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This response demonstrates the futility of advocating good behavior. On one side you have people who think that masks should be worn everywhere, on the other are those who will never put on a mask. The reality is in between.

Yeah, isn't that when Halper set up the dinner with Flynn & Lokhova present?

Lazy journalism. Funny how Germany's numbers are trending now, and everyone is focusing on German health authorities sounding the alarm that estimated transmission rate is moving above R1.1. Of course that was the only thing picked from the German report, which is chockfull of data and has other statistics that contradict the worrisome trend that the virus is on the rebound. Little things like actual infection rates and hospitalizations, which continue to decline: My biggest problem with the R coefficient is that it's an estimate based on dubious data. How many times have all the models that were based on that mythical R -value needed to be revised, because they were woefully wrong? I'm not going to impugn the academics' motives, because they're trying their best given the information. But, we also have to recognize that their shading is always to the negative, because there's no penalty to them for erring on the downside. If you add their role in advising public policy, there's a true disincentive to be more optimistic in their modeling. That's why you continue to see a more negative slant from academia, despite what the actual numbers say. And the press eats it up, without truly examining the numbers.

That would be the case in the initial outbreak, not something that's been festering for months. You wouldn't see a continual decline over the past 2 weeks.

Especially if you take a deeper look into where the growth has been outside NYC, and it's still the latency of the related outbreaks in CT, NJ, MA and PA. Everywhere else it's relatively quiet.

Funny how the scaredycats who warn that positive cases are still rising in some places, never cite the CO and GA statistics, who opened 2 weeks ago. Shouldn't they be spiking like mad by now?

Good Q. I don't know the population dispersion across PA counties. Here's the PA map. The case growth has slowed down in the last few days and is still centered around Philly & exurbs..

It would only be fitting that the most primitive backward sect stumbled onto the cure.

Still waiting for the spike in cases in Williamsburg Brooklyn after the funeral fiasco 2 weeks ago …. Maybe the inward backwards sect is on to something?

The old Toyota/GM JV facility in Fremont. He did get a nice deal on a full assembly & stamping plant in one spot. But he also struck some nice deals to equip his state of the art manufacturing. That was a major part of the early delays, because of the automation on the assembly line. It's one of very few facilities where the entire car is built in a single facility (except the battery)

Sun in the morning, then two snow bands passed through. Hopefully that's it.

Based on the traffic and activity in the shopping plazas in Hudson valley this weekend, Cuomo is going to have a hard time maintaining a shutdown north of Orange county.

And over 70% of global deaths have occurred in 5 countries.

CDC data is always behind

Again with the testing crap? How many times does this need to be debunked? SK didn't slow the spread because of testing. They did it primarily through voluntary quarantines and their customs. Their break out was concentrated in a particular group and they were easy to isolate. While I don't disagree that advising wearing masks as early as possible would have helped, which medical experts in the US were against such advice? Hint, everyone who was giving Trump advice.

That should be expected as it moves across the states.

Ok smart guy, what should have Trump done to stop the virus spread? A detailed answer is appreciated since you require specifics.

That's quite the selective list. Nobody really cares about the Mexican Wall, other than a dog whistle to people like you. The real action is what's happening to slow the flow of illicit activity through the Southern border. Other than that, nice of you to ignore the reinvigoration of the military and stopping the leading from behind foreign policy, never minding ending support for terrorist regimes. Also conveniently ignoring taking a firm stance with China and prompting companies to reconsider that country to be the sole source for the supply chain. But yeah, let's hold the economic devastation of the Wuhan Virus against him, when the economy was firing on all cylinders through March. Funny how USA's life expectancy started to rise again in 2018 after a decade fall. He's done nothing at all.

Trump speak with an 8th grader's vocabulary. That's well known. Yet, he's still accomplished far more than previous Presidents. You're the type of person who would rather get pounded with a 10 lb sledgehammer as long as the guy had a nice demeanor and vocabulary.

And I could have sworn that I heard a near unanimous push back when Trump declared that he has the ultimate authority to decide when states would open up? So which is it?

I heard that a cloth is better.

Oh yeah. My jab was directed at the Harvard propeller head.

Yeah, let's extrapolate the logistics of testing 5 people on a closed set to a population of 330 million spread out across a continent. Gotta love academics. This is why most of them fail when placed in managerial roles. I don't know how many times it needs to be repeated, applying a testing standard to reopen the economy simply means that the economy will not open. There are no tests nor infrastructure available that can provide instantaneous test results. Without that, tests will be backwards looking, and that's relatively useless for a true return. It's great to gather testing statistics and work on a solution, but it means squat to reopening the economy. At this point, the selective reopenings that have started in many states are a far better barometer than pie in the sky wishes by the academics.

"Alternative", as in the 354,657 times the same thing has been written about and suggested to Trump since summer 2015? Whoever has taken Clark's leadership seminars should request a full refund, because he failed the most fundamental task of a leader, which is recommending something that has almost zero chance of getting accomplished. You do not publicly badger someone's ingrained habits, honed over 50-years that have actually been successful. What is Trump going to do with the advice? "Who is this guy who couldn't even make it to Valentines Day in his Presidential run telling me how I should behave?" At least anti-Trump, Henry Blodgett had tangible advice:

Don't forget, they recommended issuing a badge that people had to wear first.