COVID-election

Worldwide, reported COVID-19 cases were 5,391,485 yesterday, of which 1,666,012 were in the U.S. The 5 countries with the next highest caseloads have, combined, far more people than the U.S. does, but, also combined, far fewer cases:

Polling has consistently shown that the vast majority of Americans-- e

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey has done a bad job for his state in confronting the pandemic and the chickens are starting to come home to roost. Ducey chose to listen to Trump instead of the medical professionals and Arizona is headed for a tough Wave II. Yesterday there were 396 new cases reported, bringing the total caseload to 14,566 (704 deaths).

When will Trump turn on DeSantis & other failing GOP governors?I keep reading about how governors get much better approval ratings for their handling of the pandemic than Trump does. Well, of course!

The lede picture for Neil Irwin's chilling NY Times essay-- How Bailout Backlash and Moral Hazard Outrage Could Endanger the Economy wasn't of Trump or Mnuchin; it was a silhouette of a chinless, bespectacled turtle with this caption "Mitch McConnell at the U.S. Capitol.

Sunday showed that the early pandemic states are starting to level off. But the states where social distancing hasn't been taken seriously by state and local governments and lunkhead citizens, like the imbeciles in Oklahoma City, and where governors are racing to open up fast... that's where the focus of the pandemic is moving now:

Failure! by Nancy OhanianA new SSRS poll for the Public Religion Research Institute is in line with what other 2020 election polls have been saying: Trump's campaign is way up Schitt's Creek without a paddle.

The Dakotas are Trump country. Both states are red hellholes-- 2 right-wing Republican senators each, one at-large right-wing House member each, and each has a crackpot Trumpist governor and a sociopathic state legislature controlled by the GOP. In 2016, North Dakota gave Trump a 216,133 (64.1%) to 93,526 (27.8%) landslide over Hillary. He won 51 of North Dakota's 53 counties.

Several states run by governors refusing the work on flattening the curve are seeing an increase in confirmed coronavirus cases already-- and it's going to get a lot worse in these states. On Monday, Texas saw new 535 confirmed new cases. Yesterday there were 655 new cases. Florida has 610 new cases Monday and 708 yesterday. Iowa had 392 new cases Monday and 508 Tuesday. Oklahoma had 27 Monday, 130 yesterday.

It wouldn't have surprised me at all to hear that thousands of Trump's moron followers in Wyoming, Mississippi, the Dakotas and South Carolina we ingesting household cleaners. But, remember, even in the bluest states, there are pockets of gross ignorance and Trumpism.