Month: March 2020

Coronavirus – Mon 30 Mar 2020 – Timeline of mistakes

The descent:

  1. Catastrophically fumble the response to a pandemic.
  2. Exacerbate with delay and denial.
  3. Chaotically shut down travel, creating a petri dish of thousands of last-minute traveller.
  4. Withhold medical help to regions whose leaders criticize him.
  5. Threaten to disable those regions, above all other equal targets, with a quarantine.
  6. Spread the disease even further by hinting at a quarantine and prompting people to flee.

The more detailed assessments:

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Coronavirus resources

Update 12 Jan 2022 – Most of this is wildly out of date. It was useful back-in-the-day as reference points of definitions, links, and research papers, but I can’t really vouch for it now as being up to date.

Links with live updates, graphs, data. Pinned at the top of the category page.

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Coronavirus – Mon 23 Mar 2020 – start of the second week of home isolation, failed stimulus, HCQ lies, sacrifice old people

The Republicans on Sunday night tried to pass a stimulus package that in large part give money to corporations with no oversight or transparency for six months, no restriction on executive bonuses (?!?), and only a one-time payment to individuals. Sen. Warren Explains Why She Voted Against Stimulus Plan from Morning Edition explains:

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