Scott D. Strader – Page 34 – An Echo That's Reversing

The night before our company’s 2 week wfh policy and the whole country shutting down

Airports filled with lines of people waiting to re-enter. Arbitrary shut down of flights to/from “Europe” (which countries?) that was declared by That Guy on Thursday night causes an influx of travelers that overwhelmed processing lines and any plan (hint: there was none) for medical mediation.

Notes on COVID-19, during the President’s address and prior

Most taken from Twitter “friends”:

WHO declared it a pandemic today. (NPR link, I cannot find a WHO link.)
South Korea performing 10,000 tests a day. US performed 8 today.
“Misstatements” during the address, which was scripted, yet had to be corrected within 10 min:
- Ban all travel from Europe, s/b ban on foreign nationals and not trade or citizens. Most of Europe has equal or fewer cases than the US.
- Health insurers waive copay for treatment, s/b only for testing (insurers quick as fuck corrected that).
- Promises payroll tax relief, relief for sick workers, and waivers for small businesses, s/b Congress is reviewing those measures.
Just yesterday, president said “It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.”
Gen. Michael Hayden: “I’m scared”.
Dow futures dropped 3+% during his 11 min speech and up to ~5% an hour after.
NBA suspends season. Rudy Gobert mocked COVID-19 on Monday by exaggeratedly touching every reporters’ microphone and is now the single cause of the shut down.
2 weeks ago: Italy had 322 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, 1 week ago: 2,502, Today: 10,149.

Orchestral Study #4, updated audio

Orchestral Study #4 (allegro), updated audio and original audio

Impeachment

(diary)

More horrible times, but repeating that is a truism.

Biden has taken off over the past weeks and it looks confident that he will vanquish the threat of a contested convention and a Sanders hissy fit. Well, the fit will still happen but there will be no air to sustain it. The loss of Warren (at least for me, as a guy) I can live with and in fact I turned around pretty quickly to Biden after she dropped out. He was never even on my short list of choices because, let’s face it, we really need to stop with old and white and male beating out qualified. However, when he became effectively the last man standing, I felt how I think many people felt (again, as a guy) that a clear, reasonable decision had finally brought some certainty into our, Democrats’, direction moving forward. The certainty is the thing.

Impeachment

(diary)

The DOJ has been destroyed with Barr, now on to the IC with Richard Grenell. No experience in intelligence (no pun), hated by Germany when he was Trump’s ambassador to Germany, Fox News contributor. He’s an “acting” director so, no Congressional oversight. A senior adviser to Grenell is Kash Patel. He worked closely with Giuliani and tried to discredit the Russia probe. Quoting Masha Gessen: “Institutions will not save you.”