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It was just rumors and community-wide fear, IMO. I've seen videos where families were rejecting their fathers or grandparents, for example...being sent back home by authorities after recovery. Shouting at authorities, saying they didn't believe they were actually healthy and were endangering the entire family to create more empty beds in the hospital for new patients. People put all their pets out in the beginning, as a rumor spread that dogs and cats could transmit the virus. In fact, there are a couple of supposed Covid-19 "pet deaths" in Asian countries. The government did take the step here in China of sending many of the recovered to quarantine recuperation centers (like Javits in NYC) that were essentially hotels and sports centers (badminton) quickly converted with cubicles and beds...instead of sending them home directly. There was a concern with those people mixing together with other cases not yet serious enough to be hospitalized or reporting positive tests that the spread would continue, but that didn't happen (apparently.) At the moment, seems Illinois, Detroit/MI, New Orleans/LA, and maybe Atlanta or FLA are trending to be the next huge outbreak zones.

But that's okay since none of the benefits are going to the Trump Organization, right?

The CDC (not Google) was supposed to be working on this. Hospital by hospital across the country...all the patients testing positive, critical/severe, ICU admissions, equipment needs, etc. Not all information would be made available for public consumption (and you can be sure the withheld information will be fought for by the press via lawsuits over FOIA.)

Germany and Switzerland have been very successful. There are a number of factors. Biggest of these is the early surveillance/contact tracing of EVERY single case in Germany, as well as the much higher ratio of nurses to patients compared to Italy and Spain. Then you can look at other factors, such as average age of population, men vs. women, co-morbidities, smoking or vaping, etc.

A couple of things. One of the Grand Princess "survivors" at the best infectious treatment center in the US, Omaha, kept getting positive tests 28 days on. Do we have enough kits at this point to keep testing people (including swabs and reagents) 20-30 times per person? There were cases here in Wuhan where patients "recovered," were sent home, and developed symptoms again. While they seem fairly rare, and there hasn't been a published paper academically...it's definitely a possibility, especially if we're going with the 2-3 different strains of the virus circulating theory (which also hasn't been proven, more a theory.) They were using blood/plasma/platelets from the ones who recovered to come up with a way to treat those who were ill, but it wasn't conclusive how much more effective those treatments were than say, Traditional Chinese Medicine or Redemsivir or the antivirals or whatever they threw at it. Thailand was claiming success at the same time, but that story sort of faded away, like INOVIO being on the way to a cure or vaccine.

Yes, the government "disappeared" 2-3 citizen reporters who were reporting directly from and outside the hospitals in late January. Yes, we know all about Dr. Li Wenliang, the whistleblower. He's from my neighborhood, and went to Wuhan University with my wife (well, he went to medical school, but same age and school.) Yes, a number of cases (hundreds probably) in the beginning where people died weren't yet diagnosed as COVID-19, but natural causes or pneumonia. Of course, the same thing has been happening in the US (see Kirkland Life Care Center)...and we'll never know unless they autopsy everyone who's died in the US since late December or early January. Yes, there were rumors about sulphur dioxide clouds being captured from the crematoriums, in lieu of the normal pollution from factories. In the end, people are already back to work this week, if they have their own cars. The airport and subway are back online Saturday. On the subway or Metro, there's three yellow tape lines for what used to be a longer 5-7 person metal seat, social distancing. She will go back to work on Monday. Schools (KG-middle or junior school) are still looking at a May start, after draconian measures from January 23rd until that time. High schools (at least seniors) are supposedly going back a bit earlier, sometime between April 15th and the end of the month because every senior in the country has to take the Gao Kao examination on June 7th/8th (same test, same exact time for every student in whole country) and it's not fair to kids in our province if they aren't provided as much time as possible to study with their teachers in-school when most of the rest of China has reopened at least 4-6 weeks earlier.

Hickenlooper....so called unity ticket.

The LameStream Media is the dominant force in trying to get me to keep our Country closed as long as possible in the hope that it will be detrimental to my election success. The real people want to get back to work ASAP. We will be stronger than ever before! Let's consider the biggest problem here. Forget about the media assaults on a daily basis, sometimes at individual reporters. It's the idea of ONLY "real people" wanting to go back to work...and get everyone sick there and even kill someone they know, I guess. So we are "pussies" or "wussies" if we stay at home and take care of our families? And yet, throughout the last 30 years of American history, we've had Clinton, GW Bush and now Trump who went out of their way to avoid military service...Trump, after having spent his teenage years at a military academy. I just feel sorry for EVERY REAL person who's on the front lines, doctors and nurses and psychologists all fighting to get the country through this crisis to the best of their ability. They are selfless real people who go into an endless shift and spend the rest of their time recuperating at home, some not even being able to sleep because they're concerned about giving their patients the corona virus (because they're reusing masks and gowns due to shortages, or haven't been tested yet.) Or simply the pressure of too many other doctors and nurses already being out (or dying, in many cases now in NYC), so they feel they have no choice but to keep reporting to work day after day until the peak has passed.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/25/trump-coronavirus-national-security-council-149285 The Trump administration, state officials and even individual hospital workers are now racing against each other to get the necessary masks, gloves and other safety equipment to fight coronavirus — a scramble that hospitals and doctors say has come too late and left them at risk. But according to a previously unrevealed White House playbook, the government should’ve begun a federal-wide effort to procure that personal protective equipment at least two months ago. “Is there sufficient personal protective equipment for healthcare workers who are providing medical care?” the playbook instructs its readers, as one early decision that officials should address when facing a potential pandemic. “If YES: What are the triggers to signal exhaustion of supplies? Are additional supplies available? If NO: Should the Strategic National Stockpile release PPE to states?”

3.28 million weekly unemployment claims... Well, at least it wasn't over 4? The predictions were all over the place, starting in the 1.6 million range. Well, at least we set another economic record, there's that.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/03/26/dr-anthony-fauci-cautious-optimism-coronavirus-spread-vaccine-bts-cpt-vpx.cnn The argument here (from Dr. Fauci) is that we’re already seeing evidence of the spread in the southern hemisphere of the globe, meaning as they go into fall and eventually winter that it just starts recirculating around the globe perpetually until a vaccine is developed. It's also well documented that sunlight, fresh air and exercise are essential if someone has been infected - the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic made this very clear. Btw, working with our president probably does feel closer to a regime than an administration... On Monday, WHO counted more than 334,000 total cases globally. Dr Harris said “but in fact the outbreak is accelerating very rapidly and the case numbers we received overnight will put that up considerably”. “We are not helpless bystanders,” said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, noting that it took 67 days to reach 100,000 cases worldwide but just four days to go from 200,000 to 300,000.

https://eand.co/the-week-the-world-as-we-know-it-came-to-an-end-eddc365498b7 96-0 vote on stimulus bill, btw. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/26/politics/stimulus-coronavirus-jobs-economy-trump-congress/index.htmlFear drives $2 trillion economic rescue bid -- and sparks calls for the next one

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/new-york-city-coronavirus-healthcare-workers-trump-easter-183638991.html Wish everyone in the country could read this young doctor's letter.

Klobuchar is just as likely, IMO. Minnesota is in play. At one point, some were pushing Kasich, just like Lieberman in 2000, with the idea of securing the Heartland and Rust Belt states that will largely decide the election. Warren, depending on how far the pendulum shifts towards government-based solutions over the next 2-3 months. Abrams was definitely going to be the Sanders pick. That said, unless Loeffler and Perdue are both brought down by insider trading charges, along with Burr (unlikely again!), Georgia isn’t quite competitive on a national basis. From the Biden perspective, he already has a huge leg up on African American engagement compared to HRC in 2016.

Just wait until AOC (and/or Ivanka) runs in 2024 or 2028!! And that’s not even taking Greg’s Chelsea Clinton fears into consideration...

Realclearpolitics.com I think PA could be at risk if they continue with the more extreme anti-fracking platform...but that also depends on the viability of it in terms of longer term gasoline prices four to six months from now. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/22/minnesota-political-transformation-137289 And back to Covid-19 for a few hours or days until our renewed era of bipartisanship collapses when one side or another holds up Phase 3, right? Bill already being assaulted on left and right as more fine print details are forthcoming. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/25/politics/what-matters-march-25/index.html

We wouldn’t have a country left if all the media was as bad or as nasty as the left wing media. Trump is far too busy for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts but not golfing, Fox News or Twitter? Paraphrase from the daily briefing. Just don’t get it...the need to constantly blame. Obama did it ONE time, his comment about those clinging to guns and religion (I think it was in Pennsylvania), and never heard the end of it. World 1: Whom Democrats trust for coronavirus information, per a CBS/YouGov poll: the CDC 87 percent, your governor 75 percent, the national media 72 percent, friends and family 72 percent, religious leaders 44 percent, President Trump 14 percent. World 2: Whom Republicans trust, according to the same poll: Trump 90 percent, the CDC 84 percent, friends and family 81 percent, religious leaders 71 percent, your governor 65 percent, the national media 13 percent.

Florida is pretty close to a dead tie right now, Wisconsin a slight Trump lean (interestingly, Sanders performs better there.) The problem is Biden doesn’t have any oxygen now. He does get the benefit of not having to compete with Trump in terms of rallies and drawing crowds. The Bloomberg contribution is still not defined. The Trump bump is probably not going to last...simply because he's too prone to saying stupid things because he wants to compete with Cuomo now everyday and attempt to take credit for daily stock market rises (and blame someone else when things go wrong.) https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/the-democrats-dont-understand-their-own-strength/608611/ Here’s your argument support.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/25/coronavirus-economy-stimulus-house-democrats-148512 ‘Have We Learned Nothing?’ The Dems' Christmas-tree bailout pitch isn’t going anywhere, but tells us a lot about what we might be headed for.

Somehow, I can see Ivanka continuing to fool the male side of the Trump base, but not so sure she carries enough of a chip on her shoulder. Donald, Jr., is the one more desperate to continue the “legacy.” https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-03-22/coronavirus-outbreak-nobel-laureate This is a good article for those on the “earlier rather than 12 to 18 months” side.

https://theathletic.com/1698008/2020/03/25/how-mlb-can-get-creative-experiment-and-make-the-most-of-a-delayed-season/?source=dailyemail Excellent ideas...including starting season with ASG, more seven inning doubleheaders, minor league extra inning rules, 30 team or expanded sudden death playoff format, playing into Nov and Dec at only warm weather or domed stadiums. Can’t forfeit year to NBA playoffs and get squeezed by NFL/NCAA fb.

The Department of Homeland Security stopped updating its annual models of the havoc that pandemics would wreak on America’s critical infrastructure in 2017, according to current and former DHS officials with direct knowledge of the matter. From at least 2005 to 2017, an office inside DHS, in tandem with analysts and supercomputers at several national laboratories, produced detailed analyses of what would happen to everything from transportation systems to hospitals if a pandemic hit the United States. But the work abruptly stopped in 2017 amid a bureaucratic dispute over its value, two of the former officials said, leaving the department flat-footed as it seeks to stay ahead of the impact the COVID-19 outbreak is having on vast swaths of the U.S. economy. Officials at other agencies have requested some of the reports from the pandemic modeling unit at DHS in recent days, only to find the information they needed scattered or hard to find quickly. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/24/dhs-pandemic-coronavirus-146884

Gov. Cuomo is no nonsense, and he's a bit of a control freak and anal, but my god, we really need governors to coldly and rationally look at things from a data-driven standpoint and attack this problem in a logical/rational and non-partisan fashion. He's taking responsibility, even to the point of saying he will go out across the country after New York peaks and assist other communities...like Atlanta, Florida, New Orleans, Louisiana, Illinois, etc., that may be peaking first. Has an exact number for every single category of needs, whether staffing or PPE or respirators. Is considering the mental/psychological health side as being an area that's being potentially overlooked and needs to be reinforced. Calling for volunteers has gotten 45,000+ in the last week, either psychologists, nurses or doctors. If we can stop blaming the other side, other countries....and just concentrate and actually addressing the problems and developing creative solutions...for the first time in this crisis, I got the sense that there actually will be a light at the end of the tunnel. It might not be Congress...but it certainly can be the people living in these affected communities who know those needs better than anyone else looking at the "big picture" of country-wide morale from the distorted lens of Washington, D.C. Have also seen these same traits in the likes of Charlie Baker, Governor Hogan in Maryland, DeWine in Ohio, Inslee in Washington...interestingly enough, they're all "moderates/centrists" and not occupying the political extremes of the left and right (maybe Inslee is the furthest on climate change issues.) Last election, Kasich stood out on the GOP side.

Unless they end up taking equity positions in companies or buying bonds of corporations that eventually fail...

The National Football League is closing all its team facilities starting later today due to the coronavirus pandemic. In a memo sent to teams Tuesday night, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell detailed league-wide guidelines "to ensure that all clubs operate on a level playing field, and that the NFL continues to conduct itself in a responsible way at this time." The league set guidelines, according to the memo, that all teams' facilities will remain closed starting today at 6 p.m. local time to all personnel, except the following: source CNN.com