If he'd have handled this right, he'd be at 50% or higher. (Dem strategist told me this, and I believe it.) https://t.co/rvildoBBqP
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 24, 2020
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Monthly Archives: March 2020
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If you go on @Amazon and type in "chloroquine phosphate," one of the products they show you is fish tank chemicals — with no warning. They should really fix this. https://t.co/IuV6HOigvu
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 24, 2020
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— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 24, 2020
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Won't just talking about how soon you're going to relax lockdowns encourage more people to relax NOW? Even if you wanted to do it time for President to talk about doing it isn't a week before 15 days ends. https://t.co/gtS8xKFfzV
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 24, 2020
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Obviously have to open up at some point. But why not wait until we have more a) testing b) information on the virus (incl. numbers) c) beds, ventilators & ICU surge capacity relative to expected surge demand d) therapies? Ideally also until we're past peak (as we hope Italy is). https://t.co/nA2PxAQ7IK
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 24, 2020
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“If we let up now we can be virtually certain that health care will be overwhelmed in many if not all parts of the country"– Lipsitch https://t.co/s505JIHn4W
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 24, 2020
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"[T]he early Trump adopters are mostly on the outside today. Whether you think that’s a good or bad thing…[w]hat’s clear is that on the issue of this pandemic, though, we’d all have been better off if Trump had listened to the former." https://t.co/popWPWLPvr via @VanityFair
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 24, 2020
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"If it makes sense why Trumpists would find such a resonant issue in the coronavirus, then the real mystery is why Donald Trump, for whom the issue was built, wound up playing the role of leading denialist…" https://t.co/popWPWLPvr
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 24, 2020
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If your preoccupations have been over manufacturing capacity, border control, or globalism, then coronavirus hits on all three at once." https://t.co/popWPWLPvr
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 24, 2020
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Maybe they want to see their children or grandchildren? Or a nurse? Plus a whole lot of people over 70–eg all of our remaining presidential candidates, Bob Weir, William Shatner, Dolly Parton, Warren Buffett–won't put up with being semi-imprisoned. They'll be out and about. https://t.co/QLMF51RfyF
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 24, 2020
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The question is whether this will work. Not at all sure it does. Whole lotta 45-69 year olds who probably won't die but need ventilators will be competing with 70 year olds who get it if we let it run rampant in the general population, no? https://t.co/rGSASqAms1
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 24, 2020
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Maybe wait to throw Grandpa on the mercies of the virus until promising drugs like these are … proven in full clinical trials. Yeah. That's the ticket. https://t.co/QsqIRjHsmf
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 24, 2020
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When did it switch from "OK, Boomer" to "Goodbye, Boomer"?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 24, 2020
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Saving Main Street is one thing (serious argument); saving Wall Street is another. https://t.co/pJo1jBRGcS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 23, 2020
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Tell me more about those "difficult tradeoffs." If the tradeoff is dead older Americans, put a number on it. https://t.co/NaD7VxmrUU
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 23, 2020
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Feilier Thesis says he may have more time than he thinks: "Trump, with an eye on November, may be less inclined to wait out the virus while the economy contracts." https://t.co/a4mEjs2oz3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 23, 2020
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The Katzers make it sound like a win-win deal: We can get back to work *without* consigning tens of thousands of mostly-older people to premature deaths. Is that true? They should not hide the ball on that question. https://t.co/yjthqwnvCG
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 23, 2020
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Looking for the anti-Dr. Katz backlash. This is a good start. [Thread] https://t.co/Ymwg5ZruuZ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 23, 2020
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Thread on the Pelosi laundry list. She even likes some of it. Still … https://t.co/D4ReCdzs38
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 23, 2020
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I know nothing about this person. Trust docs will assess … https://t.co/Su7GFAIO0Q
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 23, 2020
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Well yes-if projected deaths of over-70s are high enough-and they seem to be. Even @HMDatMI says "If 1 percent of the US population becomes infected, under a 0.3 percent fatality rate, 10,000 people would die." Now do 30 % infected-or the 60% required for herd immunity. Too high. https://t.co/zvK5xEWRlC
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 23, 2020
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If Trump ordered Ford, GM and/or Tesla to produce ventilators, wouldn't that help ward of shareholder suits (ie they'd get sued if they just did it out of patriotism & charity)? https://t.co/TJU0DjVweR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 23, 2020
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US death total increase yesterday, from 3 trackers:
Johns Hopkins + 31%; https://t.co/96B3siBeHe +27%;
wikipedia + 17%All less than the https://t.co/zkVzCJ76PS benchmark of 33%, but obviously too early to get excited. (It seems to fluctuate quite a bit day by day.)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 22, 2020
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And if it doesn't work we will find that out quickly too, no? https://t.co/Wg3Z9cvvZE
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 22, 2020
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Should say if they help they might keep people out of ICUs, which is the crunch we're terrified of. Whether or not they "flatten" the general curve of infections is a separate question. (You'd think they would if they kill the virus-but I am not a doctor as many have pointed out) https://t.co/JPNa5p1YDT
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) March 22, 2020
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