Trump's not even watching his own COVID-19 briefing as he's trying to prop up oil industry profit

Daily WH COVID-19 briefing has questions from the press that are mainly about the incompetence issues.

Payroll tax holiday stunt proposed “take two taxcuts…etc.” from Larry Kudlow (remember that middle-class taxcut from November 2018). which will cost the economy a trillion dollars. Kudlow demurs and says he needs to “stay in his lane”.

VP Pence lies again about the availability of COVID-19 tests. Updates below.

Cooties at the core of capitalism:

Bailing out fracking because it’s threatened by a Saudi-Russian price war does seem awful…. collusive. As if a subsidy was being given for the same reasons that the trade wars have failed in the agricultural sector.

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Please read about this hugely important chart: even if you’re ok and think you’re unlikely to get seriously ill, modifying your behavior is needed to protect all of society. It’s called “flattening the curve” and it saves lives. https://t.co/XRzYYftKrR

— Walt Mossberg (@waltmossberg) March 10, 2020

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It means giving up some normal practices for a month or two, not for yourself, but for the society at large. And that includes rejecting online or cable TV info from anyone other than the CDC, WHO, FDA, recognized experts.

— Walt Mossberg (@waltmossberg) March 10, 2020

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