We can’t look at the pandemic now ravaging this country, without looking at the incompetence of this Administration. ProPublica is taking a look at…
Open Thread | This Administration’s Incompetence 😠😠
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Opinion | Covid-19 Brings Out All the Usual Zombies – The New York Times
The bottom line is that as with so many things Trump, the awfulness of the man in the White House isn’t the whole story behind terrible policy. Yes, he’s ignorant, incompetent, vindictive and utterly lacking in empathy. But his failures on pandemic policy owe as much to the nature of the movement he serves as they do to his personal inadequacies.
This Guy Says He Has 90 Million Masks—Just Pay Upfront – Gothamist
Would you believe a guy who says he has 90 million masks, but only if you have the money upfront?
— Read on gothamist.com/news/pssst-want-buy-90-million-protective-masks
Hope the Germans lock his butt up and Jordan confiscates the supply and uses it to support people who need the equipment!
Jamaica Has 30 Cases of COVID-19, Self-Quarantining, Testing And Other Issues: March 27

This evening’s online press conference produced some revealing information, and more food for thought. Here is an overview: Jamaica has four new …
Jamaica Has 30 Cases of COVID-19, Self-Quarantining, Testing And Other Issues: March 27
As US COVID-19 cases top 100,000, Trump clashes with governors | CIDRAP
Also, new studies highlight virus shedding and before-symptom transmission.
Source: As US COVID-19 cases top 100,000, Trump clashes with governors | CIDRAP
also:
A new website for the National COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Project, spearheaded by Arturo Casadevall, MD, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University, launched today.
The site attempts to coalesce information for providers and researchers on using blood plasma collected from recovered COVID-19 patients—rich in antibodies against COVID-19—to treat those currently ill. It will be tested on patients in New York City’s Mt. Sinai hospital, just 3 days after the Food and Drug Administration authorized the compassionate use of convalescent plasma.
Trump’s narcissism has taken a new twist. And now he has American blood on his hands | Jonathan Freedland | Opinion | The Guardian
The US president always was capricious and vengeful, but now that character flaw is a matter of life and death. State governors are crying out for federal help, not for themselves but for the people they represent: the nurses and doctors who need protective equipment and testing kits, the patients who need ventilators. But instead of leaping to their aid, Trump tells the governors it’s their responsibility, even though they have a fraction of the procurement power of the US government – adding that if they want help, they’d better grovel. “It’s a two-way street,” Trump said this week. “They have to treat us well.” Even when lives are on the line, his ego with its paper-thin skin comes first. Americans are paying the price for his lack of foresight, his closure of a pandemic task force for no better reason than it was established by Barack Obama – he hates anything with his predecessor’s name on it – and his failure to heed the warnings of a pandemic preparedness exercise, codenamed Crimson Contagion, that identified glaring gaps as recently as last October.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Ventilators!
via We Don’t Need No Stinking Ventilators!
1.3+ million people infected and the president does not think we need those ventilators because they are too expensive.
Think about that!
Remember those stories of death panels?
Looks like Donald of Orange is the head of those panels.
NEW REALITIES FROM SOMEONE VERY BLESSED – Jane Fonda
Okay, so let’s start with the superficial: My fingernails are getting so long I can hardly type. But they are acrylic and I can’t cut them. Ideas? I’m growing a beard. I’m caught up on “Better Things” (the best!) and “Homeland.” I’ve watched the 4 new episodes of the as- yet un-streamed “Grace & Frankie” and they’re hysterical. My hair needs cutting. Fortunately I’m all gray now so that part’s cool. I’m also super busy with the soon-to-be (this Friday) virtual Fire Drill Friday with Senator Markey. In case you’re interested, and I hope you are, here’s what we should support for the virus relief bailout. Please blast this out to your networks, and amplify on social media using #PeoplesBailout : Five Principles of Just COVID-19 Relief and Stimulus The COVID-19 pandemic demands swift and unprecedented action from the federal government. The depth of the crisis and the scope of the response mean that choices being made right now will shape our society for years, if not decades to come. As policymakers take steps to ensure immediate relief and long-term recovery, it is imperative that they consider the interrelated crises of wealth inequality, racism, and ecological decline, which were
Source: NEW REALITIES FROM SOMEONE VERY BLESSED – Jane Fonda
Opinion | An Open Letter to President Trump – The New York Times
The nation craves a plan, not hunches.
Step 1: First, you need to call for a 50-state sheltering-in-place/social-distancing program. While the experts differ on how long that national lockdown should be — two weeks, four weeks, eight weeks, whatever the C.D.C. recommends, I say — they virtually all agree that it is needed to manifestly slow the spread of the coronavirus, to prevent our hospitals from being overwhelmed and to buy us the critical time we need to collect the data required to inform all future decision-making.
Step 2: We use this period of lockdown to gather as much data as possible about who has the coronavirus, where they live, what their ages and degrees of illness are, what the mortality rate is at what ages, and what other ailments or immune deficiencies they may have.
Step 3: This data can then be the foundation of what Katz calls “the pivot.” Once we have slowed the transmission of the coronavirus nationally — and developed a stratified national risk map — we can then, on the basis of that data, said Katz, begin phasing people back into the workplace to get the economy humming again.
Coronavirus response highlights a divided policy approach between state and federal governments – Politics – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
“The Government has a responsibility to deal with this health emergency. That is the first priority. Then, it needs to deal with the economic consequences of the health emergency and the appropriate response. It needs to be done in that order.”
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