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  1. ROGER KIMBALL: The Democrats just made a huge mistake — They are exploiting a national emergency for the grubbiest of partisan motives. 

     

     

    Or as America’s Paper of Record notes: Democrats Worried Stimulus Bill Would Stimulate Economy.......?

     

     

    Democrats are counting on their party operatives with bylines to spin this for them and/or for the past two days to be forgotten by November — and in both cases, they could be right.

     

     

     

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    I suppose that it would be a waste of time to try to explain to Tibsy that "ballot harvesting" (which the left is pushing) 

     

    is pretty much the opposite of "one person - one vote.

     

     

     

    DEMOCRATS GOTTA DEMOCRAT

     

    One might hope that this stunt will have the same effect as the Democrats’ freak show over Brett Kavanaugh before the 2018 mid-term election (at least two defeated Democratic senators blame the backlash against their Kavanaugh antics for their defeats).

     

    Meanwhile, amidst the chorus of liberal and media voices who are now telling us how President Pantsuit would have handled the crisis better, let’s roll some tape just what liberals and the media were saying about some of Trump’s earliest moves, like the China travel ban:

     

     

     

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    Under the No Sh*t banner..............

     

     

    PLASTIC BAG BANS DANGEROUS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC:

     

    “For that reason, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu issued an emergency order over the weekend prohibiting reusable shopping bags and requiring that stores use disposable plastic or paper bags instead.”

     

     

     

    Senator John Kennedy Brutalizes Democrats Over Playing Politics With Bipartisan Stimulus Bill

     

     

     

    Here’s the Absolute Garbage Democrats Are Holding the Wuhan Virus Relief Bill Hostage Over

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  4. 10 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

     

     

    Hilarious,

     

    THAT"S what they gave Tibsy to push this rumor................An Aaron Blake opinion piece over Dr Fauci's interview.

     

    Here are Blake's last few 'articles" before this.......

     

     

    Trump flirts with a less-aggressive coronavirus response, echoing Fox News

     

    Analysis | Trump’s eruption at an NBC reporter says it all about his alternate reality on coronavirus

     

    Notetaker-in-chief: Trump’s presidency as told through a black marker

     
     
    Yeah, no doubt Dr. Faucci is on his way out.........................Hahahahahahaha.
     
    "revolving door"..........?
     
    The well is empty.
     
     
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    A very important point to remember........discuss it with you family

     

     

     

    "As an ER doctor, I am already faced with patients who arrive too sick to tell me their wishes, with no documentation of what those were when they were well enough to articulate them..."

     
    "... and with family members who never asked and, as a result, just don’t know. It is in these situations, as I place tubes and lines in this failing body, that I worry we are not providing care that is concordant with their goals. If I had known that the 68-year-old with recently diagnosed metastatic breast cancer is more worried about being uncomfortable at the end of her life, rather than prolonging it, we wouldn’t have placed that breathing tube and would instead have focused our intensive efforts on making her comfortable. If I had known that the 81-year-old had always hoped to die at home, I would have spent more time trying to mobilize our home hospice team rather than defaulting to a hospital admission.... I recently had this conversation with my own father and found out that he worried more about getting overly aggressive care than he did about not getting enough.... I wish we didn’t have to make and share these difficult decisions, but I worry that we are in a situation that necessitates it even more than usual."

    From "Do your loved ones a favor. Find out now how they want to die. I’m an ER doctor, and we need to know what matters most to your family member" by Emily Aaronson (in WaPo).

    One thing that Aaronson doesn't talk about is how bad it is in a time of shortage to use hospital equipment and services on people who would prefer to be left at home and to struggle to breathe or die without the invasion of ventilator tubes.

    Perhaps the inference is so obvious it's just brutal to specify it. That's a little ironic in an article about the problem of failing to "articulate" things. But I can see why Dr. Aaronson keeps quiet about anything that feels like utilitarianism.

     

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    ROGER KIMBALL: COVID-19, the Elephant, and the House Cat.

     

     

     

     

    SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR SAYS HER HUSBAND HAS TESTED POSITIVE FOR CORONAVIRUS: “After a persistent temperature and a ‘bad, bad’ cough, [John] Bessler began coughing up blood, Klobuchar [D-MN] said, prompting him to get a coronavirus test and a chest X-ray. He checked into a hospital in Virginia and ‘now has pneumonia and is on oxygen but not a ventilator,’ Klobuchar said.”

     

     

     

     

     Hillary and Chinese Gov’t Reading From Same Script In Calling Trump Racist Over “Chinese Virus”.

     

     

     

     

    AN ARGUMENT FOR LOCALISM: Disaster in New York does not require the same policy everywhere.

     

    New York State has a whopping 810 cases per million residents, closing in on both Italy and Switzerland fast. And the vast majority of those cases are concentrated in the City and nearby commuter counties. Franklin County, in the Adirondacks (and where your Editor has been known to spend some time) has not yet had a single confirmed case.

     

    By contrast, the other 49 states combined, including such hot zones as Washington and California, are at 54 cases per million residents. That puts the per million infection rate in the “other 49” just between Australia and North Macedonia. Or China, if you care to believe Commie numbers. Which we don’t.

     

    One question, of course, is whether the rest of the country is just “behind” New York by a few days, or whether there are important differences that should inform policy. We suspect some of both is true. Yes, New York is the land of stainless steel subway poles, where the virus once deposited will linger a particularly long time, cheek-by-jowl restaurant tables, and terribly crowded sidewalks. But New York is also testing heaving masses of people, so it may be revealing its own infections more completely than other states that will soon catch up in the world’s most dubious league table.

     

    Regardless, the vast difference in the apparent rate of infection between downstate New York and the rest of the country (and the considerable differences among the remaining 49 states) suggests that we need not apply precisely the same policies in every jurisdiction. Even in New York State, we do not understand the logic, beyond mere political calculus, for imposing the same burdens on the already poor towns of the Adirondacks as are the bare minimum, if that, in the boroughs.

     

    Read the whole thing.

     
     
     
     
     
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