Trump’s interview with Axios’s Jonathan Swan is iconic, and an instant classic. Good God. Trump’s handlers should have staged a diversion to stop that disastrous interview. Pulled a fire alarm. Pumped laughing gas into the room. Set themselves on fire. Whatever it took. “Train wreck” is too gentle a description. It was like a nuclear-armed jet crashed into a train, … Read More
Breaking: Trump’s Tulsa Rally Just Killed Presidential Candidate Herman Cain
Here’s just a few of the #BlackVoicesForTrump at tonight’s rally! Having a fantastic time!#TulsaRally2020 #Trumptulsa #TulsaTrumprally #MAGA #Trump2020 #Trump2020Landslide pic.twitter.com/27mUzkg7kL — Herman Cain (@THEHermanCain) June 20, 2020 Former Republican presidential contender Herman Cain has died due to COVID-19. Cain was hospitalized on July 2 for COVID-19 symptoms; his last apparent public appearance was at Donald Trump’s Tulsa, Oklahoma rally two weeks prior, on June 20. That … Read More
Trump Can’t Understand Why Dr. Fauci Has Higher Approval Ratings. It Seems Glaringly Obvious Why.
For Trump, taking the virus seriously was apparently little more than a short-lived experiment, given the president’s retweet of a video in which a doctor claims that the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine is the cure for the coronavirus. The video was later deleted by Twitter: Twitter has pulled a video of doctors making false claims about the novel coronavirus after it was shared … Read More
Covid-19 Phase 3 Testing To Begin Today
Phase 3 of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine begins today in the U.S. According to Dr. Stephen Hoge, president of Massachusetts-based Moderna, they are “optimistic, cautiously optimistic” that the vaccine will work and that the data will eventually prove it: The biggest test yet of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine got underway Monday with the first of some 30,000 Americans rolling up their sleeves … Read More
Whose Side Is Trump On?
One factor keeping Americans from grasping the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic is that outside the viral hot spots so few know anyone who has caught the disease or died from it. Here in this county of 260, 000, we knew three afflicted in March at a time there were only 40 cases on record. How is that possible? They … Read More
GOP Governors Not Good At Handling COVID, Public Says
Oh look. It seems that people aren’t impressed with their GOP Governors following the Trump model of lying, blowing smoke, blaming and otherwise acting like assholes during a major public health crisis: While governors’ ratings for communicating about the virus and caring about their communities are down slightly, this is not uniform across the country but varies by the party of the … Read More
White House Takes Control Of COVID Hospitalization Data
The administrtion is telling hospitals to bypass the CDC and send their numbers directly to them: The Trump administration has ordered hospitals to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and, beginning on Wednesday, send all coronavirus patient information to a central database in Washington — a move that has alarmed public health experts who fear the data will be … Read More
Trump’s Second Term Strategy: Ignore The COVID Deaths
The dreaded 'alligator mouth' continues to open. pic.twitter.com/EFSDXNYR16 — Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) July 7, 2020 It would appear that President Trump is quite serious about the new strategy for dealing with the surging COVID-19 pandemic that was reported earlier in the Washington Post: White House officials hope Americans will grow numb to the escalating death toll and learn to accept tens of … Read More
Trump Endears Himself To White Supremacists… And Putin, Again… While America Gets Sicker
The nation is full of racial strife, although on the whole, the BLM movement is peaceful and making rapid progress. A couple pointed guns at protesters in St. Louis as a group marched toward the mayor’s home to demand her resignation. https://t.co/5EqDd43QCd pic.twitter.com/KWNaif77ch — ABC News (@ABC) June 29, 2020 Trump retweet shows supporter yelling "white power" White House spokesman: … Read More
“I Don’t Kid’
Asked if he was kidding about slowing down testing, Trump replies "I don't kid", goes on to brag about US testing. pic.twitter.com/NSjd9djn9Y — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 23, 2020
A Tale Of Two Curves
The US is having a consistent plateau of 20,000-25,000 new COVID cases per day. However the location of those cases are moving. The Northeast has effectively crushed the epidemic spread. The Great Lakes is making progress. The South and Sunbelt however are heating up. One of the metrics that is useful to look at to determine spread is how many … Read More
Trump’s Tulsa Rally Could Kill People
CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta went off on the Trump campaign’s plans to hold a massive, indoor rally this Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where the number of Covid-19 cases are currently spiking: “I can’t imagine anyone is telling him this is okay.” On Cuomo Prime Time, the eponymous host asked Gupta to explain President Donald Trump’s reasoning for bringing together tens of thousands of … Read More
Trump Lacks Object Permanence Development Skill
Object permanence is the understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard, touched, smelled or sensed in any way. Anderson Cooper just pointed out that this is something humans usually learn at about 18 months of age. The president hasn’t reached that stage yet: Trump: If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any … Read More
COVID-19: Second Wave?
North Carolina ‘s Gov. Roy Cooper in his coronavirus briefing on Monday urged citizens to get a COVID-19 test if they have been exposed to any crowd: “We are seeing more viral spread, and these numbers are concerning,” Gov. Cooper said. “If you have been in any kind of crowd, please go get tested. When you’re around people, wear your masks … Read More
COVID-19 Update: Yeah, It’s Still Here
World: US: NC and local: You wouldn’t know it from the news, but we’re still in the middle of a pandemic. States are gingerly opening up, but gatherings are limited. No sports, no movies, no theater, no concerts. I personally am still working from home. Trump, no in full campaign and fascist mode, barely talks about coronavirus. In fact…. Dr. … Read More