Sea change: Last week, nobody (10%) wearing masks at the market. Yesterday: 30%. Today 90%.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 29, 2020
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Monthly Archives: March 2020
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In a piece called "Inside Trump's push" you want to know which aides are on which side. This is mainly just governors complaining about Trump://"Inside Trump’s risky push to reopen the country amid the coronavirus crisis" https://t.co/B3qkLaBWZL
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 29, 2020
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Feds Accelerate Foreign Workers into U.S. Despite Mass Unemployment https://t.co/cmvN5Gxgt1 via @BreitbartNews
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 28, 2020
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Curve seems to be bending in Italy. Takes a while … https://t.co/cc8Uw98YK3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 28, 2020
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This is from the latest version of his useful deck: https://t.co/4UqQmTDP3P https://t.co/y7PB5D8be2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 28, 2020
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Note Prof. Lin doesn't yet recommend wanton wearing of masks.:
"– At current infection rates and in normal activities, most people would be wasting masks.
– But masks would be useful in proximity with strangers (airplane, train, Uber/Lyft, and especially hospital or clinic)."— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 28, 2020
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Hard to find any reference to "15 days to slow the spread" on official https://t.co/qsjlYUt2hW site, even though the 15 days are not up. https://t.co/306L0jijG3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 28, 2020
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LA is trying to move them indoors into rec. centers hurriedly made into shelters. Seems insane–will facilitate spread. Emergency workers refusing to staff. https://t.co/N8UfXINUNh https://t.co/aastXnzXTa
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 28, 2020
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It's nailed to the perch, it's joined the choir invisible, it's on the bridge to Gaza https://t.co/YbAcUHEyM3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 28, 2020
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It's "inoperative," as Ron Ziegler would say. https://t.co/174b0pNp5x
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 28, 2020
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Rhode Island police and that National Guard hunt down New Yorkers to prevent them from going out https://t.co/I2EWHB1khy Hmm. 49 states have wanted to do that for a long time.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 28, 2020
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Trump's response to the ventilator shortage was corporatist too–get the big companies he knows to step up. https://t.co/OFcLFCPbdw Is it actually worse if he does it a) informally (with threats/rewards) than b) formally (through DPA). I'm not sure https://t.co/Qy8PHmZ9Fs
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 28, 2020
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An "advocate"-driven piece. Still: Alabama's plans says “persons with severe mental retardation, advanced dementia or severe traumatic brain injury may be poor candidates for ventilator support.” https://t.co/HZLaXoToPH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 28, 2020
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I think they said "mitigation" wouldn't do the job, but "suppression" (basically, 'all of the above') might. Agree that's not how it came across in that graph. https://t.co/GLOfP3wSJ0
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 27, 2020
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"Some government officials expressed concern about the possibility of ordering too many ventilators, leaving them with an expensive surplus."
Huh? If they make too many, there are probably plenty of countries around the world who'll want to buy them. https://t.co/n0bExRlBoC
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 27, 2020
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‘The Other Option Is Death’: New York Starts Sharing of Ventilators https://t.co/C94ioXIUx8
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 27, 2020
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This article could be so much more convincing if it weren't framed as 'Trump bad' and instead just looked at whether a r'eturn-to-normal-for-most strategy' might work for the country. A moment when @voxdotcom could've really helped https://t.co/Br4ZFjJtFI
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 27, 2020
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“People believed the rhetoric that containment would work,” scoffs "Wendy Parmet who studies law and public health." Hmm. Either
1) Isolating US from viruses is futile; or
2) Trump f–ked up the containment/isolation strategy.
Pick one, as they say https://t.co/GZswVWTbjx— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 27, 2020
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I suppose there are really 3 positions justifying "Protect Grandpa/free the rest":
1) Grandpa's going to get triaged either way;
2) Grandpa wouldn't get triaged, but he should volunteer to die to save America! (Lt. Gov. Patrick)
3) Flu. No biggie. Not many Grandpas gonna die https://t.co/TNW31z78Yd— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 27, 2020
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Tell us what you really think, Doc https://t.co/ZWVxmKs5yc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 27, 2020
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"[O]ur health care system is going to be overrun to a great extent no matter what we do." So is the 'Protect the Old/Free the Young' position that Grandpa's gonna get triaged anyway, or 'never mind the whole thing's just a bad flu'? Confusing! https://t.co/C1jCTZFJlB
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 27, 2020
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"If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases…"
Big "if." Hope that in fact turns out to be the case. Meanwhile, let's protect ourselves from what's happening in New York, Italy and Spain https://t.co/tRbU9K7PZ4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 27, 2020
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Here is a conservative breaking the Trumpist=End Lockdown matrix: https://t.co/IA4FCExmh7
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 27, 2020
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If you let older people die and save young people's lives, is it any wonder that mortality stats show the disease kills mostly older people? Seems at least a bit a man-made phenomenon https://t.co/1sPuglfTpM
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 26, 2020
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.@TuckerCarlson was the last best hope to break the mold here (as he has before) but he appears to be not taking sides … https://t.co/0H4D056OXP
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 26, 2020
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