Always brightens my day to get a call from my friend Ellen, especially on this rainy Monday at home. It’s good to know that even when we’re apart, we’ve still got each other. 💪🏾#StayAtHomehttps://t.co/eBlVKED1Dv
This is smart. The sign of a successful public health plan for coronavirus will be if people look back a month down the road & complain measures taken were too restrictive because the crisis wasn't as bad as foretold. https://t.co/0yvAngcTAY
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the heads of major corporations have lobbied the administration against using the Defense Production Act. Trump and Larry Kudlow, as well as Jared Kushner, were persuaded by those arguments, administration officials said. https://t.co/3YbYFnvcB8
““Jared is bringing conspiracy theories to Trump about potential treatments,” a Republican briefed on the conversations told me. Another former West Wing official told me:
“Trump is like an 11-year-old boy waiting for the fairy godmother to bring him a magic pill.”
…Throughout the crisis, Kushner has counseled Trump that the crisis isn’t as bad as the media is portraying.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2020/03/23/jared-kushner-is-telling-trump-that-the-coronavirus-isnt-that-bad.html)
—Kushner is not a scientist. Trump is not a scientist.
We HAD to cover @djdnice’s #ClubQuarantine & shed some light on this man’s legacy! @AdrienneWrites said it best in her @Forbes piece; There’s something special about a feel-good, global party in these times.
Wish we could give this father an old style Latin mass.
With deep thanks for all his good works, and all his kindness.
Pls tell me what will we learn from his death. What will we do differently, what will the U.S. do differently?
Big practical implications for what Trump is recommending… Is Trump saying Americans can go to the airport again? Is he saying people can go out to dinner again? Back to the beach?
“Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began,
the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China, Reuters has learned.” (Benen)
(https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-axed-cdc-expert-job-china-months-coronavirus-outbreak-n1166186)
“No other foreign disease experts were embedded to lead the program after Quick left in July…”
In the face of crisis, FDR had the New Deal to help suffering Americans. Now, @realdonaldtrump, you and your fellow Republicans are pushing the #SelfDeal. See the difference?
I am so emotional thinking about all the @LittleLobbyists children who have survived & thrived because of the ACA. Children who spend more than their fair share of time in hospitals & doctors offices and are given a chance at childhood because of the ACA. 💕#ACA10#ThanksObamahttps://t.co/bXXxF5VdG9
As we mark the 10th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, I call on the President to drop his lawsuit attacking Americans’ health care. We should be fighting to ensure more people have access to quality care, not doing the opposite. #ProtectOurCarepic.twitter.com/LC6QS8SroY
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) was just on Fox saying he agrees with Trump. He cast it as an opportunity for seniors to sacrifice in order to keep the country intact for their grandchildren. “Let's get back to living… And those of us that are 70+, we'll take care of ourselves.”
Interestingly, in China people have expressed similar pride in the self-sacrifice they’ve undertaken during the coronavirus pandemic — but that sacrifice was to self-quarantine for weeks, not to return to business as usual.
Die old people! For the good of the country! Because we want to get back to stealing from the middle class and making more money and can’t be in our houses one more day!! Damn it! Those death panels are REAL!
Some advice from the woman in Arizona who, along with her husband, took chloroquine phosphate because @realDonaldTrump said on TV it was a cure and was safe.
WH is asking reporters not to report on what has happened: “I don’t think it’s appropriate right now for the press to be going backwards. There’s no reason to go backwards and figure out tick-tocks of what happened when. We’ve got a crisis on our hands…” https://t.co/LopoRP6PdO
We are still flying blind. With no widespread testing, there is no hope to track this virus effectively. If Rand Paul had not broken every single rule about testing, most senators would have the virus by now. 320 million Americans can’t get the test and cannot go back to work.
– Dr. Fauci is missing – Bill Barr sounds mostly dead – Trump privately lashing out at Mike Pence – White House reporter suspected of having coronavirus – Why are they still having these briefings? – Trump is going to prison – It's still only 6:40pm
The only reason Trump doesn’t want to use the production powers act is because it would force his business owner friends to mass products that would help in the fight against convid-19 but won’t necessarily make them any money.
I’m scheduled to go back to work tomorrow, here’s the catch, I’ve got to clear triage to get inside the institution. If I don’t clear triage I’ll be sent back home to self quarantine.
The people in Phoenix that believed trump. Now her husband’s dead and she’s in critical condition.
MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: As Predicted, Trump's Publicly Disseminated Misinformation on Chloroquine Has Killed Someone; Media Outlets Must Now Stop Broadcasting Trump's Coronavirus Updates—Or More People May Die
Please RETWEET this. It's long past time media did the right thing here. https://t.co/ThTxnjJndr
JUST IN: Democrats on the House Overisght Committee say the Postal Service "will not survive the summer" without "immediate" support. pic.twitter.com/TLRM7heJJ8
THREAD: There’s a strong and understandable desire to return to better times and a functioning economy. But it should not be lost on anyone that there's no such thing as a functioning economy and society so long as covid-19 continues to spread uncontrolled in our biggest cities.
A NSW Health team has developed a blood test for coronavirus they believe could help slow down the community spread of the deadly pandemic. #9Newshttps://t.co/R5oT9oZaAi
— Nine News Queensland (@9NewsQueensland) March 24, 2020
NEW: What happened before @realdonaldtrump called for re-evaluating lockdowns? His company had to close 6 of its top 7 revenue-generating clubs and hotels.https://t.co/KdxodfguO5
One odd thing about Trump’s hotel/golf empire is that he’s unusually dependent on a handful of properties. Doral alone produces $75M/yr — more than his DC, Chicago, Vancouver, Waikiki, Aberdeen and Vegas hotels *combined.* The county has now shut Doral down.
A Phoenix-area man has died and his wife was in critical condition after the couple took chloroquine phosphate, an additive used to clean fish tanks that is also found in an anti-malaria medication that’s been touted by President Donald Trump as a treat… https://t.co/7HePoaBGyW
Morning everyone. Share. It should begin to make sense to even the ones that didn’t want to believe
This is evil. And wrong. And crazy.
First, let's talk about the evil part.
They are so scared of a market crash that they literally want people to die to prevent it. They seem to think it's okay to let people die if they're "grandparents."
The way Trump sees it, he has 2 choices: a) follow guidelines of health experts, saves lives, but economy will be down for at least 1 year -> means for him, no re-election, afterwards possibly jail b) take a shot, whatever .. chance of no jail
It's incredible that this has to be said: Letting thousands of people needlessly suffer and die is wrong. It's also not a recipe for rescuing the economy.
No more fucks to give. He is trying to protect the people of his state. Not getting help he needs
Gov. Cuomo: "FEMA is sending is 400 ventilators. I saw it on the news this morning. 'We are sending 400 ventilators to New York.' 400 ventilators? I need 30,000 ventilators. You want a pat on the back for sending 400 ventilators? … You're missing the magnitude of the problem."
A progressive group is launching a $1.2-mil ad campaign targeting Republican senators in battleground states for their votes supporting the 2017 tax bill that included billions in relief to many of the same corporations now poised to receive billions more. https://t.co/BI2HgXtwUm
Biden on VP pick: "We are going to start vetting soon and there is a short list meaning somewhere between, there's about 12 to 15 women who I think would be qualified to be president tomorrow but I think we're going to narrow the list down to about 11" and start vetting.
Biden was asked if he'd consider Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court after pledging to choose a black woman. He says "there are at least four women that I think are fully capable and their background suggests they would be great additions to the court."
.@JoeBiden on his VP pick: “The reason why it worked for Barack and me…is that we were simpatico on all the strategic issues that had to be dealt with… so I just need to make sure that whomever I pick…is simpatico with where I want to take the nation.” pic.twitter.com/cBjLu0hnxj
Senator Amy Klobuchar’a husband has COVID-19.
She spoke to Rachel Maddow: Amy’s husband thought he had a cold, stopped teaching and self-quaranted. Had over a 100 degree temperature for 10 days, and started a bad cough, coughing blood. Was tested for the virus.
5 and a half days to get the results, just received. Low on oxygen, has pneumonia, now on oxygen. Amy does not qualify for a test “under any standard” and is not permitted to see her husband in the hospital. His temp has been over 100 degrees for 10 days.
(Video: https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/klobuchar-on-husband-s-covid-19-it-s-going-to-happen-to-every-family-81124421914)
–So moved by Klobuchar who is one tough cookie, right now working hard for us through the night, while her husband is in a precarious state in the hospital.
AMY: “It’s going to happen to every family whether it is your friend or your grandpa” and you cannot visit them in the hospital because you can “pick up the disease and spread it to other people…have to stay in your house and listen to the experts right now. I can’t tell you how important that is.” Her husband doesn’t need a ventilator just now, but Amy say she is relieved he is in hospital care because “one thing with this disease is it can suddenly plummet. It can take a turn for the worse….many people have had worse or
will have worse”. She is obsessively working on getting test and p.p.e. out to America.
You know I always thought the irony of the pro-lifers who will protect a fetus to the ends of the world but once that fetus makes it’s way into the world … they can’t wait to find a way to torture it, from a lack of security whether its healthcare or lack of food / lack of housing etc etc etc.
No class of Americans was spared during the 1918 flu pandemic, including garbage workers. Illness rapidly thinned their ranks:
– Trash piled up in streets – Medical waste was tossed atop the household waste – Sanitation workers stopped showing up to work https://t.co/orj06Vnj1D
BREAKING: 3 U.S. Navy sailors aboard the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt in Philippine Sea have tested positive for Covid-19, marking the first time the virus has spread to an American warship at sea: U.S. officials
Senator Klobuchar says a lot of positive work going on by a Democratic caucus that has “hung together” in a team effort, negotiating through the night…e.g. on unemployment insurance and small businesses, pushing to get the ballots ready for mail-in ballots. She is optimistic. However the “American people should not settle for what they’ve had to date, which is not enough tests, not enough equipment…Cannot stress hard enough enough how we are working on a bill that puts people first.”
“In one Italian town, we showed mass testing could eradicate the coronavirus.”
“By identifying and isolating clusters of infected people,
WE WIPED OUT
Covid-19 in Vò.”
“Beginning on 6 March , along with researchers at the University of Padua and the Red Cross, we tested all residents of Vò, a town of 3,000 inhabitants near Venice – including those who did not have symptoms. This allowed us to quarantine people before they showed signs of infection and stop the further spread of coronavirus. In this way, we eradicated coronavirus in under 14 days.”
(https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/20/eradicated-coronavirus-mass-testing-covid-19-italy-vo)
…important details…
While this could be hard to do in a big city:
“They invite researchers to eradicate the virus through extensive testing of both symptomatic individuals and all of their social contacts – including relatives, friends and neighbours. In this way, we catch out the disease before it has the chance to spread – and, most importantly, before the carrier has the chance to unwittingly pass it on to other people. In the absence of specific therapies or a vaccine, quarantine, distancing and identification of asymptomatic carriers remain the only real measures to control this epidemic.”
“FEMA says ‘we’re sending 400 ventilators.’ Really? What am I going to do with 400 ventilators when I need 30,000? You pick the 26,000 who are going to die because you only sent 400 ventilators.”pic.twitter.com/Llug7BbB8k
The Obama Diary 
This was a BFD, as VP Joe said. It’s crucial to my own family and the vast majority of us. Stay home and safe, TOD!
Thanks and congrats Judith!
Hey Dudette! Hope everyone is enjoying some music, maybe a quarantini or two, and virtual hugs. #StayHome
He does not seem to be a very nice person
This Sanders behavior is unseemly and not very Presidential.
Chris Hayes had him on, I had to turn the channel.
Ugh!!
Even crazy Boris is smarter than trump
I dunno who needs to hear this but…
Dudette … that tweet about doctors in Spain removing respirators from seniors … just made me cry.
C’mon folks … complete lockdown please.
He lied again. Act surprised
““Jared is bringing conspiracy theories to Trump about potential treatments,” a Republican briefed on the conversations told me. Another former West Wing official told me:
“Trump is like an 11-year-old boy waiting for the fairy godmother to bring him a magic pill.”
…Throughout the crisis, Kushner has counseled Trump that the crisis isn’t as bad as the media is portraying.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2020/03/23/jared-kushner-is-telling-trump-that-the-coronavirus-isnt-that-bad.html)
—Kushner is not a scientist. Trump is not a scientist.
“Expert modeling suggests that IF HE U.S. LIFTS RESTRICTIONS the infection rate of the virus could reach 70%-80+%.”
Party has started. D-Nice says his set is gonna be shorter today. He’s not feeling well. 🙁
Why do they let that lying POS talk?
😆
Blood on his hands. He’s causing death and destruction with his ignorance. They ought to sue the shit out of him
https://www.azfamily.com/news/continuing_coverage/coronavirus_coverage/phoenix-man-dies-wife-in-critical-condition-after-self-medicating/article_fac3d7cc-6d48-11ea-9092-8b65922dc7c0.html
Not once did they mention that this was trump’s suggestion to take this medicine. Fucking cult members. Now they’re dead or hanging by a fingernail
I agree completely!
Wish we could give this father an old style Latin mass.
With deep thanks for all his good works, and all his kindness.
Pls tell me what will we learn from his death. What will we do differently, what will the U.S. do differently?
He’s definitely a hero.
I like!
My All-Time Jam right here! 💃🏾🕺🏾💃🏾🕺🏾
Gotta take a break. See y’all.
You deserve a break lady … come back recharged.
😘
Please treat yourself very gently {{{{{{{Dudette}}}}}}}!!!
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my best Dudette.
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Love you Dudette!
Love you too! 😘
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the People versus villains and fools.
LAZZI = Buffoon.
“Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began,
the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China, Reuters has learned.” (Benen)
(https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-axed-cdc-expert-job-china-months-coronavirus-outbreak-n1166186)
“No other foreign disease experts were embedded to lead the program after Quick left in July…”
Oh my Goodness.
These people are monsters.
Got that?
Die old people! For the good of the country! Because we want to get back to stealing from the middle class and making more money and can’t be in our houses one more day!! Damn it! Those death panels are REAL!
imo when our place in the world has shifted we have to face up to it. For Trump a lifetime of big Cons will not make a dent in COVID-19.
Why was the AG at the Covid briefing today? I found that very odd
The only reason Trump doesn’t want to use the production powers act is because it would force his business owner friends to mass products that would help in the fight against convid-19 but won’t necessarily make them any money.
I’m scheduled to go back to work tomorrow, here’s the catch, I’ve got to clear triage to get inside the institution. If I don’t clear triage I’ll be sent back home to self quarantine.
Damn. Please take care.
Please be careful, Don.
🙏💪🙏
Because of course they do!
My God, what next?
The people in Phoenix that believed trump. Now her husband’s dead and she’s in critical condition.
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I am speechless and dumbfounded by what is happening to our country.
It makes sense to me.
When trump holds his news conference today, he will wipe that out.
From one of our bloggers, just now:
https://connectedhorizons.co.uk/2020/03/23/the-vanishing-toilet-rolls-a-coronavirus-update
Much more accurate, imo, than MSM
♥️🕯🌏🕊🌏
Morning everyone. Share. It should begin to make sense to even the ones that didn’t want to believe
Second wave.
It’s why he’s unhinged right now
She needs to kick his ass to the curb
SOON: NY Gov. Cuomo gives update on COVID-19 – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-2
Thank goodness for Democrats fighting for the people
Good Morning, TODbots.🙏😍🤗🙏
A tad of Good News.
Share. What real life for a doctor looks like
No more fucks to give. He is trying to protect the people of his state. Not getting help he needs
Good
A longer time than I thought
And the idiot thinks we should all go back to work next week. No. Hell no.
Rules are for everyone else
Trying to get ahead of the knuckleheads crowding state beaches and parks.
Please share this broadly with your networks. We must listen to medical experts not Orange lunatics.
Senator Amy Klobuchar’a husband has COVID-19.
She spoke to Rachel Maddow: Amy’s husband thought he had a cold, stopped teaching and self-quaranted. Had over a 100 degree temperature for 10 days, and started a bad cough, coughing blood. Was tested for the virus.
5 and a half days to get the results, just received. Low on oxygen, has pneumonia, now on oxygen. Amy does not qualify for a test “under any standard” and is not permitted to see her husband in the hospital. His temp has been over 100 degrees for 10 days.
(Video: https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/klobuchar-on-husband-s-covid-19-it-s-going-to-happen-to-every-family-81124421914)
–So moved by Klobuchar who is one tough cookie, right now working hard for us through the night, while her husband is in a precarious state in the hospital.
AMY: “It’s going to happen to every family whether it is your friend or your grandpa” and you cannot visit them in the hospital because you can “pick up the disease and spread it to other people…have to stay in your house and listen to the experts right now. I can’t tell you how important that is.” Her husband doesn’t need a ventilator just now, but Amy say she is relieved he is in hospital care because “one thing with this disease is it can suddenly plummet. It can take a turn for the worse….many people have had worse or
will have worse”. She is obsessively working on getting test and p.p.e. out to America.
Dudette … you are back! ☺
You know I always thought the irony of the pro-lifers who will protect a fetus to the ends of the world but once that fetus makes it’s way into the world … they can’t wait to find a way to torture it, from a lack of security whether its healthcare or lack of food / lack of housing etc etc etc.
Cruelty is the point
Olympics moving to 2021
Senator Klobuchar says a lot of positive work going on by a Democratic caucus that has “hung together” in a team effort, negotiating through the night…e.g. on unemployment insurance and small businesses, pushing to get the ballots ready for mail-in ballots. She is optimistic. However the “American people should not settle for what they’ve had to date, which is not enough tests, not enough equipment…Cannot stress hard enough enough how we are working on a bill that puts people first.”
“In one Italian town, we showed mass testing could eradicate the coronavirus.”
“By identifying and isolating clusters of infected people,
WE WIPED OUT
Covid-19 in Vò.”
“Beginning on 6 March , along with researchers at the University of Padua and the Red Cross, we tested all residents of Vò, a town of 3,000 inhabitants near Venice – including those who did not have symptoms. This allowed us to quarantine people before they showed signs of infection and stop the further spread of coronavirus. In this way, we eradicated coronavirus in under 14 days.”
(https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/20/eradicated-coronavirus-mass-testing-covid-19-italy-vo)
…important details…
While this could be hard to do in a big city:
“They invite researchers to eradicate the virus through extensive testing of both symptomatic individuals and all of their social contacts – including relatives, friends and neighbours. In this way, we catch out the disease before it has the chance to spread – and, most importantly, before the carrier has the chance to unwittingly pass it on to other people. In the absence of specific therapies or a vaccine, quarantine, distancing and identification of asymptomatic carriers remain the only real measures to control this epidemic.”
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/03/24/stay-home-a-sober-thread/
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