Kolek planning to go pro
Every day I hope and pray the people in this country can’t get any dumber. And every day I’m wrong.
George W. Bush released a nearly three-minute video on Saturday paying tribute to the medical workers who have led the response to the pandemic, and pointedly challenging Americans of all political persuasions to ditch partisan sniping in favor of solidarity. “In the final analysis, we are not partisan combatants; we are human beings, equally vulnerable and equally wonderful in the sight of God,” he said. “We rise or fall together, and we are determined to rise.” That seemingly tender message apparently rubbed Trump the wrong way: He complained on Twitter that Bush had been “nowhere to be found” during the president’s recent impeachment trial.Because as usual, for President Pandemic it's always about me-me-me. Sad.
Bush throws Trump a softball - all Trump had to do was retweet and agree - but he is so blinded by his narcissism that he whiffs again. Why would any stable person openly criticize Bush's message?Bush was far from a perfect president, but he knew how to unify in a crisis and I would trade him for Trump in a New York minute.
Bush was far from a perfect president, but he knew how to unify in a crisis and I would trade Trump for him in a New York minute.
Well this isn't good.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/us/coronavirus-updates.htmlhttps://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6926-mayhhsbriefing/af7319f4a55fd0ce5dc9/optimized/full.pdf#page=1"As President Trump presses for states to reopen their economies, his administration is privately projecting a steady rise in the number of cases and deaths from coronavirus over the next several weeks, reaching about 3,000 daily deaths on June 1, according to an internal document obtained by The New York Times, nearly double from the current level of about 1,750.The projections, based on modeling by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and pulled together in chart form by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, forecast about 200,000 new cases each day by the end of the month, up from about 25,000 cases now.The numbers underscore a sobering reality: While the United States has been hunkered down for the past seven weeks, not much has changed. And the reopening to the economy will make matters worse.“There remains a large number of counties whose burden continues to grow,” the C.D.C. warned.The projections confirm the primary fear of public health experts: that a reopening of the economy will put the nation right back where it was in mid-March, when cases were rising so rapidly in some parts of the country that patients were dying on gurneys in hospital hallways with cases rising so rapidly that the health care system is overloaded.“While mitigation didn’t fail, I think it’s fair to say that it didn’t work as well as we expected” Scott Gottlieb, Mr. Trump’s former commissioner of food and drugs, said Sunday on the CBS program Face the Nation. “We expected that we would start seeing more significant declines in new cases and deaths around the nation at this point. And we’re just not seeing that.”
W's eulogy of his father was a very moving, human moment. He certainly can turn on the charm.
Yikes. We did a good job of buying time, but we didn’t do enough with that time. I have a hard time seeing people going into “Safer at home” arrangements again. I think people are close to or at their end of staying at home mentally.
He doesn't have to turn it on, hes always been charming. Politics and presidency aside, hes always been an enjoyable and charismatic person to be around. Michelle Obama loves him, that speaks volumes.
Yeah, I just saw this. Scary times.We obviously have to re-open the economy eventually. This is brutal.
Yeah there are no good alternatives for the next couple of months. Even if the economy "opens up," how many people are going to feel comfortable with that?
On behalf of your inferiors everywhere, thanks for your prayers that we be delivered from our stupidity. So thoughtful, so kind - just what we hope for from our superiors. Apologies that despite your efforts we continue to disappoint you. It must make your life very difficult.
It is gonna be interesting to see what transpires, that's for sure.It's really difficult for me to imagine another major lockdown -- even if we end up actually having deadlier months than we just experienced in April, when a death toll the equivalent of 9/11 was happening every day or two.I hope that, at the very least, the stay-at-home orders so far have made it more likely that hospitals will be able to treat everybody going forward. I also like to think that we as a nation have learned a lot about being ready for the supplies and other things needed to deal with a pandemic.Trying to find some positives out of all of this, as difficult as it may be.
You’ve gotten super-sensitive lately.
If these estimates turn out to be accurate, I can't help but think we handled this the worst way possible. Shut down and hurt the economy, but don't do enough to prepare for the next wave, and don't stay closed, or enforce religiously enough, to end the spread. Then just open back up and accept the dire consequences.
If these estimates turn out to be accurate, I can't help but think we handled this the worst way possible. Shut down and hurt the economy, but don't do enough to prepare for the next wave, and don't stay closed, or enforce religiously enough, to end the spread. Then just open back up and accept the dire consequences. You have to pick one option or the other and commit to it, waffling back and forth is likely the worst situation.
Agreed. IMHO, the initial "lockdown" had way too many exceptions (liquor stores?!?), too many states that didn't participate or jumped on board too late, and too many that opened too soon. It should have been prompt, more complete, nationwide, and with opening after states or regions met the criteria for reopening set forth in the three phase plan.No half measures....
Exactly.