Lead story on the nightly news:
Trump finally put on a mask. Dear nutty right-wing people: It's okay now for you to do it too.
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) July 11, 2020
Day late, 130,000 short https://t.co/ZwQAXmF5RG
— Greg Pinelo (@gregpinelo) July 11, 2020
I frankly suspect his handlers dragged him to Walter Reed for an up-close-and-personal view of just what those ‘not so bad’ coronavirus victims are actually going through. Trump’s incapable of visualizing anything not Donald Trump, but seeing just how unflattering the full ‘hooked up to machinery’ look really is…
Also, while he couldn’t give a damn about the virus punishing his Base — pawns are fungible — signups for the ‘postponed’ Portsmouth rally might just have scared him into believing that if he didn’t start modelling mask-wearing, people wouldn’t show up for him any more. And then where would he get his adulation fixes? Mike Pence and Lindsay Graham just don’t do it for him any more!
truly incredible. pic.twitter.com/zyNoimdvTl
— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) July 11, 2020
Within twelve hours Trump will say he’s worn a mask for months
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) July 11, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 3,173,212 coronavirus cases https://t.co/gzRWTpkdB2 pic.twitter.com/SNKmmiDAiy
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 11, 2020
A long-expected upturn in U.S. coronavirus deaths has begun, driven by fatalities in states in the South and West. Over the last two weeks, data shows daily reported deaths increased in 27 states over the last two weeks. https://t.co/QddU2XHxoc
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 11, 2020
Americans need straight talk about what’s going to happen in the coming weeks and months. Covid is not going to stop on its own. The virus will continue to spread until we stop it. https://t.co/NpaCoOk9xQ
— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) July 11, 2020
Tomorrow's nytimes front page highlighting the state of the states, particularly those which reopened the earliest.
And the accelerating pace of deaths in many stateshttps://t.co/DMo3S1LRKl
(along with other unfavorable stuff) pic.twitter.com/w0oqcYnbP2— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) July 11, 2020
"New projections from (IHME) suggest that 80,000 more people in the US are expected to die of COVID-19 from now until November — more than a 60% increase from where our death toll stood on Friday, at 132,000." https://t.co/iVjElKOZ9b
— Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (@IHME_UW) July 11, 2020
Mike Pence on June 16: “Cases have stabilized over the past two weeks, with the daily average case rate across the U.S. dropping to 20,000” https://t.co/uuGdIyineB
— Blake News (@blakehounshell) July 11, 2020
Essential workers are lauded for their service and hailed as heroes. But in most states nurses, first responders and frontline workers who get COVID-19 on the job have no guarantee they'll qualify for workers' comp to cover lost wages and medical care. https://t.co/L3pNpMSQZQ
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 11, 2020
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WHO is urging aggressive virus measures because flare-ups are sparking new closures. Case numbers have more than doubled in 6 wks. For example, Hong Kong is closing schools after the city recorded "exponential growth" in locally transmitted infections https://t.co/ZrrpZgXeQx pic.twitter.com/Kwl5yDPdB4
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 11, 2020
The governor of Japan's Okinawa island demands a top U.S. military commander take tougher prevention measures and more transparency after officials were told more than 60 Marines at two bases have been infected with the coronavirus over the past few days. https://t.co/97Mn2YpefH
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 12, 2020
Tokyo confirms 206 new cases of coronavirus infections on Sunday – NHK https://t.co/XujM4cp3cr pic.twitter.com/mYDwWvO5wQ
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 12, 2020
Vietnam, country of 95M that has border w/ China, has 0 COVID deaths, avg of <10 cases/day. How? stay at home orders at start, extensive testing+contact tracing, clear communication, strict mask use. Has allowed them to reopen. Great report by @Ep1Chrissy https://t.co/HKm5JV4iJK
— Tom Inglesby (@T_Inglesby) July 11, 2020
India is now racking up more new reported infections each day — about 30,000 — than any other country except the United States and Brazil. https://t.co/iTpCOaEeIK
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) July 12, 2020
Russia reports 6,615 new cases of coronavirus https://t.co/o3nTzG73XI pic.twitter.com/CRQdSvYShU
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 12, 2020
Safety first for Spaniards voting amid new coronavirus outbreaks https://t.co/VGWQLX6nzr pic.twitter.com/3zRuP45ya3
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 12, 2020
Coronavirus: Thousands protest in Israel over handling of economy https://t.co/wB0Ctf6ph4
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 12, 2020
Australia's Victoria state marks week of triple-digit coronavirus cases https://t.co/VVlKGmCpIe pic.twitter.com/UnuJLUro7c
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 12, 2020
South Africa’s confirmed coronavirus cases have doubled in two weeks to a quarter-million, and India has seen its biggest daily spike as its total passed 800,000. Globally more than 12 million people have been infected by the virus. https://t.co/iTGtqW0n6h
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 11, 2020
Brazil surpasses 70,000 coronavirus deaths. The health ministry said there were 45,000 new infections & 1200 deaths over the last 24 hours, bringing totals to 1.8 million cases & 70,400 deaths https://t.co/wrvX1Yz2oh pic.twitter.com/T0fk3nu9FH
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 11, 2020
Now that Brazil's President Bolsonaro is infected with the coronavirus, precautions he shunned for months have become part of his cloistered life at the official residence in capital Brasilia. Here, a glimpse inside at his new routine. https://t.co/x1JObwoqRx
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 11, 2020
Mexico reports 6,094 new coronavirus cases, 539 more deaths https://t.co/NiobzI1Pas pic.twitter.com/GzGucyA3Q6
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 12, 2020
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Spain's large-scale study on the coronavirus indicates just 5% of its population has developed antibodies, strengthening evidence that so-called herd immunity to Covid-19 is "unachievable," the medical journal the Lancet reported https://t.co/wnqTu4nWns
— CNN (@CNN) July 12, 2020
Exclusive: We obtained the numbers for the Strategic National Stockpile. Still falling short in several areas of PPE, including N95s.
Also: Not enough body bags.
Me w/@janawinter.https://t.co/k7nyPuzEgk pic.twitter.com/JoaJc020TA
— Sharon Weinberger (@weinbergersa) July 10, 2020
Thailand plans November human testing for potential coronavirus vaccine https://t.co/6lZuGh2xBD pic.twitter.com/3OOO9N8cnf
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 12, 2020
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U.S. #coronavirus deaths take a long-expected turn for the worse, driven by fatalities in states in the South & West, according to new pandemic data https://t.co/9N11Q8tEpF via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) July 11, 2020
95% of positive tests in a San Francisco neighborhood were among Latinx individuals, even though they comprised 41% of the community.
-91% of positives can't work from home
-88% have household income <$50K/yr
-86% have >3 person/home
-55% asymptomatic when tested pic.twitter.com/6MmS0zwpX9— Amy Maxmen (@amymaxmen) July 12, 2020
I don’t think more mask wearing is enough to bring a large outbreak under control. Every day that passes, more people are infected. More is set in motion that cannot be reversed. I want to know what governors are waiting for.https://t.co/dEqa2KXOz0
— Natalie E. Dean, PhD (@nataliexdean) July 11, 2020
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints asks all its members in Utah to wear face coverings when in public. The move came as confirmed infections in the state continue to rise. https://t.co/d4dxuT9j56
— AP West Region (@APWestRegion) July 11, 2020
Disney World is opening in the middle of Covid-19. I reedited their "Welcome Home" video to make it more accurate.
Please share so someone you know doesn't end up dead. pic.twitter.com/PGOaHznBDV
— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) July 11, 2020
The paradox of reopening: if I knew this was how sparsely populated it was I’d be perfectly comfortable going except that since this is how many people would respond it soon would be too crowded for comfort. https://t.co/aJTmNpCrS9
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) July 11, 2020
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily numbers. 14 new cases. 11 cases from local infection: three Malaysians, eight non-Malaysian immigration detainees. Three cases from imported infection, all Malaysians returning from Russia (2) and Germany. Cumulative total 8,718 cases.
Four more patients recovered and were discharged, total 8,519 patients recovered or 97.7% of the cumulative total. 77 active and contagious cases are in hospital for isolation/treatment; three are in ICU, two of them receiving respiratory assistance.
No new deaths. The total stands at 122 deaths. Infection fatality rate is 1.39%, case fatality rate is 1.41%.
yellowdog
The shitgibbon and his lackeys will say he wore a mask because he was in a hospital. He probably will not wear a mask again.
p.a.
He CAN’T wear a mask regularly now, it will be an admission of past homicidal negligence that even the pig people MIGHT understand. I’m generally a ‘glass is half-empty and that’s probably not water anyway’ person, but this futhermucker is cooked in Nov. The job now is to work to take the whole tRumpublican Party with him.
YY_Sima Qian
Yesterday, China did not report any domestic cases (confirmed, suspect or asymptomatic). China reported 7 imported confirmed and 5 imported asymptomatic cases.
Yesterday, I was rereading some of the very early posts in this series, including my own comments, back I’m at end of Jan. and beginning of Feb. It was a bit surreal. Back then my frame of reference was SARS, so Ai thought China would have the worst outbreak, that COVID-19 would be largely contained in Asia, and that the summer heat would suppress transmission. I though the horror stories out of Wuhan would have served as adequate warning for the rest of the world. It turns out experience with past damaging epidemics, within living memory, may be the most significant factor in speed and quality of response.
Viva BrisVegas
The speed and quality of the response depends most critically on the speed and quality of the central coordinating authority.
This is where the US got unlucky.
Mary G
I wrote a comment and thought it posted, but it seems to have disappeared. Orange County was a little better today, new cases down from around 1300 to around 1100 and percent testing positive down from 14.9 to 14.2. Could just be the end of the week, or maybe people are seeing red states suffering and don’t want to be like them.
In personal news, the teen and his stepfather both came down with sneezing a lot and coughing a little, so we are wearing our masks inside the house and staying mostly in our bedrooms, which is a bit claustrophobic, but we do what we have to do. I did rearrange my setup so it’s easier to watch TV in there. Watched Hamilton finally and thoroughly enjoyed it.
This cracked me up – Claire McCaskill really let the soon-to-be-former senator from So. Carolina have it on Twitter for suggesting Roger Stone is an elderly first time offender who shouldn’t have to go to jail:
Good for her.
Shalimar
i can understand why he didn’t want to wear a mask. he looks like a movie mobster going to a Brinks robbery.
JPL
@YY_Sima Qian: Your posts were so informative and they also warned us about the dangers of the virus. What I didn’t realize at the time was how unprepared we were.
WereBear
@p.a.: His team will claim he “always” wore it in hospitals. Or something. They don’t care what they say.
JPL
@p.a.: He’ll just say he’s always worn masks. Who you gonna believe……
John S.
@JPL: … or thousands of photos and videos that prove the opposite.
satby
Trump wearing a mask now is too late. His cult members won’t unless someone they know dies. All the cautionary news stories about deniers catching the virus and dying don’t make a dent in their firm belief that the virus is no big deal, most people will be fine even if they catch it (especially them), and masks are worse than the virus anyway. Every freaking week I see less mask compliance, not more.
arrieve
It’s hard not to be disheartened by the news (I have to be careful about my rage because there’s no outlet for it.) It’s obvious that this virus was always going to be bad, but It DIDN’T HAVE TO BE THIS BAD.
There’s no way out I can see without a vaccine, and even then I think the world economy will be toast for the next decade.
On the other hand, the Black Lives Matter sign in front of Trump Tower makes me very happy. I might even walk over there to take a look.
Gvg
@JPL: part of the problem was all the people who weren’t reading them.
All through this administration’s time I have noticed that Trump and the people around him think every problem is a messaging problem and TV is far more real to him than real life. He selects for other people who tend the same way. Other people say he doesn’t think the rest of us are real and talk about object permanence. I wonder if he doesn’t think he isn’t real if he isn’t on TV or the cover of times magazine. He is really weird. I wish he didn’t exist.
YY_Sima Qian
@Viva BrisVegas: The US and Brazil have been uniquely terrible in the pandemic so far. However, I thought Western Europe would have responded better initially (though most of them turned it around), but I guess there has not been a plague through Europe in quite some time.
YY_Sima Qian
@Shalimar: My initial reaction upon seeing the picture was comic book villains.
Chyron HR
Well, guess we can’t run wall-to-wall ads of Trump calling the Coronavirus a hoax anymore, election’s over. ?
Bruce K
Greece had a bad week from July 5-12: 261 cases. 1 dead. They’re talking about reinstating some restrictions; announcement coming Monday.
Then I took a look at the Worldometer numbers for Maryland (slightly smaller population than Greece), and if a bad week in Greece equates to what Maryland would call a better-than-average day…
…it’s not looking very hopeful for the US.
donnah
Ugh! Trump wearing a mask at this stage is eye-rollingly sickening. His sycophants are all swooning over how manly and bad-ass he looks in it. You’d think he invented a cure for cancer,
Meanwhile, Mueller is back with stodgy outrage, triggered by Stone’s blackmailing-of-Trump release, and once again I expect he’ll be ignored, dismissed, and mocked by the Republicans. And while all of this is whirling around, we have co-conspirator Bill “Low” Barr scampering around installing his own pets in the lower courts as he ditches the honest ones. And to no ones surprise, there’s no stopping him.
I don’t know how we make it to November, but we have to,
trnc
OK, I don’t get this.
The chart shows 97% mask fulfillment. Lots of other medical supply availability too low, and the N95 mask supply was too low for too long (since Jared claimed ownership), but it seems odd that Weinberger specifically mentioned N95s. I assume this is getting hammered on contrarian sites as we speak.
trnc
Even worse – if you read through the comments, a lot of magats are saying it’s only necessary in a hospital, and it should be a choice, so the takeaway is, in their opinion:
– No problem that he didn’t wear one to a swab manufacturer, requiring them to throw away the entire day’s production
– No masks necessary outside of a hospital
– Mah Freedom! Fuck everyone else
satby
@trnc: This late in the game they should all be 100%. Plus the masks are supposed to be “use once and dispose of” so even a higher amount will dwindle fast. Nurses in several areas have been complaining that shortages are beginning again: https://www.ecowatch.com/us-ppe-shortage-coronavirus-trump-2646373026.html
Robert Sneddon
In the “Who could ever have seen this happening” category (sarcasm intended) seventy-three members of a group of farm workers in rural England have tested positive for COVID-19 from a cohort of 200 workers or so. What a surprise! Not.
Every year the UK imports tens of thousands of farm workers from places like eastern Europe on short-term work visas to bring in the harvest. Since we need to eat, this flood of workers was not stopped this year even though they are an obvious external source of imported infection. Because they’re put up eight to a caravan or in temporary dormitories in farm outbuildings COVID-19 spreads very easily. Quarantining them for fourteen days after arrival in the UK didn’t happen because they’re needed to work in the fields and packing plants at minimum wage and no-one’s going to pay them to sit in a hotel room for a fortnight doing nothing.
The authorities are “bubbling” the workers, they’re being quarantined on the farms they work at and they’re not supposed to go to the local shops or nearby pubs on their limited time off. Enforcing this is voluntary though, there’s no barbed wire or guards on duty to stop them. This will work about as well as you might expect because people are people.
This outbreak is likely to be repeated all over the country, it’s pretty much impossible that this is the only farm affected in this way.
Ken
@Robert Sneddon: I see the UK and the US share one problem: Complaints about “foreigners taking our jobs” disappear when those jobs involve hard labor for low pay.
Uncle Cosmo
I’m sure I’m not the only person who’s walked masked into a store & felt like s/he was doing a practicum for Robbery 101: Retail Establishments. Or thought about pasting up a note from letters cut from magazines & bringing it along to the bank to pass to the teller: Give me some of my dough & no one gets hurt…
And I’m sure I’m not the only one to feel over the last 5 months as if I’d been sentenced to work as an unpaid extra in a badly-written SF movie with no budget for special effects, compelled to live the full 60 seconds of every tedious, reclusive, claustrophobic minute, day in and day out….
low-tech cyclist
No offense, IHME guys, but deaths are back up to 5000/week (and rising), and there are 16 weeks before November gets here. 5000 x 16 = 80,000, and that’s IF the death rate doesn’t continue to go up, which it almost certainly will. So I’m thinking we’ll be extremely lucky if we have only 80K coronavirus deaths between now and November 1.
I realize your projection was more sciencey and less back-of-the-envelope than mine, but c’mon.
Ohio Mom
Mary G:
We took some in-house quarantine measures for the first ten days after Ohio Dad came back from his almost two week long business trip to North Las Vegas: I slept in the guest room, Ohio Dad mostly stayed in the master bedroom/bath, mask-wearing whenever he emerged.
I hadn’t realized how much I depended on feeing relaxed at home for my mental heath until I felt as threatened at home as I do outside running errands.
Also discovered that mask-wearing is irritating when not counterbalanced by feeling smug when wearing one outside the house. Higher temps are also making wearing one uncomfortable but of course I still wear one.
TL/dr: quarantining in a small house is an exercise in mature self-discipline. In other words, no fun.
Danielx
@Uncle Cosmo:
God’s truth. I still get a little frisson every time I walk into a liquor store wearing a mask. Pre-pandemic, that was an open invitation for unpleasantries of one kind or another, up to and including being shot.
Sloane Ranger
@Robert Sneddon: There was an attempt early on to get Brits to volunteer for a modern “Land Army” but it didn’t really get off the ground. There were complaints that people put their names down but were never contacted, others were interviewed by farmers but rejected as not fit enough or not prepared to commit to the entire picking season. One Brexiteer alleged that farmers were deliberately sabotaging the idea because they wanted low paid foreign workers who didn’t know their employment rights or were too scared to exercise them if they did.
I can easily believe that Governmental incompetence was the main cause for the failure. It would be consistent with much of the rest of their response.
Wapiti
I think having a light colored mask might help avoid the “bad guy with a mask” look. The good guys in the old cowboy movies wore the white hats. The disposable/surgical masks might be the least threatening look.
I expect that they persuaded that guy to wear a mask in a hospital by giving him a special N95 mask for his protection. To hell with anybody else – to reach him you’d have to appeal to his needs.
Sloane Ranger
Michael Gove interviewed this morning. He said he didn’t support mandating mask wearing in shops but it should be encouraged as good manners. He trusted the common sense of the British people.
Yeah, the same common sense they displayed when they crowded Bournemouth beach shoulder to shoulder and just “encouraging” mask wearing has been so effective (checks notes) – actually nowhere. Arsehole!
Searcher
Trump’s wearing a mask? Did someone he cares about get sick? Shit, has anyone checked on Putin?
Matt McIrvin
Daniel Drezner is starting to understand collective-action problems.
I had the same feeling looking at pictures of Universal Studios Singapore back in February. I’d missed my one chance to go to Universal when I was there, because my daughter didn’t want to do it. Then when COVID-19 first hit Singapore a few weeks later, I saw all these pictures of the place apparently still open, but almost empty–all the rides would be walk-ons! Awesome! But still something I’d be reluctant to do on “if everybody did it” grounds.
artem1s
that picture from Israel! who knew Tel Aviv was Mad Max Thunderdome cosplay central. yikes!
Robert Sneddon
@Sloane Ranger: The gastarbeiters brought in from eastern Europe, Turkey and elsewhere have to pay visa fees-slash-kickbacks to get hired, they pay something to their subsidised accommodation and food etc. etc. They get paid national minimum wage, not the National Living Wage which is a bit more and they’re required to work lots of overtime. They don’t pocket much more than 250 quid for a sixty hour week of hard physical work in all kinds of weather. It’s still a lot better than the pay they’d get at home for similar work.
The quaintly-named Gangmasters Licencing Authority is supposed to regulate these sort of ad-hoc agricultural labour forces but it’s a pretty toothless organisation with limited staff to investigate and impose legal requirements on individual operations. The harvest needs to be got in, after all.
Hiring British people to do the same work would cost the farmers, producers, supermarkets and eventually the customers more money so we bring in these folks for the summer and accept they’re likely to be a source of difficult-to-control COVID-19 infections in this pandemic year.
Amir Khalid
@Sloane Ranger:
Was it him or Matt Hancock who reacted to the sight of those crowded beaches by merely threatening to close them? Either way, that was a feeble response: the decisive action would have been to close the beaches right away.
Same thing with the masks: BoJo should just tell everyone: mask up in public or pay a £200 fine. And if anyone like that fool Peter Hitchens demands to know why, he should just say, You know damn well why.”
Suzanne
I have a mask made for me by a friend of SuzMom. He custom-printed fabric that has little Nancy Pelosis all over it. I love it so much.
I am getting really burned out on working. I have no room to complain, since I can do most work from home and I have a well-paying desk job. But at this point I don’t feel hopeful about school this year and this pandemic stress makes me so, so tired. I just want to spend all of my time hugging my Spawns and doing homemaking tasks.
EthylEster
re: ….might just have scared him into believing…
NO. And TBF anyone who still actually thinks is a fucking moron.
re: Russia reports 6,615 new cases of coronavirus
This has been the case for over two weeks. It is not news.
artem1s
Is the Flying Dutchman a feature of the Pirates of the Caribbean section of Disney World? Maybe some actual plague history would do the citizenry of FL some good. I can’t imagine anyone traveling on death plane so they can spend two weeks standing in lines in a plague theme park, but Disney was never my idea of a vacation spot anyway.
artem1s
It’s Walter Reed. I imagine Dump’s inherent need to bow to authority figures is the only reason he wore the mask. That and the staff was probably perfectly fine in telling him, “no mask, no photo opp“. It’s really pretty simple, he was the weakest bully in the crowd that day. Which gives you an idea what a bag of wet noodles the GOP has become.
Amir Khalid
@Robert Sneddon:
These Gastarbeiter should be treated as a group of special concern for Covid-19 control because of their work and living conditions. The health authorities here got the wake-up call on that after Singapore had that big outbreak in their Gastarbeiter dormitories that took their total cases from well below Malaysia’s to nearly five times our current total cases.
Sloane Ranger
@Amir Khalid:
Can’t remember if it was Gove or Hancock, not that it matters, they’ve both failed upwards and continue to do so.
As for masks, I completely agree. I went into my local shopping centre yesterday to buy a “Get Well Soon” card for a friend (not COVID related) and I was one of only a handful of people wearing masks, hell, I was in a minority in following the Shopping Centre’s one way system! I talked to one of the assistants in the card shop about wearing masks and she said the company had issued them but the staff didn’t want to wear them as they thought customers would find it intimidating!
Suzanne
@Ohio Mom:
I’ve had a similar realization. It’s weird…. as an architect, I think I’m more attuned than most to how the quality of a physical space can affect the way one feels. But now that I’m home so much, it’s even more important that my home feels orderly and clean and air circulates and I spend time on the front porch feeling even momentarily a bit less squeezed.
Moving across the country during a pandemic would not have been my first choice.
frosty
@Ohio Mom: Our 20-something son who is still sharing the house with us will be in a wedding party in Ocean City at the end of August. We’ve reserved a campsite at a local state park for 14 days starting the day he returns. He stays in the house, we’ll quarantine in the trailer and hope he stays OK.
J R in WV
Holy cow, “Welcome Home” intercut with fork lifts placing corpses into freezer trucks, ICU filled with comatose patients, what a great job, Ms Wu!! Thanks for this…
Way past time to take this existentially seriously, esp if there’s no immunity possible after infection and recovery. Imagine getting this twice!?!?!???
Neldob
There were only 2 sympathy cards left at Rite Aid. Irene bought the 2nd to last. Target is selling cute masks near their front door, no more blue ones and only 1 grey and 1 pink.
J R in WV
@artem1s:
We visited D-World once, while we lived in Key West in the early 1970s, on Press Day, the day before they opened to the general public. It wasn’t very crowded that day compared to what we see in news takes from the parks, but there were short lines for the good rides.
Our favorite was the Haunted House, It’s a Small World was worst, and the Presidential Robots were exceedingly robotic and wouldn’t fool a child.
Never going back, ever never! Giant Evil Corp, indeed.
If we had kids they wouldn’t see anything from Disney until they moved out permanently. Yes, I’m aware that that perspective isn’t actually possible, but it would be a goal.
different-church-lady
So let’s see if I have this straight: Trump does something that Biden has been already doing for months, and that means Biden is vanquished?
craigie
@p.a.:
I love this.
JaneE
Trump and his GOP sycophants have done everything except explicitly say go forth and spread disease in your community. Now they want everyone to be careful and responsible? Right.
The number of deaths is related to the number of cases. We keep trying to lower that ratio, but we are not doing it all that fast. It will probably be close to a month before today’s new case number records turn into new deaths. Unless we come up with something really effective in the next month, those numbers of deaths may well be new records also. We show new record high cases for the last three weeks. That probably means higher death rates until the first of September at the earliest.
Vote Democratic as if your life depended on it was not supposed to mean literally, but that is what Republican governance does, isn’t it?
Brachiator
@J R in WV:
Disney could turn this into a new experience, Pandemics of the Caribbean.
I have had great times at Disneyland and children love it. And usually they are ruthless about anything that might tarnish their image.
Their reaction to the pandemic may turn out to be a huge misstep.
joel hanes
@Ohio Mom:
[in-home distancing and masking]
Ventilation!
Windows open every minute that the temperature allows.