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Half the Population of China, 760 Million, Now Locked Down €
562;
By: AGelbert Date: February 18, 2020, 12:26 pm
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February 18, 2020
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[move][font=courier] In China, 760M people are locked down.
Apple just issued a warning. In Japan, there is a sudden spike
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[center]Half the Population of China, 760 Million, Now Locked
Down :o
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Slump in Global Goods Trade to 🌠 Deepen With Coronavirus
, WTO Says
By: AGelbert Date: February 18, 2020, 3:25 pm
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[center]Slump in Global Goods Trade to 🌠 Deepen With
Coronavirus, WTO Says[/center]
By Bloomberg on Feb 18, 2020 10:02 am
By Brendan Murray (Bloomberg) — Global trade in goods will
likely stay weak in coming months as disruptions from
coronavirus in China staunch the movement of international
commerce already slowed by tariffs and uncertainty, according to
the World Trade Organization. The Geneva-based body’s latest
forward-looking Goods Trade Barometer stood at 95.5, compared
with a level of 96.6 in […] Read full story...
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expert: more afraid of catching virus on ship than in Africa dur
ing Ebola epidemic and China SARS
By: AGelbert Date: February 19, 2020, 4:49 pm
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Wed, 02/19/2020 - 17:05
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SNIPPETS:
Kentaro Iwata, professor at the infectious diseases division of
Japan’s Kobe University, described the situation on board as
“completely inadequate in terms of infection control”.
This whole thing could end up being like the Ebola scare of
2014, something legitimately unnerving, but ultimately not
widespread outside of the hot zone. We may get lucky and
Covid-19 may by some miracle be contained.
But I wouldn’t bet my family’s lives on it.
Full article:
[center]Did The Diamond Princess "Quarantine" Just Infect More
People With Covid-19 And Spread It Further?
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📢 Hat Tip to Surly ✨ for this Important Story
By: AGelbert Date: February 24, 2020, 1:32 pm
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Is Inevitable?
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charleshughsmith.blogspot.com - Given the exquisite
precariousness of the global financial system and economy, hopes
for a brief and mild downturn are wildly unrealistic. If we
asked a panel of epidemiologists to imagine a virus op…
Read more Doomstead Diner Daily 02/24/20
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Agelbert NOTE: The effect of Covid-19 news on the restaurant
business is going to be bankrupting. Already Pizza Hut (which
includes Wendy's) is cratering. They announced that they would
be closing about 500 locations for "remodeling" [img
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/>Five will get ya ten that Mr. Nelson Peltz is fishing for a
bailout.
Whatever Trump does to welfare queen his fellow crooked bastards
out of bankruptcy, it will not work this time. ALL these
businesses, from restaurannts to cruise ships to hotels, etc.
CANNOT SURVIVE if people of all walks of life avoid other people
(as much as possible) for several months until this Covid-19
virus is less of a health threat. AND furthermore, Covid-19 is
just ONE of the multiple threats to the global economy that
Catastrophic Climate Change is inexorably putting in the faces
of all types of unethical profit over people and planet
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This is the Black Swan combination of events that Wall Street
has always feared. Expect TPTB here in the USA to debase our
currency in order to save the bastards at the top (SEE: 2008 on
hyperinflationary steroids). I hope they fail because, if they
don't, we-the-people will be even poorer and more desperate than
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Update: Public Health Response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 O
utbreak — United States, February 24
By: AGelbert Date: February 26, 2020, 11:26 am
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Early Release / February 25, 2020 / 69
[center]Update: Public Health Response to the Coronavirus
Disease 2019 Outbreak — United States, February 24,
2020[/center]
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CDC Reports 6 New US Cases Of COVID-19 As Total Hits 59; Italy S
urpasses 400: Live Updates
By: AGelbert Date: February 26, 2020, 12:01 pm
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February 26, 2020 - 12:27
Summary:
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► CDC reports 6 new cases among repatriated Americans
► Iran deaths hit 19
► Brazil confirms first case in South America
► France confirms 2nd death
► Tokyo pushes back against Tokyo Games cancellation talk
► Greece confirms first case
► Germany unleashes fiscal stimulus after confirming new
cases
► Dems one-up Trump with $8.5 billion package.
► Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Bahrain confirm new cases
► Finland confirms 2nd case
► 1st 2 cases reported in Pakistan
► HHS Secretary tells Congress infectious disease fund has
no extra uncommitted cash
► Congress begins talks on corona virus spending bill with
vote expected early next month
► Germany health minister warns we're at beginning of
epidemic in Germany
► Italy confirms 12th death, cases soar above 400
► North Macedonia confirms first case
► South Korea cases soar above 1,200 as gov't begins
testing of 200k patients
► Brazil confirms infected patient came on plane from
Paris
► Ericsson confirms one of its employees in Croatia tested
positive
[center]CDC Reports 6 New US Cases Of COVID-19 As Total Hits 59;
Italy Surpasses 400: Live Updates
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Re: New Pandemic?
By: AGelbert Date: February 26, 2020, 2:18 pm
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February 26, 2020
[quote]Macdavy 👍
the cascading effects of this are too many to list, and the
pundits on wall street aren't expert on pandemics so are likely
wrong, how can their hubris be so huge, how do they think this
can all blow over, they must really not understand the force of
nature we are dealing with.
When airlines start to default because of government-enforced
travel restrictions or simply people cancel travel plans, now
hotels and restaurants default, cab companies, uber has fewer
customers as people stay home, luxury items are not a priority,
items dry up at stores as china is in full economic lockdown,
Walmart starts layoffs, I can go on and on at what's coming,
The problem is our central banks created this asset bubble
people think is going to the moon, it was already up 350% on
nothing but low interest and cheap credit. We weren't in an
economic boom; We were in a boom of cheap money and the world
leveraged, and now our cheap trinkets are about to stop flowing.
This little nanometer chain of RNA has just started to pop this
bubble, and the banks are helpless. No amount of liquidity they
pump into this will stop it. Right now I'm seeing something I
haven't seen since 2008, the markets are started to scream fear,
All our jobs will be on the line.[/quote]
Agelbert NOTE: The above truth telling comment was made in
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Wed, 02/26/2020 - 14:15
Summary
There are plenty of uncertainties in the world. Individuals have
the decision-making ability to evaluate those uncertainties and
the risks they pose. That said, it is difficult to remember a
time when the potential turbulence we face has been so broadly
ignored by the “market” and so overlooked by the Fed and
politicians. It is as though we have been tranquilized by the
ever-rising stock market and net worth as an artifact of that
fallacious indicator of security.
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[center]Our Triple-C Rated Economy: Complacency, Contradictions,
And Corona
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Cooch Totally On Top Of Coronavirus Thing
By: Surly1 Date: February 27, 2020, 5:06 am
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Virginians remember The Cooch from his days as Governor
Transvaginal Ultrasound's AG, when he worked tirelessly to put
abortion providers out of business and otherwise find a legal
basis for interposing the state in Virginia vaginas. He's a
perfect Trumprimmer.
Trump Administration Totally On Top Of Coronavirus Thing, Will
Ask Twitter If They Have Any More Questions
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[html]<div class="metadata singleline"><a
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/>class="byline">Doktor Zoom</a> <span
class="delimiter"></span><span class="date">February 25, 2020
10:50 AM</span></div> <div class="metadata singleline"><span
class="date"></span></div> <p><a
href="
HTML https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/24/trump-threat-coronavirus-reelection-economy-117272"<br
/>target="_blank">Stock markets have been dropping</a> due to
fears that the Covid-19 coronavirus could become a global
pandemic, so Donald Trump took a little time away from <a
href="
HTML https://www.wonkette.com/donald-trump-goes-to-india-sees-taj-mahal-drives-it-into-bankruptcy-too"<br
/>target="_blank">hugging a fellow authoritarian leader </a>in
India yesterday to reassure a worried nation that everything's
perfectly all right. We're fine. We're all fine here, now, thank
you. How are you?</p> <p>Just to reinforce Trump's
insistence that all is well, (acting) Deputy Secretary of
Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli, AKA perennial Wonkette
favorite <a
href="
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/>target="_blank">Saint Cooch Nobortions,</a> a member of <a
href="
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/>target="_blank">Trump's coronavirus task force</a> -- really -
-
took to Twitter to ask why he couldn't see a non-governmental
website about the outbreak.</p> <p>See? Everything's just
fine! TOP MEN.</p> <p>Cuccinelli returned to the matter a
little later to complain that the <a
href="
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/>target="_blank">Johns Hopkins map</a> was hidden behind a
"paywall," and isn't THAT a scummy thing for an important source
of information to do?</p> <p>That led a whole BUNCH of
people to chime in and point out that as a top government
official who's directly involved in the Covid-19 response, maybe
Cuccinelli could ask someone in the government for the
information he needs, instead of going to a university
website.</p> <p>Maybe he just doesn't trust the Deep State
-- but then, why would he trust the Hopkins map, either, since
some of those epidemiologists probably voted for Hillary? At
least he didn't go the <a
href="
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/>target="_blank">Limbaugh route</a> and explain the virus is, <
a
href="
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href="
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/>target="_blank"> Deep State plot.</a></p> <p>Do we
<em>really </em>need to say that while <a
href="
HTML http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/epidemiology/epidemiology-fact-sheets/coronaviruses/"<br
/>target="_blank">previously-known coronaviruses</a> can cause
(along with rhinovirus) the common cold, <a
href="
HTML https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/faq.html"<br
/>target="_blank">Covid-19 is not the cold</a>? Hence the name
"novel coronavirus," not that it only affects literate people.
And the influenza virus is a <a
href="
HTML https://www.ynhhs.org/patient-care/urgent-care/flu-or-coronavirus"<br
/>target="_blank">whole 'nother thing.</a> And no, rhinos aren't
involved either.</p> <p>(Updated to reflect that flu is not
caused by a coronavirus.)</p> <p>Right around the time
Cuccinelli was complaining about a "paywall" that didn't exist,
the folks at Johns Hopkins explained — twice! — that
heavy traffic had knocked the site offline for a while and that
they were working on it.</p> <p>For the heck of it, we left
off part of the URL for the site, and got what we assume
Cuccinelli and others saw while the site was
borked:</p> <p>So now let us assign some blame, shall we?
<strong>1:</strong> Yeah, the team at Johns Hopkins's Center for
Systems Science and Engineering should have had a clearer error
screen instead of a "please sign in to your account" widget. So
we can <em>kind of</em> forgive Cuccinelli for assuming he was
looking at a "paywall." <strong>BUT 2:</strong>DUDE YOU ARE IN
GOVERNMENT AND YOU'RE NOT HELPING BY GOING TO TWITTER FOR TECH
SUPPORT.</p> <p>Also, this seems like a good time to remind
y'all that the entire administration is<a
href="
HTML https://www.wonkette.com/state-department-kinda-making-up-coronavirus-policy-as-it-goes-along-is-that-a-bad-thing"<br
/>target="_blank">making up its coronavirus response</a> as it
goes along. It certainly doesn't help that, as <em>Foreign
Policy</em> reports — in a<a
href="
HTML https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump-united-states-public-health-emergency-response/"<br
/>target="_blank"> story that <em>is</em> subject to a
two-free-articles-per-month paywall</a> — in 2018 Trump
gutted much of the public health infrastructure that's supposed
to manage disease outbreaks, because who needs big government?
In 2018, he literally <a
href="
HTML https://www.schatz.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/021320%20NSC%20Novel%20Coronavirus%20Letter%20final%20pdf.pdf"<br
/>target="_blank">got rid of the person</a> at the National
Security Council who is supposed to be the point person on
things like this! And just hasn't filled the
position!</p> <p>But even Ken Cuccinelli ought to know that
despite<a
href="
HTML https://www.wonkette.com/maybe-trumps-health-budget-cuts-will-force-lazy-coronavirus-patients-to-get-well"<br
/>target="_blank"> threats of budget cuts, </a>the CDC <em>is
</em>still kind of a thing. And maybe you don't want to further
give the impression that no one in the administration knows what
they're doing?</p> <p>Probably just as well you keep that
out in front, though. Might encourage people to wash their hands
more. That <a
href="
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/>target="_blank">Fox News dipshit</a> is on his
own.</p> <p>[<a
href="
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/>target="_blank">Politico </a>/ <a
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/>target="_blank">Ken Cuccinelli </a>on Twitter / <a
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href="
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/>target="_blank">Foreign Policy</a> / <a
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Trump Insists on Paying for Coronavirus Prep by Cutting Heating
Aid for the Poor
By: Surly1 Date: February 27, 2020, 5:10 am
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Trump Insists on Paying for Coronavirus Prep by Cutting Heating
Aid for the Poor
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tances/ck73iqnaj00vit4y6cqyzt7oo@published"
data-word-count="64">Since taking office, the Trump
administration has slashed taxes <a
href="
HTML https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/05/us-tax-revenue-dropped-sharply-due-to-trump-tax-cuts-report.html">by<br
/>hundreds of billions of dollars</a>, while increasing the
Defense Department’s annual budget <a
href="
HTML https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/afghanistan-papers-ndaa-congress-defense-bill.html">by<br
/>$130 billion</a> (a sum more than large enough to cover the
costs of <a
href="
HTML https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/10/there-are-better-ways-to-spend-usd1-5-trillion-than-tax-cuts.html">tuition-free<br
/>public college and paid family leave</a>). All together, the
policies implemented during Donald Trump’s tenure are
poised to push the <a
href="
HTML https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/28/us-deficit-eclipse-1-trillion-2020-cbo-says-fiscal-imbalance-continues-widen/">federal<br
/>deficit past $1 trillion this year.</a></p> <p
data-editable="text"
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/ck73md2rg001c3e5qnu78sgxd@published"
data-word-count="34">That last bit isn’t necessarily
concerning. Many mainstream economists <a
href="
HTML https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/pete-buttigieg-deficit-demagoguery-is-dangerous.html">consider<br
/>our nation’s existing debt load more than sustainable</a
>.
From a progressive perspective, the problem with Trump’s
deficit spending isn’t its scale but its
content.</p> <p data-editable="text"
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/ck73md2ri001d3e5q22lo2b9c@published"
data-word-count="43">From a self-styled fiscal
conservative’s point of view, however, that $1 trillion
figure is a real eyesore. And for at least <em>some</em> of the
self-professed conservatives who work in the Trump White House,
it is a source of psychological discomfort bordering on
guilt.</p> <p data-editable="text"
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/ck73md2rf001b3e5qp9rv4p7h@published"
data-word-count="73">Or at least, that’s my best guess as
to why the Trump administration has, (1) spent the <a
href="
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-response.html">past<br
/>several weeks refusing to endorse new spending</a> on <a
href="
HTML https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/how-to-prepare-for-the-coronavirus-a-smart-persons-guide.html">coronavirus<br
/>preparation</a>, despite the pleas of lawmakers in both partie
s
for action, and (2) is still holding up funding for the imminent
public health crisis by <a
href="
HTML https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/25/behind-our-sluggish-response-coronavirus-an-unnecessary-battle-over-funding/">insisting<br
/>on offsetting a small fraction</a> of the emergency
appropriation with a $37 million cut to home heating aid for the
poor.</p> <p data-editable="text"
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/ck73md2rj001e3e5qbk1hsqg2@published"
data-word-count="5">As the <a
href="
HTML https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/25/behind-our-sluggish-response-coronavirus-an-unnecessary-battle-over-funding/">Washington<br
/><em>Post</em></a> reports:</p> <blockquote
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/blockquote/instanc
es/ck73md4wc001m3e5qphqawne7@published"
data-editable="text" data-word-count="112"> <p>House
Democrats tell us they are outraged by one aspect of the White
House response in particular: The White House appears to have
informed Democrats that they want to fund the emergency response
in part by taking money from a program that funds low-income
home heating assistance.</p> <p></p> <p>A document that
the Trump administration sent to Congress, which we have seen,
indicates that the administration is transferring $37 million to
emergency funding for the coronavirus response from the Low
Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, which funds
heating for poor families.</p> <p></p> <p>Democrats see
this as provoking budgetary bickering and unnecessary political
friction at a time when a clean emergency appropriation could
easily avoid both.</p> </blockquote> <p
data-editable="text"
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/ck73mdjy4001v3e5qabt6ciuu@published"
data-word-count="167">Low-income Americans in frigid regions of
the country aren’t the only victims of the
administration’s arbitrary penny-pinching. The White House
is also calling for $535 million cut to funding for Ebola virus
treatment and containment — despite the fact that the
Republic of Congo is still battling an Ebola epidemic. The
administration’s insistence on financing the fight against
one epidemic disease with cuts to funding for the containment of
a different epidemic disease — so as to avoid increasing
the federal budget by .01 percent — is emblematic of this
White House’s goldfish-esque lack of foresight: Since
taking office, President <a
href="
HTML https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump-united-states-public-health-emergency-response/">Trump<br
/>has</a> tried to slash national health spending by <a
href="
HTML https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-calls-on-congress-to-pull-back-15-billion-in-spending-including-on-childrens-health-insurance-program/2018/05/07/9427de18-5216-11e8-a551-5b648abe29ef_story.html">$15<br
/>billion</a>; cut the disease-fighting budgets of DHS, NSC, HHS
,
and CDC; allowed the ranks of the U.S. Public Health Service
Commissioned Corps to steadily erode (after trying and failing
to shrink its budget by 40 percent); eliminated the federal
government’s <a
href="
HTML https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/05/09/ebola-is-back-and-trump-is-trying-to-kill-funding-for-it/">$30<br
/>million</a> Complex Crises Fund; and shut down the National
Security Council’s <a
href="
HTML https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/05/10/top-white-house-official-in-charge-of-pandemic-response-exits-abruptly/">entire<br
/>global health security unit</a>.</p> <p data-editable="tex
t"
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/ck73mh5ro00243e5qw17mn86k@published"
data-word-count="69">There is no rational explanation for the
administration’s current position. The coronavirus
represents <a
href="
HTML https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/how-a-coronavirus-pandemic-could-impact-the-2020-election-economy.html">a<br
/>massive political liability for Trump,</a> not least because o
f
how indefensible his previous bouts of penny-pinching on public
health now appear. There is no mass constituency for
prioritizing opposition to infinitesimal increases in the
national debt over pandemic prevention. In fact, many
congressional <em>Republicans </em>were alarmed by the austerity
of Trump’s proposal. As <a
href="
HTML https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/25/trump-officials-defend-coronavirus-request-117329">Politico</a><br
/>reports:</p> <blockquote
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/blockquote/instanc
es/ck73mh8pa002c3e5qhf1odc4q@published"
data-editable="text"
data-word-count="115"> <p>Administration officials sought to
swat away concerns their emergency request for $2.5 billion to
address the outbreak was inadequate, even as some Republicans
joined Democrats in criticizing the amount — and slamming
a lack of transparency around efforts to contain the disease on
U.S. soil.</p> <p></p> <p>… The Republican
chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee at Azar’s
hearing accused the administration of making a “low
ball” request.</p> <p></p> <p>“It could be
an existential threat to a lot of people in this country,”
warned Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.). “So money should not
be an object. We should try to contain and eradicate this as
much as we can, both in the U.S. and helping our friends all
over the world.”</p> </blockquote> <p
data-editable="text"
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/ck73mhpdp002l3e5qi8mc41v1@published"
data-word-count="91">On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck
Schumer unveiled <a
href="
HTML https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/484679-schumer-requesting-85-billion-in-emergency-funding-on-coronavirus">an<br
/>$8.5 billion emergency funding proposal</a>, composed entirely
of new spending. The Democrats’ counteroffer is not merely
superior on the merits, but also a sound election-year messaging
device: If the coronavirus creates major disruptions to American
life, the Democratic Party will be able to say it demanded more
ambitious preparations than the Republican president would
allow; if the epidemic somehow peters out, no voters are going
to reward Trump for holding the line against a $7 billion
increase to the $1 trillion deficit.</p> <p
data-editable="text"
data-uri="nymag.com/intelligencer/_components/clay-paragraph/ins
tances/ck73mkdq7002u3e5q9l7kavy9@published"
data-word-count="95">Thus, the most plausible explanation for
the White House’s stance is the neurosis of budget
director Mick Mulvaney and his ideological kin. In the House,
Mulvaney was that rare breed of a “small-government”
crusader whose zeal for slashing spending <a
href="
HTML https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/mccain-mulvaney-budget-omb-235069">didn’t<br
/>spare the Pentagon</a>. By most accounts, the man is a
supply-side, deficit-hawk true believer. Now, like a guilt-prone
cannibal who seeks to mitigate his sense of moral injury by
religiously observing “meatless Mondays,” Mulvaney
is ostensibly trying to compensate for his complicity in an
exploding deficit by holding pandemic prevention hostage to
trivial spending cuts.</p> <aside
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Trump had the high ground. All he had to do was to act President
ial, and say something like "Coronav
By: AGelbert Date: February 27, 2020, 11:27 am
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Agelbert NOTE: Carl_R said this yesterday. He is right about
Trump. I will add that Trump cannot be any other way. 🦀
Trump is an evil bastard. Trump is reaping what he willfully,
arrogantly, greedily and murderously has sown all his [img
width=70]
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/>profit over people and planet life.
[quote]Carl_R
Trump had the high ground. All he had to do was to act
Presidential, and say something like "Coronavirus is a global
threat. We take coronavirus very seriously, and we are devoting
as much effort to fighting it as possible. So far it it
contained in the US, but it is an ongoing risk. I am very
concerned for all the people who could be at risk if this begins
spreading in the US. I have asked Congress for additional funds
to fight this threat. It it time for an end to partisanship, and
we need to all work together, and then our country will emerge
stronger, regardless of what happens."
With a statement like that, he wins either way. If corona
doesn't cause large number of deaths in the US, it was because
of his strong response. If it does, it was despite his efforts,
and the resulting recession was not something he could have
prevented or be blamed for. Either way, his re-election would
have been almost certain.
Instead he downplayed it. Now instead of a win-win scenario he
is in a lose-lose situation. In the more likely case, corona
does create problems for the US economy, not only can he not win
;D, Republicans will be wiped out [img
width=40]
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/>in Congress as well. Expect Sanders to be elected [img
width=30]
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/>and to have a better than 2/3 majority in both houses [img
width=40]
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/>In the less likely scenario, it is contained and never becomes
an issue in the US. In that case, coronavirus is forgotten, and
ceases to be a factor. Even though he was right, he gets no
credit because the supply disruption in China causes a recession
anyway, which he gets blamed for, and he loses the election that
way, too, though the Republicans end up perhaps holding the
Senate.
Without question, this was the worst political move I have ever
seen at any level [img
width=60]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-250817121649.png[/img].<br
/>He had a winning hand, and he folded and accepted defeat.
I think there is no way to keep Coronavirus from spreading in
the US [img
width=40]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-130418202709.png[/img].<br
/>There is just too much travel. I talked to four customers toda
y.
I'm in a relatively small town in the middle of nowhere. One had
just returned from Africa. Another was headed to Mexico for a
cruise. Another was on his way to Germany. Still another was
headed to Israel on Friday. This is going on in every city in
America. Coronavirus will be here sooner, rather than later, and
Trump, and the Republicans will pay a heavy, heavy price for his
incredibly ill-advised speech tonight. The stock market will
probably rally for a couple days, though. I hope it was worth it
to him.[/quote]
ANOTHER Agelbert NOTE: Trump's [img
width=50]
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/>PPT is desperately trying to protect the stock market. It isn'
t
working ;D. It appears that sanity has returned to most of the
traders there. As I posted February 5, 2020
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/geopolitics/us-federal-reserve-notes-($)-world-reserve-currency-privilege-in-jeopardy/msg15483/#msg15483,<br
/>the Crack-up Boom market is in progress for many reasons, only
one of them being Covd-19. The market has nowhere to go but
DOWN. The only prudent thing to do is SELL.
[quote]thimk
It's all a ruse to protect the much vaunted reelection stock
market Notice how the Trumpster shifted culpability to Pence;
the fall guy. My god we don't even have a reliable, affordable,
accessible test for this man made malady. This virus possesses
ungodlike like characteristics. It's ironical the CB's adopted a
"what ever it takes" attitude to save the financial markets but
"what ever it takes" doesn't apply to the well being of
individuals. No global integrated action
plan/procedures/policies forth coming. It's just considered a
blip on the radar screen. Make that a double, bartender.[/quote]
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