No, the failure was that the government lost time when it could have taken *less* disruptive measures (cancel events, please work from home where practical etc, better quarantine and tracking when en… (View Post)

I agree, and if Biden didn't promise KLOBUCHAR that it would be KLOBUCHAR, it's because he'd already promised Jim Clyburn that it would be a black woman. In any case governors have got… (View Post)

I was originally skeptical of the Olympics conspiracy theory but now I think there's something in it, albeit *confined to Tokyo*. If you look at the data by prefecture it was quite weird how des… (View Post)

If you like you can play "spot the day the IOC told Tokyo it was postponing the Olympics": https://covid19japan.com/#prefecture-trajectory-container (View Post)

It seems like there's a portion of American voters who support their president in a time of crisis and that's showing up in the approval numbers, but that doesn't mean they're goi… (View Post)