TROUBLE SPAWN
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017
Evidence from around the world shows that stay-at-home orders take us only so far.
By Harvey V. Fineberg, Jim Yong Kim and Jordan Shlain
Dr. Fineberg, Dr. Kim and Dr. Shlain specialize in public health.
The response of the United States to the coronavirus pandemic has been haphazard, a patchwork of rules applied inconsistently. Some states lack stay-at-home mandates, and many that have mandates got started less than a week ago.
The problem is that the U.S. political landscape has long been dominated by an anti-government ideology that left us unprepared, intellectually and institutionally, for this crisis.
We've gutted what has been needed...
decades of hostility to government have left us poorly positioned to deliver even the aid Congress has voted. State unemployment offices have been underfunded for a long time, and red states have deliberately made it hard to apply for benefits.
Paul Krugman in NYT, will we flunk PE (Pandemic Economics)?
As I’ve been saying, it’s the economic equivalent of a medically induced coma, in which some brain functions are temporarily shut down to give the patient a chance to heal.
While a deep slump is unavoidable, however, good policies could do a lot to minimize the amount of hardship Americans experience.
Posting this here because Marc Thiessen said on 31 March that Trump has a strategy for all of this, in fact, a strategy Trump has demanded.
So where is the emphasis on mass testing, and then contact tracing?
We MUST know who is safe and who isn't...But we're apparently following the strategy Trump demanded.
his obsessiveness even in the face of contrary evidence; and his imperviousness to fact-based arguments he does not want to hear.
If I had a loved one who was hospitalized and desperately ill with covid-19, I would want doctors to try everything, including hydroxychloroquine, that might conceivably help. But Trump has dangerously suggested that the drug be taken prophylactically by healthy people to guard against the disease.
Eugene Robinson in WaPo on Trump's magical cure...
That one word illustrates Trump’s arbitrary, anecdote-based method of making decisions; his reliance on cronies who have no relevant expertise; his rejection of science, or perhaps his failure to understand how science even works; his defiant stubbornness in clinging to what he “knows,” even when he doesn’t actually know it; ...
Dana Milbank in WaPo...The WHO began working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Jan. 1 — a day after China disclosed the virus — and sent out advisories to worldwide public-health leaders beginning Jan. 5.
WHO report issued in late February, and still nothing from Trump...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/06/trump-blew-it-not-who-fauci-or-jews/
Even in the Darkest Times...
We should remember
Our Collective HUMANITY
We have more bonds among and between us than not.
Love, love is the answer...
explain what benchmarks for success would look like.
Finally: Start developing — and communicating — some damn contingency plans.
That is: If the government tells people stay-at-home measures will be lifted by Easter and they’re not, compliance will be worse than if the government had given a more conservative time frame.
Public officials could start by offering greater transparency about what they know, what they expect and the possible range of outcomes.
Second, rather than setting arbitrary deadlines for when the economy will “reopen” or making definitive predictions about unproven treatments, ...
Catherine Rampell in WaPo on wishing and hoping...
Improperly managed expectations can lead to fewer adaptive measures and thus greater spread of illness. A new working paper based on recent surveys in Italy found that people are less likely to comply with social distancing and isolation orders if those mandates are extended longer than initially expected.
Hospitals are telling us that “government intervention and coordination could help reconcile this problem at the national level to provide equitable distribution of supplies throughout the country.” The notion that the federal government is only a backup fails to recognize that the states are overrun and need that aid now.
This abdication of duty is born of confusion, incompetence and ignorance.
Jen Rubin on the scathing HHS IG report...
“Substantial challenges” is government-ese for “mess.” In particular, the report documents “severe shortages of testing supplies and extended waits for test results limited hospitals’ ability to monitor the health of patients and staff.” There are also “widespread shortages” of protective equipment such masks and gowns, inadequate staff, shortages in hospital capacity and shortages of hospital equipment.
#pups4peace
Ken-Dogger: Morning Kit, it was bound to happen.
Kit: I knew it when that sewing machine came out, what are you getting?
KD: Mikster is making me CV protection.
K: Am I to assume that’s what this is?
KD: Not exactly, she’s following a pattern for my stuff
K: I like it when peeps follow patterns, it gives predictability.
KD: True Kit, and it reminds us of order in our world.
K: We need order, now most particularly
KD: Another reason to bring back Home Ec, bringing order to chaos
Didn't Marc fuckin Thiessen tell us about a week ago that Trump now has the phases strategy he has demanded, then why the fuck isn't he using it?
Fuck Trump and his apologists
Can we make a new rule here and always put his fucking face under a cover screen?
I realize I'm calling out J Man, but I give...
Enough is enough
MADKEN NOTE: @th3j35t3r you know I am just messing on the call out...
This Acting NAVSEC is quite horrible in all aspects, but more importantly for Trump, sharing the stage with a person as hateful as Trump is giving cover while serving as the latest distraction to counter the COVID-19 Task Force shitshow
Wisconsin Supreme Court blocks order by governor to stop Tuesday’s elections in state’s latest whipsaw - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/wisconsin-governor-suspends-in-person-voting-in-tuesdays-elections-amid-escalating-coronavirus-fears/2020/04/06/9d658e2a-781c-11ea-b6ff-597f170df8f8_story.html
Damn glad I don't live in this fucked up State...WTF, vote like your life depended on it, you vote, you may lose it.
Starting to wonder if Republicans really ARE prolife
Watch "Love And Affection" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/sBohO1zr7jw
This is the song I thought about when I did pups this morning
TROUBLE SPAWN
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017