Apparently Trump has ordered that his signature appear on the individual checks approved in the Coronavirus Stimulus Bill, instead of the disbursement officer's signature. Free campaign mailer.
"The rate of new cases may be slowing in New York, but the governor says it may take 21 days for the state to hit its peak and begins going down… Meanwhile, officials in other states are warning they could be next. In Los Angeles County, cases more than tripled in six days, and one official says numbers will keep going up. Health Director Barbara Ferrer says she expects to see case counts in Los Angeles double every four days for the next two to three weeks."
"But some Wuhan residents who had tested positive earlier and then recovered from the disease are testing positive for the virus a second time. Based on data from several quarantine facilities in the city, which house patients for further observation after their discharge from hospitals, about 5%-10% of patients pronounced 'recovered' have tested positive again." Rhut rho. It could be the tests the Chinese are using (which aren't 100% accurate) and variations in how the test is administered.
"The sum of known coronavirus U.S. cases soared well past 100,000, with more than 1,600 dead, as weary doctors and nurses protested at shortages of scarce medical supplies that some have to keep under lock and key or even buy on the black market."
How's our "medicine for profit" business model working out? "A California teenager who died last week, possibly from coronavirus, was turned away from an urgent care because he lacked health insurance."
The president doesn't believe he's everybody's president. "President Donald Trump said Friday he has asked Vice President Mike Pence not to call governors he says have not been 'appreciative' enough of his efforts on coronavirus – a group of critics that included a governor he referred to only by gender, 'Don't call the woman in Michigan,' Trump said at a press conference while discussing Pence's work as head of the White House Coronavirus Task Force." I seem to remember saying the hardest thing Trump would have to find out is that being president people wouldn't treat him the same as when everyone around him wanted a piece of his money. He would find it hard when people would tell him to fuck off.
"The Daily Beast reports, however, that Trump’s tweets caused 'mass confusion' within his own administration, as officials scrambled to determine whether he was actually invoking the Defense Production Act to ramp up supplies of desperately needed medical equipment, or if he was just spouting off." The president has no idea how the government works, even after 3 years.
"A five-minute, point-of-care coronavirus test could be coming to hospitals next week, and experts say it could be 'game-changing.'… The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued Emergency Use Authorization to Illinois-based medical device maker Abbott Labs on Friday for a coronavirus test that delivers positive results in as little as five minutes and negative results in 13 minutes, the company said." But at what price, and how quickly can they actually deliver?
"At 4:00 pm (Friday)… the Bureau of Indian Affairs informed me that the Secretary of the Interior has ordered that our reservation (Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe) be disestablished and that our land be taken out of trust. Not since the termination era of the mid-twentieth century has a Secretary taken action to disestablish a reservation." The Mashpee tribe is one of the smaller and one of the last nations to be recognized by the Federal Government (2007). And while their reservation is only a little over 300 acres, they have petitioned to build a casino and are continuing to fight for all of their rights. There is no reason to do this, except to sell their land. Cruelty is the program. (Grokked from Jim Wright)
"The mortgage finance system could collapse if the Fed doesn’t step in with emergency loans to offset a coming wave of missed payments from borrowers crippled by the coronavirus pandemic." Again note that the problem isn't really in the mortgages, but in the securitization of mortgages.
"Implicitly, the act says that when the chips are down, we as a nation turn to our national parent — the federal government. That has to be anathema to a libertarian such as Massie, who claims that label even as a Republican member of Congress (as does his fellow Kentuckian, Sen. Rand Paul, who didn't vote on the bill in the Senate because he has tested positive for the coronavirus)." And yes the CARES act is exactly the opposite of libertarianism that this can be seen as a test, the counter to the past 30 years of neoliberal philosophy. But don't worry for the libertarians, they're quite immune from facts and evidence.
"Inaccuracies about the stock market. Baffling statements about a closed GM plant. Stating you can call coronavirus the flu… President Donald Trump on Friday continued the false and misleading claims that have become a part of White House briefings on coronavirus, wrapping up a week in which the number of confirmed cases across the country topped 100,000… We are still combing through the transcript, but here is the developing roundup…" Our stable-genius president, everybody (does showcase showdown hands).
"Anecdotally, there are wide differences, and they do not appear to follow discernible political or geographic lines. Democratic-leaning Massachusetts… has received 17 percent of the protective gear it requested, according to state leaders. Maine requested a half-million N95 specialized protective masks and received 25,558 — about 5 percent of what it sought. The shipment delivered to Colorado — 49,000 N95 masks, 115,000 surgical masks and other supplies — would be 'enough for only one full day of statewide operations,'… Florida has been an exception in its dealings with the stockpile: The state submitted a request on March 11 for 430,000 surgical masks, 180,000 N95 respirators, 82,000 face shields and 238,000 gloves, among other supplies — and received a shipment with everything three days later, according to figures from the state’s Division of Emergency Management. It received an identical shipment on March 23, according to the division, and is awaiting a third." On the National Stockpile and how it's been mismanaged, transferred, understocked, and basically the heinous fuckery of the Trump Administration. (Grokked from Cherie Priest among others)
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