Poof! into thin air- by Nancy OhanianThere are a lot of ways to interpret the data Worldometers puts out on the pandemic. One that I find useful is to look at daily new cases, which generally track future mortality. Cases per million residents is also important since it's otherwise pointless to compare a state with very few people to a state with many millions of people.
Queens, New YorkLast week Edward Luce, writing for the Financial Times, made it abundantly clear who's to blame for the out-sized U.S. pandemic death rate. His piece is the best document about what happened so far.
Never Waste A Serious Crisis by Nancy OhanianThe pandemic hit South Korea early through crowded churches. The entire society mobilized and beat the crap out of the coronavirus. Korea has been a model of how to handle this-- a model followed by some countries but not others. Korea has only had 10,874 cases (same number as Minnesota-- and South Korea has 10 times more people) and 256 deaths.
-by Helen KleinThe nation’s food supply is not going very well. What will be done about it? Is anyone in government looking at it?Last week on MSNBC, Chris Hayes aired, "The Real Reason Grocery Shelves are Empty" (above). This segment highlighted the massive amounts of food currently rotting and being dumped: thousands of gallons of milk are being spilled from storage facilities, eggs are being smashed and farmers are plowing under tons of vegetables. Why?
The COVID-KingRemember when the White House was telling everyone masks don't work and not to get them. At the time, we warned DWT readers they were lying and that it was only a matter of time before masks became compulsory. They became compulsory in L.A. last Friday. The country is still a long way off for that to become national policy-- but the Trumpist regime has never been serious about flattening the curve anyway.
Utah has a couple of blue and purple counties-- Salt Lake and Summit (which Hillary won in 2016) and Grand which she kind of won too-- 1,934 for Hillary and 1,932 for Señor Trumpanzee, a 43.4% to 43.4% tie, with #NeverTrump conservative Evan McMullin and Libertarian Gary Johnson getting most of the balance. In 2018 Mitt Romney lost both Summit and Grand to Jenny Wilson, a Democrat.
No matter how many thousands-- or even millions-- of Americans die in the pandemic, Trump can't be prosecuted for his inadequate response. Even if the Trump Recession turned into the Trump Depression, don't imagine Trump's head on a pike or in a prison cell. Hopefully, though, he'll lose the November election (even to the corpse the Democratic establishment is determined to replace him with).
Yesterday, just as the news broke that the Trumpist economy has seen another 6.6 million new unemployment claims filed, the Wall Street Journal published a piece by a team of their reporters in Europe-- Jason Douglas in London, Tom Fairless in Frankfurt and Stacy Meichtry in Paris-- explaining how the EU has u
