Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

This really is a full service blog.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Come on, man.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update – Monday/Tuesday, April 27-28

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Key pullquote, IMO:

… Dr. Cahill’s primary asset is a young lifetime of connections through his investment firm. They include such billionaires as Peter Thiel, Jim Palotta and Michael Milken—financiers who afforded him the legitimacy to reach officials in the middle of the crisis. Dr. Cahill and his group have frequently advised Nick Ayers, Mr. Pence’s longtime aide, and agency heads through phone calls over the past month.

No one involved with the group stands to gain financially. They say they are motivated by the chance to add their own connections and levelheaded science to a coronavirus battle effort that has, on both state and federal levels, been strained…

Steve Pagliuca, co-owner of the Boston Celtics and the co-chairman of Bain Capital—as well as one of Dr. Cahill’s investors—helped copy edit drafts of their report, and he passed a version to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Chief Executive David Solomon. Mr. Solomon got it to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin…

Old proverb: You shake hands with any of these people, count your fingers afterwards.

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  1. 1.

    TriassicSands

             Apr. 27: 56,255 deaths     Mar. 27: 1,588 deaths     Feb. 27: 0 deaths

    Amazing! If only we had a time machine Trump would have been right — it would magically disappear.

    Super Genius Trump’s estimate to time of delivery of time machine?  — Soon. Very soon. He wants Dr. Birx to work on it.

  2. 2.

    terben

    Today’s bulletin from the Australian Dept of Health:

     
    ‘As at 3:00pm on 28 April 2020, there have been 6,731 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Australia. There have been 11 new cases since 3:00pm yesterday.
     
    Of the 6,731 confirmed cases in Australia, 84 have been reported to have died and 5,626 have been reported as recovered from COVID-19. More than 530,000 tests have been conducted across Australia.’
    Since the bulletin was issued, 4 more deaths have been reported. This brings the total to 88. There is an ongoing outbreak in a Sydney nursing home, where there have now been 11 deaths.

  3. 3.

    Amir Khalid

    The good news from Malaysia is that the daily recovered-cases count, 75, continues to exceed new diagnoses, and recovered cases as a percentage of total diagnosed is now at 68.9%. The case fatality rate is at about 2.4% and declining as more patients recover.

  4. 4.

    OzarkHillbilly

    “One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”

    Feb. 27: 0 deaths
    Mar. 27: 1,588 deaths
    Apr. 27: 56,255 deaths

  5. 5.

    Amir Khalid

    Ominous news via The Guardian‘s liveblog:

    Some children in the UK with no underlying health conditions have died from a rare inflammatory syndrome which researchers believe to be linked to Covid-19, the health secretary Matt Hancock said on Tuesday.

    Italian and British medical experts are investigating a possible link between the coronavirus pandemic and clusters of severe inflammatory disease among infants who are arriving in hospital with high fevers and swollen arteries.

    Doctors in northern Italy, one of the world’s hardest-hit areas during the pandemic, have reported extraordinarily large numbers of children under nine-years-old with severe cases of what appears to be Kawasaki disease, more common in parts of Asia.

    Hancock told LBC Radio:

    There are some children who have died who didn’t have underlying health conditions.

    It’s a new disease that we think may be caused by coronavirus and the Covid-19 virus.

    We’re not 100% sure because some of the people who got it hadn’t tested positive, so we’re doing a lot of research now but it is something that we’re worried about.

    Children were until now thought to be much less susceptible than their parents or grandparents to the most deadly complications wrought by the novel coronavirus, though the mysterious inflammatory disease noticed in Britain, Spain and Italy may demand a reassessment.

    “It is rare, although it is very significant for those children who do get it, the number of cases is small,” Hancock, one of the ministers leading Britain’s COVID-19 response, said.

    He did not give an exact figure for the number of deaths.

    Kawasaki disease, whose cause is unknown, is associated with fever, skin rashes, swelling of glands, and in severe cases, inflammation of arteries of the heart.

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    Cermet

    I note a lot of finger pointing against china alone; the graph that includes china’s denial of a problem. Yet where is the orange cloud of gas … I mean tRump’s denial and false claims for over a month that slowed any US response causing a far larger spread? And the testing issue is not focused at the very country that failed the biggest – the US! And an article meantions about chinese spreading false info (true) but what about the worlds largest such org – the fake news (aka fox) media empire of the mass murdering asswipe murdoch?!

  8. 8.

    Barbara

    Chicken pox parties are a bad idea but they don’t threaten other members of the family because most people over the age of 30 had the virus and are themselves immune. This is not a hard concept to grasp on the difference between COVID-19 and chicken pox.

  9. 9.

    New Deal democrat

    I posted a long article on the biochemistry of COVID-19’s attack on the body, based on medical research published so far, at my own blog yesterday. Here’s the link: link.

    The coronavirus attacks are concentrated at three places in the body with a high number of both the ACE-2 receptor and one other link; binds to an iron ion in hemoglobin, resulting in blood clots and interfering with the delivery of oxygen to the body, and attacks white blood cells themselves via bonding to a separate receptor, probably CD147, in some cases enough to disable the immune system.

  10. 10.

    Central Planning

    @New Deal democrat: FYI – I can’t read your site with my iPhone – tut text appears dark tan on a dark blue background, using Firefox and dark mode. I’ll try later in a laptop.

  13. 13.

    Ohio Mom

    New Deal Democrat: That was interesting — made a lot of what I’ve read over the past few months make more sense in that it ties a lot together. Thanks.

  15. 15.

    Mathguy

    Wow, so excited to see a 33 year old fin-tech douche bag that was born on third base come up with a COVID plan to turn it into a big payday for himself and his buddies. And breathlessly reported by the Murdock empire paper. Haven’t seen anything like that before.

  17. 17.

    TEL

    @New Deal democrat: Great summary! I’m going to link it on Facebook and send it to a couple of friends. It’s fascinating seeing the pieces start to form a picture even as early as the research is with Covid 19.

  18. 18.

    different-church-lady

    There’s a layer of Swiss cheese called “Federal government action”

    It doesn’t appear on that graphic because it no longer exists.

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