https://www.abc15.com/news/coronavirus/arizona-state-health-department-tells-modeling-team-to-stop-work

Scientists from various Arizona Universities have been instructed to stop their efforts on COVID-19 and denied access to the data they have been using to predict the spread. Brilliant!

By the way, if data from New York City is omitted (because it has begun to decline there), the Covid-19 outbreak has not peaked. It is climbing steadily. In places like Arizona. Pretty clear the decision has been made to kill a lot of people to preserve Republican power. Too bad for them, it is not nice to fool with Mother Nature.

This is what it feels like when the "President" of the United States attacks you personally pic.twitter.com/wzp4ed4GHr

— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) May 6, 2020

Short, but consider Mr. Trump skewered.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/health-wellness/severity-of-covid-19-may-depend-on-where-youre-located-on-the-map/734371?utm_medium=push&utm_source=pushly&utm_content=526814&utm_campaign=pushly_trial

We live in the danger zone! Just barely.

NYC seeded outbreaks nationwide

As I pointed out early on, people fleeing a plague take it with them.

While China was still encouraging international flights out of Wuhan, it forbade travel from Wuhan to other parts of China.

We should have done the same with travel from Greater NYC.

The outcome of long term Consevative thinking:

“Due to the meatpacking, though, that’s where the Brown County got the (corona virus) flare. It wasn’t just the regular folks in Brown County,” Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Patience Roggensack said.

Huck Finn: “Well, running aground wasn’t the real problem—that only held us up a little. We also blew out a cylinder head .”

Aunt Sally: “Good gracious! anybody hurt?”

Huck Finn: “No’m. Killed a n——.”

Aunt Sally: “Well, that’s lucky, because sometimes people get hurt.”

 

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/496383-space-force-chief-to-steve-carell-get-a-haircut

Glad to see the head of the Space Force has a good sense of humor. It is a necessity in the Air Force, where they build the golf course, barracks and clubs first. And then have to go back to Congress for money for hangars and runways.

In this scene from the movie The Big Short you will find a very clear and very interesting description of how the big bankers created the financial and economic crash of 2008.

https://www.vox.com/covid-19-coronavirus-economy-recession-stock-market/2020/5/6/21248069/stock-market-economy-federal-reserve-jerome-powell

I wondered that myself. The easy answer is the Fed propping up the market. Along with tax cuts financed by debt, we are up to our collective butts in printed money. Are we a financial Potemkin Village?

The Trump campaign’s egregious editing of a CNN clip

Of course any political campaign is going to spin the truth in its favor, but the egregious deceptions in this Trump ad are so far beyond the pale that it is not funny anymore. Once again, somewhere Joe Stalin is smiling.