Surgeon General Jerome Adams said he anticipates that the rise in coronavirus cases next week will be “our Pearl Harbor moment” during Sunday morning interviews.
As of 1:30 PM ET, there are over 16k new cases and 873 new fatalities. Fatalities are now over 9k. Total cases are at 328k. This is somewhat remarkable b/c Sunday has typically been a slow reporting day in the US and around the world.
NY reported some drops from the night before but I think too much has been made of it. The reported hospitalizations are still higher than Friday night’s number (the then record) and so we need to see 4 to 5 days of data to discount reporting lags.
These numbers all vastly undercount the actual number of infected persons as well as the number of fatalities. Even CDC is admitting that.
Pearl Harbor.
With 70 days’ notice to prepare. And increasingly frantic warnings each day.
And nothing done to stop it.
Pearl Harbor? 9/11?
What’s on the horizon is the Battle of the Somme.
If this is our Pearl Harbor moment (and how dare they use that…) then trump* is a Kamikaze pilot.
And after pearl harbor fellow Americans viewed as the perps were demonized and sequestered in concentration camps. Do not doubt that Trump and the GOP plan messaging to make it so against the filthy liberal cities and their Democrat mismanagement that caused all of this.
“Surgeon General Jerome Adams said he anticipates that the rise in coronavirus cases next week will be ‘our Pearl Harbor moment’ during Sunday morning interviews.”
If Trump had been Commander-in-Chief on December 7, 1941:
“The Navy should’ve prepared better! Don’t expect ME to release bullets from the Strategic Reserve! Only commanders who show gratitude get call backs. California? Loser state – LET 'em get invaded!”
Gettysburg.
It’s going to be Pearl Harbor, except localized. Yep. This guy’s an idiot.
Something like 7,000-8,000 total dead, counting both sides of the battle. This week alone will likely exceed that total, and the week after that is going to be worse.
I would have said it’s more like the Battle of Skopje.
Samuil of Bulgaria relied on the high waters of the river of Vardar and did not take any serious precautions to secure the camp. Strangely the circumstances were the same as at the battle of Spercheios seven years earlier, and the scenario of the fight was similar. The Byzantines managed to find a fjord, crossed the river and attacked the heedless Bulgarians at night. Unable to resist effectively the Bulgarians soon retreated, leaving the camp and Samuil’s tent in the hands of the Byzantines. During this battle Samuil managed to escape and headed east.
The maddening part is we have numbers, but they are more likely telling the wrong picture, but we can’t really know in what way.
The data will always be incomplete.
Nate Silver had and interestingly thought exercise type article demonstrating this…
Trump: “I shall not return.”
And why didn’t Hawaii defend itself? Losers!!!
The thing about Pearl Harbor, as ugly as it was, things were just beginning.
The way Trump is playing this (as I see it right now) is to get through this week, and then we can begin to relax the “shelter in place.” It’ll be time to start talking about getting back to work.
I hope I’m wrong.
They are really, really, reaching for that ‘wartime president’ thing.
I would go with 'self-induced disaster non-leader’ - but that’s only based on evidence, not phrasing.
Who’s she?
nailed it
I remember that ‘day that will live in infamy’ speech from classroom films. I don’t remember the part where FDR said he wasn’t responsible and nothing was his fault and his praising himself - but I’m sure it was in there.
I would not take NYC drops seriously until it’s a consistent downward trend for maybe even as long as a week.
But that’s just me.
We’re still not testing properly here in Wisconsin - still only at six confirmed cases in my county, which is technically suburban Twin Cities. I’m not sure it’s possible, since many of the people here in Hudson work across the river.