Tuesday

Liberation

Leaving aside the debate around whether it’s appropriate for the White House to effectively call for citizens to defy state and local officials’ advice when it comes to protecting communities from a highly contagious respiratory disease, it’s far from clear this is a good strategy for Trump politically, and it’s even less clear it’s a net positive for markets.

I don't think we should be "leaving aside" Trump's liberation tweets. This is the president of the US (along with conservative propaganda channels and supporters) inciting action against elected state governments. That is wrong.

The protests were small and non-violent but people did show up with guns and in military looking garb.

Rabble rousing a scared populace about a little understood, out-of-the blue event and peppering it with guns, propaganda, religion, and ignorance is a great way to start a shooting revolution.

If this crap continues, its only a matter of time until shooting starts and people die.

Trump should be hammered about this in every press conference and every American politician should have to go on record about it.

Stupid fucker.


Pointing Fingers

The New Anti-China Campaign Is Built On Lies

The US is incapable of accepting any blame. Trump never accepts responsibility but the US as a whole always looks to blame someone else. HRC and the Ds blame Russia. Both parties and the media are looking to blame China for coronavirus.

Trying to shift responsibility doesn't help, just fix the problem and go on.


Media - The Misinformed

FiveThirtyEight with an article on misinformed Americans.

Some Americans Are Misinformed About The Coronavirus. How Responsible Is The Media?

Democrats’ and Republicans’ attitudes on the coronavirus were quite large, and while there is some evidence these partisan differences are overblown or have shrunk, signs also point to a gap in knowledge of basic facts about the coronavirus. According to a Pew Research Center survey conducted March 10-16, there are notable differences in Americans’ knowledge of the coronavirus among those who identified Fox News, MSNBC or CNN as their main source of political news. For instance, 78 percent of MSNBC and 57 percent of CNN viewers correctly answered that a vaccine will not be available within a year, compared with only 51 percent of Fox News viewers. And according to a Data for Progress poll conducted April 11, Fox News viewers are more likely to believe that hydroxychloroquine is a proven treatment for COVID-19 (25 percent) than CNN viewers (6 percent) and MSNBC (4 percent) viewers. Data for Progress also found Fox News viewers were more likely to say that the flu is more deadly than coronavirus (19 percent) than CNN (8 percent) and MSNBC (3 percent) viewers. These different views of the facts could spell trouble.

How can you write a paragraph like this without showing what the facts are or at least the most common belief among the experts?

"Different views of the facts could spell trouble"! Damn-right it could. Why don't you tell us which view is right or at least the most accepted. 

Wishy-washy, don't want to offend either side, articles like this don't help.