Italy at 200/New Cases a Day, USA USA 65,000/Day !

By NCD on Fri, 07/10/2020 - 11:55pm |

Italy set its single-day record for new cases on March 21 with 6,557, but it now reports fewer than 200 a day. Spain, which was averaging 8,000 new cases a day during its peak in April, now averages a little over 400 a day. And Britain, which was averaging 5,500 new cases a day in mid-April, now averages 537.

In the United States, on the other hand, the outbreak is getting worse.

3/10 - Trump, after meeting with Republican senators: “And we’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.”

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This tweet thread deserves a Pulitzer https://t.co/x0xxUUUJaP
— DAVID FORTIN (@davidfortin) July 11, 2020

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/11/2020 - 7:31pm

US has 13 states with 1000+ new cases, 15 more with 500+.

There are 23 other countries with >1000 new cases, only 9 more with 500+.

So our infections are getting near all the rest of the world's put together.

Good rivalry between Florida and Texas - Florida trying hard to catch up, Will need a few more days. Thrilling

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/11/2020 - 7:45pm

MAD AS HELL !!

by NCD on Sat, 07/11/2020 - 8:50pm

President Donald Trump shared a tweet on Thursday that argued the mandated use of face masks represents a "culture of silence, slavery, and social death."

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-shares-tweet-that-says-masks-represent-slavery-and-social-death-2020-5

by rmrd0000 on Sat, 07/11/2020 - 9:03pm

No wonder his eyes are averted, he is obviously pissed as hell in the picture. There is no one he can even blame for the photo, he was told he had to wear it. The Vet vote is slipping away. TEXAS is talking it may shut down AGAIN .

Who's the man? Who? Biden's the man.

by NCD on Sat, 07/11/2020 - 9:22pm

World-o-meter gets the prostate test - cough

https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2020/05/world/worldometer-coronaviru...

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/12/2020 - 4:22am

Florida's winning!

Florida on Sunday reported more than 15,000 new coronavirus cases, smashing the daily record reported by any single state https://t.co/MfOm8I6a0b
— POLITICO (@politico) July 13, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 07/12/2020 - 9:14pm

Trump's new home state and site of the 2020 Republicans National Convention - they're just out to show how grateful they are for the honor.. DiSantis=riding star in the party, So much promise.

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/12/2020 - 10:46pm

Dammit, AZ was on top for a while and I thought we might win. But Florida always wins these types of contests.

by ocean-kat on Mon, 07/13/2020 - 12:22am

AZ all escaped Across the border to Mexico - leaky Wall.

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 07/13/2020 - 1:02am

Instead of CONFRONTING THE PANDEMIC! https://t.co/TGXwxdBH5u
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 13, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 07/12/2020 - 11:39pm

It's hard to believe this has to be said, but unlike this president, I'll actually listen to the experts and heed their advice. Not silence them. https://t.co/AkLFevCI6b
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 12, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 07/12/2020 - 11:40pm

THE IMMUNE SYSTEM HAS A RIGHT TO WORK !!!

NO TO SHUTDOWN, NO TO MASKS !!

Actual professionally printed sign at s "Liberty" protest a month ago. Was in Italy just last summer. Great population density in cities. A citizenry way smarter, very proud of their culture and country, and of course far more united than ours.

School "openings" here will likely be the next "opening" fiasco in many places. By the time Biden takes over it is likely going to be far too late to get a handle on this.

by NCD on Mon, 07/13/2020 - 12:13am

Right to bare arms as well. Dont forget the 2nd - it tries harder than the 1st.

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 07/13/2020 - 1:04am

though there is also that things could be worse:

Pandemic misinformation has proven to be a potent political tool in Brazil, particularly among supporters of president Jair Bolsonaro https://t.co/F6aTaVBC7l pic.twitter.com/15FHd61qKo
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) July 14, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/14/2020 - 1:19am

NY is issuing an emergency health order:

Out-of-state travelers from designated high-COVID states must provide their contact information upon arrival.

If you fail to provide it, you will receive a summons with a $2K fine.

We’re serious about enforcing quarantine.
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) July 13, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/13/2020 - 3:33pm

#TrumpTrustsGameShowHostsNotFauci

by NCD on Mon, 07/13/2020 - 7:10pm

I think it's pretty much this:

The White House's efforts to disparage Fauci's credibility is less about Fauci himself than about Trump's desire to build a miasma of uncertainty around the pandemic which obscures where his administration has failed.https://t.co/2i2DeRTFFu
— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 14, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/13/2020 - 11:00pm

and Maggie's not as clear-eyed about that, she's waiting for something sensible to happen, I guess:

Trump has fewer than 115 days until the election. His White House staff is focused not on a second term case or on Biden but on attacking a member of the administration. https://t.co/DWYyOAucRG
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 14, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/13/2020 - 11:28pm

the more confusion, obfuscation and resulting conspiracy theorizing by the public, the better:

Trump admin pushing new covid data collection plan that removes cdc and gives primary role to national guard. (Do we need UN intervention? Security council?) https://t.co/0TwEftXqRe
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 14, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/13/2020 - 11:42pm

and for the umpteenth time

I mean, he's completely lost it, right? How else to read this? He's completely lost it. https://t.co/ugySQIrUoR
— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) July 13, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/13/2020 - 11:20pm

just for the record, he was really on one of his delusionary babble benders today

Anyone who jokes about Al Gore and the Internet should be forced to watch this clip on repeat for 40 minutes https://t.co/4lBeq8sf7r
— "Rabbit = good friend" Smith (@Noahpinion) July 14, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/14/2020 - 1:11am

high as a kite:

Imagine thinking that Fox News has been gripped by radical leftism. https://t.co/utFhLJuOXv
— Berny Belvedere (@bernybelvedere) July 13, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/14/2020 - 1:42am

Trump-traitor Stone on Fox - I'm confused.

Is Fox a mouthpiece or not?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/13/roger-stone-speaks-in-fo...

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/14/2020 - 1:49am

Thread showing that #RealityWinner leaked the NSA report confirming Russian hacking only after Trump had dismissed media reports of such hacking as “fake news” and was in the process of returning Russian compounds & trying to lift Russian sanctions. 4/ https://t.co/aUVczjVFgK
— Jennifer Cohn (@jennycohn1) July 9, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/14/2020 - 2:22am

Higher and higher:

I'm no longer "live"-tweeting, rather five-minutes-behind tweeting, because Trump is lying so much I keep having to stop
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 14, 2020

Edit to add:

We’re watching the self-destruction of the president in real time.

Unreal.
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 14, 2020

This Trump presser is basically an emotionally disturbed, broken down old man standing on a street corner rambling about the children who keep trying to commit him
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 14, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/14/2020 - 6:03pm

More than 1/2 hour ago

Good call https://t.co/XwC7pfOHJc
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 14, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/14/2020 - 6:07pm

Hah Charlie Sykes at The Bulwark is basically trying to gaslight him while he's crazed?

The election is 112 days away and this is what Americans are seeing.
We have zoomed past embarrassing and into territory that is genuinely alarming.
There was no reassurance that Trump was on the case; no sense of either empathy or a plan. https://t.co/KNGPkzaRvU
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) July 15, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/14/2020 - 10:38pm

How Iceland Beat the Coronavirus | The New Yorker https://t.co/Bu9nlWrk1J
— Mary Gregory (@MGregoryWriter) July 14, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 07/13/2020 - 10:58pm

Aargh, masks help.

In a sea-locked country of 350,000 where everyone knows each other, and have a string social sense of behavior, maybe not so needed. Everywhere else, yes. Sure, mask care Is not the best - but better than open respiration. Yes, I see similar café/restaurant scenes here - masks have largely come off with success. Some people still optionally wear theirs, depending.

We also had good response from the government. Mistakes were made, but communication was open, And public health was foremost. Listening to experts was also solid, unlike the US where we listen to authoritiarians who tell us we can do what we like (which for them seems like oddly similar behavior - in imitatiin, Freedom I suppose)

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/14/2020 - 12:33am

The Australians aren't fucking about with the virus.... pic.twitter.com/fkuL8K94Gs
— Crow Esquire (@CrowSaorAlba1) July 13, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/14/2020 - 10:59pm

Oklahoma’s governor says he tested positive.

@ NYTimes.com Live Updates

[...] Mr. Stitt told reporters in a video news conference that he was feeling fine and that he did not know where, when or how he had become infected.

Mr. Stitt has attended many public events and has often been photographed in public while not wearing a mask, including at an indoor rally for President Trump that was held in Tulsa on June 20. A surge in cases in and around Tulsa was most likely tied to the rally, the city’s top health official said last week.

Mr. Stitt, a Republican, said after learning that he was positive, he was not second-guessing his response to the virus. He has resisted issuing a statewide mask order for Oklahoma, and continued to do so on Wednesday.

Oklahoma has averaged more than 640 new cases a day over the last week, the most of any point in the pandemic. The state set a single-day record on Tuesday with more than 990 new cases.[....]

by artappraiser on Wed, 07/15/2020 - 2:12pm

Iowa Department of Public Health spokesperson, ousted from her job today, tells the Des Moines register that reporters have been denied timely information during the covid crisis. https://t.co/4ZfME2HIL9
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 15, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/16/2020 - 12:46am

DNC tells members of Congress not to travel to convention, per email to Hill chiefs:

“As the coronavirus cases in Milwaukee, and across the country continue to increase, we ... have come to the hard decision that Members of Congress should not plan to travel to Milwaukee.”
1/2
— Ben Siegel (@benyc) July 17, 2020

“No delegates will travel to Milwaukee and Caucus and Council meetings will take place virtually.”

2/2
— Ben Siegel (@benyc) July 17, 2020

(The DNC’s email to Capitol Hill was reported by NYT’s @llerer)
— Ben Siegel (@benyc) July 17, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/16/2020 - 8:18pm

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