39 Comments on “Sunday Reads: KISS OFF!”

1. bostonboomer says:

   March 29, 2020 at 9:44 am

   Trump’s Department of State sending our national stockpile of PPE to China in February is one thing. But not directing companies to replenish that stockpile and then falsely accusing President Obama for leaving him with nothing is lying negligence almost to the point of treason.

   — Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) March 29, 2020

   • Enheduanna says:

     March 29, 2020 at 1:11 pm

     Dump’s motivations behind recklessly sending that stockpile to China probably revolve around:

     a) trying to look like a bigshot to Xi
     b) see (a) above

     Art of the Deal! I’d like to see more reporting on this. Was it the entire stockpile? Who was advising him?

     • Enheduanna says:

       March 29, 2020 at 1:20 pm

       Oh just reading jslat’s reply from last night….I’ll calm down now. Still – the shortages are just so alarming. Can’t imagine what it’s like on the front lines.

       • bostonboomer says:

         March 29, 2020 at 4:39 pm

         It’s not time to calm down.

         HUGE @washingtonpost story:

         On Feb 5, HHS Secretary Azar requested $2 billion to buy respirator masks & other supplies for the national stockpile

         Trump cut that request by 75%

         Now a mask shortage is forcing healthcare workers to use bandanas & scarves
         https://t.co/pDLoYVI74d pic.twitter.com/craZPQjuZl

         — Zac Petkanas (@Zac_Petkanas) March 29, 2020

2. dakinikat says:

   March 29, 2020 at 10:08 am

   If Louisiana were a country, its death count would put it in the top 15 globally — The coronavirus pandemic is exploding, this southern outbreak will be even more difficult to contain and is perhaps a better harbinger of what’s to come across UShttps://t.co/Ync3OCJynj

   — Alfons López Tena (@alfonslopeztena) March 27, 2020

   • dakinikat says:

     March 29, 2020 at 10:08 am

     WATCH: @LouisianaGov Edwards says the New Orleans area is “on a trajectory" to exceed capacity on ventilators by about Apr. 4th, hospital beds by about Apr. 10th. #MTP

     Gov. Edwards: “We are trying to get the public to slow the spread … while we ramp up our medical capacity.” pic.twitter.com/41o9ocYLlI

     — Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) March 29, 2020

   • dakinikat says:

     March 29, 2020 at 10:13 am

     From The Atlantic article

     Many common assumptions about the coronavirus pandemic are about to be tested in the U.S., in ways they haven’t been so far. The effects of the virus on populations like those in the American South—poorer, characterized by marked racial and social disparities in health status and health access, and often saddled with multiple preexisting conditions—aren’t yet well known. And many other southern states, unlike Louisiana, New York, Washington—all of which expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act—have little in the way of public health-insurance options for those younger at-risk populations. If Louisiana (likely through Mardi Gras) was COVID-19’s foothold in the South, then America is about to learn a whole lot about how the disease interacts with some of the most stubborn and intractable health-care issues in the country.

     For now, the next point of focus should be on New Orleans. It’s not Italy, not yet. But the warnings are urgent, and perhaps even more portentous in their sobriety and certainty. The state will run out of crucial resources for taking care of coronavirus patients, likely before their number peaks. Hospitals will be under extreme strain. Health-care professionals will contract the virus themselves. Underlying health conditions will make their jobs more difficult.

     That means now is the time for desperate measures, Denson thinks. He’s calling for the kind of mobilization people reserve for the worst disasters—including donations of supplies and more doctors and nurses. “I hope that two months down the road, people are saying, ‘I overreacted,’” he said.

   • Sweet Sue says:

     March 29, 2020 at 3:14 pm

     Oh no. Stay safe, dear Dak.

     • dakinikat says:

       March 29, 2020 at 3:21 pm

       I’m inside and I’m getting food delivery so should be okay …. it just is what it is … walk the dog still and the neighborhood is quiet and we dog walkers wave at each other from across the street.

3. dakinikat says:

   March 29, 2020 at 10:21 am

   This paramedic in the UK received a coordinated standing-ovation, round of applause, and heartfelt “thank you” from her neighbors as she leaves her house for another grueling nightmare shift at the hospital.

   It brings her to tears.

   Humanity.🌎❤️ pic.twitter.com/ITdqPzPvZm

   — Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) March 29, 2020

4. bostonboomer says:

   March 29, 2020 at 10:41 am

   HUGE @washingtonpost story:

   On Feb 5, HHS Secretary Azar requested $2 billion to buy respirator masks & other supplies for the national stockpile

   Trump cut that request by 75%

   Now a mask shortage is forcing healthcare workers to use bandanas & scarves
   https://t.co/pDLoYVI74d pic.twitter.com/craZPQjuZl

   — Zac Petkanas (@Zac_Petkanas) March 29, 2020

5. bostonboomer says:

   March 29, 2020 at 10:42 am

   DeSantis pushed Trump to keep New Yorkers out of Florida. So he floated a quarantine without telling Cuomo or other area governors. Aides spent hours talking him out of it. Then he called Cuomo to say he’d relented. https://t.co/MkIQCihHRh

   — Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) March 29, 2020

6. dakinikat says:

   March 29, 2020 at 1:08 pm

   Who's less likely to follow health guidelines in a crisis? People who share these traits. https://t.co/2drtk0zjyD

   — Psychology Today (@PsychToday) March 29, 2020

7. Sweet Sue says:

   March 29, 2020 at 3:15 pm

   All funny cartoons except the Charles and Camilla one. That one is ghastly.

   • quixote says:

     March 29, 2020 at 3:57 pm

     Yeah. I have to admit, I had the same reaction. The others, though, so on target it hurts.

     Also, the guy with the sign outside the emergency room. The comment on that is right. I am not crying. I was just chopping onions. (not)

     • Sweet Sue says:

       March 29, 2020 at 11:07 pm

       Yeah, it hit the trifecta: misogyny, ageism and a callous attitude toward an ailing human being.

   • NW Luna says:

     March 29, 2020 at 10:37 pm

     Yes. The only people calling a older woman an “‘old bat” are woman-haters.

     Frankly we should all be so lucky to grow old with the partner we fell in love with when we were young.

8. bostonboomer says:

   March 29, 2020 at 4:24 pm

   MA Coronavirus Update: 4 More Die, Cases Hit Nearly 5,000 https://t.co/yvxA5IMS9Q

   — Ann MacGibbon (@BostonBoomer) March 29, 2020

   • bostonboomer says:

     March 29, 2020 at 4:28 pm

     The head of Mass. General Hospital says Mass. will soon look like NY.

9. bostonboomer says:

   March 29, 2020 at 4:36 pm

   John Prine is in critical condition from COVID-19. This is all so fucked. https://t.co/sI6c37fPS7

   — The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) March 29, 2020

   • dakinikat says:

     March 29, 2020 at 7:34 pm

10. bostonboomer says:

    March 29, 2020 at 4:37 pm

    If you want objective proof of how bad a job Trump did with the coronavirus look at the map from John Hopkins Univ. The red are where cases of the coronavirus are confirmed. Look at USA versus Mexico, Canada and South America pic.twitter.com/i44sRvhp1h

    — (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) March 29, 2020

    • quixote says:

      March 30, 2020 at 1:24 am

      Is it possible Mexico just isn’t testing very thoroughly and so doesn’t know how many cases they have?

      Admittedly, the US hasn’t tested very thoroughly, but it’s still obvious what a mess it is here.

    • Enheduanna says:

      March 30, 2020 at 9:42 am

      Also it’s the end of summer in S. America. So they are just getting started with this.

      One of the alarming things I’m reading is how this will start down there now and then come back up here in the Fall with a vengeance. The 1918 outbreak did that and the second wave was far worse.

11. bostonboomer says:

    March 29, 2020 at 4:46 pm

    New analysis of the outbreak in Florida, where experts say there is a “huge public health crisis” coming:

    —cases double every 3 days
    —acceleration mirrors NY
    —only 40,000 tested
    —no stay at home order https://t.co/MGq7njP0k2 pic.twitter.com/DcTTlJcsFu

    — Hamza Shaban (@hshaban) March 29, 2020

    • dakinikat says:

      March 29, 2020 at 7:38 pm

      That’s what i’ve thought … not that I actually have the data … but it seems like that’s likely given what the governor hasn’t done.

    • dakinikat says:

      March 29, 2020 at 8:55 pm

      https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections

      Dr daughter sent this …. you may check you state

      • NW Luna says:

        March 29, 2020 at 10:52 pm

        Checked Washington. Thank you Jay Inslee! We have enough hospital beds. We need more ICU beds, but as of last week we have the Army here to set up a field hospital. Also, Kirkland where it all started has been flattening. Peak appears to be mid-April.

12. bostonboomer says:

    March 29, 2020 at 5:03 pm

    Trump suggests, providing no evidence, that there is something nefarious going on with New York's use of a large number of masks: "Something's going on, and you oughtta look into it. Where are the masks going? Are they going out the back door?"

    — Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 29, 2020

    • bostonboomer says:

      March 29, 2020 at 5:04 pm

      "How do you go from 10 to 20 to 30,000, to 300,000 — even though this is different. Something is going on. And you ought to look into it as reporters. Where are the masks going?" — Trump suggests that there is some sort of New York nurse conspiracy to steal masks pic.twitter.com/6vubm89vgQ

      — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 29, 2020

      • bostonboomer says:

        March 29, 2020 at 5:11 pm

        The president just accused the states of lying about their medical stockpiles and hoarding them.
        Holy shit.

        — Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 29, 2020

        • bostonboomer says:

          March 29, 2020 at 5:13 pm

          Remember folks, while Trump is out there lying, spreading bizarre theories about missing surgical masks, and presiding over the western world's worst response to a once-in-100-year pandemic, at least he didn't use a private email server while serving as Secretary of State.

          — scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) March 29, 2020

          • NW Luna says:

            March 29, 2020 at 10:44 pm

            He is disgusting. He is repulsive. His ego is a unsatisfiable hungry ghost.

13. bostonboomer says:

    March 29, 2020 at 7:31 pm

    #Florida vs. #Massachusetts

    Both did 4,000 tests today.

    FL Pop: 21 million.
    MA pop: 6.9 million.

    New cases FL – 912; MA – 698
    New Deaths – FL -0?; MA 4

    FL is GROSSLY under-testing & under-discovering cases. They are under the waves & don't even know it.
    cc: @GovRonDeSantis

    — (((Howard Forman))) (@thehowie) March 29, 2020

14. bostonboomer says:

    March 29, 2020 at 8:29 pm

    And this one should qualify him for an insane asylum:

    (Not joking, either; he meets the criteria.) pic.twitter.com/ftkULgVyUa

    — Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv (@BandyXLee1) March 29, 2020

15. NW Luna says:

    March 29, 2020 at 11:23 pm

    WHY WE SHOULD ALL WEAR MASKS — THERE IS NEW SCIENTIFIC RATIONALE

    molecular analysis also show that the SARS-Cov2 virus is active and replicates already in the nasopharynx, unlike other respiratory viruses that dwell in deeper regions of the lung.

    The viral replication in the nasopharygeal mucosa may also explain positive tests in the prodromal stage and transmission by healthy carriers, and perhaps the anosmia seen in early stages of COVID19. But this biology also means: avoiding large droplets, which cannot enter the lung anyway but land in the upper respiratory tracts, could be the most effective means to prevent infection. Therefore, surgical masks, perhaps even your ski-mask, bandanas or scarf, may afford more protection than portrayed by governmental official in their initial (understandable but unfortunate) recommendation against wearing of masks by the public in general.

    • bostonboomer says:

      March 30, 2020 at 10:39 am

      Where do we get the masks?

      • NW Luna says:

        March 30, 2020 at 12:45 pm

        The article goes into how even cloth home-sewn masks offer some protection.

16. NW Luna says:

    March 29, 2020 at 11:28 pm

    To be fair Dan, this seems normal & okay to potus b/c he suffers from malignant narcissism. #sarcasm https://t.co/OGdLUF1zq9 https://t.co/NG8aaXIXJD pic.twitter.com/jroK2YRAMM

    — Laurence T 💙 (@laurence8645) March 29, 2020