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Has anything else happened in Spain that might have had an impact on case numbers? Like, for example, nightclubs reopening?
Kimberly Guilfoyle under fire for Trump fundraising disarray
Interviews depict an operation beset by departures, staffers with no prior fundraising experience and accusations of irresponsible spending.
FYI, Ms Guilfoyle is Don Jr's girlfriend (lucky lady!) who tested positive for you-know-what during 4th of July Trumpsky desecration of Mount Rushmore. She is in charge of small-to-medium donor FR, a category in which Uncle Joe has been eating Trumpsky's lunch (yet another sign that "enthusiasm" for The Donald is NOT all it's cracked up to be).
On that occasion, members of her staff were stranded in Rapid City ,SD under quarantine. Turns out being in the Heartland freaked these dweebles out.
"There are also questions about spending. In March, two staffers chose not to fly commercial and instead took the private jet of a major Trump donor to the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort for a finance event. The campaign had to reimburse the roughly $25,000 cost."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationwide_opinion_polling_for_the_2016_United_States_presidential_election#Three-way_race
You should know better than to be arguing the toss over those that got 2% versus those that showed 3% or 1% Clinton leads; they all had MOEs of 2-4% (aprart from the Google Survey, funnily enough).
The difference in the last four Rasmussen polls in the week before the election says nothing about the changing mood of the electorate or the refinement of their polling accuracy; it was all a reflection of MOE.
Nastiness: extreme - expect many years of vicious eye-gouging over a whole range of inflammatory problems including (in no particular order) Trident, the national debt, the currency, the reserves of the Bank of England, the contents of the British Museum, citizenship, pensions and tariff barriers. Relations will be absolutely dreadful for at least as long as it takes for everybody who was involved in the separation process on both sides to die of old age
One result - Congressional GOP has wasted a week in empty wrangling as unemployment for millions of jobless Americans in getting ready to run out.
Note this is VERY similar to way that Republicans acted in 1932 when faced with looming disaster thanks to the "leadership" of Herbert Hoover. Who of course was a statesman and paragon compared to Trumpsky.
Look at the wider picture of available evidence. Countries that aggressively went for the mask wearing nonsense early like Taiwan or Vietnam have been completely ravaged by the plague. Sensible countries that rejected such foolishness like the US, Brazil or the UK have been virtually untouched.
However, nothing is inevitable, even if the prospects look very grim, and we shouldn't pretend it is inevitable as that's just an excuse to convince people to give in.
How many times have I posted polls showing Labour behind? A lot, that's what.
So sod off with your nonsense HYUFD.
There WAS an umbrella store in downtown Seattle for a few years. Went out of business about a year ago, the owner (originally from out of state) thought it would be a natural hit. Turned out the only business she got was from tourists.
I mean, nightclubs are awful (hot, dark, excruciatingly loud,) but it's hard not to conclude that mask wearing would make them considerably more awful.
Not only am I getting incessant Trump begging emails, but I am getting them from every f***ing Republican in every race in every state. Despite the fact that I politely reply to each and every such email with "F**k off, Trump needs to be imprisoned for his crimes against the USA, and every GOP member of Congress has been complicit."
However you are correct, if as is likely we go to WTO Terms Brexit and indyref2 is allowed by Boris, which is unlikely and Yes won and Scotland rejoined the EU (or even if it did not but still left the UK internal market until a Scotland rUK or UK and EU FTA was agreed) then that would mean tariffs on all Scottish exports to England and English exports to Scotland and border checks and customs at Berwick
If I am right and our cases start to increase quickly what would you blame it on ?
Dr Mike Ryan WHO 31st March
“ There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the general population has any potential benefit, in fact there is some evidence to suggest the opposite.....”
Even Dr Hilary agreed with him.
I accept he is now saying something different , but that is quite a radical change of thought. Covid had been around for 3 months by the time of his original statement, and he must have based it on medical/scientific evidence.
We will see how our case numbers are affected by the wearing of masks in two weeks as that will be the only parameter that has changed.
Interesting how many Texas GOP of late have drifted - or in some cases sprinted _ to more moderate political posture. Esp. some leading Tea Party hearties & similar right-wing-nuts facing tough re-election battles in suburban districts that are swinging like a barn door toward the Democrats.
Governor Gregg is himself up for re-election, and is a pretty good bet to win another 4-year term. Yet it's clear that he is NOT taking that for granted. Thus is less-than-elegant back-stroking toward the middle of the pool.
Coming to terms with the end of the Union, if you're not in favour of it, is rather like coming to terms with the inevitability of your own eventual death. You don't have to like it, but it's a good idea for the sake of one's own sanity to learn to accept it.
Total capitulation in which we end up on a level playing field with the EU, fishing, state aid (may as well join EEA to save the economic damage)
No Deal and the economy is fucked
See also the correlation between the box office take of Nicholas Cage films and people drowning by falling into swimming pools. It is uncanny and must be evidence of causation.
Sir Oswald Mosely was first elected to House of Commons as a Conservative. To paraphrase a prominent (or at least prolific) PBer, it ain't where you start that counts, it's where you end up.
Previous data, such that there was, had little to do with the effect of wearing masks in public - the prior research was on their effectiveness in healthcare settings on protecting the patient (not the medical person - i.e. their effectiveness in infection control), or in their effectiveness in laboratories handling pathogens (controlled settings with high consequences). The data, frankly, was quite poor and limited, and focussed on people who would wear masks for long periods in high risk environments. But it was the only data available, and the WHO and other public health officials had to extrapolate from it.
Looking at some specifics:
- If you wear masks for long periods, masks can become saturated and become aerosol generators, hence the early assumption that the public wearing them might be bad. But the public tends to put them on and take them off more frequently then medical personnel or laboratorians, so the point about saturation is for the most part moot.
- In lab settings, the key thing is 100% prevention, so partial protection is dangerous. In pandemic control, any % reduction in the spread is helpful, provided false perceptions don't lead to risky behaviours.
- The old data on mask-wearing and disease was generic. Now we have newer, better data on the effect of wearing different types of masks specifically on the spread of COVID, not disease in general.
I think all of this goes to explain why a change in advice is following the science.
Washington's NFL team will be called the "Washington Football Team" during the 2020 season.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/american-football/53520772
I get dropping the Redskins bit, but was it really impossible to have a placeholder name while they go through the process of choosing a new name and logo for the long term? Even the Washington Blandathons would be better.
Mandatory mask wearing is far from the only parameter that will have changed. People have just started travelling again in big numbers, airports far busier, UK tourists destinations busy, official school holidays have started, gyms, swimming pools will be opening up. Blaming any increase that happens on the fact that the government has now told people to wear masks is bonkers frankly.
This was favorite with many locals, serious hockey fanatics as well as normal, decent folk.
Of course I supported Remain so the blood isn't on my hands.
Therefore I support EEA as it's the only sensible option left
Liverpool Football Club don't feel the need to put another name after Liverpool. Plus any placeholder would be pressured to become the permanent new name, they'd end up with as many names as leaders of the Lib Dems in recent years.
OR maybe being woke up when you least expect it, as when the boss catches you taking your post-luncheon nap?
However independence after a WTO terms Brexit with Scotland joining the EU means no customs union and no single market between Scotland and England and inevitably means tariffs on Scottish exports to England and visa versa and customs checks and border controls at Berwick
https://twitter.com/HarryYorke1/status/1286404835806502913
Of course we do NOT correct outsiders (esp out-of-work cousins & Californicators) when they go on about how it always rains in Seattle. "Yeah," we say, "rains like hell - you probably wouldn't like it."
Goodwin's analysis of Labour's defeat is pretty much correct but he's not unique in making that analysis. And like you I find his Twitter contributions very boring and selective.
It's his suggestions for Labour that I find troubling and in bad faith. He knows full well Labour cannot go to the right on culture in any way that would "out culture" the Tories, so it seems odd he keeps suggesting Labour do that. Blair was far more shrewd when he said don't have the conversation at all, it's a battle you can't win. Goodwin suggests Labour fights it, I think that's not workable.
He correctly identifies Labour needs to win Scotland but how is becoming culturally right wing going to do that? Scotland isn't interested in that, it keeps voting the SNP in.
I think less culture for Labour is a good thing, ideally don't have the arguments at all but I think going to the right is stupid.
I also don't think he's entirely right to say the only route to a Labour victory is through culture + left wing economics. That's not how Blair won.
How many years ago was that EICIPM moment of brilliance? It seems like a century ago
Dodgy statues really are a no-no"
If however Boris does allow indyref2 after WTO terms Brexit then that means border controls and customs checks at Berwick and tariffs on Scottish exports to England and vice versa and likely a Tory win again in 2024 on a surge of English nationalism, with Westminster free of SNP MPs the Tories have a majority of well over 100
WHAT AN ABJECT DISASTER of a morning for the three Ms: STEVEN MNUCHIN, MARK MEADOWS and MITCH MCCONNELL.
AFTER A FEW WEEKS of anticipation, the SENATE GOP LEADERSHIP had to abandon its plans to release a Covid relief bill after disagreements on policy with the TRUMP White House.
TO PUT THIS IN CONTEXT: Republicans can’t even get on the same page with each other for a bill that is simply meant to jumpstart negotiations with Democrats. In other words, the bill that the WHITE HOUSE and SENATE GOP LEADERSHIP are arguing over will never get a vote. Now think about how hard it will be for Republicans to put together a big package with Democrats over the next few weeks.
THE ORIGINAL PLAN was for Senate Majority Leader MCCONNELL to introduce his Covid package on the floor this morning at 9:30 -- which, theoretically, would have led to talks with Speaker NANCY PELOSI and Senate Minority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER next week.
BUT INSTEAD, around 9:30 a.m., Treasury Secretary MNUCHIN and White House COS MEADOWS made an emergency visit to meet with an angry MCCONNELL, whose plans were in the process of being foiled. The crux of the disagreement was how to structure unemployment insurance. Many of the spending provisions had been hammered out.
NOW, MCCONNELL will likely have to release his draft bill next week, which is far later than he had planned. Keep in mind that enhanced unemployment benefits are due to run out at the end of the month.
If Johnson's Government produced a report saying Brexit was an economic masterstroke you'd be here saying it was fantastic. If I called out its lack of impartiality you'd call me a muppet
My guess is that "Redhawks" underwhelms football fans & others in metro DC - including African Americans. The squadron you mention is NOT a household word, like Buffalo Soldiers or Tuskegee Airmen.
Many people have refused to call the team the R-word for many years now, so not that big a deal, at least temporarily.
The SNP will get their referendum eventually, and when they get it they'll win.
Johnson won't concede a referendum because that theoretical Tory win in 2024 would end up being under another leader. The fall of the Union would wreck him as comprehensively as the 2016 result did Cameron.
At the same time we were trying to figure out what HYUFD meant