DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 3, 2020
Trump Fires Author Of Report Critical Of The Federal Pandemic Response. You won’t inspect/If you don’t genuflect.
Oklahoma Yahoos Defy Order To Wear Masks. The mayor had to back down to protect workers who were being threatened. We’re getting closer to armed insurrection every day, and the President is pushing for it.
Rethug PPE Firm Failed To Deliver Any PPE, Gets Fired. Gee, you throw $12.5 mill at two R operatives who just started the firm in mid-March. What did you think was gonna happen? Fulfilling contracts is for suckers.
A Modern-Day Cassandra Peers Into Her Crystal Ball–And Finds Nothing Reassuring. A must-read. She knows her stuff, and she places it in context as well as anybody.
Tara Reade: No ‘There’ There? She now says she never filed a complaint, she canceled a Fox interview with Chris Wallace. I mean, at some point, you’ve got to bring something to the table. Survivor activists were not impressed with Biden’s statement.
Everything Falls Apart, Ctd. Global. US. The latest carnage: 1,133,069 confirmed cases and 66,385 deaths in the US. Even one Rethug southern governor is reconsidering his reopening of the state after a huge spike in cases. Cases are also spiking in Texas. And Georgia. Not to mention, the impact of these reopenings will not be reflected for up to three more weeks.
Brooklyn Federal Jail Officers Accused Of Destroying Medical Records. To hide the impact of the coronavirus.
‘Trump’s Lethal Plan To Reopen The Economy’. Robert Reich, once again speaking the truth.
What do you want to talk about?
dystopian
This post would have been unimaginable prior to the election of Trump.
Heather Cox Richardson gets to the heart of this trumped-up Tara Reade story (pun intended):
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-2-2020?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy
Hmmm… Cases spiking in Texas and Georgia, can Florida be far behind? This ain’t over, not even close. Will be surprised if the states moving towards opening up do not add many cases of infection to their rosters.
Yeah but Florida is not releasing death statistics. Who knows?
Most of Europe is beginning to reopen and ease restrictions.
Not here in France. Schools will reopen — school runs into July here — along with certain small businesses. Masks are mandatory. No restaurants, museums, concerts until further notice. Travel still restricted; can’t go more than 100 km without special clearance.
More people are going outside on nice days, same as America.
When did you move to France?
Been stuck here since early March. Was visiting when This Fucking Virus hit. Wife is high-risk, doctors say she shouldn’t travel.
I can think of worse places to be than France in the springtime.
Now imagine it with no restaurants, no museums and no walks in the park. It is convenient in that I can do all my food shopping within a block of the apartment.