The model was updated today. It now predicts almost 94,000 fatalities. Until or unless Numbnuts puts a national S.H.O. in place this number will get Fauchian pretty quick.
The Surgeon General today tried to retcon Trumpās extended advisory into a national stay-at-home order (which it isnāt). This may have been a message for an audience of one, being FL Gov DeSantis, who has only moved forward with restrictions in his state when signaled to do so by the White House.
Today DeSantis declared a statewide stay-at-home order, despite his state being ravaged by COVID19 and being full of old people.
Perhaps some people are looking the other way thinking Florida real estate is about to become cheap.
This crew does nothing until the figure out how they and their ilk can profit.
Two weeks ago, about 70 students from UT went to Mexico for spring break. 28 of them now have COVID19, the rest are being monitored.
If you read the article, JusCollege, the travel agent, should be on watch to be another virus-related death. They assured the students that it was safe to travel.
Between Governor Gator DeFratrat in Florida and Governor Cletus McInbred in Mississippi it would seem the Trump Humpers may be in for a rude awakening.
The latter is still running a will she/wonāt she game over a statewide shut-in.
The former is exhibiting his oft-highlighted faith, by telling a cruise ship full of sick and dying human beings to go fuck themselves and die somewhere else.
Iām impressed with the amount of news you all must be reading. I couldnāt take it anymore. I turn my television on for maybe 3 hours a day, if that.
I just look for updates here an on Twitter. So, I appreciate your diligence. I just mentally could not do it.
I worked in planning emergency response to a nuclear attack for the government for 8+ years, so maybe a bit conditioned to this sort of information. I used to work with a bunch of people who did the bio-weapon defense side of things, which is basically what COVID-19 is, but I have no idea if any of that stuff is being used.
I donāt know if it was posted here or not, but ProPublica obtained the Obama administrationās āpandemic response playbookā. It was 60+ pages of detailed āif this, then thatā discussing specific criteria and response measures, starting at the pre-pandemic phase. It was written sometime in 2016 using lessons learned from Ebola, and the Trump administration apparently trashed it in favor of their own plan, whatever it was/is.
We are still having the same problems: lack of overall testing and lack of PPE. Not to mention the type of testing that will be required to get society going in the future: antibody and the 15 minute Covid positive tests.
Those motherfuckers didnāt have a plan at the start and more troubling, they are incapable of formulating and executing one on the fly.
It will be interesting to see what if anything these geniuses do when the areas suffering from extremely high incidence of the virus cease to be just New York City, Seattle, Detroit and New Orleans, and inevitably moves on to East Asslick and Pigfuckton.
My co-workers mainly worked in the context of protecting the military, but also helping the military make plans to protect civilians in those scenarios. There was an enormous amount research done and there are probably people in the military and FEMA who would be excellent sources of information on how to deal with this, but obviously those people donāt have any influence on the political layer.
The U.K. is getting shit-hammered today. Over 4000 new cases and well over 500 new deaths. They currently have a mortality rate nearly as bad as Italyās.
It began to occur to me a couple of days ago that the military surely has the expertise and the procedural / logistical knowledge to handle this crisis in a very credible manner should it be allowed to, never mind the supplies on hand to make a significant dent in the various areas of urgent need.
It seems Governor Bocephus McTrucknuts of Tennessee has stepped into the Darwinian limelight. According to Governor McTrucknuts: thereās no evidence that physical distance between people has any effect on transmission of the virus.
The Trump administration has used the Defense Production Act 300,000 times this year to procure a bunch of supplies for the military and others but has been reluctant to use it to expedite production of critical medical supplies fake ass NYT link, yo.
The military would probably be efficient and not totally consumed by its own ego and desire to appear competent and powerful, even in the face likely widespread loss of lives in this country, so I agree with your assessment, sir.
Gov. Fuckface von Cheatingstein of Georgia claimed - TODAY - that he only just found out that people can be infectious and asymptomatic for a while (although he didnāt use those words). Gov. Mouthy McMouthbreathe of Mississippi said things very similar.
Who are they trying to kid?
Max Brooks, author of WWZ and other zombie books was on NPRās Fresh Air the other day https://www.npr.org/transcripts/820601571 talking about how the US military is prepared to do just that: " MAX BROOKS: Well, I can tell you that the military has a vast transportation network here in the United States that is ready to go. We donāt have to put truck drivers or private individuals at risks because the military is already trained to do this, and Iāve watched them do this. The military spent years working out the legal framework of how to transport goods from one place to another around this country because itās not like Afghanistan, where the army builds a road and then they own the road.
The Army has had to go through a tremendous amount of training and adaptation to work within state and local governments to make sure everything is done legally and safe, without infringing on our rights, and they have done this. The Armyās logistics corps can deliver anything that we need anywhere in this country within a matter of hours or days."
He also explains how the Defense Production Act is supposed to work just for situations like this.
Apparently he learned all about how our federal government is supposed to work in the course of researching his books. Unfortunately, it appears that none of the disaster preparedness networks we have were activated in time (some still arenāt).
The federal government is being run by people who donāt know how to run shit. This needs to be taken out of their hands.