NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans began taking its first steps Saturday toward loosening two months of restrictions on businesses, restaurants and houses of worship.
We’ll know in two to three weeks.
Looking for an article from earlier and bumped into this.
Okay, show of hands. Who is feeling vicious and crazy? Come on, admit it. It is Saturday, sure but put the fangs on, cock the crazy eye. At least make an attempt.
Does raging ennui count?
IAMNAD(octor) but there was a huge outbreak including deaths following the Mardi Gras and all its events in February because mayor of NOLA and governor of LA couldn’t/wouldn’t cancel it. In fact Mardi Gras was considered to be a petri dish for the virus. So It appears there may have been some miraculous recoveries three months later. Keeping fingers crossed but til then Laissez Les Bon Temp Roulez.
Personally I could live without another trumPP delusional rant on a perfectly nice Saturday morning. We need to quit him and everything he says everywhere.
Thought so, but it’s nice to have it confirmed. Redfield is a colossal turdpigeon. My respect for Fauci just ticked up a notch.
One of the CDC’s constraints was to insist on developing its own test rather than import a foreign one. Dr Anthony Fauci – the infectious disease expert and now household name – is widely known to loathe Redfield, and vice versa. That meant the CDC and Fauci’s National Institutes of Health were not on the same page.
Good article btw.
I understand King Cake babies now are required to wear masks and gloves.
(And Plexiglas shielding has been installed on Bourbon Street for bead-seeking topless flashers.)
Time to buy Windex stock.
Anyone ever see Kentucky Fried Movie? If you have, you may remember that pertinent scene that the plexiglasss on Bourbon St image jarred loose from my memory…
Note that Birx is criticizing Redfield’s CDC pretty harshly as well …
The nursery down the road from me started back up early this spring with online/email orders. I went to look at their ordering system and it was basically just email your requests. They this month they went to appointments only, seems like they are way busier, in an orderly and controlled way.
Malls and retail stores can reopen
Laissez les bons temps rouler!
casinos, video poker, live entertainment and bars are still closed.
Our daughter-in-law is on the State Department of Health Coronavirus response team. She’s been critical of the CDC from day one.
That has to be driving the dedicated professionals at the CDC nuts. The wrong person at the top can neutralize the best work being done in the trenches
Yes, and, writ large, that’s the story of this administration – and some previous Republican ones as well.
Restricting buildings to 25% capacity, by appointment only, and still requiring masks in public, while casinos, bars, and live entertainment remain closed.
I don’t know whether this is the right thing to do, but at least it’s a fairly controlled roll-out as opposed to the free-for-all that occurred in Wisconsin and Georgia.
I guess we have 50 laboratories for Coronavirus, instead of democracy. That remains in grave danger in the era of Republican rule.
Fangs? I don’t no nothin’ about no fangs. Just because I prefer the night doesn’t mean anything. And just because I’ve never out in full sunlight for ages does mean anything either. Really it doesn’t. I have a skin conduction see. Come closer and I’ll show you…
OT: Trump is recklessly stupid. Luckily for him, Mitch is not. I don’t see Mitch moving forward on taking on Obama. Unless he actually wants to see Trump self-destruct, in which case all bets are off.
One of the more astounding passages in the FT article:
Blaming America’s death rate on China and the WHO could well help Trump’s re-election campaign. Many voters are all too ready to believe the US is a victim of nefarious global forces. Garrett, who is a former senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, cites Inferno , a lesser-known novel by Dan Brown, author of the best-selling Da Vinci Code , in which the WHO plays a dastardly role.
One of its leading characters is a biologist at the CFR. During a pandemic, she kidnaps the head of the WHO and puts him in the think-tank’s basement. He is rescued by a WHO military team that swoops in on the body’s C-130 jet. In reality, the agency has no police powers at all. “We are not like Interpol,” says Schwartländer. The WHO can no more insist on going into Wuhan to investigate the origins of Covid-19 than it can barge into Atlanta to investigate the CDC’s delay in producing a test.
I suppose this isn’t new, but it’s news to me. Brown writes a unique form of fabulism not to be taken seriously, but then again, America.