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oh. my. god. proof how bad things really are.

By artappraiser on Tue, 03/17/2020 - 9:19pm |

MCCONNELL TO REPUBLICANS WHO HAVE PROBLEMS WITH THE HOUSE BILL: “My counsel is to gag and vote for it anyway.”
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) March 17, 2020

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I had a fascinating conversation w/ @AndrewYang today, not long after the Trump administration confirmed it would start putting cash straight into Americans' pockets.

His mood was anything but celebratory. "This whole thing is so fucked up," Yang said.https://t.co/XB7qVTh7AI
— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) March 18, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/17/2020 - 9:44pm

My phone is blowing up.
— Andrew Yang (@AndrewYang) March 17, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/18/2020 - 12:43am

The Scaramouche:

Andrew is a visionary. Our economic team @skybridge spent hours studying his plan. This is the best solution to replace the aggregate demand calm the anxiety in America of wage earners and putting us on the road to true deep and wise economic prosperity. We must act! And go BIG! https://t.co/yuCYvYNW8W
— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) March 18, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/18/2020 - 12:48am

Unemployment claims, MN, OH, PA:

Ohio: 48,640https://t.co/twsuBCCTEk

Pennsylvania: more than 100,000https://t.co/sM1ffC40dn https://t.co/AAMqTNAjiO
— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) March 18, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/17/2020 - 11:58pm

Megan McArdle:

A libertarian’s unlikely pandemic plea: Subsidize everything.

From @asymmetricinfo: https://t.co/C4b9YxcJr7
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) March 17, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/18/2020 - 12:52am

It's so bad Fox News is reversing itself:

What a damning indictment of Fox News from the Post video team here. pic.twitter.com/r8Fz8vo5KV
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) March 18, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 03/18/2020 - 2:21pm

Good point; no need for social distancing for 18 mos. if everyone was tested. Even better if it was eventually cheap enough to test whether symptomatic or not:

If we get a testing-and-tracking regime in place we can mostly or completely abandon social distancing. Social distancing and shutdowns and lockdowns are temporary measures to get a suppression (testing-and-tracking) regime in place.
— We need 70k tests a day (@Noahpinion) March 18, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/18/2020 - 1:44am

Again: a future of cheap universal testing and treatment for positives, it's a meme:

We might never have a novel Coronavirus vaccine (we don't for other Coronaviruses like the one that causes colds).

But it seems inevitable that testing will eventually mature into something cheap or even OTC (like pregnancy testing), and we'll get very aggressive about it. https://t.co/xeeEC0j39i
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) March 18, 2020

How one small town at the center of the outbreak has cut infections virtually to zero: test all 3,300 in town, isolate the 3 percent who tested positive. Infection rate 10 days later down to .3 percent. https://t.co/5Tgpa7cCgl pic.twitter.com/qlydmYJ0mM
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) March 18, 2020

Combine that with effective treatment, and perhaps we're not all in quarantine for 18 months.

An Australian group claims a HIV antiviral and chloroquine (two avenues supported by early Chinese research) are effective in treatment.https://t.co/dMrTbRikLU
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) March 18, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/18/2020 - 10:53am

Important thread from Trevor Bedford. Long term mitigation depends on surveillance at massive scale and case-based strategies. If we can couple to an antiviral for advanced disease and antibody prophylaxis for highest risk we can manage life with #COVID19 until we have a vaccine. https://t.co/xVOR7YttGh
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) March 19, 2020

We must develop tools for this fight: 1. Point of care diagnostics for rapid identification 2. Antibody that could be prophylaxis for healthcare workers, those at greatest risk 3. Massive sentinel surveillance program 4. Direct acting antiviral drug for treating advanced disease
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) March 19, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/19/2020 - 2:15am

but it can be handled, we can do this:

CSIS director of risk group, former Pentagon official https://t.co/qTq7vMqvSy
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) March 18, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/18/2020 - 4:01pm

4 million people who work in the US hotel industry could lose their jobs in the coming weeks due to the coronavirus https://t.co/pPKtaRYT0r
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) March 18, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/18/2020 - 4:58pm

The New York Times published a swear word! (Bernie Sanders’) pic.twitter.com/s9P68M8fgl
— Josh Spero (@joshspero) March 18, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/18/2020 - 5:49pm

All of these senators should publicly comment on why they voted against the package https://t.co/hQH4tlcHW3
— Nancy Pelosi Stan Account (@AspiringNeolib) March 18, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/18/2020 - 6:25pm

Could Kentucky and Tennessee be turned into one state with one senator? Tenntucky?

by NCD on Wed, 03/18/2020 - 7:47pm

Randia. With state motto: Live Free AND Die

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/18/2020 - 8:08pm

There are two White House coronavirus task forces — the Pence one you see on TV, and Jared Kushner’s team of allies and private industry folks. This is causing confusion about who’s in charge. @yabutaleb7 @AshleyRParker & @jdawsey1 with the story https://t.co/4oWjVoPfvu
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) March 18, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/18/2020 - 7:17pm

About 44 million American households #rent their homes, and many were struggling long before the coronavirus emerged. https://t.co/K0O9JQiEUE @ConorDougherty @MattGoldstein26 @FlitterOnFraud @nytimes
— Harvard JCHS (@Harvard_JCHS) March 19, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/18/2020 - 9:01pm

The Canadian government will suspend federal student loan payments and interest from Mar. 30 to Sept. 30. https://t.co/xYMxqXIr9T
— CBC News (@CBCNews) March 19, 2020

from another thread of tweets about the lack of facemasks in the U.S.

Your healthcare system is broken.

Your Healthcare professionals deserve better!

Americans deserve better.
— Wanda Wuh-Mann (@Mom2364) March 19, 2020

You’re right. What do you think has helped your country the most during this pandemic?
— Loveandtreasure (@LovenTreasure) March 19, 2020

A leader who leads, who cares and has a vocabulary past a grade 2 education.
— Wanda Wuh-Mann (@Mom2364) March 19, 2020

BUT BUT BUT he wore BLACKFACE!

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/19/2020 - 1:50am

Trial by fire for our modern times: an inappropriately tinted facemask, a culturally appropriated facemask, or likely Coronavirus infection - which do you choose?

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 03/19/2020 - 5:30pm

perfect enemy of good writ large

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/19/2020 - 5:39pm

The first coronavirus case in the U.S. and South Korea was detected on the same day. By late January, Seoul had medical companies starting to work on a diagnostic test — one was approved a week later. Today, the U.S. isn’t even close to meeting test demand https://t.co/r49Z9SzZF5 pic.twitter.com/8FCkQkHiHQ
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 18, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/19/2020 - 1:59am

The next nightmare: drug shortage on the horizon:

My interview with one of America’s leading public health experts. Important observations and insights from ⁦@ScottGottliebMD⁩ https://t.co/Yr95Bicl1L
— Jacob Heilbrunn (@JacobHeilbrunn) March 18, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/19/2020 - 2:06am

The scale of the problem is unlike anything Washington has faced before. Economists fear that by time pandemic subsides & economic activity resumes, entire industries could be wiped out, proprietors lose businesses & millions of workers could be jobless https://t.co/16nu0iUBDk
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) March 19, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/19/2020 - 2:21am

From the health care reporter for The Hill:

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards tells Trump today he thinks the state can run out of capacity to deliver health care in 7 days.
— Jessie Hellmann (@jessiehellmann) March 19, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/19/2020 - 3:21pm

Cavaet to all Americans: do not trust anything the man in the front of the curtain says as the actual reality of any situation or fact: FDA disputes Trump's statement on the use of Chloroquine to combat COVID-19 Coronavirus 1 hour ago

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/19/2020 - 5:15pm

Remdesivir still promising: “There are early signs that an experimental treatment for people who become very sick from #COVID19 may start working within 24 hours of the first dose- thought to work by blocking the virus from reproducing itself.” https://t.co/H1IbBCVwdq
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) March 19, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/19/2020 - 5:35pm

Rising Pharmaceuticals doubled the price of chloroquine phosphate in December. But now that it’s seen as a promising coronavirus treatment, it’s cutting the drug’s price back in half. https://t.co/EBkF3Da8XK
— STAT (@statnews) March 19, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/19/2020 - 5:38pm

Oh no please no,someone argue different, that legally we NYC denizens are not prisoners of De Blasio:

Legal Analysis: Sorry, Gov. Cuomo: New York City Can Do a Lot to Legally ‘Quarantine’ Itself https://t.co/yTImOdyjY4 via @AKellerLawCrime pic.twitter.com/meRFkeaz4V
— Law & Crime (@lawcrimenews) March 19, 2020

Gov. Cuomo please please don't abandon us with him! PLEASE!

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/19/2020 - 7:05pm

18% of American workers say they’ve lost hours at work or lost their jobs altogether since #coronavirus hit.

https://t.co/LEgD1JXAPz https://t.co/0dKzKnV7hN
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) March 19, 2020

“The same poll found that about 56% of Americans considered the coronavirus outbreak a ‘real threat,’ while 38% said it was ‘blown out of proportion.’”https://t.co/rXmqwcI52N
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) March 19, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/19/2020 - 7:47pm

speaking of god, just caught this retweeted by Ken White, aka "popehat"

Fun fact for non-lawyers: a significant number of commercial contracts suspend obligations that cannot be met due to an “act of God.” This is a real thing. I am not making it up. And we’re going to be fighting in courts for the next decade over whether a virus is an act of God.
— Ryan Clinton (@ryanclinton) March 19, 2020

Edit to add what Ken White just added:

Another source of work for the next ten years: fraud cases arising from pandemic relief. I remember a huge volume of the US Attorney’s office’s cases in the mid 1990s was government program fraud arising from the 1994 Northridge quake. https://t.co/D1nkK0NyLP
— AllInThisTogetherHat (@Popehat) March 20, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/19/2020 - 8:31pm

1) God does not exist - Nietszche killed him
2) But if he did, even he would need a bailout about now.

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 03/20/2020 - 5:17am

this is a very interesting comment in that his self-description is accurate, I checked his feed, definitely conservative:

I'm a center-right neolib and a moderate conservative. I'm not against means testing under normal life conditions, but these are not normal times. Now isn't the time for means testing. Stimulate the fuck outta this economy. Direct cash payments to everyone. PRONTO.
— Wash Your Hands & Stay Home (@BWithFreedom) March 20, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/19/2020 - 8:38pm

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