It would be awful if both the President and Vice President were victims of Covid-19 through their own hubris and Pelosi had to take control… tsk, tsk… just awful
“Because, you know, this virus is going to disappear. It’s a question of when. Will it come back? In a small way … will it come back in a, uh, uh, fairly large way? But we know how to deal with it now much better, you know, nobody knew anything about it. Initially. Now we know we can put out fires, we can put out, they call ‘em embers, if it’s small or it’s a FIRE! Or a hot spot. We can put it out. But … we can’t have our whole country out. Can’t do it. The country won’t take it. Won’t stand it. It’s not sustainable. And I think you’re gonna have a tremendous, uh, transition, which is a 3rd quarter … thing, I think you’re gonna have a good 4th quarter, I think next year is going to be an incredible year, economically, and with that being said, if somebody lost somebody, a parent or a wife or a husband or, uh, you know, any brothers, sisters, if you lost someone, you can never make up for that by saying, well, you’re gonna have a great year next year, economically. And so, you can never do that, but I will say from an economic standpoint I think next year is going to be a big year, there’s tremendous demand. You see, with the stock market, when stock markets are 24,000 and we went through the … worst attack we’ve ever had on our country. This is really the worst attack we’ve ever had. This is worse than Pearl Harbor. This is worse than the World Trade Center. There’s never been an attack like this. … And it should’ve never happened. It could have been stopped at the source. Could have been stopped in China. It should have been stopped right at the source. And it wasn’t.”— Donald Trump, 5 May, 2020, the Oval Office.
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Sorry about your parents, kid, but they were heroes who died on the battlefield. And our fourth quarter will be incredible. Also tremendous. So it was all worth it.
Beyond a conventional salary, it pays to be in the top ranks of the president’s reelection campaign.
Brad Parscale, President Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, has already gotten nearly $40 million paid to his companies through various reelection committees, according to a HuffPost analysis of FEC filings.
The filings show that between January 2017 and the end of March, Parscale’s companies brought in $38.9 million from those committees.
He’s been able to buy a Ferarri, a Range Rover, a $400,000 boat, two million dollar condos and a $2.4 million waterfront house in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., according to HuffPost.
Parscale did not respond their emailed questions.
“This thing has been a large criminal enterprise. It’s like that scene in the ‘Goodfellas’ after the heist,” Republican consultant Stuart Stevens told HuffPost. “Dishing out furs to mob bosses’ girlfriends and wives.”
Elsewhere, the girlfriend and wife of Trump’s adult sons — Kimberly Guilfoyle and Lara Trump — have each been getting $15,000 per month through one of Parscale’s companies, according to another HuffPost report citing two GOP sources identified as informal White House advisers.
The longer the crisis drags on, the less natural that fear seems. We now know the virus is not nearly as deadly as early data from China suggested. Doctors are developing more-effective treatment protocols, and some drugs have shown early promise. Deepening research into which traits make people more vulnerable to the disease allows for more finely honed shielding measures.
All of that should trigger a modulation of the fear surrounding the coronavirus—not a denial of the severity of the disease, but an understanding that new insights bring the prospect of new ways to balance risk while reopening stalled economies.
My wife shared a funny meme: "I was just at the store and they had "X"s everywhere we were supposed to stand. I have seen too many Road Runner cartoons to fall for that one."
Cecilia Soderberg-Naucler, a professor of microbial pathogenesis at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, has also previously raised concerns over Sweden’s radical strategy.
She is among the nearly 2,300 academics who in March signed an open letter to the government urging implement stronger measures to protect the country’s health care system from being overwhelmed.
A professor of genetic epidemiology at Sweden’s Lund University, Paul Franks, told Newsweek last month: “A feature of the strategy that has not worked so well is protecting vulnerable populations, which is evident in the fact that SARS-CoV-2 has been detected in many care homes and hospital wards,” he noted.
An article published on March 27 and co-written by Franks and Peter Nilsson, a professor of internal medicine-epidemiology at Lund University, noted “going forward, Sweden is likely to have to impose stricter restrictions depending on how the virus spreads, especially in metropolitan areas or when the healthcare system is under severe strain,” the two authors said.
Sweden did not impose a full lockdown on public life or businesses, despite the coronavirus outbreak.
Data released from the country’s central bank and a leading Swedish think tank show that the economy will be just as badly hit as its European neighbors.
Sweden’s central bank, the Riksbank, gave two possible scenarios for the economic outlook in 2020, both are bleak.
In the first scenario (scenario A in the chart below), gross domestic product contracts by 6.9% in 2020 before rebounding to grow 4.6% in 2021.
In a more negative prediction (scenario B), GDP could contract by 9.7% and a recovery could be slower with the economy growing 1.7% in 2021.
All of you who think that this pandemic won’t be hitting all nations and thus impacting on the global economy are dreaming, but that dreaming will result in a nightmare for the world.
Remember two weeks ago when politicians and media pundits were condemning Georgia’s decision to deviate from the lockdown consensus and allow various businesses to resume operations?
Not only has the virus curve flattened in the Peach State. Data from the last 14 days show a welcome trend of declining new cases and deaths. And Georgia even has an answer for the crowd that demands more testing before unlocking liberty. Television station WSB in Atlanta reports:
Gov. Brian Kemp announced Thursday afternoon that all Georgians can get tested for coronavirus if they want, even if they’re showing no symptoms of the virus.A state press release elaborates:
The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) has reached its goal of testing 100,000 individuals in 10 days. More than 108,000 tests were processed since Commissioner Kathleen E. Toomey, M.D., M.P.H, set the DPH goal last week.“This is an important benchmark for Georgia as we work to stop the spread of COVID-19 in the state,” said Toomey. “Increased testing is critical to understanding where there are hotspots of infection and how best to mitigate them.”
Dr. Toomey’s calm and competent approach to public health is perhaps especially remarkable given the emotional response of a few members of the public. Atlanta television station WXIA, known as 11Alive, reports:
Toomey told The Reveal, 11Alive’s investigative team, the threats started more than a month ago by email and phone. At one point, she says her state office received six to ten hostile messages a day…None of the messages threatened physical harm, but the language used appears to have alarmed the Georgia Department of Public Safety enough to start providing her an armed escort since at least early April.
Let’s hope for more good news out of Georgia and for greater respect for Dr. Toomey’s efforts. Nationwide, perhaps the Georgia model can inspire people to resume necessary activities.
Darsan54 Premium Member over 4 years ago
We all miss each other, Carmen and Winslow.
feverjr Premium Member over 4 years ago
It would be awful if both the President and Vice President were victims of Covid-19 through their own hubris and Pelosi had to take control… tsk, tsk… just awful
braindead Premium Member over 4 years ago
Trump agrees with Winslow:
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“Because, you know, this virus is going to disappear. It’s a question of when. Will it come back? In a small way … will it come back in a, uh, uh, fairly large way? But we know how to deal with it now much better, you know, nobody knew anything about it. Initially. Now we know we can put out fires, we can put out, they call ‘em embers, if it’s small or it’s a FIRE! Or a hot spot. We can put it out. But … we can’t have our whole country out. Can’t do it. The country won’t take it. Won’t stand it. It’s not sustainable. And I think you’re gonna have a tremendous, uh, transition, which is a 3rd quarter … thing, I think you’re gonna have a good 4th quarter, I think next year is going to be an incredible year, economically, and with that being said, if somebody lost somebody, a parent or a wife or a husband or, uh, you know, any brothers, sisters, if you lost someone, you can never make up for that by saying, well, you’re gonna have a great year next year, economically. And so, you can never do that, but I will say from an economic standpoint I think next year is going to be a big year, there’s tremendous demand. You see, with the stock market, when stock markets are 24,000 and we went through the … worst attack we’ve ever had on our country. This is really the worst attack we’ve ever had. This is worse than Pearl Harbor. This is worse than the World Trade Center. There’s never been an attack like this. … And it should’ve never happened. It could have been stopped at the source. Could have been stopped in China. It should have been stopped right at the source. And it wasn’t.”— Donald Trump, 5 May, 2020, the Oval Office.
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Sorry about your parents, kid, but they were heroes who died on the battlefield. And our fourth quarter will be incredible. Also tremendous. So it was all worth it.
Silly Season over 4 years ago
Meme:
Subtle difference in framing, but there’s a reason the moral question they’re asking is:
a) Should we sacrifice lives to save the economy?
and not:
b) Should the rich sacrifice their fortunes to save lives?
Silly Season over 4 years ago
And the grift goes on….
~
Beyond a conventional salary, it pays to be in the top ranks of the president’s reelection campaign.
Brad Parscale, President Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, has already gotten nearly $40 million paid to his companies through various reelection committees, according to a HuffPost analysis of FEC filings.
The filings show that between January 2017 and the end of March, Parscale’s companies brought in $38.9 million from those committees.
He’s been able to buy a Ferarri, a Range Rover, a $400,000 boat, two million dollar condos and a $2.4 million waterfront house in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., according to HuffPost.
Parscale did not respond their emailed questions.
“This thing has been a large criminal enterprise. It’s like that scene in the ‘Goodfellas’ after the heist,” Republican consultant Stuart Stevens told HuffPost. “Dishing out furs to mob bosses’ girlfriends and wives.”
Elsewhere, the girlfriend and wife of Trump’s adult sons — Kimberly Guilfoyle and Lara Trump — have each been getting $15,000 per month through one of Parscale’s companies, according to another HuffPost report citing two GOP sources identified as informal White House advisers.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-manager-parscales-companies-got-nearly-40-million-2020-5
RobinHood over 4 years ago
I morn the dead
I pray for those that suffer loss and heartache
I fear for those in harm’s way
I know one day I’ll share their fate
But today it is my task honor those departed
Tomorrow I’ll hold their memory dear as a song
As I must rejoin the living, where I belong
For now
RobinHood
jbmlaw01 over 4 years ago
Great couple of paragraphs from WSJ today:
The longer the crisis drags on, the less natural that fear seems. We now know the virus is not nearly as deadly as early data from China suggested. Doctors are developing more-effective treatment protocols, and some drugs have shown early promise. Deepening research into which traits make people more vulnerable to the disease allows for more finely honed shielding measures.
All of that should trigger a modulation of the fear surrounding the coronavirus—not a denial of the severity of the disease, but an understanding that new insights bring the prospect of new ways to balance risk while reopening stalled economies.
jbmlaw01 over 4 years ago
My wife shared a funny meme: "I was just at the store and they had "X"s everywhere we were supposed to stand. I have seen too many Road Runner cartoons to fall for that one."
Silly Season over 4 years ago
Cecilia Soderberg-Naucler, a professor of microbial pathogenesis at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, has also previously raised concerns over Sweden’s radical strategy.
She is among the nearly 2,300 academics who in March signed an open letter to the government urging implement stronger measures to protect the country’s health care system from being overwhelmed.
A professor of genetic epidemiology at Sweden’s Lund University, Paul Franks, told Newsweek last month: “A feature of the strategy that has not worked so well is protecting vulnerable populations, which is evident in the fact that SARS-CoV-2 has been detected in many care homes and hospital wards,” he noted.
An article published on March 27 and co-written by Franks and Peter Nilsson, a professor of internal medicine-epidemiology at Lund University, noted “going forward, Sweden is likely to have to impose stricter restrictions depending on how the virus spreads, especially in metropolitan areas or when the healthcare system is under severe strain,” the two authors said.
https://www.newsweek.com/sweden-coronavirus-deaths-children-lockdown-1502548
Silly Season over 4 years ago
Sweden did not impose a full lockdown on public life or businesses, despite the coronavirus outbreak.
Data released from the country’s central bank and a leading Swedish think tank show that the economy will be just as badly hit as its European neighbors.
Sweden’s central bank, the Riksbank, gave two possible scenarios for the economic outlook in 2020, both are bleak.
In the first scenario (scenario A in the chart below), gross domestic product contracts by 6.9% in 2020 before rebounding to grow 4.6% in 2021.
In a more negative prediction (scenario B), GDP could contract by 9.7% and a recovery could be slower with the economy growing 1.7% in 2021.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/30/coronavirus-sweden-economy-to-contract-as-severely-as-the-rest-of-europe.html
martens over 4 years ago
All of you who think that this pandemic won’t be hitting all nations and thus impacting on the global economy are dreaming, but that dreaming will result in a nightmare for the world.
jbmlaw01 over 4 years ago
Nice note in the WSJ this afternoon:
Remember two weeks ago when politicians and media pundits were condemning Georgia’s decision to deviate from the lockdown consensus and allow various businesses to resume operations?
Not only has the virus curve flattened in the Peach State. Data from the last 14 days show a welcome trend of declining new cases and deaths. And Georgia even has an answer for the crowd that demands more testing before unlocking liberty. Television station WSB in Atlanta reports:
Gov. Brian Kemp announced Thursday afternoon that all Georgians can get tested for coronavirus if they want, even if they’re showing no symptoms of the virus.A state press release elaborates:
The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) has reached its goal of testing 100,000 individuals in 10 days. More than 108,000 tests were processed since Commissioner Kathleen E. Toomey, M.D., M.P.H, set the DPH goal last week.“This is an important benchmark for Georgia as we work to stop the spread of COVID-19 in the state,” said Toomey. “Increased testing is critical to understanding where there are hotspots of infection and how best to mitigate them.”
Dr. Toomey’s calm and competent approach to public health is perhaps especially remarkable given the emotional response of a few members of the public. Atlanta television station WXIA, known as 11Alive, reports:
Toomey told The Reveal, 11Alive’s investigative team, the threats started more than a month ago by email and phone. At one point, she says her state office received six to ten hostile messages a day…None of the messages threatened physical harm, but the language used appears to have alarmed the Georgia Department of Public Safety enough to start providing her an armed escort since at least early April.
Let’s hope for more good news out of Georgia and for greater respect for Dr. Toomey’s efforts. Nationwide, perhaps the Georgia model can inspire people to resume necessary activities.