in order to liberate your state’s economy? When you admit to an acceptable number of deaths you have alreadyContinue Reading
We have reached some strange place but it’s on the path to the bunker and it’s a scorched earth. x Even the most stable democracy isContinue Reading
Live blog below (yes, it is a pseudo-campaign rally, but the various Trumpian errors often make it worth it, also some folks like watching trainwrecks)Continue Reading
More distraction and diversion today as chaos continues. Trump is trying to exploit his acceding “authority” to the states but is unhappy that someone whoContinue Reading
Trump persists in claiming that the “shutdown” will kill more people. It won’t, despite the logical fallacy of associating the current death rate with curtailingContinue Reading
Live Blog below (still doing it only because Trump says stupid stuff) 5:00* PM EDT ( expect delays — yesterday’s presser started at 6:15pm) Members ofContinue Reading
Had Trump acted during his “lost month” 90% of US deaths could have been prevented. New epidemiology estimates that 90% of US death could haveContinue Reading
…Fear will keep the local systems in line.” By his own admission, Trump is always fighting someone on behalf of Americans — Congress, scientists, courts,Continue Reading
LIVE BLOG below (presser likely will start 30-45 minutes late*) 5:00* 6:15 PM EDT Members of the Coronavirus Task Force Hold a Press Briefing at The WhiteContinue Reading
LIVE BLOG below (presser likely will start 30-45 minutes late*) 5:00* 6:15 PM EDT Members of the Coronavirus Task Force Hold a Press Briefing at The WhiteContinue Reading
Trump’s Al Haig moment came yesterday. Wound-up tight, he was. Sometimes we don’t know WTF he’s saying, like “the Democrats were ‘artificially stopped’ by COVID-19”, butContinue Reading
Today’s COVID taskforce presser was the most obvious manipulation of the event as a propaganda show in service of the Trump election campaign. Trump triedContinue Reading
Live Blog below — it likely won’t start on time, pretty much the symbol of the WH. Today had 45 minutes of what likely will be peak Trumpiness,Continue Reading
“We tell people to wash their hands, but a study showed that 30 percent of homes on Navajo Nation don’t have running water, so howContinue Reading
Trump has never wavered from a belief that denial is his best COVID-19 policy as his indecisiveness born of insecurity around experts drives the WhiteContinue Reading
Aside from sinophobia rather than russophobia, The NY Times has documented more of the details for the 70-days of denial/delay/dysfunction in the Trump White House. Continue Reading
Even without a daily COVID taskforce briefing, we’re not starving for incompetent discourse on Easter weekend. First Trump attacks the MSM hobbyhorse yet again withContinue Reading
Weekly Recap: Bernie Suspends, Our COVID-19 Emergency Response Solidarity, Mike Hersh and Dr. Bill Honigman for Alan, Mike F., Dan, Donna, Janis, Deb, Bryan, andContinue Reading
