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Dario Castillejos, Oaxaca, Mexico
Angel Boligan, Mexico City, Mexico
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Who’d a thunk it? Cue Trump and fake news any minute now.
Thank goodness the French have weighed in. I sided with them against Bush invading Iraq. I was taken off the republican gang’s e-mail list of cousins and their friends, to my delight, when I agreed with the French. No freedom fries nonsense for me. Of the 30 or so individuals, my guess is that I was the only democrat.
They did all that fantastic work on AIDS … they’re researchers are superb
Finally! Now if he can keep his supporters in line, though he’s not that kind of candidate, and doesn’t care judging from all he’s done so far.
Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign.
Will wonders never cease?!!
I’m amazed he was talked out of it. With all the primary postponements, it would have been disastrous for him to stay in.
I don’t believe for one minute his supporters will vote for Biden, though, no matter what Bernie says.
Of course this will go nowhere given a Republican Senate, but I’m glad Schiff is still on the attack.
Good for her, and the other 2, who are proposing such a bill for taxpayers’ money to go to taxpayers and other citizens. Have Maddog Mattox guard the money.
Ya’ll may have posted this before, but it appears intelligence warned Dump about covid-19 as far back as November!
https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/us-intelligence-briefed-white-house-multiple-times-as-far-back-as-november-on-existence-of-cataclysmic-coronavirus/
I think that’s unlikely, given that the doctors on the ground in China weren’t sure what they were dealing with at that point. Probably what he was being warned about is what’s been obvious for twenty years: with the amount of air travel, a novel virus which jumps from animals to humans — meaning one we have zero immunity for — is bound to turn into a plague sooner or later.
Covid-19 is not the first of these. Ebola, MERS, SARS1, are all zoonotic viruses that jumped to humans.
That makes sense. I wonder if they were reacting to him dismantling the pandemic response team.
Not just animal to human pathogens mutating, but human pathogens mutating also. Sooner or later, shit is gonna happen! It’s simply standard practice to have emergency plans drawn up ahead of time, and to practice them every so often. It’s why we have fire drills. It’s why we have an emergency spare tire in the car.
I have relatives who live in a “100-yr floodplain” but in that region records haven’t been kept for 100 years yet! They get a pond in their yard most winters. I couldn’t live year-round in a location like that, but they’re rightwing fundies and apparently sleep without worries.
ABC News this morning: Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November: Sources:
They didn’t know what it was, but there have been warnings for years about pandemics. They knew something was happening because they were spying on China.
Exactly. That’s the point I was trying to make a bit upthread.
That intelligence report is important to date even earlier Trump briefings. Trump plans to arbitrarily end this viral episode in a couple of weeks, prematurely open up businesses and have people forget it ever happened?! Without a thought about planning for a resurgence in the fall, or several times over the next 1 to 3 years before a vaccine can be discovered, he puts our health and lives in danger as long as he’s president. Am I being an alarmist? I’m in a high risk group.
Trump will keep doing stupid, because Trump.
I’ve seen indications, and I think BB mentioned this too, that there can be a re-flare of the virus when we think most of the pandemic is over in a local area. Need to be very, very cautious until we have a vaccine or prophylaxis treatment.
Amazing cartoons. So many of the non-US ones are *really* *dark*.
Particularly some of the ones from Mexico.
So we have all these U.S.-trained medical specialists here on visas who aren’t allowed to help out:
https://susiemadrak.com/2020/04/08/cutting-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face/
Will be interesting to see if they make changes….
IIRC WA state is allowing some healthcare professionals in cases like this to work.
The masked cat!
What self-respecting cat would allow such a thing!
Is the kitty mask imbued with catnip?
With 10-20 million survivors worldwide I don’t understand why Polio isn’t included in the list of pandemics.
Just guessing, I would think because it wasn’t one huge event. It was a constant, recurring disease, like colds, or cholera, or tuberculosis. To be an epidemic, large numbers of people in one place have it. A pandemic, large numbers of people have it, pretty much at the same time, all around the world.
Cholera is listed there. Looks like the cartoon is cut off on the right — probably more plagues there.