«The CIA has privately advised its workforce that taking an anti-malarial drug touted by President Trump and some of his supporters as a promising treatment for the novel coronavirus has potentially dangerous side effects, including sudden death.»
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/13/politics/states-band-together-reopening-plans/
Good-bye, Republican Party, the “party of limited government”. We always knew you were lying.
«During Monday’s White House coronavirus task force briefing, Trump again asserted his authority to override governors, saying, Tthe President of the United States calls the shots.”
“When somebody’s the president of the United States, the authority is total,” he said. “And that’s the way it’s got to be.”»
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/upshot/polling-2020-biden-trump.html
I’m still hoping the mushy middle voters will *decisively* repudiate Donald Trump, but:
«At the moment, a reasonable estimate is that Mr. Biden is performing four or five points worse among likely voters in the critical states than he is among registered voters nationwide. As a result, he holds only a narrow and tenuous edge in the race for the Electoral College, if he holds one at all.»
So, speaking from my experience as an Appalachian Trail thru-hiker: you really don’t know if you’ve reached the peak until you are standing on it. Every time you look ahead and say to yourself “that’s the peak, just up ahead”, you’re wrong. Best just to keep plugging away until it’s clear.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1249676310865219585.html
Structural racism in health outcomes, British edition.
https://twitter.com/FreshAirFarmer/status/1247876222312427521?s=20
We, the generalized “we”, are figuring this out. Dumping milk is not a sign of the evils of capitalism.
Andrew Campbell (@FreshAirFarmer) Tweeted: It’s a great question. But again we run into the challenge of it being raw and unpasteurized. A food bank can do nothing with a 40,000L tanker at its back door. They aren’t processors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-update.html
“Bring out your dead!” Except without the funny part.
«Paramedics are not testing those they pronounce dead for the virus so it is almost impossible to say how many of the people were infected with it. Some may have been tested before they died and either were not admitted to hospitals or were sent home.
But the discrepancy between the number of people dying at home this year at the height of the epidemic compared with the number of those who died under such circumstances last year suggests the virus was involved in many of the recent deaths.
https://twitter.com/ClimateDesk/status/1248209039231569926?s=20
More of the same, I guess. Supply chain networks.
Climate Desk (@ClimateDesk) Tweeted: The sudden shift in the way Americans shop is stunning. https://t.co/iFG7SZQF3O
https://twitter.com/pptsapper/status/1248044428062752769?s=20
Huh.
Angry Staff Officer (@pptsapper) Tweeted: 25% of the US Army in the Civil War was composed of Southerners There was no mythical southern hegemony that made rebels turn traitor It was a choice. To support a government based on white supremacy and chattel slavery. https://t.co/AYu5lSLrHo
https://twitter.com/Scottcrates/status/1247921908848283648?s=20
Right. This again. And always.
Scottacular (@Scottcrates) Tweeted: ** WARNING ** The Russian trolls pretending to be Bernie Bros will be out en masse declaring they won’t vote for Biden. Their goal is get you to react with an anti Bernie message and thus cause real division and lower voter turnout. Don’t fall for this. PLEASE RETWEET
Here, Read This 