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Biden Official Warns U.S.

artappraiser — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 22:38:08 +0000

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Biden Official Warns U.S. Virus Deaths Will Pass 500,000 Within Weeks

States are reeling after the Trump administration’s vaccine promises unravel.

The world is bracing for a surge of virus variants that are more contagious.

current headlines at NYTimes.com- COVID LIVE COVERAGE PAGE, here's the links

Biden has plans to use FEMA

artappraiser — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 04:32:27 +0000

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Biden has plans to use FEMA and National Guard on this problem:

To get as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible, we need more clinics across the nation. That’s why my administration will harness the full resources of the federal government to establish thousands of community vaccination centers. https://t.co/c551gKJZwa
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) January 16, 2021

Only 5 more days and he can start doing it!

Next question: where's the rest of the vaccines gonna come from?

Around 500 people 65+ are

artappraiser — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 04:15:13 +0000

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Around 500 people 65+ are dying per day in California. (~75% of all deaths.) In total, 6 million people in CA are 65+. CA currently has 2 million unused vaccine doses.

Thousands of avoidable deaths. This is a failure of managerial competence and should be a bigger scandal. https://t.co/mSRNGE8dVs
— Patrick Collison (@patrickc) January 16, 2021

We're basically the old Soviet Union now. Nothing works. https://t.co/uUEwMUNjT9
— Noahtogolpe (@Noahpinion) January 17, 2021

London lockdown working

artappraiser — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 01:34:34 +0000

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London lockdown working dramatically, including graphs

pic.twitter.com/3LVwV1gaZh
— Mike Bird (@Birdyword) January 16, 2021

NEW (and pretty important): Covid hospital admissions fall in London and the south east for first time since Xmas https://t.co/PkgAq1Bsq8
— Alastair McLellan (@HSJEditor) January 13, 2021

It has been 312 days since the WHO declared a pandemic https://t.co/1y11VnZVGE
— Mike Bird (@Birdyword) January 16, 2021

It's the right thing and I'm glad they may finally be arriving to better policies even at this absurdly late stage, but it does grate after a year of vErY cLeVeR people telling everyone that these sorts of things simply were not possible in the UK.
— Mike Bird (@Birdyword) January 16, 2021

Huge anti-restriction sentiment coming... Soon! Soon... soon? https://t.co/amYMkmu1nd
— Mike Bird (@Birdyword) January 16, 2021

Psssst... pass it on:

artappraiser — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 01:27:03 +0000

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Psssst... pass it on:

COVID LUNG is worse than smoker’s lung.

"Post-COVID lungs look worse than any type of terrible smoker's lung we've ever seen. And they collapse. And they clot off. And the shortness of breath lingers” says Dr @BKendallMD. #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/h3PrzzN3rR
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 17, 2021

an even more moving on air

artappraiser — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 00:47:09 +0000

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an even more moving on air breakdown

Sobering—CNN reporter @sarasidnerCNN crying on air after seeing devastation at California 10 hospitals full of #COVID19 patients and witnessing countless parking lot funerals. This reporter has been to war zones & covered bombings. But COVID is next level. pic.twitter.com/yXEFikXUzc
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 12, 2021

I saw it live and will never forget it.

WATCH: CNN's Brianna Keilar

artappraiser — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 00:42:09 +0000

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WATCH: CNN's Brianna Keilar Breaks Down While Reading Emotional Last Goodbyes of Covid Victims in Moving Tribute https://t.co/sYaGGFAzlo
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) January 16, 2021

One not so minor side effect of the pandemic is how this is going to change culture as far as mourning, funerals and memorials are concerned. Many are becoming used to the idea of people dying alone and giving up on any closure rituals, not just because there is no body but one cannot gather in person anymore either. A memorial service a couple years down the road doesn't have the same punch. A tribute on zoom must be choreographed and has no chance hugs and quietly expressed memories in the moment..

California surpasses New York

artappraiser — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 23:42:37 +0000

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California surpasses New York as epicentre of US Covid crisis https://t.co/tss2hILAf7
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) January 16, 2021

Exactly! I.E. Pfizer now

artappraiser — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 22:55:54 +0000

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Exactly! I.E. Pfizer now saying EU can't get until March 31; this seems to be the general zeitgeist: promises not delivered. It's great that they invented them so quickly. Still: pie in sky. Meanwhile: mutations happen. People travel. Mutation moves to other countries. Lockdown after lockdown after lockdown. No back to "old normal."

This Debbie Downer will be pleasantly surprised if things manage a new and different normal from old normal and current normal in a year. I'd just like a better bead on what that is going to be. Especially if globalism remains virtual only for quite some time (I imagine you care about that, too.) I am hoping that Biden does the truth to power thing on that front so we can get a better bead on it all. Once again, there is an upside to him being so old: not as many reasons to spin people on what's really up.

I saw that. Makes us look bad

artappraiser — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 22:41:44 +0000

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I saw that. Makes us look bad, of course. Very good if true. WE'LL SEE, they sure botched the lockdown thing to put it mildly, don't count your chickens before they hatch...