From The Washington Post: At one point in April, USPS leaders drafted a news release announcing plans to distribute 650 million masks nationwide, enough to offer five face coverings to every American household. The document, which includes quotations from top USPS officials and other specifics, was never sent. […] Before the news release was sent, […]
Tag Archives: SARS-CoV-2
The Trump Pandemic
From Slate: It’s hard to believe a president could be this callous and corrupt. It’s hard to believe one person could get so many things wrong or do so much damage. But that’s what happened. Trump knew we weren’t ready for a pandemic, but he didn’t prepare. He knew China was hiding the extent of […]
Playing Down the Risks of Coronavirus
From Fox News: According to excerpts of Woodward’s new book, “Rage,” that were published Wednesday by the Washington Post, Trump told the journalist during a recorded telephone interview that the situation regarding the virus was much more dire than he was admitting publicly. “You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed,” Trump told […]
Time to Resign?
Well. pic.twitter.com/FKkogLKdFe — The Lincoln Project 🏴☠️ (@ProjectLincoln) August 10, 2020
Counting
From The LA Times: The California Department of Public Health has directed all laboratories to report positive results directly to county health departments until the problem is resolved. Some county health departments are resorting to counting the testing results by hand to get accurate totals. Counting. We’re having problems counting. Wikipedia: Notched bones were also […]
9-9-9
From The New York Times: Herman Cain, who rose from poverty in the segregated South to become chief executive of a successful pizza chain and then thrust himself into the national spotlight by seeking the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has died. He was 74.
Top Ten States
From The New York Times: The surge in the United States is so extreme that, once adjusted for population, these 10 states are recording more new cases than any country in the world. USA! USA! Number One! 🤦♂️
Remarkable Ignorance, In The Face of YouTube
My mom got a pulse oximeter. She asked me to put a mask on and check to see how my blood oxygen lowers. I put a mask on at 98% oxygenation, and it stayed at 98% while I told her that as a former nurse she should fucking know better. — بوكيبلينكي (@pookleblinky) July 13, […]
Zombies are US
I always found it questionable why zombie movies only showed the US. Now I know why. The rest of the world was probably just doing fine. — Ben #BlackLivesMatter (@BenchR) July 10, 2020
PPP Loan Gossip
From Matt Levine, writing in Money Stuff: I have engaged in this sort of gossip before, but for the most part I am pretty chill about “inappropriate” businesses getting PPP money. The idea of the PPP is that if a smallish business lost revenue, the government would give it a cheap loan, and if it […]