Friday, October 09, 2020

25: Covered Bridge

                    

42 comments:

  1. Bill--the details of that SFGate article about COVID spread are in a link at the end.

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    1. I noticed the link to what I assume was a multi-page research paper. But my major point was that what I see in Illinois and what I see in Wisconsin don't look to me like at all the same thing. Is spread really uncontrolled when the number of daily new cases is stable? I would think that cases would be surging if spread were completely uncontrolled.

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  2. Lincoln Project video shows Trump having difficulty breathing on the WH balcony after returning from the hospital. [Click] It’s pretty clear that he has to use his neck muscles—diaphragm and chest muscles are not enough.

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    1. I wondered at the time why he was released from the hospital so soon. Sounds like malpractice, if you ask me.. OTOH he is the Commander and chief and thus the ultimate boss of all those Army and Navy doctors. So, I suppose he brought pressure to bear. Still malpractice to release a patient who continues to have difficulty breathing. You know, Trump is his own worst enemy.

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    2. No hospital can keep any patient against his/her will. It would be interesting to know if his medical records say he was released "against medical advice," but those records are private.

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  3. New Battleground State Polls
    October 9, 2020 at 9:44 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

    From Public Policy Polling:
    TEXAS: Biden 50%, Trump 49%
    From Emerson College:
    MICHIGAN: Biden 54%, Trump 43%
    From St. Anselm College:
    NEW HAMPSHIRE: Biden 53%, Trump 41%
    From University of Georgia:
    GEORGIA: Trump 48%, Biden 46%
    From University of Texas
    TEXAS: Trump 50%, Biden 45%

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  4. OHIO: 166,102 cases and 4,994 deaths.

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  5. Reflecting on Pence’s sudden unexplained return from the campaign trail to Washington, I wonder if it might be because Trump can’t bear the thought of being upstaged by Pence. But, in today’s news: Vice President Mike Pence and second lady Karen Pence have requested mail-in absentee ballots from Indiana, WISH reports.
    This comes after the vice president and his wife postponed a scheduled trip to Indianapolis in order to vote early on Friday. No reason was given.
    What the Devil?

    That being as it may, there are too darn many stories to make links to them all (I am running late today, morning is gone), so I will just list headlines, mostly:

    From politicalwire.com [Click] in chronological order:

    McConnell Says New Relief Deal Unlikely [before election]
    Two ]more] White House Residence Staff Tested Positive
    White House Still Hiding Trump’s Test Information
    Ted Cruz Warns of ‘Bloodbath’ for GOP In Elections
    Trump Engineered a Sudden Windfall in 2016 [and disguised its source]
    Trump Cancels Weekend Rally in Pennsylvania
    Barrett Failed to Disclose Talks to Anti-Abortion Groups
    Biden Outspending Trump 50 to 1 on Radio Ads
    Trump to Offer $1.8 Trillion Relief Package
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    Bonus Quote of the Day
    “I’m back because I’m a perfect physical specimen, and I’m extremely young. And so I am lucky that way.” — President Trump, talking about having Covid-19 in a phone call with Fox Business.
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    Meadows Wedding Also Violated Curfew
    Chris Christie Still In the Hospital [& status unknown]
    Dreaming of a Landslide [Click]
    Trump Wants [nuclear] Arms Control Deal with Russia [before election]
    Trump Cancels Weekend Rallies
    Trump’s Interview with Limbaugh Lasted Two Hours
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    Extra Bonus Quote of the Day
    “If you fuck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are gonna do things to you that have never been done before.”
    — President Trump, on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
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    From Talking Points Memo: [Click]

    In one of his most reality TV star-in-chief moves yet, President Trump is going to be examined by a physician on Friday night in a segment that will be broadcast exclusively by Fox News.

    A Key State [Wisconsin] Trump Needs To Win Is Battling A Massive COVID Outbreak [Click]

    Is President Trump Facing Electoral Collapse?

    Judge Nixes Trump Camp Bid To Send Poll Watchers To PA ‘Satellite’ Voting Sites

    The Mess In Missouri: Our Pandemic-Election Risk Assessment Looks At MA, MO, MS, RI [plus links to reports on other states]

    The Violence Will Spike After He Loses

    That’s more than enough for now. Lunch is served.

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  6. Wait. NPR just reported that DT’s docs say
    he tested positive 10 days ago.
    So, um, Tues 9/29...?

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  7. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer writes in the Washington Post: Trump is complicit [Click] Well written.

    More Battleground State Polls
    October 9, 2020 at 3:48 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
    From Redfield & Wilson:
    ARIZONA: Biden 49%, Trump 43%
    FLORIDA: Biden 49%, Trump 44%
    MICHIGAN: Biden 50%, Trump 42%
    NORTH CAROLINA: Biden 49%, Trump 44%
    PENNSYLVANIA: Biden 49%, Trump 42%
    WISCONSIN: Biden 51%, Trump 41%

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  8. Still in shock from loss of my blogs. (last blog on last nights thread.) Stunned, really. Also see no answer.

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    1. Puddle! You lost your blogs? Yes, that's a terrible shock. I'm so sorry, my dear friend. ♥

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  9. Susan do you have the name/URL of our Japanese quilter's blog? Google is failing me.

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  10. Trump seems so agitated that I have honestly begun to wonder if, as the election returns roll in, he might check out the way Goebbels did; one argument agains that is the evidence of his terror of death: “Am I going out like Stan Chera? Am I?” [Click] On the other hand, he is probably doped up with dexamethasone and could very well be suffering from Covid-induced “brain fog.”

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  11. Theoretical physicist and 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics winner Roger Penrose had a moment’s inspiration that upended our view of the Universe, writes his biographer Patchen Barss. [Click] The theory of black holes and the explanation of quasars. The article contains a link [Click] to his theory of conformal cyclic cosmology, an alternative (and a satisfying one) to the big bang theory.

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  12. Krugman: Trump Is Killing the Economy Out of Spite. So what will he do if he loses the election? [Click]

    Krugman: Trump’s Debt, His Future and Ours. [Click] “The president — our chief law enforcement and national security official — could be facing huge liabilities. That’s chilling.”

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  13. Latest polls:

    Georgia: Trump 49, Biden 47
    Georgia Senate - Perdue 47, Ossoff 46
    Georgia Senate Special Election - Open Primary
    Warnock 36, Loeffler 26, Collins 23, Lieberman 3

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  14. I just now (5:50 PM) stepped outside to dump proto-compost onto the heap, and realized I could see, albeit imperfectly, the foothills due north; it's been quite a while since I saw them. Must be twenty miles away. Air quality very definitely improved.

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  15. Gut microbiome researchers harvest DNA from centuries-old cesspits. [Click] Also, evidently, identify parasite ova, although that isn’t explicitly mentioned.

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  16. A federal judge issued an order Friday night barring enforcement of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Oct. 1 proclamation that limited counties to one mail-in ballot drop-off location, the Austin American-Statesman reports.

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  17. Lindsey Graham Refuses COVID Test [Click] Evidently for fear a positive could scupper the SCOTUS nominee hearing. Well, there’s still time.

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  18. Oh gosh. I thought I'd already posted this.

    VT: 1846 (+8)
    58deaths (73 days)
    142 active cases
    Recovered 1646 (+8)
    In Hospital 0 ( 0)
    Tests 170,439 (+1037)

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