For eight drive-through testing sites around the United States, today is the last day of federal support.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1318085
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1318085
“Even The Trump Admin’s Best Testing Effort Is Laughably Small.”
If Donald had a nickel for every time he’s heard “laughably small”, he’d actually be a billionaire.
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He’s never measured up and never will.
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OT: The stupid, it burns! I imagine her name is Karen.
Texas reports highest daily total of Covid-19 cases
From CNN’s Raja Razek
A demonstrator holds up a sign during a “Bar Lives Matter” protest in Austin, Texas, on June 30. Gov. Greg Abbott’s ordered to close bars on June 26. Sergio Flores/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Texas reported 6,975 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday.
This is the state’s highest daily number of cases, bringing the total to at least 159,986 cases. At least 2,424 people have died from the virus in the state.
The reporting comes after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered for bars to close following the rise in cases. He also paused more reopenings for the state.
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There are nations that handled this well, and others that didn’t. But is there a national government on this round earth that simply shrugged and said “It’s your problem” to its constituent states and provinces? I doubt there’s a one.
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Man, you were fast!
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Whoopie fuck!
No testing no COVID19
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He’s heard that a lot, too.
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why aren’t they making a larger contribution
Donald only takes.
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So who pays for the tests at pharmacies? Who gets payoffs?
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Banned from EU travel?
USA
Russia
Brazil
Approved for EU travel?
Just about every other country.
What could be the common dictator, I mean, denominator?
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Barflies of Murika Unite!
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Hey, guess what, Mikey and Donnie — Texas hit a new high of newly confirmed COVID-19 cases today, nearly 7000. That makes 75,000 in the last three weeks.
Thanks for visiting, Mikey, and don’t worry, I’m sure no one in that 100 person maskless choir will get sick.
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You mean, other than the executive branch of the USA, right?
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USA Total cases: 2,723,022 …Today: +41,211
USA Total Deaths: 130,063 …Today: +705
so we start July with just over 130,000 deaths … oh my
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It seems to me that driving up and getting tested while in the car is certainly safer for everybody than going into a pharmacy (if that’s how it works at pharmacies… maybe the pharmacies set up outdoors).
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It’s a gross co-opting of BLM but I very much empathize with the economic anger that underlies these demonstrations. The total lack of leadership up and down the GOP is creating chaos. For people just trying get by and not up to the TPM reader’s level of news consumption, Abbott’s order came out of the f’ing blue. If your living is in the service industry here in TX you don’t know what the hell is going on or who to listen to. I’ll be shocked if the state doesn’t go blue with what is going on right now down here.
This is a national crisis and it deserves a national response. We deserve better than the GOP.
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to put it another way, its as if 9/11 had happened over 43 times so far…
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I was going to say that this is impossible – then I realized that Trump is probably trying to find ways to say that earlier tests were invalid because of possible false positives…
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This is not a 1.0 testing set-up. It will not evolve into a 2.0 set-up. All indicators point to a devolvement to a 0.0 set-up, if not a negative set-up.
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