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March 28, 2020 07:14 AM UTC

Weekend Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“Endurance is patience concentrated.”

–Thomas Carlyle

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  3. I wasn't certain it could be done, but there is a chance that someone in the House Republican caucus is even more dogmatic and a bigger barrier to accomplishment than Rep. Buck.

    Thomas Massie is a monster Republicans created

    Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), in purely symbolic opposition to the $2.2 trillion emergency coronavirus legislation, forced hundreds of his colleagues to risk their lives — literally — by flying back to Washington …

    Massie, a believer in the “deep state” conspiracy, is a product of the tea party, a protege of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and a collaborator with outgoing Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), who is becoming Trump’s chief of staff, when they tried to oust then-Speaker John Boehner. “I’m ready to be unpopular,” Massie said after his 2012 election, …

    With luck, Massie’s ugly spectacle, and the exploding public health and economic crises, will cause Republicans to see the limits of their corrosive message that government is the enemy.

    1. Massie is just another orc. They are drawn to Sauron like flies to carrion.

      Seriously though,

      The crime syndicate that is todays' GOP found its first family and its leader. T***p came along and showed the Bush/Cheney organization how it is done. The criminal element of the Republican party, which appears to most of what remains, is preparing to give Milton Friedman his Free Market United States…if we can remain united. 

      The Divider-in-Chief is driving us toward civil war over the Coronavirus epidemic. If the Federal government will not protect the people, the states will do so, but by their own design. This could get really, really ugly…all to T***ps' benefit. He has already openly discriminated against Blue State governors "who don't talk nice to me", as he put it. Expect more of the same, only worse.

      Saurons' Darkness is drawing together orcs, ogres, demons, the Nazgul…

      and speaking of Gollum…where the fuck is Rudy?

  4. Buckle up.  Any idiot who is subscribing to the Easter – American Resurrection might just be a candidate for the Darwin Award.  Yesterday China, without warning, shuttered its nation's 70,000 movie theaters and there is speculation they're on the cusp of a 'second wave'.  

    China reports deeply disturbing coronavirus development

    China’s reduction in cases of COVID-19 has been applauded the world over, as proof that there is light at the end of the lockdown tunnel.

    However, new research has shown that there could be a second wave of infections looming.

    As many as 14 per cent of recovered coronavirus patients in China have tested positive again, according to medical experts.

    Research showed that between three to 14 per cent of patients were diagnosed with the coronavirus, after already being given the all-clear.

    At one hospital in Wuhan, doctors found that five of the 147 patients in a study tested positive again after recovery, Wang Wei, director of the city’s Tongji Hospital, told the state broadcaster CCTV yesterday.

     

        1. Yes it is.  It’s a Grateful Dead cover . . .

          . . . the lead singer is a friend/acquaintance.  The band is out of the San Antonio/Austin area.

          Take a look here:

          https://m.facebook.com/12amriverchoir/

          Another good friend, Myles Smith (Poor J Brown) along with, Eric Middleton (from Midnight River Choir)  + 1

          Scroll down a bit to the video livestream from last night in Myles’s garage.  (You will have to toggle the video over to about minute 42:00 to get to where they start playing.)  Myles told me they had “some technical difficulty, and we got a little drunk and talked too much, but some good tunes too.”

          I told  Myles that being a little drunk right now was probably pretty relatable . . .

  5. Captain Fat Fuck, Leader of Nations tweeted today that he's considering quarantining New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The rest of the country can expect an influx of infected folk from those areas, along the lines of what happened in Italy and China when quarantines were announced.

    There truly are no words to describe Trump's stupidity adequately.

  6. Yesterday, buried in the fire hose of shit we're experiencing were perhaps the most evil comments ever uttered by a US President.  During the press conference he said that he would not call the governors of Michigan and Washington because they haven't been grateful enough to praise the actions that he has taken for them.  Let that sink in.  He was saying that he would not help the millions of Americans in those states because their governors did not lavish enough praise on him personally.  He is threatening the lives of millions Americans as a result. 

    Isn't it time to revoke Godwin's Law and begin comparing him to Hitler?  Given the chance, would you have coughed in Hitler's face?  Trump's face?

    1. Godwin's Law is gone as far as I'm concerned. Trump is a malignant narcissist, a sociopath or psychopath, and a sadist. We need to understand the full functioning of his very disturbed mind, AND we need to understand that people with his mental illnesses go downhill under stress, and they never go down alone. 

  7. Colorado Case Summary (Updated 3/28/20 at 4:00 p.m.) 
    Note: This summary only includes data through 3/27 and does not reflect cases since then.  

    2,061 cases*
    274 hospitalized
    44 counties
    13,276 people tested
    44 deaths 
    10 outbreaks at residential and non-hospital health care facilities

    *Cases include people who had a positive lab test positive and cases that public health identified and determined were likely to have COVID-19 because of their symptoms and close contact with someone who tested positive. The number of untested cases included in the total case count is a very small portion of the total cases reported. 

    https://covid19.colorado.gov/case-data

     

    State by state breakdown of cases and deaths at:

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html?

    Colorado Counties:

    El Paso -10
    Weld – 7
    Denver -5
    Jefferson – 5
    Larimer – 3
    Arapahoe – 3
    Pitkin – 2
    Eagle – 2
    Teller, Pueblo, Gunnison, Crowley, Boulder, Chaffee – 1

     
     

     

      1. Besides the too-easy smarming answers?

        I suspect it may have something to do with the issues and situations unique to the military?  Lot’s of mobility to and from around the country and the world, and possibly the difficulties with “stay at home” and “social distancing” in their work environs? And then, those impacts transferring into the entire community?

        I don’t know how the number/percentage of the at-risk (elderly, retirees, etc.) in EpCo compares to other Colorado counties?

        Or, it could be Dave Williams and Chappy?

        ———————-

        PS — I looked on an EpCo covid site, the reports are all more than a week old, but apparently there were a significant number of early cases related to a Bridge Center (where folks had been playing cards) and one senior-care/rest-home facility.

        1. Beyond the senior-care/rest-home and the older woman who apparently was infected and went to a bridge tournament, I think one difference is the timing of government imposed restrictions. 

          Going to the El Paso County Health site, I can't find anything showing independent action beyond "warnings" and announcements of deaths or executive orders from the Governor.  So apparently, restaurants and bars stayed open longer, churches continued to meet, people kept going to stores, etc. 

  8. Eugene Robinson just used the word the OD fears more than any other…

    irrelevant

    The "Task Force" is making  the Pedo Anaranjado look bad. They are getting it done, albeit at a snails pace, while he blathers and dithers. They are exposing him as more a part of the problem than the solution. I believe he is withholdimg  supplies for when the "red states" need them.

    T***p will not appreciate that sentiment. They have tried to make him "look more presidential" before. It didn't work then…it won't work now. 

     

  10. They’ve announced the second COVID-positive case in Yuma County and an elderly Wray resident who recently moved to Greeley is in ICU with COVID and isn’t going to make it. A friend just found this quarantine directive for Yuma County for the 1918 pandemic: 

    2. Most of those quarantine rules could have been written yesterday. The only provisions we haven’t used are the placard announcing that people in the house are sick, removing chairs from hotel lobbies, and the “no loafing in barbershops” rule.

      My favorite Casa de Tamales now only allows 5 customers in the business at a time.

    4. December 18, 1918 …. which is definitely at the end of the second wave of the epidemic in the United States. 

      Better late than never, I suppose.

  11. Things that make you go, “Huh?” (j/k we all now what’s going on here)

    Today’s message from Chairman Cedric Cromwell Qaqeemasq (Running Bear) puts it all in context 

    A riddle in New England: The web of ties behind Donald Trump’s tweet about a Mashpee tribe bill

    Presidents don’t usually get involved in local tiffs over a planned 900-room casino hotel. And even though this president has a four-decade record of slamming American Indian casinos as scams that pose unfair competition to other gambling enterprises, notably his own, Trump’s decision to weigh in on a measure that had strong bipartisan support seemed unusual for a chief executive who doesn’t like to be bothered with the little stuff.

    [r]eveals a sprawling network of Trump-related interests, from the National Enquirer to a Rhode Island casino company – a small but strikingly intricate example of the ways this president’s business dealings, personal bonds and political alliances can complicate and color the ordinary doings of government.

    In 1993, concerned about competition from the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut, Trump urged a House committee on native affairs to investigate whether members of the tribe that operates that resort were really Native Americans.

    “They don’t look like Indians to me,” Trump said. In an earlier interview, he opined that “I might have more Indian blood than a lot of the so-called Indians that are trying to open up the reservations” to gambling.

     

    2. I think Sen. Warren ought to recommend an investigation of that Native American blood claim.  And has he claimed any advantages due to his indigenous background?

      1. You are assuming that deaths double every 3 days.

        What if deaths double every 2 days in red states and every 7 days in blue states?

        I think Jared Polis should invite the Republican Party leaders into his office with pad and pencil to see if they can calculate exponential growth. Or maybe not; let them twist in the wind until mathematics comes and kicks them in the butt.

        Buh-bye Governors DeSantis, Abbott, and Kemp.

      2. A handy rule-of-thumb is the “Rule of 72”.

        That says to divide 72 by the % change from one day to the next to find the number of days until you double.

        So, 24% growth rate in deaths from one day to the next implies doubling every three days.

        One problem with COVID statistics is that they have reduced testing to the point where 15% of tests show positive. If they were testing more extensively, the percent would be 10% or lower. In this situation deaths are a better indicator of virus spread, although it lags the actual number of cases by a week or so.

        When Fauci mentions 100,000 deaths, he is misleading us. We’ll get to 100,000 in 6.6×3=20 days, i.e. by April 18th, and MadCo’s 1 Million ten days later. I’m sure Fauci knows this.

    2. WOTD from Brad DeLong: "Cases and Deaths from Coronavirus Doubling Every Three Days Is Very Bad News Indeed"

      I confess I am positively unmanned by the every-three-days doubling of reported cases and deaths here in the United States. I had thought that we would see true cases doubling every seven days. And back when reported cases started doubling every three days, I was encouraged, because I thought it meant that we were catching up on testing, and so getting closer to detecting the bulk of the symptomatic cases. 

      But now it looks like that was wrong: reported cases were doubling every three days because true cases were doubling every three days—that is what deaths tell us was happening to true cases up until three weeks ago. The lack of case curve-bending makes me think that testing is not improving. It makes me think that reported cases are doubling every three days because true cases are doubling every three days.

  17. Well, it looks like Ttumper the Resurrection Bunny has now decided hunched not to pass out any of those Cadbury eggs* . . .

    . . . I dunno’, probably gonna’ sell ‘em out the back door? Reporters should really be looking into this . . .

    . . . it’s gonna’ be the yugest May Day parade, evah!!!! Get raring, America!!!!

    (* subject to final approval by the deciderers at FOX, Hannity, Carlson, et al)

  18. I'm avoiding any Trump show and tell session …. but then read about it and rattle my brain.   The following description from James Fallow, The Atlantic:

    At his rally/press conference this evening, March 29, Donald Trump effectively said that doctors and hospitals in New York are selling masks “out the back door,” accounting for current shortages.

    You can see it for yourself here, on this C-Span video, starting at time 12:00. Trump notes the shortage of masks and says:

    Something’s going on. And you ought to look at it as reporters.

    Where are the masks going? Are they going out the back door?

    Perhaps the germophobe Trump has never been around a hospital? Or he has been, but didn’t notice what the doctors, nurses and techs were doing while he was there?

    1. J I D , it’s hard to watch our obviously unprepared President waffle and wander and try to put on compassion and caring like an ill-fitting suit. And one never knows whether to believe anything he says. And almost every one of the experts he calls up to talk about tests and ventilators apparently feels compelled to praise Trump’s “leadership”. 
       

      However, it’s always informative to watch Dr. Fauci cautiously correct $rump’s mistakes “ The Easter goal was “aspirational” and we should stay at home until at least April 30”, and above all, to watch the great Yamiche Alcindor get under Trump’s skin with her pointed and persistent questions. #WeLoveYamiche

       

       

      1. I hope we will see more members of the 4th estate get into the fantasy world of  Americas’ Greatest Douchebag and stir it up. I asked a question last week, and I will ask again…How many people will die because of the words…”Oh, its just the flu.” ? 

        This nation cannot survive the chaos and dysfunction that is the Orange ship of state. Our democracy is slipping away in the maelstrom of mendacity that is the modus operandi of the T***p administration. No one is safe, save those willing to dwell in that chaotic world with their lips firmly planted on Donald T***ps’ ass. If we are to prevail, we will need an army of Yamiches bearing down on the culture of corruption that is the T*** p family and its assigns.

        He must be defeated.

         

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