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I Think That's A Lot

Most countries have not been exactly perfect, but I think it's reasonable to state that most of our supposed peer countries are going to come out the other end of this with a better result due to at least somewhat better policy choices.

.@ScottGottliebMD on FTN this am: “But I think when you look out to the end of June, it's probably the case that we're going to get above 100,000 deaths nationally.” Says mitigation didn’t work as well as hoped and that up to 30k new cases + 1k deaths daily may become new normal.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 3, 2020

Whoopsadaisy

Suspect this is going to be true everywhere that starts "relaxing."

The governor of Mississippi took a step back with continuing to slowly reopen the state after health officials said there was the largest increase of coronavirus diagnosis and deaths.

Gov. Tate Reeves was to proceed with his plan to get people back to work, but announced the change of plans on Friday as 397 new coronavirus cases were confirmed and 20 more people died.

On The Other Side

Perhaps things are more resilient than I imagine, but the continuing failure - whoever you want to blame - to do 10% of what is necessary to fix this and prepare for what's next...

I told you. Gloomy.

Miserable Failure

How gloomy is appropriate for this Sunday Morning?

Things are looking kinda gloomy.

Overnight Thread

Gotta Take It Seriously

Above my pay grade what lockdown rules are necessary, but if the people at the top don't communicate a degree of seriousness, then at every level people are going to slack off. The MAGAs are going to have large enclosed gatherings just to own the libs, and more normal people will try to comply, but not try *too hard.* That doesn't mean the guidelines have to be more strict than is necessary, but it does mean people need to think they should be making an effort to comply with whatever they are.

And, welp,...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas hit a third straight day of more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases Saturday as the state charged into its first weekend of re-opening the economy with residents allowed to go back to malls, restaurants, movie theaters and retail stores in limited numbers.

America's Worst Boston Adjacent Universities

Harvard.

Saturday, Saturday

Maybe I should get into the beat sweetener game.

What a weird creep, why was I friends with him?

Elon has a good day yesterday.

About $13bn (£10.3bn) was wiped off Tesla's shares after chief executive Elon Musk tweeted that the electric car company's "stock price is too high".

In a series of other tweets, Mr Musk, 48, also said he was "selling almost all physical possessions" and "will own no house".

He added his girlfriend was "mad at me".

There will be no Mars if we let them take our freedom away

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 1, 2020

We'll go to Mars in 6 months, 12 months tops, depending on regulator approval.

DAMN REGULATORS

Flat

I'm not going to complicate this type of musing by playing amateur epidemiologist, but 1800 deaths per day every day for the foreseeable future adds up to... a lot of deaths.

Overnight Thread

Enjoy

Friday Happy Hour

The weekend is here already.

Nobody Could Have Predicted

Ah, well, nevertheless.

State health officials have confirmed an additional 1,000 cases of the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing Georgia’s total infections above 27,000.

Sowing, reaping...

If You Don't Count Them They Don't Count

Well then.

Officials have stopped releasing the list of coronavirus deaths being compiled by Florida’s medical examiners, which has at times shown a higher death toll than the state’s published count. Dr. Stephen Nelson, ME for Polk, said the policy change came after the state health department intervened.

MAGA Rally

Not sure how soon, My Big Wet Boy can't resist his campaign rallies, and he isn't going to want to go to ones that look empty or ones filled with people wearing masks, and, well...

Heroes Of The New Resistance

When the Trump era is over, half of "his people" will write books about how they sacrificed themselves to do their best to stem his worst instincts (often without clearly defining what those were, other than 'bad tweets') and will be hosting MSNBC shows soon enough. The other half will carry on the spirit of Trumpism, fighting each other to be on top of the grifter pile. All will be embraced as very fine people, and it will be very wrong of anybody to be mean to them in restaurants.

Morning Thread

The world has gone nuts.

Thursday Evening

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