US Politics, March 2020 — There’s a very good chance you’re not going to die.

it's probably just directions to a church

burn after reading

On March 4, a program manager in the Nevada Health Department reached out to the CDC to ask about congressional funding for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

“There seems to be a communications blackout on this end,” the program manager wrote, wondering if funds would be distributed based on the number of cases in each state or by population.

“Unfortunately, there is no clear answer to your questions,” responded a CDC staffer, apologizing for the lack of information. “We are hearing all of the rumor mills as well.”

“Thank you,” the Nevada program manager replied. “It’s good to be confused together.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/internal-emails-show-how-chaos-at-the-cdc-slowed-the-early-response-to-coronavirus

https://i.imgur.com/bjp1Pov.jpg

I’m losing my mind over congress leaving town with so much work left obviously undone:

— Money to increase production of masks, respirators, gloves, etc

— Prizes for treatments and vaccines

— Financial support to states & cities

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 26, 2020

Detailed roll call of all G20 participants; the calculation, presumably, is that pointless is better than false or dangerous or confrontational or incendiary.

Back to incendiary and confrontational.

is that the general def of "small business"??

iirc this is a pretty standard Republican tactic in legislation, create some bizarrely specific definition of smallbiz so they can funnel even more money to rich people.

https://shadowproof.com/2010/09/20/the-curious-republican-definition-of-small-business/

For those who want a complete boycott, CNN has made some progress: they cover Trump, they cut away from Pence, and then they return when the two doctors speak.

shouldn't it be the opposite: why cover Trump at all?

that just gives trump an incentive to speak even more, rather than pence

alfred otm

I can tell you right now that CNN will not be not-covering Trump. Maybe other networks will get there, but it won't happen on CNN.

Trump's ratings on handling of #COVID19, while improving, are much less impressive in the context of the "rally around the flag" effect observed for current governors & past presidents during crises. pic.twitter.com/LrdE4DpgD4

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 26, 2020

Wow.

he does have a two point positive bump in the last week or so, likely due to rallying effect.

bad stuff has to start happening again and time has to pass for that to erode.

but of course I don't want bad stuff to happen so.....

yeah I've suspected Fauci's popularity has covered the president in a force field.

Tony Fauci for prez

Do you receive MSNBC, clem? I can't remember the last time I've watched CNN, in part because reporters are too apt to let Trump and the GOP get away with lies without calling him out with data. NBC/MSNC doesn't, mostly (see: Peter Alexander last week).

I do have it, yeah, since I got a new cable package where I am. CNN is all over Trump, believe me. So much so during their evening programming, I can only take so much and turn it off. (I'm talking about pre-virus.) Those poll numbers above are heartening.

I'm glad they're all over Trump, I should add, it just makes for monotonous viewing at a certain point.

do you mean criticizing him?

I'm not sure how seriously to take this tweet:

Trump’s net approval on handling the virus dropped by 10 points from last week to this week in a state where we’re doing some private polling tracking response to the virus (1/3)

— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) March 26, 2020

Idk. Anyone who thinks Trump is equipped to manage this is, I’m sorry to say, a stupid person.

Yes--criticizing him, cataloging lies, etc. With CNN, because of stuff that happened with Acosta in particular, there's a real us-vs.-you focus.

By heartening, I meant that he was way behind Fauci and governors on that list. That 51% still approve, no, that's not heartening (but explainable in ways that people were posting about yesterday).

Daniel Dale is at CNN, so I assume they're using his fact-checking.

Not sure if they do this daily:

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/03/26/trump-coronavirus-task-force-lies-daniel-dale-sot-tsr-vpx.cnn

AFAIK Dale goes on air infrequently, but he live-tweets most televised public appearances by Trump, fact-checking in real time as much as possible, does followups on twitter, and writes or co-writes longer write-ups for CNN's website, eg https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/15/politics/fact-check-trump-coronavirus-nobody-predicted/index.html

(CNN recruited him on the basis of his tweet-fact-checking for the Toronto Star for the earlier decades of this presidency.)

The Trump campaign just released a cease and desist letter demanding that TV stations immediately pull this ad. https://t.co/BG5NHKJBzd https://t.co/j0A4JoztFL

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) March 25, 2020

lol thus elevating it from an ad to a news story

whatta dumbass

I can't believe Daniel Dale is still sane.

Gonna be interesting to see how that approval rating holds up once the US leads the world by far in both cases and deaths while Americans are locked in their homes for the 13th consecutive week

I mean fact is if you’re white and don’t live in Puerto Rico the last few years probably haven’t been that bad, and the corruption and constant lying obviously aren’t enough to get these folks to turn against him. Being unemployed and having loved ones die, on the other hand...

but won't the people celebrate Boeing's survival?

Even his cease and desist letters sound like a whiny bitch

do you hear the people sing
singing the song of complacent men
it's the music of a people
who'll be gladly fucked again

xpost

Boeiiiing!

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TONY JERRY LEWIS CURTIS

"They give one the Heimlich Manuever...."

they don't put actor's measurements on movie posters anymore huh

Eddie "40-36" Murphy

At the bottom of the poster, one of the three young female actors is a brunette. In the main body of the poster, all three are blondes.

"Hey Lady!"

why aren't Thelma Ritter's measurements on there. I need to know before I see this movie

Could well be wrong here, but as I listen to Fauci on CNN's weekly coronavirus call-in, I get the feeling that they're laying the groundwork for common sense to prevail and Trump having to postpone his reopening or whatever he's calling it. "Aspirational" sounds like code for "We're letting him bluster away, but it won't happen."

just posted this same snippet elsewhere, but seems relevant:

“People might get the misinterpretation you’re just going to lift everything up,” Dr. Fauci said, explaining Mr. Trump’s impatience to jump-start the economy and tell Americans they could resume everyday life. “That’s not going to happen,” Dr. Fauci said. “It’s going to be looking at the data” in regions of the country where there was not an obvious outbreak of the virus.

As a practical matter, however, Mr. Trump does not have the power to decide whether the country can reopen. He can issue federal guidelines, but the decision of whether to return to business as usual is up to each state.