Have a fairly “rigid” schedule, get up, exercise (if possible in your residence), shower, put on real clothes (clean too), eat real meals, watch the snacking (and day drinking) and allow a LOT of latitude in dealing with those you live with.
Oh, and minimize the daily news. Stay informed, but don’t dive into the abyss.
When all is said and done, the consensus will be that the Swedes best managed the Wuhan contagion. Taiwan and South Korea will get high marks. The US screwed up when it locked down the entire country for a problem pretty much limited to NYC and New Orleans, but with Georgia leading the way everywhere else will reopen pretty quickly. We will have destroyed the US restaurant industry, but almost everything else will emerge with minimum damage.
Battleground states that handed Donald Trump the presidency four years ago are seeing higher-than-average layoffs amid an economic downturn wreaking havoc across the country — a dynamic that could hold major implications for November’s election.
Job losses are piling up in places like Michigan, where more than one in four workers applied for unemployment benefits in the past five weeks, according to a POLITICO analysis of Labor Department data.
In Pennsylvania, another key Rust Belt state that voted for Trump in 2016, nearly one-fourth of the workforce has filed an unemployment claim since mid-March.
Ohio is seeing more than 17 percent of workers filing jobless claims, outpacing the national average of 16.1 percent, as is Minnesota, a state Trump narrowly lost.
One of the only major battlegrounds seeing a lower claims rate than the national average is Wisconsin, according to the analysis, which compared claims filed to the number of employees on states’ non-farm payrolls in February.
But with more than one in eight workers filing for benefits there, it’s still a dramatic rise for a state that for years boasted an unemployment rate of 3.5 percent or lower, trending below the national average.
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence repeatedly told Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp that they approved of his aggressive plan to allow businesses to reopen, just a day before Trump pulled an about-face and publicly bashed the plan, according to two administration officials.
The green light from Pence and Trump came in separate private conversations with the Republican governor both before Kemp announced his plan to ease coronavirus restrictions and after it was unveiled on Monday, the officials said.
Trump’s sudden shift came only after top health advisers reviewed the plan more closely and persuaded the president that Kemp was risking further spread of the virus by moving too quickly.
“I told the governor of Georgia Brian Kemp that I disagree strongly with his decision to open certain facilities,” Trump said Wednesday, just a day after telling reporters that he trusted Kemp’s judgment. “He knows what’s he’s doing.”
On Thursday, he was even harder on the governor: “I wasn’t happy with Brian Kemp, I wasn’t at all happy.”
The extraordinary reversal — and public criticism of a GOP ally — is only the latest in a series of contradictory and confusing messages from the president on how and when he believes governors should ease stay-at-home orders intended to stop the spread of the deadly virus.
It demonstrates the political risk for governors in following the unpredictable president’s guidance.
Banks handling the government’s $349 billion loan program for small businesses made more than $10 billion in fees —
even as tens of thousands of small businesses were shut out of the program, according to an analysis of financial records by NPR.
The banks took in the fees while processing loans that required less vetting than regular bank loans and had little risk for the banks, the records show.
Taxpayers provided the money for the loans, which were guaranteed by the Small Business Administration.
According to a Department of Treasury fact sheet, all federally insured banks and credit unions could process the loans, which ranged in amount from tens of thousands to $10 million.
The banks acted essentially as middlemen, sending clients’ loan applications to the SBA, which approved them.
For every transaction made, banks took in 1% to 5% in fees, depending on the amount of the loan, according to government figures.
Loans worth less than $350,000 brought in 5% in fees while loans worth anywhere from $2 million to $10 million brought in 1% in fees.
A housing association representing the richest zip code in America was approved to receive a $2 million emergency coronavirus relief loan from the Small Business Administration, despite suffering no layoffs and no apparent financial impact from the coronavirus pandemic.
The Fisher Island Community Association, which manages the members-only private island off the Miami coast that can only be reached by helicopter or boat and once counted Oprah Winfrey as a member, was approved for a Paycheck Protection Program loan intended to help small businesses who had shuttered, laid off workers, or furloughed staff due to the viral outbreak.
kaffekup over 4 years ago
That’s been my new motto: Be careful, not crazy.
Darsan54 Premium Member over 4 years ago
Have a fairly “rigid” schedule, get up, exercise (if possible in your residence), shower, put on real clothes (clean too), eat real meals, watch the snacking (and day drinking) and allow a LOT of latitude in dealing with those you live with.
Oh, and minimize the daily news. Stay informed, but don’t dive into the abyss.
braindead Premium Member over 4 years ago
COVID Crazy?
Gosh, Scott, I bet you wish Trump had never destroyed the pandemic response structure that was in place when he took office.
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Minor correction — It ain’t crazy, it’s incompetence compounded by lies piled upon lies and more lies, along with total failure.
You know, imagine this “wartime president” during a real war: would America be defeated before Trump could sell the country to the enemies?
ikini Premium Member over 4 years ago
Good luck with that, Winslow…
jbmlaw01 over 4 years ago
When all is said and done, the consensus will be that the Swedes best managed the Wuhan contagion. Taiwan and South Korea will get high marks. The US screwed up when it locked down the entire country for a problem pretty much limited to NYC and New Orleans, but with Georgia leading the way everywhere else will reopen pretty quickly. We will have destroyed the US restaurant industry, but almost everything else will emerge with minimum damage.
Silly Season over 4 years ago
Battleground states that handed Donald Trump the presidency four years ago are seeing higher-than-average layoffs amid an economic downturn wreaking havoc across the country — a dynamic that could hold major implications for November’s election.
Job losses are piling up in places like Michigan, where more than one in four workers applied for unemployment benefits in the past five weeks, according to a POLITICO analysis of Labor Department data.
In Pennsylvania, another key Rust Belt state that voted for Trump in 2016, nearly one-fourth of the workforce has filed an unemployment claim since mid-March.
Ohio is seeing more than 17 percent of workers filing jobless claims, outpacing the national average of 16.1 percent, as is Minnesota, a state Trump narrowly lost.
One of the only major battlegrounds seeing a lower claims rate than the national average is Wisconsin, according to the analysis, which compared claims filed to the number of employees on states’ non-farm payrolls in February.
But with more than one in eight workers filing for benefits there, it’s still a dramatic rise for a state that for years boasted an unemployment rate of 3.5 percent or lower, trending below the national average.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/23/states-that-helped-trump-win-see-biggest-job-losses-204072
Silly Season over 4 years ago
Move over…
Trump is throwing another one under the bus…
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President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence repeatedly told Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp that they approved of his aggressive plan to allow businesses to reopen, just a day before Trump pulled an about-face and publicly bashed the plan, according to two administration officials.
The green light from Pence and Trump came in separate private conversations with the Republican governor both before Kemp announced his plan to ease coronavirus restrictions and after it was unveiled on Monday, the officials said.
Trump’s sudden shift came only after top health advisers reviewed the plan more closely and persuaded the president that Kemp was risking further spread of the virus by moving too quickly.
“I told the governor of Georgia Brian Kemp that I disagree strongly with his decision to open certain facilities,” Trump said Wednesday, just a day after telling reporters that he trusted Kemp’s judgment. “He knows what’s he’s doing.”
On Thursday, he was even harder on the governor: “I wasn’t happy with Brian Kemp, I wasn’t at all happy.”
The extraordinary reversal — and public criticism of a GOP ally — is only the latest in a series of contradictory and confusing messages from the president on how and when he believes governors should ease stay-at-home orders intended to stop the spread of the deadly virus.
It demonstrates the political risk for governors in following the unpredictable president’s guidance.
https://apnews.com/a031d395d414ffa655fdc65e6760d6a0
Silly Season over 4 years ago
♫…and the b̷e̷a̷t̷ grift goes on…. ♫
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Banks handling the government’s $349 billion loan program for small businesses made more than $10 billion in fees —
even as tens of thousands of small businesses were shut out of the program, according to an analysis of financial records by NPR.
The banks took in the fees while processing loans that required less vetting than regular bank loans and had little risk for the banks, the records show.
Taxpayers provided the money for the loans, which were guaranteed by the Small Business Administration.
According to a Department of Treasury fact sheet, all federally insured banks and credit unions could process the loans, which ranged in amount from tens of thousands to $10 million.
The banks acted essentially as middlemen, sending clients’ loan applications to the SBA, which approved them.
For every transaction made, banks took in 1% to 5% in fees, depending on the amount of the loan, according to government figures.
Loans worth less than $350,000 brought in 5% in fees while loans worth anywhere from $2 million to $10 million brought in 1% in fees.
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/22/840678984/small-business-rescue-earned-banks-10-billion-in-fees
Silly Season over 4 years ago
♫…the grift goes on…. ♫
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A housing association representing the richest zip code in America was approved to receive a $2 million emergency coronavirus relief loan from the Small Business Administration, despite suffering no layoffs and no apparent financial impact from the coronavirus pandemic.
The Fisher Island Community Association, which manages the members-only private island off the Miami coast that can only be reached by helicopter or boat and once counted Oprah Winfrey as a member, was approved for a Paycheck Protection Program loan intended to help small businesses who had shuttered, laid off workers, or furloughed staff due to the viral outbreak.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1192361
Spacetech over 4 years ago
He needs to head to China
Bookworm over 4 years ago
“Some are born crazy, some achieve craziness, and some have craziness thrust upon them.” Apologies to the Bard of Avon.
Plods with ...™ over 4 years ago
Good luck with that.
RobinHood over 4 years ago
Worry, why do I let myself worry?
Wondering what in the world did I do?
Crazy for thinking that distance would stop you
I’m crazy for trying and crazy for crying
Apoligies to The Redheaded Stranger
William Robbins Premium Member over 4 years ago
Unfortunately there’s no place on Earth that’s safe from Trump.