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Just after the video above was made by the Washington Post, Duval County authorities told Trump his disease-spreading convention would be too dangerous to hold in Jacksonville and Trump pretended he decided to pull all the live convention events there. Some time early this week, Florida will report enough new COVID cases to shoot ahead of New York in total cases, a grim milestone.

Four months before people will be filling in their absentee ballots Trump's national approval rating has been cratering.

On Friday, Florida reported 8,942 new cases of COVID-19, the highest one day increase for the state... until Saturday, when Florida reported 9,585 new cases. Even before Sunday, active cases went from 97,943 to 132,545.

Before whistles started blowing, and back when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis could still get away with reporting insanely low numbers of COVID cases in his state, he issued a foolish executive order mandating visitors to Florida from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut self-isolate for 14 days before enjoying all that a Florida spring has to offer. Now the tri-state area is healing, while Florida is becoming one of the worst-hit states in the country.

COVID-Don + COVID-RonThere are different ways at looking to see which countries have, thus far, been hit hardest by the pandemic. One way is to see how many cases have been confirmed per one million in the population. Not counting mini states, Spain has had the hardest rate-- 5,940-- followed by Iceland (5,285), Ireland (4,890), Belgium (4,772), the U.S. (4,583), Italy (3,728), the U.K. (3,586) and Switzerland (3,537).The rates for several U.S.

Die For Me by Nancy OhanianOn Sunday, Washington Post media critic noted that the Trump regime and it's congressional enablers are making a concerted effort to "normalize" deaths from the pandemic.

Face To Face by Nancy OhanianPlease think of this post as a continuation the 5AM piece on anomie. I had a few questions about what anomie is.

There are three governors who have been judged so dangerously incompetent that none can be singled out as the worst pandemic governor in America and all three share the spot: Kristi Noem of South Dakota, Ron DeSantis of Florida and Brian Kemp of Georgia. Because all have opposed sane social distancing policies, thousands of their states' citizens have been infected. California now has 865 confirmed COVID-19 cases per one million in the population.

This morning, the IMF released its annual World Economic Outlook report, which predicts that "this year the global economy will experience its worst recession since the Great Depression, surpassing that seen during the global financial crisis a decade ago.

Katie Porter-- a leaderThere are some good politicians trying to do a good job through this. And then there are the nightmares like Trump and the Trumpists. Like Trump, governor Asa Hutchinson (R-AR), Kristi Noem (R-SD), Kevin Stitt (R-OK) and, especially, Ron DeSantis (R-FL) make everybody else look relatively good.