#ProLife https://t.co/YEM6KsIotU— 𝕎𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕒𝕞 𝔻. 𝕃𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕤𝕖𝕪 🌈 (@wdlindsy) March 9, 2020
David Remnick, "Trump in the Time of the Coronavirus":
Donald Trump is incapable of truth, heedless of science, and hostage to the demands of his insatiable ego.
Good morning. The president admitted that the North Star of his coronavirus response is keeping the number of confirmed cases artificially low by not testing people and I don't think a single major media outlet treated it as a story unto itself.— subscribe to my newsletter (@brianbeutler) March 7, 2020
Josh Marshall, "Key Source of COVID-19 Testing & Infection Data":
This [i.e., "Coronavirus Numbers by States"] seems to be the best and really only source of information I've seen with detailed and frequently updated data on the rate of COVID-19 testing and infections broken down by states within the United States. This is the breakdown by states. This is the daily cumulative update. In each case you have total tests, positives, negatives and pending. In a better world, the CDC or some other government agency would be publishing this information. But that’s not happening.
Extraordinary really, how Russia doesn’t have a single case. https://t.co/i1CNMf2uDy— Quinn Cummings (@quinncy) March 8, 2020
Josh Wood, "'We still have darkness': the town where an HIV outbreak occurred under Mike Pence":
When the outbreak was first detected at the start of 2015, there were immediate calls from public health experts for Pence to lift the ban on syringe exchanges to stop the spread of the disease, but he held off, remaining morally opposed to needle exchanges despite a wealth of evidence that such practices do not encourage more drug use, and successfully curb the spread of HIV.
Pence instead told people he was going to pray on what to do.
Trump "didn’t know people died from the flu."
It killed his grandfather. https://t.co/Dpb6r40q1R— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 7, 2020
Mary Papenfuss, "Larry Kudlow Again Insists Coronavirus Is 'Contained,' Urges Americans: 'Stay At Work'":
As health experts warn of increasing coronavirus cases and encouraged workers to telecommute, President Donald Trump's chief economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, declared again on Friday that the disease is "contained" and urged Americans: "Stay at work."
Trump also insisted Friday: "We stopped it," apparently referring to cases coming in from China.
The men made their comments on the same day that two more coronavirus deaths were reported — in Florida — bringing the national toll to 17.
I talked this afternoon to 2 governors who told me the CDC will not commit to getting them tests.
Whether because they don’t want the numbers known or incompetency, state & local governments feel abandoned. https://t.co/F56ZB7OheR— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) March 8, 2020
Brian Resnick and Dylan Scott, "The CDC’s rocky effort to get Americans tested for coronavirus, explained":
To date, per an investigation in the Atlantic, fewer than 2,000 people have been tested for Covid-19 in the US — a number far behind other developed countries. South Korea, for example, has tested more than 140,000 people and has even set up drive-though testing stations for people to access.
Evidence is mounting that early in the outbreak, in January and February, China bought the world time with its aggressive action to contain the viral outbreak in its borders. The testing fiasco in the US indicates we didn’t use that time well.
Old enough to remember President Trump weirdly insisting the total US number of US cases was 15 (when it was 60), and would soon go to zero.
"There are now more than 500 coronavirus cases in the US, according to state and local governments and the CDC."https://t.co/Yo1HKNpv5J— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) March 8, 2020
The known U.S. death toll is now 19. When it was 19 in China they'd already begun building two new hospitals and 20 quarantine facilities in one city.— James Hamblin (@jameshamblin) March 7, 2020
According to EU data, COVID-19 has been confirmed in 32 American states.
According to CDC, it’s 19.
According to Johns Hopkins tracker, there are 428 confirmed cases
According to CDC, it’s 162. And not changing.
According to trump, it’s zero by now after falling from 15.— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) March 8, 2020
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "Family of Missouri's first coronavirus patient broke self quarantine, St. Louis County officials say":
Local girl returns from Italy, flies into Chicago, takes Amtrak to [St. Louis], gets sick, family asked to self quarantine, father and younger sibling break quarantine to attend school dance.
The preceding quote is Josh Marshall's summary of that story at TPM.
U.S. senators possibly contracting fatal disease at a conference pushing the theory that the disease was a Deep State plot wasn't on my dystopian hellscape bingo card but here we are. https://t.co/sxCa11R2qD— Matt Rogers 🎙 (@Politidope) March 8, 2020
Aimee Green, "In midst of Oregon coronavirus outbreak, tweet shows crowded concert with advice: 'feel free to go out and have a good time'":
Just as Oregon health officials were announcing Saturday morning that the number of coronavirus cases in Oregon had more than doubled to seven, the Multnomah County Health Department tweeted a photo of a crowded music concert and the caption: "If you are feeling well, feel free to go out and have a good time this weekend."
Coronavirus live updates: lockdown in Italy as death toll rises from 233 to 366 https://t.co/fZsafRHVnZ— 𝕎𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕒𝕞 𝔻. 𝕃𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕤𝕖𝕪 🌈 (@wdlindsy) March 8, 2020
Flowers left outside the locked doors of Christ Church, around the corner from us. The church cancelled services today for the first time since the 19th century, after the rector was confirmed as DC’s first #corinavirus case. pic.twitter.com/bYEefH9dPo— Mary Louise Kelly (@NPRKelly) March 8, 2020
Trump knew he was lying when he called the virus "a hoax". Just like Russian meddling is a hoax. His base believe his every word.
Trump Supporters Are Now Claiming Coronavirus Doesn't Exist And Nobody Has Died From It https://t.co/XkDR1ykFHt via @politicususa— Dr. Robert Fortuna (@psychdr100) March 7, 2020
Ruth Graham, "Why Trump-Friendly Christian Leaders Are Feeling Totally Fine About the Coronavirus":
As long as the president is projecting such breeziness about the virus, in other words, to question his optimism is to question him. “They’ll use fear on the same issues Trump does: the Democrats, the socialists, immigrants, religious minorities,” said sociologist Andrew Whitehead, co-author of the recent book Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States. "But where the administration is saying, 'We've got it under control, there's nothing to be afraid of,' they'll fall in line with that." Even, it seems, when a global pandemic is involved.
8 days ago, Trump said that criticism of his administration's response to the coronavirus was a "hoax" because there were only 15 cases and 0 deaths.
Today, there are over 330 confirmed cases and 17 deaths in the US.
We need someone in charge who takes this seriously.— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 7, 2020
