Coronavirus: steepest daily case count rise as more than 100,000 diagnosed. More than 100,000 cases were diagnosed on Friday, a 27 per cent increase in 24 hours, the steepest rise in cases by some margin in a single day. For live updates, visit https://t.co/cFECoOSxyY pic.twitter.com/QVl0TkcVPw
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) April 4, 2020
Coronavirus update:
– 1.12 million cases worldwide
– 60,154 fatalities
– 35,939 in serious/critical condition
– 238,732 recovered
– Nearly all countries reporting cases
– Currently most affected: USA, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Iran— BNO Newsroom (@BNODesk) April 4, 2020
Correction: Total confirmed coronavirus cases in Spain rise to 124,736, surpassing Italy https://t.co/ObAdUnTfZZ
— Bloomberg (@business) April 4, 2020
The CARES Act: A Down Payment on Global #COVID19 Response Efforts? https://t.co/i37v3mnoyp
— Amanda Glassman (@glassmanamanda) April 3, 2020
Singapore — which has had one of the earliest and best responses of any country — is going back into lockdown https://t.co/U0GMoKhDEZ
— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) April 3, 2020
This is terrifying for several reasons. First, it’s hot and humid in Singapore so if they are seeing an uptick, this doesn’t bode well for our summer. Second, Singapore has an extensive test and trace program. If that doesn’t work in a compact *city-state*, will it in the US? https://t.co/wju7DCd4b4
— Vipin Narang (@NarangVipin) April 3, 2020
South Korea extends intensive social distancing to reach 50 daily coronavirus cases https://t.co/PDD9Mrkeiq pic.twitter.com/4K5sYmzu4D
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 4, 2020
Indonesia's coronavirus infections top 2,000: health official https://t.co/BSItXFnaTW pic.twitter.com/wn3FKegdDc
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 4, 2020
Thailand reports 89 new coronavirus cases, one more death https://t.co/cXvIRZBmkt pic.twitter.com/NIfdTxhCQX
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 4, 2020
Some potentially hopeful news out of Europe, though…
Reproduction number of #covid19 in Germany has been at roughly 1 for a few days and that seems to be stabilizing, says @rki_de head Lothar Wieler (at about 15.15 minutes). “But we have to get below 1. So we hope that we will succed in the next few days.” https://t.co/CzzXj7eQuz
— Kai Kupferschmidt (@kakape) April 3, 2020
#BREAKING Spain says coronavirus deaths down for second straight day at 809 pic.twitter.com/evAcV23t90
— AFP news agency (@AFP) April 4, 2020
NEW: France reports 5,233 new cases of coronavirus and 1,120 additional deaths, including 532 people who died in nursing homes and were previously not counted https://t.co/ACTvkkQ0g2
— BNO Newsroom (@BNODesk) April 3, 2020
Protecting our citizens is our main priority.
We are working flat out on containing the spread of the #coronavirus and helping patients.All video updates by President @vonderleyen on EU response to coronavirus in our Twitter moment. Click here ↓https://t.co/2YjQPhdDuL
— European Commission ?? (@EU_Commission) April 4, 2020
.@KGeorgieva: The IMF has a $1 trillion war chest and we are determined to use as much as necessary in that protecting the economy from the scarring of this crisis. https://t.co/7AKYvg1s2X #COVID19 #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/ypZNcwHC1M
— IMF (@IMFNews) April 4, 2020
Nigeria's elite are trapped by coronavirus and now exposed to the squalid hospitals they could previously avoid https://t.co/6dYE7e361E
— Bloomberg (@business) April 4, 2020
“They’re like, ‘Mum, how come we don’t have anywhere to isolate?’” she said. “‘What’s going to happen to us in lockdown?’ I said, ‘Mummy is going to do her best to get us a home.’” https://t.co/PRiTy5S030
— Luke Henriques-Gomes (@lukehgomes) April 4, 2020
They will start granting various national security exceptions to the sanctions, many of which were set by Congress and can't just be lifted by Trump. In that regard, this "aid shipment" is a Trojan horse to establish such runarounds.
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) April 3, 2020
I mentioned the other day that the stuff we track was seeing a Covid-19 activity surge very similar to the MH17 surge. Lots of new/newly reactivated accounts, lots of targeting journalists. https://t.co/wlApViqUtu
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) April 3, 2020
Bolsonaro is now, I think it’s fair to say, handling this as badly or worse than any other world leader. https://t.co/HLQ3cQSxRX
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) April 3, 2020
A British serviceperson has become the first confirmed case of #coronavirus in the Falkland Islands https://t.co/Kc4Xipt2Rh
— Sky News (@SkyNews) April 4, 2020
A little bit of good news: The number of people who have recovered from coronavirus has reached at least 200,000 https://t.co/ACTvkkQ0g2
— BNO Newsroom (@BNODesk) April 2, 2020
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
The Evansville METS city bus system is now limiting buses to 9 passengers + driver.
They’ll stop and tell you why you can’t board if 9 people are already riding.
I’ll be a hardship as I don’t have a car, but it’s good that they’re taking this seriously.
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
Duh..I didn’t notice the “International” in the title and thought WP ate my first post.
Oops. ?
Ohio Mom
Darrin: I’m guessing that depending on where a rider lives, they might not ever be able to board a bus. At least he drivers are getting to keep their jobs and pay.
Ten Bears
Not too far off topic, but a question for vote for mail advocates (I’ve been voting by mail in Oregon for years, though it has been my habit to deliver the ballot to the big steel box at the county clerk’s office):
By all accounts our constitutionally mandated Postal Service will breathe its last breath sometime in June. How are you going to mail all those ballots if there’s no postal service?
What else are they getting away with?
OzarkHillbilly
@Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman): Heh, FAKED YOU! FYWP fucks us in more ways than one.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Bank of America has revealed the game on PPP SBA money through sheer thuggery. Rather than simply limiting processing services to existing customers (irritating, yet rational), it has had a policy of limiting processing to existing business customers with open lines of credit at BoA. This helps guarantee continued payment of obligations to them.
Also, they managed to devour 22B of the 350B pot with about 85000 applications – a monstrous burn rate, and I’m wondering just how many recipients are subsidiaries of larger organizations.
WereBear
So Trump is stockpiling medical supplies to broker deals with other countries and letting US citizens die.
Yeah, that makes Current Twisted Republican sense.
And a shoutout to central casting for this dystopian movie we’re in: the deranged tyrant (Trump) and Wormtongue (Kushner) role are incredibly done. Looks like this series will get a renewal!
JPL
@Ten Bears: trump is gonna vote by mail.
YY_Sima Qian
After two weeks in the hospital, and further two weeks of self-imposed quarantine, I am finally home today. I have not seen my 13 months old daughter for a month, other than video chats. She has grown so much, especially mentally! When I went to the hospital, she was a big baby, now she is a little kid.
Today is Tomb Sweeping Festival in China (and the Chinese cultural-sphere). Normally the cemeteries would be packed with mourners. Today, the Chinese government is restricting access to cemeteries, limited reservation only. The purpose is two fold: to prevent overcrowding, and to prevent social unrest from the grieving families, especially in Wuhan. As I was transferring from one residential compound to another, there are a austerity a few more neighborhood committee workers and community volunteers manning the entrances, questioning everyone, probably to make sure we are not going to cemeteries without reservations.
The entire country also stopped at 10 AM, for three minutes of silence to mourn those who died from the epidemic, with sirens and horns blaring. With the restricted activities for this Tomb Sweeping Festival, the CCP regime wanted an outlet for the population’s anguish and grief, and shift them away from the regime itself. Of course, one could argue that channeling national grief is one of the jobs of national leadership.
Richard Guhl
The official death toll underestimates the actual total. Anecdotal evidence out of Wuhan says the number of cremations performed far exceeds the official number. Newspapers in Italy and Spain have detected excess deaths beyond those listed as caused by COVID-19.
Were they all COVID deaths?
Probably not. Many were likely due to other causes of patients who couldn’t get the treatment they otherwise would have.
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
@Ohio Mom:
Correct.
Like I said, it will be a hardship for people like me who depend on the bus, but it’s certainly one I can live with.
The bus system in Indianapolis not only limits the number of riders, you have to enter/exit using the rear door and eliminated fares for the duration so there’s no close interaction with the driver.
JPL
Last nights moves by trump assures him access to the 500 billion and oversight of the entire package. Glenn Fine was pushed aside at DOJ also.
OzarkHillbilly
@YY_Sima Qian: Welcome home.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Andy Beshear is speaking bluntly about the economy needing to be rebuilt (as opposed to just a restoration of the old status quo, back to normal thing). Are America’s hyperbolically greedy, needy, demanding conservative olds up to that challenge? Can they put aside whining about bootstraps, their fixed incomes, property tax munnies, COLA adjustments and lazy welfare moochers long enough to do some repayment to all the younger people who have sacrificed their livelihoods, mental health and economic futures for them?
I have my doubts, and want to slap the tapioca spoon out of many a grannie’s hand, given what my Facebook feed is revealing.
JPL
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I take offense at that and I don’t care for tapioca.
Barbara
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Let me guess: hysteria at the notion the youngs might be given some kind of priority in access to ventilators.
Barbara
@YY_Sima Qian: Wow — how wonderful that you are home. Best wishes to your whole family and thanks again for your valuable updates.
OzarkHillbilly
@JPL: The tapioca reference was too much for you? ;-)
bemused
I’ve been looking at the free patterns to make face masks. The no sew face mask video using a hankie or bandanna was clever. The masks using elastic hair ties to hook on your ears did not look comfortable and then I thought of the fold over ribbon that I have used to make hair ties. I have a lot of the fold over ribbon and a couple of souvenir bandannas to experiment.
OzarkHillbilly
How does that work? With fishhooks? That would be uncomfortable!
La Nonna
Luckily here in Italy, we honor our elders, devastated that they have for the most part borne the brunt of the covid-19 pandemic, and are doing the best we can to avoid spreading the virus. Note that most retirees in our part of Puglia live reasonably on 800 eu per month…sure, no extravagant homes, no expensive travel, lots of raising our own food and helping out with childcare. Get off whatever FB feed, someone sounds like a spoiled brat.
Barbara
@Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman): Bicycles could be a good alternative, obviously not for everyone.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Barbara:
As Hans Landa would say, “that’s a BINGO!”
Well, just one of them, anyway. There’s also a great deal of smug fuckery about large cities, undocumented aliens, savings rates, welfare and tax munnies, all from people who’ve never sacrificed Jack shit for anybody.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@La Nonna:
You need to familiarize yourself with the wisdom and bleating of homo geriatricus americanus. It is a shocker.
Barbara
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I keep saying this but it’s true — if you need a ventilator, the older you are the less likely you are to survive the experience. Once you need it, the outlook is grim. Everyone should focus on PPE because that is how you contain the spread.
satby
@YY_Sima Qian: Glad you’re finally home with your daughter, have you heard from your parents? I hope they’re ok.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily numbers. Daily new cases back down to 150 after two days of 200+ numbers. Four more deaths, total 57.
bemused
@OzarkHillbilly:
Ha, I thought I had caught and corrected that quickly but not much gets by you!
leeleeFL
I need to say this in the Company of people I trust. When we come out on the other side of this mess, I hope we have not lost 200,000 or more fellow Citizens. I hope tRump and his unRoyal vermin are pariahs even among their own, and that our Democracy is restored to its original, imperfect genesis so we can actually build on it instead of excavate to rebuild.
I find myself in quiet reflection quite often lately as I have been furloughed and was off any way cause DeSantis asked us Olds to stay home last week. My Daughter is still working, so I am with a sleeping 12 year old many times. Trying for some reason to fix my home in a more art/craft usable configuration. Honestly, it feels little like those deck chairs on the Titanic….but I am ever an optimist. This time makes me think I may not work so much when it’s over. More time for creativity sounds better every minute.
OT, is there a source for transcripts of the WH pressers? I will no longer listen to that venal criminal. BTW-as a born Brooklyn-ite, I beg you not to call him a Mafia Mob-Boss wannabe. Those ppl had class, comparatively.
Thanks for listening
OzarkHillbilly
@bemused: Nananananaaaa….
Geminid
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Governor Beshear is so right about rebuilding the economy in a new way. I am guardedly optimistic that there will be a new administration and congress next year that will pass a smart Green New Deal. Clean power, a smart grid, and energy conservation on a large scale can be potent generators of jobs and economic growth. The technologies for clean power and a smart grid are already here and can be scaled up. Americorps is still around; it can be expanded quickly and we can put people to work weatherproofing every poor family’s home in America, and upgrade plumbing and put solar panels on roofs. These are job skills that will be in demand once the private economy grows.
YY_Sima Qian
@satby: I call them every couple of days. They live in the outskirts of a small town a couple of hours from the nearest decent sized city. Very low population density, and their compound is pretty open. Why few pedestrians out. (Not a pedestrian or cyclist friendly area.) The Walmart in the area is pretty deserted most of the time. They only venture out once a week for grocery, and always wear hats and gloves, and now masks, and use the self-checkout station. They also have enough non-perishable food to last three to four weeks if they need to stay inside for that long. They are saving the supplies for the peak of the epidemic.
YY_Sima Qian
@Barbara: Thank you for the kind thoughts! Honestly, I thought living in Wuhan through the epidemic would give me all kinds of unique stories to tell. Unfortunately, it will not be unique at all, and not even the worst experience…
YY_Sima Qian
@OzarkHillbilly: Thank you!
bjacques
Here in NL, we seem to be turning the corner, though bars, cafes, restaurants and event venues are still closed through April 28, day after Kingsday, the national car boot sale and pissup, and after that, we’ll see.
Government health ministry linky is PDF and in Dutch, but those graphs paint an encouraging enough picture
https://www.rivm.nl/sites/default/files/2020-04/COVID-19_WebSite_rapport_20200404_1004_0.pdf
Fair Economist
@Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman): The solution to limited passengers per bus is to run more buses. Cheap compared to bailing out the airlines.
Robert Sneddon
@Fair Economist: All they need is a supply of extra bus drivers willing to risk their health and their lives coming into contact with possible COVID-19 sufferers rather than sheltering at home.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
This guy was stupid enough to believe this? Did he not notice the virus is spreading in countries in the southern hemisphere, were it is literally summer right now? The fraking source of the “summer stops virus” myth is Donald Dumass himself.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Having talked to Africans on line I am going to bet right now these rich Nigerians are telling themselves this is all America’s fault, because America didn’t stop the virus, so they can’t just jet off on a private plane to an American hospital now when they get sick.
evodevo
@Ten Bears: Well, I work at the PO and unless they come after us with an actual axe, we will still be delivering…
Another Scott
@leeleeFL:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/
HTH!
Cheers,
Scott.
Emma
Re: the Joe Wiesenthal tweet, it’s not a lockdown, it’s a stay-home order a la Washington and California. The essential services apparently include hairdressers, but only for hair-cutting *face-palm* The government certainly has the capability to do an actual lockdown, though.