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Open thread April 17, 2020

Dan Crawford | April 17, 2020 12:01 pm

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  • Joel says:
    April 17, 2020 at 12:27 pm

    COVID-19 avoidance explainer, with animations:

    https://brado.net/blog/wash-your-hands-brado/?fbclid=IwAR3UTwbAh_C0JAfM36JNdrmhu7t5C_kviFve8sxdSmNUKucyRStJdkA98g8

  • Denis Drew says:
    April 17, 2020 at 3:27 pm

    The consensus seems to be that we cannot return to normal quickly without many times more testing than we are not capable of doing — maybe three million a week — along with contact tracing. Not sure how that does the job right but that is the consensus.

    Some additional suggestions are allowing students to go back to school — both to build herd immunity at rare loss of life at their age (return to normal life counts for something too) and because that would constitute a return in itself a relatively low risk. After all, if everyone was as unlikely to die as children we wouldn’t even be doing any of this. Also, school acts day care while adults seek work when they can return (possibly because having survived the virus).

    Getting up to mass production speed on testing and treating — and building a national register of the presumably immune — are things that individual governors have no way to make happen. And the dolt in the White House may not even understand what he has to do — not that he would care for a second. Maybe the governors who are now organizing at a regional level can get together some kind of national organization that can present the dolt in the White House with what he alone can do (one of his favorite phrases) — and pressure Dumphy to do it.

  • Denis Drew says:
    April 17, 2020 at 3:40 pm

    Note to moderator: this is not St. Patrick’s day. 🙂

    • Dan Crawford says:
      April 17, 2020 at 9:48 pm

      Thanks Denis

  • EMichael says:
    April 17, 2020 at 4:27 pm

    Yes it is past time. The only good thing that GOP conspiring to ignore trump’s actions is that it may well lead to Pelosi keeping her job, and McConnell losing his along with trump.

    ” The 25th Amendment Exists for a Reason

    It’s not every Friday that the president* takes to the electric Twitter machine to foment insurrection.

    By Charles P. Pierce
    Apr 17, 2020

    It’s not every Friday that the president* takes to the electric Twitter machine to foment insurrection.

    Federalism!

    The only reason the pandemic hasn’t been the national catastrophe that it could have been is the swift action taken by individual governors, and here is El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago—or some idiot staffer speaking for him—inciting armed resistance against those governors. (And the “Save Your 2nd Amendment” thing aimed at Virginia is precisely that.) He looked at those idiots in Michigan, whom he noted “like” him, which is all that matters, and saw a movement with which he could power a re-election campaign.

    Now, he’s signaling that he’s on their side, which is not only stupid from a public health standpoint, it’s absolutely dangerous from a political standpoint. There are certain viewpoints that history tells us are perilous when they begin circulating in our politics, and this president* has managed to mix up two of them. He created an extreme devolution of federal authority to the states, and now he’s using the power of the presidency to incite resistance to the very situation his nonfeasance created in the first place. In theory, it’s like there were four sides to the Civil War. It’s a recipe for a domestic version of the dissolution of Yugoslavia.

    And is there anything from the other leaders of The Party of Lincoln?

    Hello?

    Is this on?

    Hello?

    There’s far too much of this. The 25th Amendment exists for a reason.”

    https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a32188352/trump-twitter-liberate-virginia-second-amendment/

  • Bert Schlitz says:
    April 17, 2020 at 4:54 pm

    Armed insurrection???? bahahahaha. Those traitors would face a nice time for a killing. Kill them, their families and their villages. They hate America and always have. They support a Ashkenazic President and yet, probably don’t care. Most are morons and mad because “conservatism” just never really gets full power. Destroying them isn’t a enough. You destroy all their linage back to 1st cousins.

    They are the ultimate beta-male.

  • Kwark says:
    April 17, 2020 at 7:43 pm

    Seems like this move to incite resistance to the governor’s actions is just more attempt to cover Trump’s sorry ass, stir up his fanatical base, and a hail Mary attempt to gather support from the folk hurt financially by shelter in place orders. Distract, divert, confuse, bullshit all while dominating the “news” cycle to prevent any real information reaching the electorate.

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