Sunday

COVID19

Two really good articles on COVID19.

Original from March 10th:     Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
New from March 19th:   Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance


Misinformation

Twitter crackdown on coronavirus ‘misinformation’ includes censoring jokes -

Damn, if Facebook ever cuts down on misinformation, my Eastern-Indiana Teabagistan Facebook feed will be empty.


Frank Rich: Trump Lies His Way Through a Pandemic

The challenge to the press remains what it’s been from the start: How do you challenge a lying president on the facts in real time when he is lying as fast as he can speak? The difference now is that more than ever lives are dependent on Americans getting the truth.

Roaming Charges: Always Look on the Bright Side of Death

The Trump administration is furiously blaming China for the COVID crisis and there’s no doubt that the Chinese acted slowly and covered up what was really going on in Wuhan during the early days. But China identified COVID-19 on 1/7 and shared its genetic sequence with the World Health Organization on 1/12. So that leaves a big, lethal gap between when the US knew the virus posed a pandemic threat and when the Trump administration finally took action (except for cronies selling stock). Trump on 2/28: “It will disappear like a miracle.”

Dump Trump

The Last Straw

"Without Rush, without O’Reilly, without Hannity, without Newsmax, Breitbart, and InfoWars there would be no Trump."

I agree but as long as the misinformation sites are allowed to spout propaganda there will always be another Trump waiting in line.

Donald Trump and Herbert Hoover

Trump, as Boot well pointed and points out, is a narcissistic megalomaniac, perhaps suffering from dementia, who has no demonstrated capacity for any of the arts of genuine governance, including eliciting loyalty based on anything other than abject fear, or demonstrating the slightest empathy for anyone who is suffering the consequences of his own degraded policies.