On Friday 13 Mar 2020, Greg Mankiw entered in his blog 7 key policy suggestions on the economic situation and the current Coronavirus pandemic. All …
Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, and the 2020 Novel Coronavirus Pandemic
Monthly Archives: March 2020
News From Iraq

Sadly we have people still fighting and dying in Iraq and the MSM has little time to cover the situation which is getting worse by the month. First …
News From Iraq
Open Thread | The Complete Corruption and Incompetence of the Republican Party
The corruption of the Republican Party is obvious and disgusting 😠😠 In the middle of a PANDEMIC 😠😠😠 To clarify, one of Inhofe’s stock trades, …
Open Thread | The Complete Corruption and Incompetence of the Republican Party
I have helped control health epidemics for 25 years. There is a way to stop coronavirus | Kamalini Lokuge | Opinion | The Guardian
Australia can stop coronavirus before it becomes as widespread as it is in Europe
— Read on www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/20/i-have-helped-control-health-epidemics-for-25-years-there-is-a-way-to-stop-coronavirus
Coronavirus: Hong Kong faces resurgence of imported and community-spread infections as it confirms 16 new cases | South China Morning Post
Health authorities will investigate the possible spread in the bars, restaurants and gyms of Lan Kwai Fong as at least five recently diagnosed patients have been linked to the nightlife area.
— Read on www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/3075947/coronavirus-hong-kong-confirms-16-new-cases-health-officials-probe
U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 116th Congress – 2nd Session
: To provide Americans with paid sick time and paid leave so that they can address their own health needs and the health needs of their families.
Source: U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 116th Congress – 2nd Session
GOP voting no:
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blackburn (R-TN)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Braun (R-IN)
Burr (R-NC)
Capito (R-WV)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Collins (R-ME)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cotton (R-AR)
Cramer (R-ND)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Daines (R-MT)
Enzi (R-WY)
Ernst (R-IA)
Fischer (R-NE)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hawley (R-MO)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kennedy (R-LA)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
Loeffler (R-GA)
McConnell (R-KY)
McSally (R-AZ)
Moran (R-KS)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Paul (R-KY)
Perdue (R-GA)
Portman (R-OH)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Romney (R-UT)
Rounds (R-SD)
Rubio (R-FL)
Sasse (R-NE)
Scott (R-SC)
Shelby (R-AL)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Thune (R-SD)
Tillis (R-NC)
Toomey (R-PA)
Wicker (R-MS)
Young (R-IN)
Scott (R-FL)
A Congressman Skipped the Coronavirus Relief Vote. Instead, He Went Home to Tell Senior Citizens to Blame Mass Media. — ProPublica
Rep. Don Young of Alaska isn’t the only politician to downplay the threat of coronavirus, in direct contrast with his state government’s public efforts. He may be the only one to do so at a gathering of senior citizens, though.
92 Years Old, Scared and Pleading to Come Home

A family grapples with a wrenching coronavirus question: Do we leave our father in the nursing home?
Opinion | 3 Rules for the Trump Pandemic – The New York Times
The details of our failure are complex, but they all flow ultimately from Trump’s minimization of the threat: He was asserting that Covid-19 was no worse than the flu just last week (although true to form, he’s now claiming to have known all along that a pandemic was coming). Why did Trump and his team deny and delay? All the evidence suggests that he didn’t want to do or say anything that might drive down stock prices, which he seems to regard as the key measure of his success. That’s presumably why as late as Feb. 25 Larry Kudlow, the administration’s chief economist, declared that the U.S. had “contained” the coronavirus, and that the economy was “holding up nicely.”
Twitter to remove harmful fake news about coronavirus
Why are they always so far behind!

Site changes rules to ban content aimed at making people act against official advice
Twitter will remove tweets that run the risk of causing harm by spreading dangerous misinformation about Covid-19, the company has said, after weeks of criticism that its policies on misinformation were too lax.
Now, the social network says, it will be applying a new broader definition of harm to address content that “goes directly against guidance from authoritative sources of global and local public health information”.
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