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Frustrated by Lack of Coronavirus Tests, Maryland Got 500,000 From South Korea
Facing shortages, Gov. Larry Hogan and his wife, Yumi Hogan, negotiated
with suppliers in South Korea to obtain the kits. “It should not have been
this difficult,” he said.
Trump does not want to know.
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How Abortion, Guns and Church Closings Made Coronavirus a Culture War
Flattening the curve is now one of the most contentious issues in politics.
More thousands dead.
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Dispute Over Virus Testing Delays Deal on Aid to Small Businesses and Hospitals
Democrats are insisting that the legislation require the Trump
administration to establish a national testing strategy, but the president
wants states to take responsibility.
Maybe the federal government will do testing.
I will not bet on it.
Saving the oil business by killing the unfit seems to be the way of Trump.
The ovens must be fired.
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Trump Exceptionalism
What happened to President Trump’s approval ratings?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity
Without a vaccine or treatment the butchers bill will be more than the
Republican party will pay.
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Excluded From Bailouts, Mortgage Servicers Face Cash Crunch
Lawmakers and lobbyists warn that missed house payments could leave
servicers insolvent but federal officials are not sold on the need for a
rescue.
Mortgage servicers will not be bailed out for political reasons.
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Supreme Court Bans Non-Unanimous Jury Verdicts for Serious Crimes
The badly fractured decision, affecting defendants in two states, continued
a debate among the justices over the power of precedent.
I have not understood the court's internal argument.
The decision seems good.
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April 20th US Covid Numbers
In response to the Atlantic article on how limited testing is affecting the
Covid-19 statistics, our benefactor writes: Our positivity rates at 20% are
extremely high and consistent across time. I suspect that low numbers of
new cases in the South are partially a reflection of a lack of testing. If
you only have so […]
Take these numbers "with a grain of salt".
https://www.ianwelsh.net/april-21st-us-covid-data/
https://www.ianwelsh.net/the-sheer-awe-inspiring-american-clusterfuck/
I know of no argument that invalidates Ian Welsh.
The schools will stay closed this spring.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/04/us-coronavirus-outbreak-out-control-test-positivity-rate/610132/
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Frustrated by Lack of Coronavirus Tests, Maryland Got 500,000 From South Korea
Facing shortages, Gov. Larry Hogan and his wife, Yumi Hogan, negotiated
with suppliers in South Korea to obtain the kits. “It should not have been
this difficult,” he said.
Maybe New York can get a similar deal.
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On Politics: Help for Small Businesses
A $450 billion bill would include money for hospitals and testing: This is
your morning tip sheet.
"But with the virus preventing in-person voting at the Capitol in
Washington, the path to passage could be thorny: Congressional leaders
will probably do all they can to avoid having to bring back legislators
for a vote. That would require unanimous passage of the bill, so any
significant disagreements would have to be worked out in the negotiating
phase."
The GM ventilators are unusable. Trump needed a lower price.
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Trump, Head of Government, Leans Into Antigovernment Message
With his poll numbers fading after a rally-around-the-leader bump, the
president is stoking protests against stay-at-home orders.
An autocrat at the head of an aristocracy.
Meritocracy conflicts.
There must be meritorious people.
They are not obvious.
Probably none of them self identify.
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The Mass Delusion Of Self-Actualization
**GUEST POST** BY ERIC ANDERSON Don’t part with your illusions: when they
are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. — Mark Twain The
latest plague to sweep our planet has seen me thinking hard about Abraham
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. And I’ve concluded that, for roughly the past
decade, I’ve […]
The theory is wrong.
All human life is precarious.
We do what we can to survive the day and prepare for tomorrow.
"Do as you would be done by; the rest is commentary."
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White House and Democrats Near Deal on Aid for Small Businesses
The $450 billion agreement would also include more money for hospitals and
coronavirus testing, which Democrats had insisted on.
A vote has passed in the senate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/world/coronavirus-cases-world.html
- The coronavirus and an oil glut yield chaos worldwide.
- The E.U. gave Poland and Hungary billions in aid as they undermined democracy.
- The pandemic offers Taiwan a chance to push back against China.
- “Instead of coronavirus, the hunger will kill us.”
- A city in the Amazon is ‘beyond a state of emergency.’
- After coronavirus protests in prisons, Iran may be executing inmates at a faster pace.
- Virus trickles into Haiti, as workers return from the Dominican Republic.
The deal seems to be jammed.
Andrew Cuomo said this noon that opening business on the streets of New York
is more than five weeks away.
That should wait for a vaccine.
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April 19th US Covid Update
Our benefactor writes: No new news. From other news sources, measurable
numbers of deaths are happening at home in other states. No one seems to
know if they’re being counted. One important thing to note is that the
amount of testing in the US is constricted. As a result, the numbers of
confirmed cases are […]
https://www.ianwelsh.net/april-21st-us-covid-data/
People are leaving the hospitals faster than they are entering.
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Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – April 19, 2020
by Tony Wikrent Economics Action Group, North Carolina Democratic Party
Progressive Caucus Strategic Political Economy Is America Going to Have a
Covid-19 Apocalypse? Ian Welsh, April 17, 2020 In the US, we have
predictions of a 30 percent unemployment rate. I just saw that less than
half of Los Angeles county still has a job. The […]
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/09/plan-save-capital-and-let-people-die
https://www.ianwelsh.net/the-sheer-awe-inspiring-american-clusterfuck/
It has been a bad week for the U.S. economy.
"The Market is not the economy."
https://www.ianwelsh.net/the-sheer-awe-inspiring-american-clusterfuck/
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Coronavirus Turns School Cafeterias into Soup Kitchens
Many school cafeterias are now operating more like community soup kitchens,
even though the federal school meals program won’t reimburse districts for
meals served to struggling adults.
The schools have the capability.
The Republican party would shirk its responsibility.
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Jehovah's Witnesses Face the Challenge of the Coronavirus Outbreak
The pandemic has put a stop to the activities of one of the nation’s most
visible religious groups, Jehovah’s Witnesses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version
"James gave the translators instructions intended to ensure that the new version would conform to the ecclesiology of, and reflect the episcopal structure of, the Church of England and its belief in an ordained clergy.[8]
The translation was done by 6 panels of translators (47 men in all,
most of whom were leading biblical scholars in England) who had the work
divided up between them: the Old Testament was entrusted to three
panels, the New Testament to two, and the Apocrypha to one.[9] In common with most other translations of the period, the New Testament was translated from Greek, the Old Testament from Hebrew and Aramaic, and the Apocrypha from Greek and Latin. In the Book of Common Prayer (1662), the text of the Authorized Version replaced the text of the Great Bible for Epistle and Gospel readings (but not for the Psalter, which substantially retained Coverdale's Great Bible version), and as such was authorized by Act of Parliament.[10]"
Jehovah's Witnesses face a problem.
Any ceremony or none.
Any place I can get to.
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For Charlie Kirk, Conservative Activist, the Coronavirus Is a Cudgel
Mixing, matching and twisting facts about the coronavirus online, Mr. Kirk
has created a template for a new kind of political agitator.
I would call him "the father of lies" but the title is taken.
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April 18th US Covid Data
Our benefactor writes: New format. Significant percentage increases in
cases in lots of states. In terms of new cases, one-third from NY.
Significant increase in deaths again, possibly a restating of deaths at
home in NY, not sure. Over half came from NY. The long tail persists. I’m
having a hard time not seeing us […]
https://www.ianwelsh.net/april-21st-us-covid-data/
Morrtality rate 5.4%
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Open Thread
Feel free to use the comments to this post to discuss topics unrelated to
recent posts.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
Governor Cuomo says he can marry people on line.
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Paul O’Neill, Treasury Secretary Who Clashed With Bush, Dies at 84
He was “fearless,” a former colleague said, in pressing ideas based on
facts and evidence. His independence cost him his job.
A point of honor.
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