Hail to the Hairpiece

The reason I am tweeting this: I have been flu-sick unwell for the past week and now I am finding out there are people I was in direct contact with who were in direct contact with the infected.

And yes, I know who it was.

— Raheem Kassam (@RaheemKassam) March 9, 2020

“Public-health officials worry that the consequences of living with a President and a general disinformation universe that undermine facts and science could have increasingly dire consequences.” https://t.co/CoWEWCvy08

— Millie Tran (@millie) March 9, 2020

Other Republicans might starve the CDC of resources or people. But they'd probably at least focus on trying to contain the virus. Trump's entire focus is containing stories on the virus. So he's explicitly making the pandemic worse. Hard to imagine almost anyone else doing this.

— Grudge of Whales (@grudging1) March 9, 2020

"The response of this whole issue of the coronavirus is it should have been paint by numbers, but really they're making it like they're trying to recreate the Sistine Chapel."

— Dr. Corey Hébert on how the Trump admin. has responded to COVID-19.https://t.co/U1GPhFKJn1

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 8, 2020

No one is capable of convincing the President to help Americans not die of a virus https://t.co/Ib5KcCi9QI

— Grudge of Whales (@grudging1) March 9, 2020

US top health officials warn that containment of the coronavirus is no longer possible, the country needs to pivot to aggressive efforts to mitigate its spread — “The next two weeks are really going to change the complexion in this country”https://t.co/3s9fa9FcdV

— Alfons López Tena (@alfonslopeztena) March 8, 2020

How testing failures allowed coronavirus to sweep the U.S. via @POLITICO for iOS https://t.co/CmrwbRWNkl pic.twitter.com/PXOsllAFby

— Tatum O'neal (@Tatum_Oneal) March 8, 2020

I can now update this number: We can verify at least 3,000 people in the US have now been tested, given data we’ve collected at @COVID19Tracking.

That’s in line with the estimate of “perhaps 2,500 people tested” as of Friday 6pm that @ScottGottliebMD tweeted yesterday. https://t.co/jqpkL2gcsb

— Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) March 8, 2020

Tony Fauci, who is beloved among journalists for his frank, quick callbacks, said “it’s still possible to stop the disease, but health authorities would have to know where it was to do that, and he said the lack of testing capacity was a huge obstacle.” https://t.co/ckTCL4GgLO

— Amy Maxmen (@amymaxmen) March 9, 2020

This is a brilliant thread from @JeremyKonyndyk — if you don't want to read all of it, here's a quick summary: every day that the administration continues to dawdle on getting our health care system ready for what's coming, it raises the risk of a major failure of that system. https://t.co/N9mPtXdWHm

— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) March 8, 2020

REMINDER: Trump fired the US pandemic response team in 2018, then eliminated their positions https://t.co/ftbQJ57PnL

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 9, 2020

They will own coronavirus just as mightily as they own libs and they will not necessarily do it in that order however

— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) March 8, 2020

Still mostly hitting blue states

— Michael Low (@mlow29) March 7, 2020

By "blue" he means "places where a lot of people live"

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 7, 2020

I'm a doc trying to save your skin
if you were an actual person you'd understand that

— Greg Dworkin (@DemFromCT) March 7, 2020

Feels like just a few days ago he was telling people it was okay to go to his rallies. https://t.co/PPkqP3atxV

— Schooley (@Rschooley) March 9, 2020

Yeah, except he can’t change — any more than my elderly rescue dog can stop eating poop, regardless of her current nutritional status. He won’t give up his ego-stoking rallies, or even his glad-handing strangers at Marred-A-Largo, unless he’s forcibly prevented from doing so. And frankly, I don’t think there’s anyone in his immediate circle, including Princess Ivanka and Trophy Wife #3, who care enough about the old man to even try very hard…

The thing about Fox News sugarcoating this and discouraging measures to mitigate community transmission is Trump will still be president if cases explode. If they want to protect Trump as always, make people listen to common sense measures they can do. https://t.co/Cl02B5zup9

— Schooley (@Rschooley) March 9, 2020