Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin predicted that there will be a “big rebound” as the country “gets comfortable” reopening the economy, during an interview on CNN Sunday morning.
In an obviously unrelated and coincidental development, a whole bunch of people who are supposed to get these payments directly deposited into their bank accounts, because they’ve given the IRS this information on their 2018 or 2019 returns and/or get Social Security and other federal benefits via direct deposit (including my parents), and until now were told with 100% assurance that their payments would be directly deposited, have just been told that they’ll be getting paper checks, in late April.
And if you believe that, I’ve got some Trump properties to sell you…
Oxford prof. Sarah Gilbert says that SARS-CoV-2, if it behaves like other CoVs probably leaves a weak immune signature so it’s possible to get reinfected. But she she thinks a Vaccine can be developed that will last a lot longer, at least a year.
Coronavirus: ‘Possible to be infected with Covid-19 more than once’
Scientists working on a coronavirus vaccine in Britain hope to start clinical trials towards the end of next week.
The leader of a team working on a vaccine, Professor Sarah Gilbert, from Oxford University said scientists believed it was possible to become infected with Covid-19 more than once.
She added that a vaccine-induced immunity could last longer than the infected-induced immunity.
Great, pretty soon we’ll have to take a whole cocktail of vaccines (because you know this is going to mutate and is just the start of an era of super viruses) once a year just to stay alive. But at least we’ll be able to go to Applebee’s and attend football games again, so it’s all good.
No one screws up a pandemic response like Donnie. Everyone says so. Tremendous, great, beautiful screwup, like no one’s ever seen. Very, very, bigly strong.
We used to call this ‘brown-nosing’ for obvious reasons. This is a perfect example…or as his boss might say, ‘It’s a beautiful thing…perfect, beautiful’.
Gotta walk dogs, but here’s a bit from Science News about where we stand as regards testing. It’s nice to have the methods down. What we need, also, as Gov. Cuomo notes, are the testing components and reagents. These are not readily available right now.
I think denying it was incredibly obviously Trump’s idea is the perfect symbol, actually, of a guy who slobbered his idiot name all over everything until he was broke and had nothing but the D-lister celebrity recognition of that name to peddle and then eventually they had to start taking his idiot name off all the stuff because it was box-office poison. That’s always the arc things take with Trump, and pretending this wasn’t his idea is the perfect symbol of that, I quite agree.