Today's News (2020/3/14) COVID-19 edition
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solarbirdBig headlines here are a combination of Trump's new travels bans and testing protocols being implemented without any preparation or pre-notification - including of airports affected, so now there are massive multi-hour-long jams of people shoulder to shoulder with no sanitation. It's a perfect coronavirus breeding ground, and now those people are going all over the place.
Second is that anti-social-distancing actions is becoming a thing on the right. It's basically "rolling coal," but with a contagious and often fatal pandemic virus.
One of the people doing it is famous chair thief, serial campaign finance law violator, and Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Eyman, who has thus proven himself so deeply unfit for office that his status as Republican frontrunner can only be taken to mean that the GOP is now fully committed to fundamental unfitness for office as an ideal.
It's grotesque, and no one involved with the Republican Party should ever have office again.
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Trump says he has been tested for coronavirus, expects results within days
The White House also announced the European travel ban would be expanded to include the U.K. and Ireland.
March 14, 2020, 9:41 AM PDT / Updated March 14, 2020, 9:58 AM PDT
By Lauren Egan
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-he-has-been-tested-coronavirus-expects-results-within-n1158991
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said that he took a test Friday to determine whether he has the coronavirus and will have the results within a few days.
“I also took the test last night, and I decided I should based on the press conference yesterday. People were asking," Trump said during a press conference at the White House Saturday.
“They sent it to a lab,” he added, saying results should take a "day or two" to come back from the lab.
The White House also announced that they would expand the European travel ban to include the United Kingdom and Ireland beginning midnight on Monday.
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Japan confirms first case of person re-infected with coronavirus
The reinfection has health officials worried the illness could stay dormant after signs of recovery.
By Joseph Guzman
14 March 2020
https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/484942-japan-confirms-first-case-of-person-reinfected
Japan is reporting its first case of a person becoming reinfected with the coronavirus after showing signs they had fully recovered, according to Reuters.
Osaka’s prefectural government confirmed Wednesday a woman working as a tour bus guide tested positive for coronavirus for the second time after developing a sore throat and chest pain. The woman, who is said to be in her 40s, first tested positive in late January and was discharged from the hospital on Feb. 1 after showing signs of recovery.
Reuters reports Health Minister Katsunobu Kato said the government would need to monitor the condition of others who were infected and later discharged as health experts investigate testing positive for COVID-19 after an initial recovery.
As much remains unknown about the virus, cases of reinfection have health experts worried that the illness could remain dormant after an apparent recovery.
“Once you have the infection, it could remain dormant with minimal symptoms,” Philip Tierno Jr., professor of microbiology and pathology at New York University, told Reuters.
“And then you can get an exacerbation if it finds its way into the lungs,” he said.
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America Is Acting Like a Failed State
Many businesses, local governments, and individuals are doing what is necessary to beat back the coronavirus—with little help from the White House.
Derek Thompson
Staff writer at The Atlantic
14 March 2020
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/america-isnt-failing-its-pandemic-testwashington-is/608026/
A global pandemic is a mandatory exam in national competence. It is a test for individuals, who have to change their life and withdraw from public events to slow the spread of a disease through crowds and social networks. It is a test for companies, which must change their protocols to protect their employees, sometimes by banishing them from the office. It is a test for institutions, which must decide whether to uphold traditions and festivals for the sake of public morale, or to cancel events, tournaments, conferences, and concerts.
And it is, above all, a test for the state. Only the national government can oversee the response to a national outbreak by coordinating research on the nature of the disease. Only the state can ensure the national regulation and accuracy of testing, and use its fiscal and monetary might to stimulate the economy if the pandemic threatens people’s income and employment.
...
But in the United States, the pandemic has devolved into a kind of grotesque caricature of American federalism. The private sector has taken on quasi-state functions at a time when the executive branch of government—drained of scientific expertise, starved of moral vision—has taken on the qualities of a failed state. In a country where many individuals, companies, institutions, and local governments are making hard decisions for the good of the nation, the most important actor of them all—the Trump administration—has been a shambolic bonanza of incompetence.
It might seem hyperbolic to compare the U.S. government to a failed state that cannot project its authority or adequately ensure the safety of its population. But for much of the past month, the White House has shown an inability to do either.
The Trump administration has failed to perform the most basic function of a state during a pandemic—which is to accurately assess the threat. While South Korea is reportedly conducting 10,000 tests a day, lawmakers learned on Thursday that the U.S. has conducted only 11,000 coronavirus tests in total. (For the U.S. to catch up to South Korea on a per capita basis, it would need to conduct 65,000 tests daily.) But the coronavirus caught the Trump White House flat-footed. The administration fired the U.S. pandemic-response team in 2018. It ignored early warnings from epidemiologists; refused to waive regulations that impeded early testing; and botched its initial COVID-19 testing kits.
...
America has not yet failed, but its government has—and, along with it, a certain vision of conservative governance. For decades, the Republican Party has committed itself to destroying state capacity, disparaging science, punishing expertise, and masquerading as populist while enriching narrow interests. It has all led to this: an undetected pandemic spreading, likely exponentially, as the president and his representatives mock the disease and oversee a state apparatus too incompetent to test for it. The resilience of some American institutions many miles from Pennsylvania Avenue may temporarily blunt this federal ineptitude, but it cannot for long overcome it. At some point, the competence gap between Washington and America has to close. At some point, a state that survives needs a government bent on something more than its own self-destruction.
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US travel ban extends to UK, Ireland; Trump eyes US limits
March 13, 2020
By MICHAEL BALSAMO, COLLEEN LONG and Aamer Madhani
The Associated Press
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/house-passes-aid-bill-after-trump-declares-virus-emergency/
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Saturday that the United States will broaden its European travel ban, adding Britain and Ireland to its list, and was considering imposing restrictions on travel within the U.S. to areas hit hard by the coronavirus spread.
Under the restrictions on European travel, American citizens, green card holders and others are still allowed to return home to the U.S., but will be funneled to 13 airports and be subjected to health screenings and quarantine orders.
...
Pence added that administration officials were “considering a broad range of measures” for potential domestic travel restrictions but no decisions have been made.
“We’re going to continue to follow the facts,” Pence said. “We’re going to continue to listen to the experts about recommendations.”
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[Former Surgeon General] Vivek Murthy
twitter.com/vivek_murthy
https://twitter.com/vivek_murthy/status/1238500486040506369
Mar 13 2020
THREAD: Yesterday, I spoke with doctors from one of the nation’s leading academic hospitals located in a state where #COVID19 cases are increasing quickly. This is what they told me: They've been seeing *many* patients with symptoms concerning for COVID19 who need testing (1/x)
Mar 13
But they are unable to get the *vast majority* of them COVID19 testing. Their only resource for testing is the state lab. But the state lab is severely limited in capacity and it will take another few weeks for the hospital lab to implement its own test. (2/x)
[remainder at link]
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House Passes Bipartisan Coronavirus Relief Bill
The deal nearly collapsed several times as negotiations to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 bogged down.
By Matt Fuller and Arthur Delaney
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coronavirus-relief-house-passes_n_5e6c4c4bc5b6747ef11d3467
WASHINGTON — After multiple moments of near-collapse and a week of negotiation between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, the House passed a bipartisan bill early Saturday to deal with some of the potential financial fallout for families affected by the spread of the novel coronavirus.
The bill passed the House, 363-40, just after midnight on Saturday, with 223 Democrats and 140 Republicans in support, and zero Democrats and 40 Republicans opposed. Independent Justin Amash of Michigan was the only member to vote present, over concerns that lawmakers didn’t have enough time to read the legislation.
Democrats had been intent on offering a bill that would provide for paid sick leave, which the bill partly does. But Democrats had wanted a permanent program requiring employers to provide two weeks of paid sick leave annually. Republicans balked at that idea, and instead the bill would create a national sick leave program for one year.
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Trump is breaking every rule in the CDC’s 450-page playbook for health crisis
The communication chaos on coronavirus is eroding the most powerful weapon we have: Public trust
By Carolyn Y. Johnson and William Wan
March 14, 2020 at 6:50 a.m. PDT
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/14/cdc-manual-crisis-coronavirus-trump/
Amid an outbreak where vaccines, drug treatments and even sufficient testing don’t yet exist, communication that is delivered early, accurately and credibly is the strongest medicine in the government’s arsenal.
But the Trump administration’s zigzagging, defensive, inconsistent messages about the novel coronavirus continued Friday, breaking almost every rule in the book and eroding the most powerful weapon officials possess: Public trust.
After disastrous communications during the 2001 anthrax attacks — when white powder in envelopes sparked widespread panic — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention created a 450-page manual outlining how U.S. leaders should talk to the public during crises.
Protecting vulnerable people from a virus that, according to some projections, could infect millions and kill hundreds of thousands, depends on U.S. leaders issuing clear public health instructions and the public’s trust to follow directions that could save their lives.
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Performative anti-social-distancing is now a Thing on the Right, 1
As things fall apart, remember how we got here.
twitter.com/solarbirdy
https://twitter.com/solarbirdy/status/1239052396124188672
So famous chair thief and serial campaign finance law violator Tim Eyman apparently spent today "rolling coal," but with a pandemic virus instead of air pollution. Fortunately almost no one turned out for his sad little tantrum, but _Christ_, what a nasty manchild. Fuck this guy.
[EMBEDDED IMAGE]
[TRANSCRIPTION]
Flouting coronavirus restrictions, Tim Eyman promotes 250-plus gathering to 'stick our finger in the eye of Jay Inslee'
Tim Eyman, the initiative promoter leading early polls to be the Republican candidate for governor this fall, spent Saturday rooting for a political rally of 250+ people to “stick our finger in the eye of Jay Inslee.”
In an email blast to supporters, Eyman flouted public health restrictions and advice on slowing the spread of coronavirus, saying “251 is the # of patriots I hope will join me @ Oak Harbor today. I’m bringing a 6-pack of Corona!”
As with some other of Eyman’s publicity gags, it was more bluster than reality. In a phone interview Saturday, he said actual turnout at the event was “about 60.”
Using emergency powers, Gov. Inslee this week expanded a ban on social gatherings of more than 250 people to cover the entire state. He had initially ordered the ban in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties, which have been at the epicenter of the coronavirus spread locally.
The move was in line with social distancing policies recommended by public health experts to combat the virus known to have killed at least 40 people in Washington as of Saturday. President Donald Trump this week declared a national emergency over what the World Health Organization has labeled a pandemic.
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Performative anti-social-distancing is now a Thing on the Right, 2
twitter.com/realkatiejow
14 March 2020
[EDITOR: Katie, a.k.a. #coronaviruskatie, has deleted her tweet. Link is to screepcap of tweet.]
https://twitter.com/VSCarnival/status/1238997334408622080/photo/1
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Performative anti-social-distancing is now a Thing on the Right, 3
https://twitter.com/govstitt
14 March 2020
[EDITOR: Governor Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma tweeted a photo of him with his kids at a rather packed festival event in Oklahoma, despite the coronavirus emergency. He has deleted the tweet.]
Original tweet URL:
https://twitter.com/govstitt/status/1238993308942323716
Tweet with screencap of tweet:
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1239031957889007619
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Brooke Geiger McDonald
twitter.com/BrookeGMcDonald
https://twitter.com/BrookeGMcDonald/status/1238986272137502720
This is the scene at O’Hare airport. The traveler who took the photo said it’s a 6-hour wait for bags then on to customs for 2-4 more of waiting in shoulder-to-shoulder crowds. Police are handing out water and disinfectant wipes. twitter.com/fly2ohare #ord #coronavirus #COVID19
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Jason Whitely
twitter.com/JasonWhitely
https://twitter.com/JasonWhitely/status/1238986444615618561
#BREAKING: Passengers stuck in long lines for immigration at DFWAirport tell us there are no offers of hand sanitizer, gloves, or masks from U.S. Customs / Immigration. Travelers say they’ve had no screenings of temp yet and no one following #coronavirus protocols.
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Illinois governor profanely blasts Trump for public health crisis at O’Hare airport: ‘You need to do something NOW’
14 March 2020
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/illinois-governor-profanely-blasts-trump-for-public-health-crisis-at-ohare-airport-you-need-to-do-something-now/
Shocking photos emerged on Saturday evening of large crowds and long lines at multiple airports across America.
Dr. Seema Yasmin said the travel restrictions can “create situations perfect for super-spreading events.”
Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) lashed out at President Donald Trump on Twitter:
“The crowds & lines O’Hare are unacceptable & need to be addressed immediately,” he said.
He said he was posting the message on Twitter because “this is the only communications medium you pay attention to.”
“The federal government needs to get its s@#t together,” Pritzker added. “NOW.”
Second is that anti-social-distancing actions is becoming a thing on the right. It's basically "rolling coal," but with a contagious and often fatal pandemic virus.
One of the people doing it is famous chair thief, serial campaign finance law violator, and Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Eyman, who has thus proven himself so deeply unfit for office that his status as Republican frontrunner can only be taken to mean that the GOP is now fully committed to fundamental unfitness for office as an ideal.
It's grotesque, and no one involved with the Republican Party should ever have office again.
- Trump says he has been tested for coronavirus, expects results within days
- Japan confirms first case of person re-infected with coronavirus
- America Is Acting Like a Failed State
- US travel ban extends to UK, Ireland; Trump eyes US limits
- Yesterday, I spoke with doctors from one of the nation’s leading academic hospitals
- House Passes Bipartisan Coronavirus Relief Bill
[EDITOR: Unfortunately, McConnell the Vile took the Senate out on recess for the weekend. Because let 'em die, amirite?] - Trump is breaking every rule in the CDC’s 450-page playbook for health crisis
- Performative anti-social-distancing is now a Thing on the Right, 1
- Performative anti-social-distancing is now a Thing on the Right, 2
- Performative anti-social-distancing is now a Thing on the Right, 3
- This is the scene at O’Hare airport.
- Passengers stuck in long lines for immigration at DFWAirport
- Illinois governor profanely blasts Trump for public health crisis at O’Hare airport: ‘You need to do something NOW’
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Trump says he has been tested for coronavirus, expects results within days
The White House also announced the European travel ban would be expanded to include the U.K. and Ireland.
March 14, 2020, 9:41 AM PDT / Updated March 14, 2020, 9:58 AM PDT
By Lauren Egan
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-he-has-been-tested-coronavirus-expects-results-within-n1158991
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said that he took a test Friday to determine whether he has the coronavirus and will have the results within a few days.
“I also took the test last night, and I decided I should based on the press conference yesterday. People were asking," Trump said during a press conference at the White House Saturday.
“They sent it to a lab,” he added, saying results should take a "day or two" to come back from the lab.
The White House also announced that they would expand the European travel ban to include the United Kingdom and Ireland beginning midnight on Monday.
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Japan confirms first case of person re-infected with coronavirus
The reinfection has health officials worried the illness could stay dormant after signs of recovery.
By Joseph Guzman
14 March 2020
https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/484942-japan-confirms-first-case-of-person-reinfected
Japan is reporting its first case of a person becoming reinfected with the coronavirus after showing signs they had fully recovered, according to Reuters.
Osaka’s prefectural government confirmed Wednesday a woman working as a tour bus guide tested positive for coronavirus for the second time after developing a sore throat and chest pain. The woman, who is said to be in her 40s, first tested positive in late January and was discharged from the hospital on Feb. 1 after showing signs of recovery.
Reuters reports Health Minister Katsunobu Kato said the government would need to monitor the condition of others who were infected and later discharged as health experts investigate testing positive for COVID-19 after an initial recovery.
As much remains unknown about the virus, cases of reinfection have health experts worried that the illness could remain dormant after an apparent recovery.
“Once you have the infection, it could remain dormant with minimal symptoms,” Philip Tierno Jr., professor of microbiology and pathology at New York University, told Reuters.
“And then you can get an exacerbation if it finds its way into the lungs,” he said.
----- 3 -----
America Is Acting Like a Failed State
Many businesses, local governments, and individuals are doing what is necessary to beat back the coronavirus—with little help from the White House.
Derek Thompson
Staff writer at The Atlantic
14 March 2020
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/america-isnt-failing-its-pandemic-testwashington-is/608026/
A global pandemic is a mandatory exam in national competence. It is a test for individuals, who have to change their life and withdraw from public events to slow the spread of a disease through crowds and social networks. It is a test for companies, which must change their protocols to protect their employees, sometimes by banishing them from the office. It is a test for institutions, which must decide whether to uphold traditions and festivals for the sake of public morale, or to cancel events, tournaments, conferences, and concerts.
And it is, above all, a test for the state. Only the national government can oversee the response to a national outbreak by coordinating research on the nature of the disease. Only the state can ensure the national regulation and accuracy of testing, and use its fiscal and monetary might to stimulate the economy if the pandemic threatens people’s income and employment.
...
But in the United States, the pandemic has devolved into a kind of grotesque caricature of American federalism. The private sector has taken on quasi-state functions at a time when the executive branch of government—drained of scientific expertise, starved of moral vision—has taken on the qualities of a failed state. In a country where many individuals, companies, institutions, and local governments are making hard decisions for the good of the nation, the most important actor of them all—the Trump administration—has been a shambolic bonanza of incompetence.
It might seem hyperbolic to compare the U.S. government to a failed state that cannot project its authority or adequately ensure the safety of its population. But for much of the past month, the White House has shown an inability to do either.
The Trump administration has failed to perform the most basic function of a state during a pandemic—which is to accurately assess the threat. While South Korea is reportedly conducting 10,000 tests a day, lawmakers learned on Thursday that the U.S. has conducted only 11,000 coronavirus tests in total. (For the U.S. to catch up to South Korea on a per capita basis, it would need to conduct 65,000 tests daily.) But the coronavirus caught the Trump White House flat-footed. The administration fired the U.S. pandemic-response team in 2018. It ignored early warnings from epidemiologists; refused to waive regulations that impeded early testing; and botched its initial COVID-19 testing kits.
...
America has not yet failed, but its government has—and, along with it, a certain vision of conservative governance. For decades, the Republican Party has committed itself to destroying state capacity, disparaging science, punishing expertise, and masquerading as populist while enriching narrow interests. It has all led to this: an undetected pandemic spreading, likely exponentially, as the president and his representatives mock the disease and oversee a state apparatus too incompetent to test for it. The resilience of some American institutions many miles from Pennsylvania Avenue may temporarily blunt this federal ineptitude, but it cannot for long overcome it. At some point, the competence gap between Washington and America has to close. At some point, a state that survives needs a government bent on something more than its own self-destruction.
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US travel ban extends to UK, Ireland; Trump eyes US limits
March 13, 2020
By MICHAEL BALSAMO, COLLEEN LONG and Aamer Madhani
The Associated Press
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/house-passes-aid-bill-after-trump-declares-virus-emergency/
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Saturday that the United States will broaden its European travel ban, adding Britain and Ireland to its list, and was considering imposing restrictions on travel within the U.S. to areas hit hard by the coronavirus spread.
Under the restrictions on European travel, American citizens, green card holders and others are still allowed to return home to the U.S., but will be funneled to 13 airports and be subjected to health screenings and quarantine orders.
...
Pence added that administration officials were “considering a broad range of measures” for potential domestic travel restrictions but no decisions have been made.
“We’re going to continue to follow the facts,” Pence said. “We’re going to continue to listen to the experts about recommendations.”
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[Former Surgeon General] Vivek Murthy
twitter.com/vivek_murthy
https://twitter.com/vivek_murthy/status/1238500486040506369
Mar 13 2020
THREAD: Yesterday, I spoke with doctors from one of the nation’s leading academic hospitals located in a state where #COVID19 cases are increasing quickly. This is what they told me: They've been seeing *many* patients with symptoms concerning for COVID19 who need testing (1/x)
Mar 13
But they are unable to get the *vast majority* of them COVID19 testing. Their only resource for testing is the state lab. But the state lab is severely limited in capacity and it will take another few weeks for the hospital lab to implement its own test. (2/x)
[remainder at link]
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House Passes Bipartisan Coronavirus Relief Bill
The deal nearly collapsed several times as negotiations to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 bogged down.
By Matt Fuller and Arthur Delaney
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coronavirus-relief-house-passes_n_5e6c4c4bc5b6747ef11d3467
WASHINGTON — After multiple moments of near-collapse and a week of negotiation between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, the House passed a bipartisan bill early Saturday to deal with some of the potential financial fallout for families affected by the spread of the novel coronavirus.
The bill passed the House, 363-40, just after midnight on Saturday, with 223 Democrats and 140 Republicans in support, and zero Democrats and 40 Republicans opposed. Independent Justin Amash of Michigan was the only member to vote present, over concerns that lawmakers didn’t have enough time to read the legislation.
Democrats had been intent on offering a bill that would provide for paid sick leave, which the bill partly does. But Democrats had wanted a permanent program requiring employers to provide two weeks of paid sick leave annually. Republicans balked at that idea, and instead the bill would create a national sick leave program for one year.
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Trump is breaking every rule in the CDC’s 450-page playbook for health crisis
The communication chaos on coronavirus is eroding the most powerful weapon we have: Public trust
By Carolyn Y. Johnson and William Wan
March 14, 2020 at 6:50 a.m. PDT
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/14/cdc-manual-crisis-coronavirus-trump/
Amid an outbreak where vaccines, drug treatments and even sufficient testing don’t yet exist, communication that is delivered early, accurately and credibly is the strongest medicine in the government’s arsenal.
But the Trump administration’s zigzagging, defensive, inconsistent messages about the novel coronavirus continued Friday, breaking almost every rule in the book and eroding the most powerful weapon officials possess: Public trust.
After disastrous communications during the 2001 anthrax attacks — when white powder in envelopes sparked widespread panic — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention created a 450-page manual outlining how U.S. leaders should talk to the public during crises.
Protecting vulnerable people from a virus that, according to some projections, could infect millions and kill hundreds of thousands, depends on U.S. leaders issuing clear public health instructions and the public’s trust to follow directions that could save their lives.
----- 8 -----
Performative anti-social-distancing is now a Thing on the Right, 1
As things fall apart, remember how we got here.
twitter.com/solarbirdy
https://twitter.com/solarbirdy/status/1239052396124188672
So famous chair thief and serial campaign finance law violator Tim Eyman apparently spent today "rolling coal," but with a pandemic virus instead of air pollution. Fortunately almost no one turned out for his sad little tantrum, but _Christ_, what a nasty manchild. Fuck this guy.
[EMBEDDED IMAGE]
[TRANSCRIPTION]
Flouting coronavirus restrictions, Tim Eyman promotes 250-plus gathering to 'stick our finger in the eye of Jay Inslee'
Tim Eyman, the initiative promoter leading early polls to be the Republican candidate for governor this fall, spent Saturday rooting for a political rally of 250+ people to “stick our finger in the eye of Jay Inslee.”
In an email blast to supporters, Eyman flouted public health restrictions and advice on slowing the spread of coronavirus, saying “251 is the # of patriots I hope will join me @ Oak Harbor today. I’m bringing a 6-pack of Corona!”
As with some other of Eyman’s publicity gags, it was more bluster than reality. In a phone interview Saturday, he said actual turnout at the event was “about 60.”
Using emergency powers, Gov. Inslee this week expanded a ban on social gatherings of more than 250 people to cover the entire state. He had initially ordered the ban in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties, which have been at the epicenter of the coronavirus spread locally.
The move was in line with social distancing policies recommended by public health experts to combat the virus known to have killed at least 40 people in Washington as of Saturday. President Donald Trump this week declared a national emergency over what the World Health Organization has labeled a pandemic.
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Performative anti-social-distancing is now a Thing on the Right, 2
twitter.com/realkatiejow
14 March 2020
[EDITOR: Katie, a.k.a. #coronaviruskatie, has deleted her tweet. Link is to screepcap of tweet.]
https://twitter.com/VSCarnival/status/1238997334408622080/photo/1
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Performative anti-social-distancing is now a Thing on the Right, 3
https://twitter.com/govstitt
14 March 2020
[EDITOR: Governor Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma tweeted a photo of him with his kids at a rather packed festival event in Oklahoma, despite the coronavirus emergency. He has deleted the tweet.]
Original tweet URL:
https://twitter.com/govstitt/status/1238993308942323716
Tweet with screencap of tweet:
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1239031957889007619
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Brooke Geiger McDonald
twitter.com/BrookeGMcDonald
https://twitter.com/BrookeGMcDonald/status/1238986272137502720
This is the scene at O’Hare airport. The traveler who took the photo said it’s a 6-hour wait for bags then on to customs for 2-4 more of waiting in shoulder-to-shoulder crowds. Police are handing out water and disinfectant wipes. twitter.com/fly2ohare #ord #coronavirus #COVID19
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Jason Whitely
twitter.com/JasonWhitely
https://twitter.com/JasonWhitely/status/1238986444615618561
#BREAKING: Passengers stuck in long lines for immigration at DFWAirport tell us there are no offers of hand sanitizer, gloves, or masks from U.S. Customs / Immigration. Travelers say they’ve had no screenings of temp yet and no one following #coronavirus protocols.
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Illinois governor profanely blasts Trump for public health crisis at O’Hare airport: ‘You need to do something NOW’
14 March 2020
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/illinois-governor-profanely-blasts-trump-for-public-health-crisis-at-ohare-airport-you-need-to-do-something-now/
Shocking photos emerged on Saturday evening of large crowds and long lines at multiple airports across America.
Dr. Seema Yasmin said the travel restrictions can “create situations perfect for super-spreading events.”
Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) lashed out at President Donald Trump on Twitter:
“The crowds & lines O’Hare are unacceptable & need to be addressed immediately,” he said.
He said he was posting the message on Twitter because “this is the only communications medium you pay attention to.”
“The federal government needs to get its s@#t together,” Pritzker added. “NOW.”
