I am puzzled by why a British firm prepared modeling for the possible epidemic pathway in the US then sent it in unsolicited. Was no one in the US doing this work??
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Meanwhile Mnuchin is going to brief Senate Republicans later today on a proposed $850 million stimulus package. It reportedly cuts the payroll tax, gives airlines $50 billion, etc, etc. They hope to pass a Senate bill by the end of the week - no word on if this means the Pelosi agreement is DOA in favor of corporate handouts and tax cuts.
In Forbes, an article reports a ventilator manufacturer can increase production by a factor of five - but they have not been contacted by the trump administration:
The only good news so far today - according to Acosta on CNN, Joe Biden started receiving Secret Service protection today.
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For some reason it’s always the democratic governors who get failing grades from The Apprentice game show host.
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He’s a vindictive ignoramus, or as I like to call him, the Orange Shitdemon. He’ll change course on the con to make the sell, but it’s still and always the con.
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The report … was put together by a team of epidemiologists at Imperial College London
Wait, you can do that? Have a prepared team of epidemiologists? Why didn’t we do that?
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Maybe, as long as the people who died aren’t anyone they knew.
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President Trump’s surprisingly sober press conference on Monday was reportedly sparked by a British study suggesting that the U.S. could face 2.2 million fatalities if the coronavirus epidemic goes unabated.
Total BS.
The alarming report that Trumpp paid attention to was that the DJI index dropped 3000 points the first trading day after Trumpp was bragging about causing a 2000-point rise.
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Read it, they were modelling both the U.S. and Britain in order to make conclusions about Britain. Always good to have some comparison in your data models to see if things behave as expected or if something is off.
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Trump also gets the sads when the stock market tanks. That made him somber, too.
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And with those numbers, it’s time to get offline again.
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This is why they’ve been having top secret meetings. They were keeping the numbers under wrap. The UK told them that the report would be released publically.
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Because this report has an English accent, and as we all know, anything said with an English accent is taken much more seriously - or something to that effect.
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Also why you should believe Trump’s statement yesterday about July-August as the earliest “return to normal” date, and not Fauci’s “two weeks, and re-evaluate”.
Absolutely positive that Trump accidentally blurted out what he had been told in private. The two weeks is designed to minimize panic.
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The usual funeral home formula for memorial cards for the Departed is 250 people. I’m pretty sure every survivor will know a few who passed on, and ten times more people who somehow survived.
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Movie villains with English accents also seem more dangerous — means they’re smart as well as evil!
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Even if Trump now somehow pivots to a more presidential mode, he should never be forgiven for causing the testing delays to protect his ego and reelection chances.
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“They” as in the Republicans? Or the Democrats?
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Erudite, even.
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That does fit the pattern.
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I always found that to be true.
Anyone else struck by trump’s answer to what his test was like? He seemed to be scrambling for a a way to describe it, almost like he had no idea what the test entailed. Was his negative test result submitted by a medical professional - I thought I remember it being generically submitted, like no doctor would put his name to it.
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