Joe Biden: My Plan to Safely Reopen America

An effective strategy to beat the virus is the ultimate answer to how we get our economy back on track

The star of the NYTimes' op-ed section for April 12, it was accompanied by a large close-up portrait that I at first thought was a youngish Geo. Bush Sr.

There are very important issues separating different views of what we should be doing as a country to address the problems confronting our polity.

But we don't have a lot of time to do that.

Push forward and make a plan.
Or wait to see what other quislings do.

Subject to DoubleA's correction, (she being our resident expert on the mysterious cheesehead) it appears that we may be about to see a green fuckin' shoot.

I hope I don't eat these words,  but perhaps they feel the fury....

First, messaging: no tribes, just Americans, and we're going to get through this together:

To be continued as I see stuff...feel free to contribute.

Capt. Brett Crozier, who sacrificed (what was up til now a brilliant career) himself for his men, has been diagnosed with the disease from which he went down fighting to save his crew.

Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, on Jared Kushner: "I don't believe he knows what the hell he is talking about."

Commander of Joint Task Force Katrina: it's time for FEMA to hand some of this mission off to the DOD.

In one picture, after the jump. Something to keep in mind. This is where we were at, Obamacare's effects were no longer making serious care accessible for anyone living paycheck to paycheck. Only a few basics were mandated fully covered. Everything else went absurdly sky high "asking price" and then the insurers negotiated things down in contracts. Constantly playing contractual games with providers. (So much so that sometimes even doctors didn't know if they were in plan or not. day to day, maybe the clinic he's at on Tuesday is under contract with Cigna while the one he's at on Thursday is not.) The patient still left with huge co-pays and/or deductibles:

It's not in our interest to be seen to be causing them Coronavirus deaths.

Or put it another way; it's wrong.

His staff are perfectly capable of rearranging the flowers on the present. I won't suggest except to say sooner would be better  . People are dying.

AOBTW. It would be in our interest to do it before the Maximum Leader decides

 to offer 50 or so  diseased  warrior an opportunity to a commodius location in heaven in exchange for

them crossing  our border to have a cup of coffee some place that's open.

 things." said Alice.
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said Donald. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

Such as  there's  no global warming. Or I didn't need to prepare for  COVID 19.