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Many of the favorite Trump-created lies repeated regularly by die-hard Trump apologists are debunked in this wide ranging article.
That we are being lead through this disaster by such a petty, ignorant self-aggrandizing and dishonest charlatan will play large in the history books. Teapot Dome, Watergate, Iran-Contra will all be forgotten but the reign of this TV Clown will be famous for centuries to come. For all the wrong reasons.
…and not yet peer reviewed. But the results are enough to consider if you REALLY want to try hydroxychloroquine if you get the virus. And the Brazilian trials were stopped due to highly detrimental side effects. Like irregular heartbeats.
Senate Intel disagrees quite a bit with House Intel. Of course, the Senate committee acted in a much more bipartisan manner than their House counterparts. And the Senate chairman wasn’t a Trump stooge looking for a bone from his master.
Continue reading “In case you forgot about it…”Trump tells the governors they are on their own for testing. The GOP governor of Maryland uses his wife’s ability to communicate with South Korea, and her ability to negotiate, to secure 500,000 test kits.
Continue reading “The flip. Then the flop.”This day by day narrative of how February was wasted may induce illness itself.
It turns out that we do have the testing capacity for Phase 1, but states are only using 1/3 of our capacity. The inadequate rate of testing turns out to be a local failure due to shortages of testing manpower, PPEs and supplies, and not a lack of testing capacity deployed by the Federal government and private sector.
One of Trump’s current lies in defense of his desultory leadership during the pandemic is that Joe Biden did not take the threat seriously either. The link above is to an opinion piece published by Joe Biden IN JANUARY where he made it very clear the threat was real and that Trump was not the leader we would need. If Trump was a competent politician – let alone President – he would have reacted to that piece with strong action. But, of course, he did not because he is not.
One of the more remarkable things (to American ears, at any rate) Dr. Giesecke says in the video is that social distancing has not been the cause of observed declines in case mortality rates. Instead, he claims that “flattening the curve” has been caused by the dying off of the most vulnerable members of society.
That is a somewhat gruesome observation, but it makes sense. I continue to expect that as the true scientific picture of Covid-19 emerges, it will turn out to be a very different disease than the one we have been imagining.
http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/lockdown-socialism-will-collapse/
This link recommended by Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution.
I like the term Arnold Kling has coined, lockdown socialism, because I think it perfectly captures the mind set of many Americans who seem to want more government control of their lives on the premise that the pandemic is a really bad thing.
The same thing happened after 9/11. There was so much public demand for perfect safety from terrorists that government started patting down citizens and rifling through luggage in airports. We could do the same or similar for Covid-19, possibly, too, at the airports.
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