6,200+ deaths.
244,000+ confirmed coronavirus cases.
10,448,000+ unemployment claims in March.This is the tragic cost of Trump's chaotic, incompetent coronavirus response. pic.twitter.com/TjrYakBSXN
— CAP Action (@CAPAction) April 3, 2020
CNN: According to Johns Hopkins University's tally of cases in the United States, there are at least 277,953 cases of coronavirus in the U.S.
7,152 people have died in the U.S. from coronavirus.
On Friday, 32,740 new cases were reported and 1,169 people died.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 4, 2020
As more of the U.S. comes under stay-at-home orders because of the coronavirus, a clear trend has emerged:
—Those who make more money are traveling less and limiting their exposure to the virus.
—Many lower-income workers don't have that luxury. https://t.co/lEbAsCht44
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 3, 2020
It's hard to escape the feeling that the administration is very aware of who is hit the hardest by this and that has shaped their response. https://t.co/fFOJAX1EfW
— Schooley (@Rschooley) April 3, 2020
Physicians in public health and on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis say they fear the response to the pandemic will lead to health care disparities, especially for minorities and low-income communities.https://t.co/Jq37CojnyG
— NPR (@NPR) April 2, 2020
Gov. Baker says the state had ordered 3 million N95 masks from BJs. Had them confiscated during delivery process in the port of New York.
Grateful they were able to secure the supply from China using the #Patriots plane.
— WCVB-TV Boston (@WCVB) April 2, 2020
This is absolutely nuts: the Feds keeps seizing PPE ordered by MA. In desperation the MA Gov creates a backchannel to Chinese ambassador to the UN and has the New England Patriots send a jet to pick the PPE up and finally get it to MA hospitals. https://t.co/YPCHZj3djf
— Prasad Jallepalli (@jallepap) April 3, 2020
Trump’s a two-bit thief who aspires to be a mob boss. Robert Kraft is a personal friend of his — and, more importantly, a friend of Putin — so Trump graciously ‘permits’ his friend to make a grand gesture, even as Trump’s stealing PPE shipments right & left to stockpile for… well, ask his son-in-law Jared…
TRUMP: "We have a stockpile. It's a federal stockpile. We can use that for states or we can use it for ourselves."
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) April 3, 2020
Trump’s already killed more Americans than Osama bin Laden. He’ll be lucky his corpse isn’t disposed of the same way.
1/ FACTS: It took until March 17 for Trump to finally REMOVE his own trade war tariffs on imports of masks from China.
Until March 17, he didn't want imports of masks.
On April 3, Trump announced he would commandeer them. https://t.co/pAprCUfuah
— Chad P. Bown (@ChadBown) April 4, 2020
Who is this "ourselves"? https://t.co/2W9ntRbZjy
— Garance Franke-Ruta STAY HOME (@thegarance) April 3, 2020
I do not understand the federal government collecting taxes from us, using that money to buy medical supplies from the private sector, then giving the supplies to the private sector so the private sector can rip off states that have to purchase the supplies with more tax dollars.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) April 4, 2020
Berlin says that US confiscated 200,000 masks (FFP2 and FFP3) at airport in Bangkok that were ordered for Berlin police. Masks were produced by a 3M factory (US company) in China. City of Berlin says this is "modern piracy" and urges Merkel government to address this with the US. https://t.co/2kXfFCGOHq
— Daniel Drepper (@danieldrepper) April 3, 2020
“Trump has long insisted that the primary responsibility lies with the states in managing the pandemic.” https://t.co/kyd9wyGTfe
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) April 4, 2020
Seriously, can anyone make heads or tails of this answer? pic.twitter.com/Uh90GpOtNY
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) April 3, 2020
‘Lord of the Flies: PPE Edition’: How the coronavirus is fueling global competition and fury over medical resources. With a mini-SCOOP on USAID/State strategy document’s dire predictions. https://t.co/vqWFOHB3g3
— Nahal Toosi (@nahaltoosi) April 3, 2020
New Orleans #COVID19 case growth is showing some of the most concerning trends in the country, second to New York. pic.twitter.com/YhDAEJ3yCc
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) April 3, 2020
After initially resisting calls to issue a stay at home order despite every state that borders Alabama having one, Alabama’s governor now issues the directive. The state has over 1,400 cases. https://t.co/CmEIibtSOK
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) April 3, 2020
NEW: Two months before the novel coronavirus likely began spreading in Wuhan, the Trump administration ended a $200-million program aimed at detecting — well, novel coronaviruses. The staff had been working with the lab in — well, Wuhan. w/ @RaineyTime https://t.co/N9LsMS3eN3
— Emily Baumgaertner (@Emily_Baum) April 3, 2020
It’s important to emphasize that it’s really COVID-19, not the lockdowns, that are causing this economic damage.
Even without the lockdowns, people wouldn’t be out at restaurants or shops or going on trips like they normally do.
— Matt O'Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) April 3, 2020
This is actually just what Trump believes. Helping Americans in liberal areas affected by coronavirus is a favor, an act of generosity, rather than civic obligation he has as president. https://t.co/LXczX0NNsE
— Adam Serwer? (@AdamSerwer) April 3, 2020
Trump has used emergency powers during the coronavirus pandemic to implement the kind of strict enforcement regime at the U.S. southern border he has long wanted https://t.co/v9FuLKnYRs
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 4, 2020
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We got internal Border Patrol guidance for the new mass-turnbacks policy.It confirms the US has stopped offering any protection to border-crossers who fear persecution—abandoning even obligations the Trump admin used to admit it was bound to. https://t.co/Doorn9kw9s
— Dara Lind (@DLind) April 2, 2020
South Korea, Taiwan & the United States all registered their first Covid-19 case on the same day: January 20, 2020.
As of this morning at 15:00GMT:
Taiwan: 348 cases, 5 deaths
S. Korea: 10,062 cases, 174 deaths
United States: 245,442 cases, 6,098 deaths#IWouldGiveMyselfaTen— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) April 3, 2020
Trump admits he also would have ignored coronavirus without impeachment https://t.co/RYozjpqFwz pic.twitter.com/pwlZVzM0tm
— The American Independent (@AmerIndependent) April 4, 2020
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
The Evansville METS city bus system is now limiting buses to 9 passengers + driver on board at any one time.
If that number is already on board, the driver will still stop to tell you why you can’t ride.
It’s probably overdue and will be a hardship because I don’t have a car, but it’s good they’re taking it seriously.
mrmoshpotato
@Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman): Is the YANKEES city bus system doing the same, or not?
WereBear
Will no one rid us of this scrofulous beast? And his Wormtongue, too?
Even Nixon got a talking to!
mrmoshpotato
Sooooooooo…….*looks around*……..do over with the “overprepared” haver of a not-penis?
What’s the over/under on how many fuckers hang?
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
@mrmoshpotato:
Heh…when I was a little kid, my dad who drove a METS bus had to explain to me that no, he didn’t play professional baseball at work. ?
mrmoshpotato
@WereBear: Welch: Have you no sense of decency?
That shitstain McCarthy: No, no I don’t. See the shit I’m dragging people through? Duh.
mrmoshpotato
@Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman): LOL and the Mr. Met costume would make driving hazardous.
OzarkHillbilly
‘Over our heads in chaos’: Wisconsin on edge of election fiasco amid pandemic
Words are insufficient.
mrmoshpotato
@OzarkHillbilly: Time for Wisconsin voters to take bats to Russthuglican crotches. Bats are for hitting balls after all.
ThresherK
Oh, the idea that 3M is a “US company” in this endeavor is precious.
I’m not slagging on Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing*, or their having a factory that isn’t in the USA. Heck, I am not even gonna read deep enough to find out if it’s just a place they contracted to create their products.
It’s just the idea that this “follow the flag” stuff holds any bearing is a hoot. The situation is becoming real, and any of the tales of what happened in WWII are simply not going to occur this time around. As well it shouldn’t as this isn’t a war between nation-states. I mean, if you want to read up on how dicey this kind of thing is in wartime, the Coca-Cola Company in Germany during WWII is a good start.
(*3M gave us the Scotch Tape dispenser without which the actual tape would be useless, the Post-It notes, and other useful doodads.)
WereBear
Proof, if more is needed, that Republicans have degenerated into “can’t get out of a wet paper bag” level of competence.
Decades of Reality Avoidance landing all at once.
mrmoshpotato
@WereBear:
Feature, not bug. Not surprising for a party that’s been a death cult for a while.
Chyron HR
“Ivanka, Melanie, Jared, the Dumb One, the Ugly One, and uh, what’s his name, the little short guy my wife is always hanging around with.”
satby
@WereBear: I don’t believe it’s incompetence, I believe it’s deliberate targeting. They think they can kill off more Democratic supporters, especially minority ones, than their own.
OzarkHillbilly
Which states have done the least to contain coronavirus?
Misery makes the list!
I’s so proud…
Soprano2
Of course, “ourselves” is whoever Trump wants to give them to, probably people in states that support him. The Gateway Pundit piece doesn’t surprise me at all, I’m only surprised they’re already saying it out loud. Trump supporters see people who don’t support their cult leader as not worthy of being helped; they think Trump is being extra wonderful because he’s helping them anyway. They don’t realize how awful “See how great he is, he even helps people who don’t like him” sounds to everyone else.
It’s quite the contradiction to say “the states should get their own stuff” and then when they do, seize it from them. I wonder, is that stuff going into the “ourselves” pile, or to one of Trump’s grifter supporters to resell for a big markup?
mrmoshpotato
@Chyron HR: Stockpile of gallows-proof something?
WereBear
@mrmoshpotato:
It’s become a simple equation.
Trump/Pence * Time in office = Deaths per week
Of course, there’s an extrapolation effect.
How can we get the Republican Party out of the way? That is the only survival strategy we have. The Supreme Court SHOULD step in, but we know they won’t. The Attorney General’s office is a joke.
It’s up to Congress. Go ahead, impeach him again. The evidence is all around us.
mrmoshpotato
@satby: It’s not incompetence. They’re Soviet shitpile mobster trash.
Putin’s bitch wants to be Russia.
Soprano2
@OzarkHillbilly: But he did do something- he suspended something about renewal of conceal carry permits. Oh, and now we have an order starting Monday. He’s been more useless than Greitens, and that’s saying something.
Chyron HR
@satby:
I think there’s at least a 50/50 chance that responding to accusations that the Trump administration killed millions of people with “But they were mostly
nigDemocrats!” would backfire.OzarkHillbilly
@OzarkHillbilly: Arkansas and Oklahoma made the list too. Maybe it’s the Ozark water?
WereBear
I can’t argue with you. That’s exactly how it looks, with Trump sending stuff to red states and not opening the stockpile to blue states.
Which brings it around to incompetence again, doesn’t it? Because the red state vs blue state carnage will be orders of magnitude of difference. From lockdown orders to health insurance to available facilities, this meltdown has been decades in the making.
Even within the states, we will have the difference between people who took precautions, and the ones who followed Fox News advice. Not to mention the more fervent and Republican the church-goers, the more likely they are to defy any public health guidance and gather, with increasing panic, which will lead to more mass prayer sessions/faith healing/snake oil which makes matters worse.
From what most Republican governors have been saying, they don’t understand how viruses work. They think it’s blue state cooties. They think obeying Trump will protect them. They think Trump will send them masks and gowns and ventilators, and they will be all set. Without wondering where they will put patients and where they will find medical personnel to wear them.
If that’s their Cold Equations, they aren’t doing the math properly.
OzarkHillbilly
@Soprano2: And to think I had hopes for the guy (not much, he’s always gonna be a Republican) after he supported an increase in the gas tax.
debbie
@Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman):
Here, they aren’t charging riders and riders can only enter via the back door. Buses will pick up as long as social distancing can be maintained. I believe they sanitize buses at regular intervals throughout the day. Most of the routes aren’t being run anymore.
However, a bus driver has now died from COVID-19, so who knows how long there will be buses?
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie:
Hopefully always. I’m thinking of people in food deserts.
satby
I shared Betty’s Florida Fiasco post from yesterday on FB and like clockwork, one of the right wingers who insist on following me popped up to say that the states with the highest infections were all “democrat” led, so what about that hurr, hurr.
I just told him he was right and he better move to Florida.
But it’s true that we don’t have a union or concept of common good in this country any more as far as the right wing is concerned. And they think that’s exactly how it should be. Malice, not incompetence.
debbie
This “federal stockpile is not for the states” bullshit is beyond maddening. Trump’s supporters should be the angriest, what with all their talk about states rights, etc.
debbie
@satby:
Your final paragraph is what has had me bummed out for years now. It’s all “me, me, me” rather than “us, us, us.” I hate what capitalism has inflicted on people.
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
And also essential workers.
Amir Khalid
Trump never misses an opportunity to give himself a pat on the back, does he, no matter how little he deserves it.
satby
@debbie: it’s more than capitalism. It’s white male supremacy with a heaping helping of Xtian bigotry. It’s the revenge of the Confederacy, 155 years after they lost the war.
debbie
@satby:
Might as well throw in mommy issues too.
Ian R
Are you sure? Because I’m pretty sure that by seizing shipments of medical equipment, the US just committed an act of war vs Germany.
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie: Good point.
TS (the original)
He’s a thief. I wait to hear him say “I am not a crook” as his administration goes down the gurgler.
Don’t like his chances of commandeering a cure/vaccination developed by anyone outside of the US. Science will suffer because of a lack of help/sharing between researchers. No-one will trust the US.
Gvg
@debbie: no that is much older than capitalism. It’s tribalism and it goes back to cave men. It’s not usually smart, but it is instinctive.
Capitalism has a number of character flaws, but getting rid of capitalism for instance, wouldn’t even touch that trait.
SFAW
@TS (the original):
“Will”?
SFAW
I really wish that leopard would eat the faces of the Murderer-in-Chief, his Russkie-asset “arm candy,” and his three older kids. And Jared. And Shill Barr. And the politician most responsible for the destruction of American democracy, Moscow Mitch. And, frankly, the rest of the Party of Traitors.
And I hope they all expire in anguish because the ventilators they’re withholding fail due to improper maintenance over the past three years.
pluky
@WereBear: Bonus points for the “Cold Equations” reference!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cold_Equations
SFAW
And, according to TPM, the criminal cabal maladministration has apparently changed the .gov website which (prior to Jared’s “fuck y’all” statement) said that the federal stockpile was for use by the states, general public, etc. ; now it gives backup to Jared’s pronouncement.
I often wish I were wrong — that there really IS a Just God — because He/She would smite ALL those evil motherfuckers.
MoCA Ace
They better bury him at sea because, with God as my witness, if I outlive that odious fucker I will piss on his grave.
MoCA Ace
@OzarkHillbilly:
They know the aged and infirm will still show up at the poles to register their R vote while young urban hippies have sufficient survival instincts to stay home. My wife works at a pharmacy here and those same olds are still swarming the store “just doing a little shopping” or coming in for their meds and staying to chat up the staff instead of using the drive-through.
Mike in Pasadena
Six times watched trump try to explain Kushner’s “our,” not to understand his gibberish, but rather to analyze the tactics. He has no answer, so he tries to BS his way through and dodge. The reporter realizes he is bullshitting and not answering the question (the “our means our”) gives it away. Then trump realizes he, himself, isn’t buying his own bullshit, so he talks over the reporter and bullies her with the “that’s a nasty question” attack. By that time its all projection as he gets nasty in his tough guy tactic. Rethuglicans love it because he so manly, so butch. Rethuglicans love the anger because they know he is weak and think his frown and angry shouty words cover up that he is a weak fraud.
Dan B
Here in “Performing Best in the Nation” WA the rate of increase in reported cases for the 7 days from 3/28 – 4/2 in the Seattle metro was 36%. In the rest of the mostly rural counties it was 240%.
It would be great to know how many cases there are per hospital bed and per ICU. And how far it is from the average resident to an ER. There are very long distances in much of the state.
Do these rural “I want my freedom!!” locals have any concern for the frontline responders?
JCNZ
“Trump’s already killed more Americans than Osama bin Laden. He’ll be lucky his corpse isn’t disposed of the same way.”
God I hope.