One Month After Reopening, AZ Sees Record COVID Case Growth, ICUs Nearing Capacity | Talking Points Memo

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How hard is it to stay inside in Arizona during the summer?

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Did you read a couple days ago that the US was now flying deported people back to Guatemala, lots with Covid. Guatemala had put a stop to the flights, but it was opened up on Tuesday. Talk about spreading the pandemic. We are the world’s biggest hypocrites.

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MSNBC is reporting that the death toll prediction has been upped by 20,000 - 170,000 deaths by October.

A few states states are now putting restrictions back in place.

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I never bookmark anything.

One of a number from back in April…

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and with no social distancing or mask rules. Sweden did that too, and they’re pretty close to leading the world in per capita death rate.

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“Hypocrit” should be tattooed on trump’s forehead

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Complete with the mis-spelling.

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Per capita, not total numbers. And CA is testing more people per day per capita. Also, AZ’s test positivity rate (14%) has spiked way above FL (4.3%) and CA (5.0%). By all measures AZ has an outbreak.

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AZ’s current test rate is still below its May peak.

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Meanwhile, Crenshaw is striving to prove how stupid he is… (from WaPo Livefeed)

I guess he doesn’t know what happens when you get to 100% of capacity…

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Xactly!

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You saw what I did there

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It’s a blue wind crossing Arizona these days. If the GOP doesn’t kill everyone off first.

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Don’t leave out Texas. We’re moving up fast. We’ll have 100,000 cases here by the end of next week. We’re up to over 89,000 now.

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Trump Trailers?

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I really hate these people who say those things - we can’t stop living [and we probably won’t so we don’t care how many of your grandparents do.]

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Thanks for the empathy

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Very sorry, didn’t mean to slight your state. :smiley:
For awhile VA was climbing, climbing, it’s slowed down, but I really don’t believe it will stay this way.

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I guess the summer heat being the magic that makes the virus disappear isn’t working out so well.

Maybe big arenas and stadiums filled with people who’ve signed liability waivers will do the trick.

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Yup. The GOP version of Snowpiercer, the movie.

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