I haven’t written about the COVID-19 virus because I have been watching what’s happening, and trying to understand the progress of this disease.
I also haven’t written because I was hoping that I could write something positive and reassuring..
But, I can’t.
In these times, it’s of the utmost importance who leads this government. Who leads this country. We have in charge an idiot. A man with absolutely no understanding of complex issues, leading a party that is against science. He cut all the programs from the Administration of 44 that would have been in place to lead the government’s response just because they were from 44.
Scumbag John Bolton cut the position at the NSC, who would have tackled the disease from a National Security perspective.
We don’t have a scientist heading the response. We have an incompetent Vice-President, who, while Governor, oversaw an explosion of HIV cases in rural Indiana. When you have religious fanatics, who don’t believe in science, in charge, it’s a recipe for disaster. We have one party whose mantra is anti-government. They live by ‘government can’t do anything good’ credo. These are the ones to lead the response?
We knew that our luck would run out with these people. That somehow, someway, their incompetence would hurt us. I am afraid that’s what is happening now.😒😢
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2/ The first surprise was the speculation by many that the case fatality rate will be much lower once we find all of these “mild” and “asymptomatic” cases, which you don’t as easily pick up early on in an outbreak.
Apparently the data @WHO has doesn’t support this theory.
— Abraar Karan (@AbraarKaran) March 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/hshaban/status/1236009751382761475
BREAKING: The White House overruled health officials who wanted to recommend that elderly and physically fragile Americans avoid flying on commercial airlines because of the new coronavirus, a federal official tells The Associated Press. https://t.co/bX0PayidMb
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 8, 2020
so Brazil reported their first covid-19 case right in the middle of Carnaval like two weeks ago and that was the last we've heard of any cases there, just putting tha tout there https://t.co/nzy2frYU4v
— Scales Associate (@pleizar) March 8, 2020
“Public health officials are warning that no one knows how deeply the virus will spread, in part because the federal government’s flawed rollout of tests three weeks ago has snowballed into an embarrassing fiasco of national proportions.” https://t.co/SCpkRQtSzN
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) March 7, 2020
We are entering the disruption phase of #coronavirus response plans. In the absence of presidential leadership, we will need to find other voices — mayors, doctors — who can help guide public. Trump is incapable of managing this; he will not change. We move on. @cnntonight @cnn pic.twitter.com/7Kfrvf8SR7
— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) March 7, 2020
In terms of someone having to be the first to do it, it's probably for the best that it was a country which is politically difficult for the president to flip the fuck out on. https://t.co/n7zjkbLa4M
— Open Source Stupidity (OSSTU) Starfish (@IRHotTakes) March 8, 2020
Will other countries try China's #Covid19 containment measures? Could they? Would populations comply? Pandemic response science will be a brisk & burgeoning field when this is all over. https://t.co/C7SkpqRBSC
— Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 (@HelenBranswell) March 7, 2020
Coronavirus has already struck over 80 countries and counting. Professor Leung’s prediction for the eventual extent of the pandemic is chilling. #60Mins pic.twitter.com/A2yKzY1yDz
— 60 Minutes Australia (@60Mins) March 8, 2020
https://twitter.com/MackayIM/status/1236449541047504896
Hong Kong had every reason to have an exponential epidemic (lots of travel from Wuhan/China) and yet has dramatically slowed the spread. Two deaths total. Probably: with memory of SARS, they responded quickly with closures, universal mask wearing, social distancing and hygiene. https://t.co/0Zv5DJQ2R2
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) March 4, 2020
PENCE was set to evacuate infected Americans from a cruise ship. Then TRUMP stepped in — worried how “the numbers” would look if more cases were documented on the mainland.
How Trump’s approach made the coronavirus crisis worse. NEW tonight, from me. https://t.co/U7a503lOWW
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) March 8, 2020
Breaking News: Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison.
Breaking: Joe Biden wins Idaho
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1237607315731144704?s=20
Bernie knows it’s over!
https://twitter.com/PoliticusSarah/status/1237598124048150528?s=20
https://twitter.com/krfaulk/status/1237563590262939648?s=20
https://twitter.com/ryanbrooks/status/1237564635982643200?s=20
https://twitter.com/EverettHerald/status/1237554046203883521?s=20
Breaking News: Joe Biden wins Missouri Primary
https://twitter.com/thecrimson/status/1237353927131181056
https://twitter.com/KaivanShroff/status/1237530087353798656?s=20
Breaking News: Joe Biden wins the Mississippi Primary
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1237529322308505600?s=20
https://twitter.com/DrSamPage/status/1237423000032600069?s=20
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1237410865579786240?s=20
https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1237430338671919105?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheRoot/status/1237388124612853760?s=20
https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1237053195899342854
https://twitter.com/JajTyson/status/1237201329510113280
https://twitter.com/NewTimesRwanda/status/1237048775526547456
https://twitter.com/sjdemas/status/1237085062895722496
https://twitter.com/HelenBranswell/status/1237047470871502850
https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1237305979743752198
https://twitter.com/BeijingPalmer/status/1237244496296935425
https://twitter.com/HelenBranswell/status/1237087097359654916
https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1237310815654547458
https://twitter.com/ProfDcotton/status/1237308872966234112
https://twitter.com/jameshamblin/status/1236782260981989376
https://twitter.com/EarlyStart/status/1237308544933859328
https://twitter.com/maddow/status/1237077547994755072?s=20
https://twitter.com/ElpopGolf/status/1237086490611589120?s=20
https://twitter.com/samhussein/status/1237072208989687808
https://twitter.com/ProfMMurray/status/1237053305454551040
https://twitter.com/Jasamgurlie/status/1237032214359089152
https://twitter.com/Mikel_Jollett/status/1237140325644132352
https://twitter.com/Mikel_Jollett/status/1237145196304850944
https://twitter.com/mkayg3/status/1237209471249768449
😲😲😲
https://twitter.com/Mikel_Jollett/status/1237134832070619137
😢😢🙏🙏
https://twitter.com/labisbeticah/status/1236954229186723840
https://twitter.com/brat2381/status/1237210234742910976
https://twitter.com/progressive_va/status/1237205315936038913?s=20
This has to one of the worst examples of trying hard to keep a straight face gaslighting – the bad soap opera edition..
https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1237174846355841024?s=20
https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1237195712594616320?s=20
And add Mark Meadows to the mix.. 😂🤣
https://twitter.com/scottwongDC/status/1237172280737882113?s=20
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1237119210809176066?s=20
In addition to The Obamas as the “enemy/neoliberal criminal warmongers”, Fox “news” is now credible as far as Berners are concerned..
https://twitter.com/KnightRheidyr/status/1237159568939061249?s=20
https://twitter.com/Chris79699884/status/1237017120459960320?s=20
This is coffee boy & felon, George Papadopoulos‘ ‘wife’..
Wonder what they’re up to.. what scam are they looking to pull now..
Has she been recalled from this ‘assignment’.. or is this some fresh stab at a new dash hustle..
https://twitter.com/factsmatter1980/status/1237155998252568576?s=20
https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1237106503489933312
Weaning them off that heady sense of reaffirmed ‘supremacy’, is going to be something..
https://twitter.com/nadabakos/status/1237014377233928193
When even high school kids are more useful/proactive than the taxpayer-funded professional preeners running around like headless chickens, prioritizing ingratiating themselves to a treasonous buffoon, just to keep their power-gigs..
Hopefully some of this wild crazy slightly tapers off with the end of mercury in retrograde..
https://twitter.com/ErinGoKelly/status/1237102391981268993?s=20
https://twitter.com/Will_Bunch/status/1236812513632755713?s=20
https://twitter.com/business/status/1236927966543851521?s=20
https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1236923946311856128?s=20
https://twitter.com/4everNeverTrump/status/1237108923145916416?s=20
https://twitter.com/kazweida/status/1237114595463933955?s=20
Paranoia and self-fulfilling ‘prophecies’…
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1237077057814908932?s=20
https://twitter.com/dcpoll/status/1237070815155363843?s=20
First, Ted Cruz, now Doug Collins to self-quarantine..
There are no upsides to pandemics..
But for what it’s worth, this coronavirus might just have offered a few..
– Taught folks how to actually properly wash their hands..
– Imperative of integrity & honor in leadership & how non-negotiable/prioritized they ought to be..
– Ted, Doug & any number of repug gaslighters all forced to confront their callous, shameless complicity all by their lonesome..
Add Matt Gaetz to the list..
And treasonous buffoon sure must be freaking out right about now..
https://twitter.com/EamonJavers/status/1237107872015712265?s=20
😒😒😒
The man who is unprincipled in private life will never make a good public servant;
Nor will one who is of no account at home prove a man of light and leading with the embassy in Macedonia;
For he has only changed his abode, not his nature.
-Aeschines
https://twitter.com/DavidLarter/status/1237070166996987904?s=20
https://twitter.com/Tzipshmil/status/1236659953139683333?s=20
https://twitter.com/Deja_Great/status/1236642978812383232?s=20
There’s clearly a lucrative hustle market for nieces of deceased civil rights folks.. move over Alveda King, there’s a new niece in the hustle mix..
https://twitter.com/StaceyQ1022/status/1236740184160468992?s=20
Meanwhile..
https://twitter.com/maddow/status/1237074022355144706?s=20
Your ever so enabling, dollar-store media at work..
https://twitter.com/sgw94/status/1237081585498939392?s=20
https://twitter.com/moinqueens/status/1237014508155146240?s=20
https://twitter.com/MiradoraLa/status/1237030563577503744?s=20
Kim Jong-un (and book deal-‘patriot’ Bolton, too): I will not be ignored..
https://twitter.com/losclarke/status/1237022692978507776?s=20
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1237050543744454656?s=20
https://twitter.com/namechoice/status/1237016263408271361?s=20
https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1236796483711700995?s=20
We already had this conversation aeons ago, fam..
For heaven’s sake, stop elevating these idiotic hustlers/paid pedestrian self-styled ‘influencers’ …stop letting them think they have any sway or that they can pick our nominee..
Presidential candidates sucking up to/cozying up to ‘Charlemagne tha god’ this season, has to be one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever witnessed.. c-r-a-z-y..
And in the end, he couldn’t even corral his very own slight, ‘niche’ audience behind the winner of his silly sham kiss up to me or else, preening contest … or any of his ‘candidates of choice’..
Good for the former VP for not falling for this hustling con …knowing better and very importantly, understanding that the broader black demographic is so much more than, and certainly does not take their cues from a sadistic former basic sidekick to Wendy Williams..
That even so-called black candidates fell for this farce and ended up giving this hustler of a fella any oxygen, is precisely why there are far too many wheeling and dealing, low-info, paid self-styled ‘influencers’ out there holding our democracy hostage for dollars and relevance, in their own way.. and worse, actively spreading disinformation to sate their little egos..
https://twitter.com/blewis823/status/1237044359511621634?s=20
https://twitter.com/bluealltheway3/status/1237046393476395013?s=20
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1237054221968605185?s=20
https://twitter.com/LeslieM3355/status/1237027647026343936?s=20
https://twitter.com/Nigel_StHubbins/status/1237016808185630720?s=20
Stephanie Ruhle – Wall Street gaslighter
Already whitewashing & glossing over this shipwreck.. getting ahead the fallout by forcing a full-on gaslighting narrative that Americans aren’t going to blame the market downturn on the treasonous buffoon & her Wall Street pals..
That Americans will understand because they’ll see this more as a ‘natural disaster’ that was beyond anyone’s control..
Same Stephanie Ruhle who never stops pushing the gaslighting narrative that a treasonous buffoon is a ‘genius’.. an ‘amazing salesman’ as she keeps touting him..
Even in the face of his brazen criminality, gaping ignorance, endless malfeasance..
Just 3+ short years ago, the entire world still looked to us to lead the way.. but between Vlad, Murdoch, the alliance of white supremacists/sympathizers, their gaslighting, insecure, vacuous, foreign-asset/incurious/callous/con cohort of faux-‘strongmen’, stock market as economy, science as hoax, artifice as ‘competence’, it’s all quickly unraveled..
https://twitter.com/DavMicRot/status/1237004118834794496?s=20
When even Joe Walsh has some semblance of clarity..
https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/1236781108370563074?s=20
https://twitter.com/Allison_Burnett/status/1236476132272168960?s=20
Just look at the disaster…………………..
https://twitter.com/QuickTake/status/1237009556489854977?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1237009586122567683?s=20
https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1237008971514462208?s=20
https://twitter.com/orlandosentinel/status/1237013220201807877?s=20
https://twitter.com/glennkirschner2/status/1237010513982357506?s=20
https://twitter.com/florian_krammer/status/1236455333767323653
https://twitter.com/eliowa/status/1236635477228294153
https://twitter.com/symbiomics/status/1236732555304431616
https://twitter.com/RichardJSpencer/status/1236591708869144576
https://twitter.com/QuickTake/status/1236944841172451328
https://twitter.com/Birdyword/status/1236491746541895685
https://twitter.com/SiouxsieW/status/1236721200291655680
Good Morning, Everyone😐😐😐