But he will be allowed to testify before the Republican controlled Senate.
“I think right now, because there’s been good news really, that the opening up is starting to happen faster than we expected, appears to be doing so safely, then there is a chance that we won’t really need a phase four,” Hassett said on Fox News Saturday morning.
They have made this determination after ONE DAY.
Gem quote from link:
Well, ::smug ‘whipe-whipe’ of hands:: that speedy recovery should eliminate the need for any more profligate bailing out of those lazy welfare cheats. Tally ho.
At least his phrasing was convincing: “good news, really.”
A couple days back Samantha Bee did an excellent piece on how Trump is screwing around the US Postal Service, one of the reasons to create a clusterfuck for voting in Nov.
Starts @ 1:20. (or, in Lorne Greene terms, @ - 8:00)
(not a facebooker, but still seemed to work for me)
Great. Just great. (Reuters)
^
Keen to see (nope - leary) how Pompeo will crap all over that.
Or Don, for that matter.
…hey, America.
You guys are FUCKED.
A friendly reminder about Steve Bannon and the “Fourth Turning.”
Or Mike Pompeo and the rapture.
Covid-19 is everything these guys ever wanted, delivered on a platter. This is not, by any stretch of the imagination, going to end well.
It’s probable that the ONLY people saying nice things to Trump right now are the End-of-Days folks: Pompeo as well as the ‘ministers’ that get scheduled frequently to come into the Oval Office and lay hands on their Man of Destiny.
And that is really, really bad. Because although Trump couldn’t summon up a belief in a deity if someone held a gun to his head, he can easily summon up a belief in himself as the Man of Destiny. And the flattery of the death-culters can and will lead him to do…some very destructive-to-human-life stuff.
Trump is desperately dependent on flattery. If no one saying ‘here’s how to save lives from COVID and re-build the economy’ is flattering him, then he’s not going to be interested in saving lives from COVID and re-building the economy. He’s only going to be interested in what the flatterers advise. And those people believe that global death and destruction is the only way they’ll get to see Jesus smile at them.
So I don’t think it’s just America that’s fucked.
Called it in January.
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=888049&highlight=Rapture
Ok, this is weird. Or maybe not. The CDC currently lists total COVID-19 losses at 37,308. Or maybe 53,872. Not quite sure. Either way, something has been done to massage the numbers into smaller ones.
Remind me again under whose control the CDC operates?
That’s interesting. The Johns Hopkins site currently reports 66,369 deaths in the US. They don’t report the number of deaths vs. the date, but the new cases reported are oscillating around 30k, which doesn’t seem consistent with the dropping number of deaths on the CDC site.
Rachel Maddow’s show FRiday night reported disturbing things about things coming out of the CDC about its recommendations to meat-processing plants:
As of April 25. Although I’m moderately certain we haven’t had 30,000 in the last 6 days, have we?
Rachel Maddow had 2 reports last week about how the CDC had abruptly changed its tone in the reports given on two different COVID-19 meat plant investigations. In the first one, it was as usual, “You will do this, this is a requirement, etc.” Two days later, the tone was, “We recommend this, but you don’t have to do it if it isn’t feasible.”
The fix, as they say, is in.
ETA: DAMNIT, CalMeacham! And you have a cite, too!
Ah, right, then it works. COVID-19 deaths on the CDC page are broken into COVID-19 and COVID-19+Pneumonia columns. Adding the two together gives the second number I mentioned above: if you go to the Worldmeters USA page, scroll down to the graphs and obtain the number for April 25th (tap the line on a tablet, mouseover it, I suppose, on a computer, over that date) it is only a few hundred more than that 53K number. That was 8 days ago, so yes, we have had another 16K losses since then.
:mad:
Wait. The government is saying the number of people who have died of Covid19 is less than previous reports said. And at the same time, there’s something mysterious going on with meat plants.
I don’t want to click those links and find out what the connection is.
Well, if it turns out that they’re separating CoVID deaths from pneumonia complicated by CoVID, but not reducing the number of deaths, it’s not so awful (although it still gives the impression that the number of deaths is lower. Which I disapprove of, if that’s the point.)
But there clearly seems to be something fishy going on with the new CDC recommendations, a la Ms. Maddow. You should click on those links and have a look.
They are not literally saying that. The number in the report seems to be correct. It is just broken into two parts, which are listed in columns on opposite sides of the table. You first see the 37K number in the 2nd column, then, if you are paying attention, you notice the 16K number way over toward the right. Math is hard, so, most people who look at it will be confused or gulled by the composition of the table.
There’s a whole sub-plot of this sordid saga, concerning the CDC’s role – or rather, their lack of a role. They would normally be totally in charge of the unified response to a pandemic. But ever since Dr Messonnier went before the media in February and said “this is going to be very bad”, in direct contradiction to Trump’s happy-talk, they’ve been entirely sidelined.
I find it really disturbing that when you try to get details on a particular state via the CDC site, you’re just redirected to the website for that state’s health department.
I think the best tool I’ve found is the one that comes up on the Google page when you search for “coronavirus by state”. The link is beastly long when I copy it but I’ll drop it at the end of this post. It shows new cases day by day for each state and its easy to use. It seems to me that even with all the talk about the RATE of increase slowing, many states are still rising in terms of absolute number of cases with many seeing the most new cases per day ever within the last few days. And it may be confirmation bias on my part, but this trend seems more pronounced in states like NC, Virginia and California. Not Michigan, though.