In the opinion of a clinical psychologist with decades of access to Donald Trump:
Today, Donald is much as he was at 3 years old: incapable of growing, learning or evolving, unable to regulate his emotions, moderate his responses, or take in and synthesize information.
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Donald’s ego has been and is a fragile and inadequate barrier between him and the real world, which, thanks to his father’s money and power, he never had to negotiate by himself.
Donald Trump is a criminal, idiot, racist, con artist and narcissistic jerk that is willing to throw anyone under the bus if it benefits him. He is proud of it and makes it known every day. The fact he still has American citizens listening to his bullshit is sad and infuriating.
He also has trouble understanding fractions.
So we’re back here again:
Doctors at Memorial City Medical Center in Houston who treat Covid-19 patients have been told to reuse single-use N95 respirator masks for up to 15 days before throwing them out.
He has trouble understanding many things. There’s not enough time in the day to list them all.
Isn’t it just lovely that we are back to pre-lockdown conditions with vastly more cases and hospitalizations? It’s as if those 42 days never happened in Houston.
I couldn’t get past that part of his tweet.
Just because we need a reminder of something beautiful.
Some more data. Starting with a hot-spot state early in the pandemic. From New York:
From a place that’s done the right thing early and often, Vermont:
From a more recent hot-spot, Arizona:
And, finally, from Texas:
And, because smart people are actually thinking about the testing/infection correlation (as well as things like the testing response lag to actual infections), here’s a corrected slope of infections for Texas:
The data just don’t support that messaging. All data from https://rt.live/
Thank you, BudGirl, for the video. Much needed.
My son and I were both tested this week. (Me for surgery, son for work ). We should bring the averages down a little.
Missed this yesterday: Austin ISD’s teachers union is telling teachers to refuse to show up for on-campus teaching. They are requesting the district/state to do the first nine weeks virtually, then assess on a week-by-week basis whether to return to campus.
Man, what a terrible situation. The teachers union pushing for 100% home schooling, something they would seem opposed to if they thought there was any better plausible alternative, should sound the bell on how serious this is.
At least he’s starting to pay attention to the data rather than Der Fuehrer,
Today is shaping up to be another record breaker as we cross the 30K mark with seven of the top ten states not even reporting yet. Florida has already rolled a hope-crushing 11,433 for the day.
Looking hard to find anything positive in the numbers has yielded very little. California MAY be starting to peak as the last few days have seen no new records. Of course we can’t know if that’s true for several more days. Mask compliance has improved here in So. Cal., so maybe that will show some results in a couple of weeks.
So Harris County testing facilities are closing today due to the heat. I’m not sure I could say that y’all have this whole testing operation totally nailed down.
It takes over a week to get the results, so what’s the point of testing? You’ll know by then if you have it or not.
Right, good point. In the mean time better get your nails done in case it turns out you have it and have to quarantine for a couple of weeks. Maybe go to the gym a last time or two.
Kris had the flu many weeks ago, and we thought it was the virus, fever, cough, gastro. After a few days, while she was still sick, I went to one of the county sites to get tested. There was one other car and me. I never did get results.
We were concerned about my wife a couple months ago, so she moved to the upstairs bedroom/bath. After a couple days she was sent in for a test, and she got her results in 2+ days. They were negative, but her doctor was concerned about high false negative rates, so he told her to remain isolated until she had two days with no high temps. That took another week because most of the time she was ok, but once or twice every day her temp would spike.
