Monday, March 23, 2020

Where are the CDC teleconferences?

"Two weeks have now gone by since the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has held a press briefing to update the media and the public on the COVID-19 pandemic and the agency's response efforts." https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/were-in-a-public-health-crisis-wheres-the-cdc/

FUBAR: Covid-19

"American cities, blinded by the lack of testing data, did little as crucial days went by. On March 7, as the severity of the local outbreak was becoming known, huge events were allowed to go on. More than 30,000 people attended a Seattle Sounders game that night. No one wanted to say what has now become clear: February was our chance to get this right. We lost that entire month. And we now live in a new era of work stoppages, overwhelmed hospitals, dead elders, and a wrecked economy." https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-many-americans-are-sick-lost-february/608521/

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Trump Corruption

"Bureaucrats never received such public praise as they did during the weeks of the impeachment inquiry. But the hearings left a misleading impression. The Ukraine story, like the Russia story before it, did not represent a morality tale in which truth and honor stood up to calumny and corruption and prevailed. Yovanovitch is gone, and so is her replacement, William Taylor Jr., and so are McKinley and others—Lieutenant Colonel Vindman was marched out of the White House in early February—while Pompeo is still there and, above him, so is the president. Trump is winning."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/04/how-to-destroy-a-government/606793/