The economy will be only one of many factors affected. Climate change, race relations, income equality, education, work environments, etc, etc should all under examination.
“We have just reached a very sad milestone with the coronavirus pandemic deaths reaching 100,000. To all of the families & friends of those who have passed, I want to extend my heartfelt sympathy & love for everything that these great people stood for & represent. God be with you!”
.
Is there anyone, even The Disciples, who believe Trump could write that tweet by himself?
Those people working in lower-earning occupations are most victimized by lockdowns, as they more likely lack work-at-home options. The same regressive dynamic applies to business-owners. Those with limited capital and limited opportunities to borrow suffer most. And it applies to those forced back onto their savings: The smaller, the more vulnerable.
The same regressive effects reverberate throughout different aspects of the lockdowns. In transportation, those with lower incomes face the risks of public transit, or its absence. For those whose children are trapped in inferior public school, their kids lack the same remote learning opportunities of better public and private schools. In child care, outside day care is lost, or its risk increased. Inevitably, bankruptcies will come, and these too will be concentrated here. Full recoveries may take years, if they ever occur.
Despite these increasing regressive effects, the lockdowns spawning them are in the most self-styled “progressive” states. . . . The draft’s inequities were clear, and efforts to address them failed because the policy was inherently regressive. So too are lockdowns. Understandably, rushing to wage war on the little-understood coronavirus, overly aggressive responses occurred.
From “Drastic Coronavirus Lockdowns Are The Most Regressive Policies Since The Draft” by J.T. Young at the Federalist, May 28
Day 36 of Georgia Governor Kemp’s reckless disregard of the health, safety and well-being of his constituents, and his long-term sabotage of Georga’s economy.
~
(Repost)
The conservatives tell a story about themselves as smartly and scrappy, yet downtrodden patriots, bravely resisting an over-weening, oppressive liberal government filled with stupid and incompetent busybodies.
– It has to be wrong and stupid to wear a mask, because it fits the narrative.
– The people telling you to wear a mask have to be incompetent, or have ulterior motives, because it fits the narrative.
– The wearing of masks must be revealed to have been a worse decision than the hoi polloi decision to spurn masks, because that fits the narrative.
– It has to be brave and virtuous to go against the dictates of the experts with all the power, because that fits the narrative.
I have conservatives all around me who live by this narrative, and when I talk to them, they are grasping at any morsel or rumor that vindicates this story, effectively warping the truth about the reality that we live in so that it gives them their proper place in the story they tell about themselves.
It was midway through March and Florida’s peak flu season was winding down. Then a steep, sudden and alarming spike in pneumonia-related deaths appeared — signaling the arrival of a killer: the new coronavirus.
Experts say the grim spike likely included coronavirus deaths recorded, instead, as pneumonia.
✁
Roess and other epidemiologists say that these coronavirus deaths likely contributed to the spike, which now appears, on its face, to be one of Florida’s largest rates of pneumonia and influenza-related mortality going back at least five flu seasons.
✁
Florida tracks deaths from flu and pneumonia in a database called ESSENCE. Hospitals, ambulatory care centers and vital records offices throughout the country use the system to detect the early warning signs of infectious disease outbreaks.
The data captured by ESSENCE is then reported to state health departments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Deaths are categorized after the health department scans death certificates from vital records offices for mentions of “pneumonia” and “influenza” for its tallies.
The department only recently hinted it was excluding certificates where the death was attributed to “COVID-19,” and it seems to have included deaths from COVID in the ESSENCE data at least through April 1.
“Someone who dies of coronavirus, they might have COVID listed as the primary cause and pneumonia listed as the secondary cause,” explained Daniel Weinberger, associate professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health.
The same is true for influenza, he said. But when a death is not tested for either disease, those filling out the death certificate often list the primary cause of death as pneumonia.
I still have not heard a single “conservative” decrying the “Most Regressive Policies since the Draft” in regard to the Jose Padilla case.
~
Quick background: United States citizen from Brooklyn, New York, arrested in Chicago (airport) on May 8, 2002, detained as a material witness until June 9, 2002…
…when President George W. Bush designated him an enemy combatant and…
…arguing that he was not entitled to trial in civilian courts, had him transferred to a military prison in South Carolina.
At this moment… Any American Citizen can be declared an enemy combatant and since SCOTUS punted the case…
..there are still no legal reasons that any American Citizen can’t be declared an Enemy Combatant and “Gitmo’ed.”
~
Remember when Jose Padilla was arrested at O’Hare airport in May 2002? A few weeks later, then Attorney General John Ashcroft made a big show of interrupting a trip to Moscow to hold a press conference:
I am pleased to announce today a significant step forward in the war on terrorism. We have captured a known terrorist who was exploring a plan to build and explode a radiological dispersion device, or “dirty bomb,” in the United States.
But the dirty bomb charge didn’t stick.
After being held without any charges for three years in military custody, Padilla, an American citizen, was transferred to civilian court in 2005 and formally charged with the much less heinous crime of conspiracy.
The Feds just couldn’t back up their contention that Padilla posed a grave threat to national security.
RobinHood over 4 years ago
So no one told you life is gonna be this way.
Darsan54 Premium Member over 4 years ago
The economy will be only one of many factors affected. Climate change, race relations, income equality, education, work environments, etc, etc should all under examination.
RobinHood over 4 years ago
You really should enjoy these early comments before SS and JBM start throwing manifestos at each other and bringing everyone down man.
jmworacle over 4 years ago
Forest from the trees.
braindead Premium Member over 4 years ago
“We have just reached a very sad milestone with the coronavirus pandemic deaths reaching 100,000. To all of the families & friends of those who have passed, I want to extend my heartfelt sympathy & love for everything that these great people stood for & represent. God be with you!”
.
Is there anyone, even The Disciples, who believe Trump could write that tweet by himself?
Sanspareil over 4 years ago
Carmen should be happy that Marco Rubio is driving the clown car, though the Orange blancmange will become irate.
jbmlaw01 over 4 years ago
Day 36 of the Georgia Economic Recovery.
Those people working in lower-earning occupations are most victimized by lockdowns, as they more likely lack work-at-home options. The same regressive dynamic applies to business-owners. Those with limited capital and limited opportunities to borrow suffer most. And it applies to those forced back onto their savings: The smaller, the more vulnerable.
The same regressive effects reverberate throughout different aspects of the lockdowns. In transportation, those with lower incomes face the risks of public transit, or its absence. For those whose children are trapped in inferior public school, their kids lack the same remote learning opportunities of better public and private schools. In child care, outside day care is lost, or its risk increased. Inevitably, bankruptcies will come, and these too will be concentrated here. Full recoveries may take years, if they ever occur.
Despite these increasing regressive effects, the lockdowns spawning them are in the most self-styled “progressive” states. . . . The draft’s inequities were clear, and efforts to address them failed because the policy was inherently regressive. So too are lockdowns. Understandably, rushing to wage war on the little-understood coronavirus, overly aggressive responses occurred.
From “Drastic Coronavirus Lockdowns Are The Most Regressive Policies Since The Draft” by J.T. Young at the Federalist, May 28
Silly Season over 4 years ago
Day 36 of Georgia Governor Kemp’s reckless disregard of the health, safety and well-being of his constituents, and his long-term sabotage of Georga’s economy.
~
(Repost)
The conservatives tell a story about themselves as smartly and scrappy, yet downtrodden patriots, bravely resisting an over-weening, oppressive liberal government filled with stupid and incompetent busybodies.
– It has to be wrong and stupid to wear a mask, because it fits the narrative.
– The people telling you to wear a mask have to be incompetent, or have ulterior motives, because it fits the narrative.
– The wearing of masks must be revealed to have been a worse decision than the hoi polloi decision to spurn masks, because that fits the narrative.
– It has to be brave and virtuous to go against the dictates of the experts with all the power, because that fits the narrative.
I have conservatives all around me who live by this narrative, and when I talk to them, they are grasping at any morsel or rumor that vindicates this story, effectively warping the truth about the reality that we live in so that it gives them their proper place in the story they tell about themselves.
~
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/anti-mask-snowflakes-of-the-right-dan-fagan/
Silly Season over 4 years ago
It was midway through March and Florida’s peak flu season was winding down. Then a steep, sudden and alarming spike in pneumonia-related deaths appeared — signaling the arrival of a killer: the new coronavirus.
Experts say the grim spike likely included coronavirus deaths recorded, instead, as pneumonia.
✁
Roess and other epidemiologists say that these coronavirus deaths likely contributed to the spike, which now appears, on its face, to be one of Florida’s largest rates of pneumonia and influenza-related mortality going back at least five flu seasons.
✁
Florida tracks deaths from flu and pneumonia in a database called ESSENCE. Hospitals, ambulatory care centers and vital records offices throughout the country use the system to detect the early warning signs of infectious disease outbreaks.
The data captured by ESSENCE is then reported to state health departments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Deaths are categorized after the health department scans death certificates from vital records offices for mentions of “pneumonia” and “influenza” for its tallies.
The department only recently hinted it was excluding certificates where the death was attributed to “COVID-19,” and it seems to have included deaths from COVID in the ESSENCE data at least through April 1.
“Someone who dies of coronavirus, they might have COVID listed as the primary cause and pneumonia listed as the secondary cause,” explained Daniel Weinberger, associate professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health.
The same is true for influenza, he said. But when a death is not tested for either disease, those filling out the death certificate often list the primary cause of death as pneumonia.
~
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/coronavirus/fl-ne-coronavirus-florida-pneumonia-flu-deaths-spike-20200417-lkel6rlik5blhd5zdktkrxhzze-story.html
Brain Pudding over 4 years ago
Friends….what pap. Hopeful such a reunion never happens.
Silly Season over 4 years ago
Back in Reality….
I still have not heard a single “conservative” decrying the “Most Regressive Policies since the Draft” in regard to the Jose Padilla case.
~
Quick background: United States citizen from Brooklyn, New York, arrested in Chicago (airport) on May 8, 2002, detained as a material witness until June 9, 2002…
…when President George W. Bush designated him an enemy combatant and…
…arguing that he was not entitled to trial in civilian courts, had him transferred to a military prison in South Carolina.
At this moment… Any American Citizen can be declared an enemy combatant and since SCOTUS punted the case…
..there are still no legal reasons that any American Citizen can’t be declared an Enemy Combatant and “Gitmo’ed.”
~
Remember when Jose Padilla was arrested at O’Hare airport in May 2002? A few weeks later, then Attorney General John Ashcroft made a big show of interrupting a trip to Moscow to hold a press conference:
I am pleased to announce today a significant step forward in the war on terrorism. We have captured a known terrorist who was exploring a plan to build and explode a radiological dispersion device, or “dirty bomb,” in the United States.
But the dirty bomb charge didn’t stick.
After being held without any charges for three years in military custody, Padilla, an American citizen, was transferred to civilian court in 2005 and formally charged with the much less heinous crime of conspiracy.
The Feds just couldn’t back up their contention that Padilla posed a grave threat to national security.
~
https://foreignpolicy.com/2007/01/04/padillas-dirty-bomb-charge-lives-on-in-gitmo/
jbmlaw01 over 4 years ago
Off topic, here are the Flynn-Kislyak transcripts. Well worth the 10 minutes necessary to read.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/read-flynn-kislyak-transcripts-of-conversations-during-trump-transition
jbmlaw01 over 4 years ago
After the release of the transcripts, Adam Schiff was heard quoting Marx:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHxGUe1cjzM