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It was almost inevitable that after spending getting on for half a billion dollars on his effort to to gain the Democratic nomination that multi billionaire Mike Bloomberg should decide to quit after his disappointing performance yesterday.
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"Ronnie Reagan - do you know my face?
Oh, don't say you don't
Please say you do, oh-uh-oh"
The Bloomberg endorsement for Biden may also help Sanders play the anti establishment narrative
"One dream, one soul, one prize, one goal
One golden glance of what should be
(It's a kind of magic)
One shaft of light that shows the way
No mortal man can win this day
The bell that rings inside your mind
It's a challenging the doors of time
(It's a kind of magic)
The waiting seems eternity
The day will dawn of sanity
It's a kind of magic
(It's a kind of magic)
There can be only one"
There is something about this contest - Trump vs Biden or Sanders. It's a bizarre remake of one of those smash hit 80's super cheese films. Total Recall maybe... no.. Demolition Man - the last 80s film.
Come to think of it - pass the 61st amendment amendment now!
I can see the hospital burns units being busy if that becomes a trend.
Putting themselves out there for the rest of us.
Somewhere this generation's FDR is enjoying his or hers obscurity.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51740214
Overround.
https://order-order.com/2020/03/04/uk-ranked-best-world-epidemic-response-mitigation/
https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1235038359359279110
Must be Hackney.
Surprised the govt haven't done more to support the company. If/when it goes bust, it'll have to be replaced by something that'll probably cost the govt even more money.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-51660982/criminals-on-cctv-scammers-caught-red-handed
WHO advice is only those caring for others need to wear masks:
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public
https://twitter.com/DarcyBurner/status/1234946039901085697
https://twitter.com/DarcyBurner/status/1234947271298449409
I know a few doctors out there who are saying very similar stuff, and are very frustrated because they can't get their patients tested, despite them having all the symptoms, and not having the flu.
Although, not from within the US.....
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/18269699.italy-trip-go-ahead-despite-coronavirus/
TODAY they were still saying they intend to go.
From a technical perspective, the US ticks all the boxes - medical expertise, equipment, technology, ability to detect, resources to mobilise rapidly, etc.
It’s just that - leaving aside the moron who happens to be in charge - many human and cultural factors prevented the US from responding. Such as cultural hostility to government intervention, isolationism and a tendency to think the worlds problems can’t reach America, a health system set up for competition not co-operation, minimal free healthcare creating disincentives for people to get tested, lack of sick pay discouraging people from self isolation.
"It is well within the realm of possibility that there are 100,000 people infected with this right now in the United States," Forman said. "Healthcare providers may be being exposed, other patients may be being exposed, and until you can give confidence to people about those answers, we are in a crisis here."
"It wouldn't surprise me if we were to learn that most major hospitals have coronavirus patients in them right now," he said.
Forman said in a tweet on Sunday that the number of confirmed cases in the US would "explode" in the coming days as existing cases are documented.
Quick reminder to America, if you healthcare providers are all sick, there is no one left to care. Mortality up.
1 new case in Romania. Patient recently returned from Italy. (Source)
32 new cases in the United Kingdom. Twenty-nine patients have recently traveled from countries with outbreaks of coronavirus. Three other patients contracted the virus in the UK. (Source) ( a bunch from Italy)
10 new cases in Belgium. Nine of the new patients recently returned from Italy.
1 new case in Portugal. Patient recently traveled from Italy. (
2 new cases in Iceland. Both patients recently traveled from Italy. (
2 new cases in Sweden. One traveled from Iran and the other from Italy.
All of these are from just TODAY
Still think its ok?
They won the battle of the Atlantic by building ships faster than the German U boats could sink them. One of my favourites is the Germans, who had been living on rats, in Monte Casino, who in a counter attack took some US trenches and found fresh cream cakes from Chicago. They surrendered.
What the hell has happened?
Starmer doesn't answer questions but he's oddly charming, I don't mind
Second, if you read up on the measures the Americans took to put their industry and people on a war footing, it’s dramatic stuff, and really was socialism. A lot of what we now see as enduring American sociology has actually developed during our lifetime. For example, US average working hours were once the shortest in the developed world. Government intervention built America - huge projects like the Erie Canal. At the beginning of the 20th century, the US was comparatively irreligious.
1. Thanks @NickPalmer for the Vox article yesterday. Main take aways - the Chinese numbers are thought broadly credible and, one they got in gear, contact tracing was their best weapon. Happily something the UK seems to bed doing well, fingers crossed.
2. The Italian numbers for their local outbreak are broadly in line with Chinese numbers for a bigger area. Having looked at lots of charts, it suggests to me that we are 5-12 days from the peak death rate of the Lodi centred epidemic and it has run 15-25% of its course.
3. I'm not clear how Italy is reporting case by province. Exponenting case numbers exist beyond the current or proposed extension of the red zone - I don't know, in Milan's figures, for example, whether they are (a) reporting case numbers from red zone patients who are in Milanese hospitals (b) seeing cases of Milanese who have had contact with the Lodigiani &c, or (c) there is now local transmission in areas of Milan. Obviously this has great bearing on the likely course of the outbreak beyond the Lodi core.
4. Kids look, not only to not get that ill, but to barely contract the virus when in contact. Even if things are bad, closing all schools across Italy, over the heads of the Civil Protection experts, seems like a misstep.
5. We really should not be thinking of nations as having the virus, rather putting specific rings on maps for areas with local transmission, areas at high risk of local transmission, and other areas - the WHO template agreed yesterday with Italy was a good step.
He technically can be very good. If people get fed up of Johnson Starmer will do well.
I'm sure that must have been the conversation on the doorsteps in Durham.
As soon as the economy goes south, "exciting" Johnson will drop through the floor.
But there is no evidence that millions will die.
Sanders is more like early twentieth-century American populist preachers, and Corbyn is more like Jean-Luc Melenchon.
I’d have thought what would cut through (and I think it still unlikely) is Biden saying things which indicate his brain is dribbling out of his ears. And the response will be laughter, not respect.
https://twitter.com/pkelso/status/1235279751411097601
You are not behaving like that. The writer in you is enjoying the drama of the storyline way too much. I honestly think you have barely engaged with the human implications at all; the occasional remark by way of lip service is not the same as behaving in an adult and responsible way.
And you are miles from being vindicated, since no-one predicted the whole thing would fizzle out in a fortnight. Millions will die, you have repeatedly said. Just in the UK. Lets see.
Edit and what are the odds on UCL cancelling their June open day?
Anyway, like I said, how do you challenge their honour ?
Unless, of course, you get a side order of chips to go with your chips with chips.
Although I do think this one will turn quickly, if the emerging US news is as bad as it seems it will be.