What Biden Learned the Last Time the World Stopped [Click] He oversaw the 2009 economic recovery for Barack Obama. If he wins the presidency, his first task will be to perform an encore on an even more daunting scale.
Somewhere I was reading that the only government agency capable of delivering relief for businesses and workers on the scale required is the IRS. Currently it is being delivered by the Small Business Administration, which is very simply incapable of doing the job.
Ford using airbag material to make gowns for health care workers [Click] I wonder how many hospitals these days have the ability to sterilize the gowns if they are reused (as Ford says they can be. In the old days they could, but they have been using single-use gowns for a long time.
I am old enough to remember when hospitals used cotton gowns, and had industrial size autoclaves to sterilize them. I think that after washing they were folded and wrapped in paper; and for sure the packages were closed with tape (kind of like masking tape) that when adequately heated developed diagonal black stripes. Then they changed to industrial size ethylene oxide sterilizers. The single use gowns are really hot because they don't let heat and perspiration pass the way cotton gowns do, so the hospitals had to spend more for air conditioning.
We were taught how to open and don the old cotton gowns without touching their outer surfaces--to protect the patients from us. It isn't as simple as one might assume.
This probably explains the considerable improvements in the coronavirus projections. [Click] Said CDC Director Robert Redfield: “The models underestimated the extent to which Americans would embrace the recommendations and engage in social distancing.” Original estimates for compliance were put at around 50%, but in the end, “compliance to the message has been in excess of 90%.”
Letters from the trenches: A wartime solution to isolation. [Click] “Letter writing may just be the balm some people need amid a cacophony of difficult news, terrifying statistics and misinformation on social media.” Oh, my—he very certainly did have good handwriting.
Four from The Atlantic:
ReplyDeleteWhat Biden Learned the Last Time the World Stopped [Click] He oversaw the 2009 economic recovery for Barack Obama. If he wins the presidency, his first task will be to perform an encore on an even more daunting scale.
Millennials Don’t Stand a Chance [Click] “They’re facing a second once-in-a-lifetime downturn at a crucial moment.”
Trump’s New Auto Rollback Is an Economic Disaster [Click]
If Biden Wins, He’ll Have to Put the World Back Together [Click] “His post-pandemic agenda will have to be a master class in redesign.”
On a nicer note:
ReplyDeleteCovid-19 made 'unthinkable' reforms a reality in the US – now make them stick [Click] “The crisis has produced emergency responses such as guaranteeing housing, reversing excessive incarceration and reducing drug prices that read like a progressive agenda”
This March 30th NYT editorial on what should be done to rescue the economy has aged well. [Click] But it can’t wait until after the presidential inauguration. It is already late, although not impossibly so.
ReplyDeletePelosi Seizes the Bully Pulpit [Click]
Somewhere I was reading that the only government agency capable of delivering relief for businesses and workers on the scale required is the IRS. Currently it is being delivered by the Small Business Administration, which is very simply incapable of doing the job.
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3.85%
Lowest (by far) increase in new cases in many weeks!
May the improvement continue.
DeleteAmen.
DeleteBeing an Actual Authoritarian Is Too Much Work for Trump [Click]
ReplyDeleteThe presidency is not a good fit for a lazy man...
DeleteFord using airbag material to make gowns for health care workers [Click] I wonder how many hospitals these days have the ability to sterilize the gowns if they are reused (as Ford says they can be. In the old days they could, but they have been using single-use gowns for a long time.
ReplyDeleteI am old enough to remember when hospitals used cotton gowns, and had industrial size autoclaves to sterilize them. I think that after washing they were folded and wrapped in paper; and for sure the packages were closed with tape (kind of like masking tape) that when adequately heated developed diagonal black stripes. Then they changed to industrial size ethylene oxide sterilizers. The single use gowns are really hot because they don't let heat and perspiration pass the way cotton gowns do, so the hospitals had to spend more for air conditioning.
DeleteWe were taught how to open and don the old cotton gowns without touching their outer surfaces--to protect the patients from us. It isn't as simple as one might assume.
DeleteNYC to manufacture its own coronavirus test kits and PPE [Click] “New York City will be self-sufficient. We will no longer be at the whim of either the federal government [or] the international markets,” de Blasio said.
ReplyDeleteExcellent idea!
DeleteAnd when NYC gets through the worst they can keep production going and have a new industry!
Here’s a backgrounder on the Wisconsin Supreme Court justice election [Click]
ReplyDelete‘I Am Stunned’: Wisconsin Democrats’ Improbable Victory [Click] “A decisive liberal triumph in a hard-fought judicial race eased fears that Republicans would exploit the coronavirus to their advantage.”
DeleteIt's looking a bit more like DT will be an anchor around the neck of the Republican Party rather than an albatross.
DeleteThis probably explains the considerable improvements in the coronavirus projections. [Click] Said CDC Director Robert Redfield: “The models underestimated the extent to which Americans would embrace the recommendations and engage in social distancing.” Original estimates for compliance were put at around 50%, but in the end, “compliance to the message has been in excess of 90%.”
ReplyDeleteOK, here is a report:
ReplyDeleteWounded by media scrutiny, Trump turned a briefing into a presidential tantrum [Click] “A toddler threw a self-pitying tantrum on live television on Monday night. Unfortunately he was 73 years old, wearing a long red tie and running the world’s most powerful country.”
Why is coronavirus killing so many more people in the UK than in Ireland? [Click]
ReplyDeleteLetters from the trenches: A wartime solution to isolation. [Click] “Letter writing may just be the balm some people need amid a cacophony of difficult news, terrifying statistics and misinformation on social media.” Oh, my—he very certainly did have good handwriting.
ReplyDeleteJust one more way he's trying to kill us...
ReplyDeleteTrump halts US funding for World Health Organization as it conducts coronavirus review
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/14/trump-calls-for-halt-to-us-funding-for-world-health-organization-amid-coronavirus-outbreak.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/14/834588506/trump-says-he-will-halt-who-funding-pending-review
Deletehttps://johnpavlovitz.com/2020/04/14/the-terrible-waste-of-this-presidency/
ReplyDeleteWelll,....yes.
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