Today's News (2020/4/27): The Several Alliances Edition

(simpler version, with more alliance names)

I think that says it all, really. But now, the headlines.

1. Tennessee Restaurants Reopen As State Sees Biggest 1-Day Jump In COVID-19 Cases
2. ACEP-AAEM Joint Statement on Physician Misinformation
3. Colorado joins Western States Pact, pledging to follow science, not politics in fight against COVID-19
4. Trump suggests U.S. shouldn’t bail out Democratic-run states
5. Republicans Will Use the Coronavirus to Suppress the Vote
6. Seattle’s Leaders Let Scientists Take the Lead. New York’s Did Not
7. This Japanese Island Lifted Its Coronavirus Lockdown Too Soon and Became a Warning to the World
8. Premier says timing on reopening the border with Washington state will largely be B.C.'s decision [EDITOR: And he's talking with Jay Inslee, not the US Federal government]
9. We Still Don’t Know How the Coronavirus Is Killing Us
10. Why did Maryland have to go to South Korea to get 500,000 tests?

( The articles )

Today's News (2020/4/28): Death Cult Rampant edition

UPDATED - If you did not see at least eleven articles, reload for updated post

Most of these are about how the Republicans are fighting efforts to fight COVID-19.

Yeah. That's a sentence I had to type.

Can the Pact just, you know, declare independence already before they take us down with them?

eta: I keep forgetting to say, saying that the Pact (and other such alliances) is "unconstitutional" is starting to be a thing in Trumpist circles. They don't actually care about that, but they may have a Constitutional hook to hang on and would be happy to put a noose for us on it. Just something to keep an eye on.

But now, the headlines:

1. Attorney General Barr steps up plans for action against state measures to control COVID-19
2. Maui Business Leaders Push To Join Western States Pact, Ige Demurs
3. Trump In Talks to Sideline Fauci, Birx During Coronavirus Briefings
4. Trump Decides Now Would Be a Great Time to Cut Coronavirus Research Funding
5. President’s intelligence briefing book repeatedly cited virus threat
6. Trump is ‘somebody’ who could have helped stop covid-19
7. Poison control officials in Kansas have marked a 40% increase in the ingestion of toxic chemicals
8. Leader of North Carolina Protests Against Stay-at-Home Tests Positive for Coronavirus [EDITOR: WORSE THAN IT LOOKS - she stated that she had tested positive and was an asymptomatic carrier while protesting, and continues to protest, and I don't know how you get more of a death cult without ritual murders.]
9. #JustWearScrubs: GOP chairwoman tells anti-lockdown protesters to impersonate health care workers
10. Pence flouts Mayo Clinic policy by touring coronavirus testing facility without a mask
11. Trump suggests any relief for states hit hard by COVID will require ending "sanctuary city" policies and turning residents over to ICE.

( The insanity )