“Hm, that’s odd.” They don’t know what it is, but doctors are hypersensitive right now to anything out of the ordinary.
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US shelves CDC detailed guide to reopening country.
Was supposed to be published last Friday, but agency scientists were told the guidance “would never see the light of day,” according to a CDC official.
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So has anyone noticed that in the US COVID-19 deaths have a weekly cycle?
Yup… the 1 week moving average of daily deaths goes right down the middle.
Couple of observations. The “Italy is 3 weeks ahead” observation is a little stale, but I note that they have at least experienced a drop in death rate where the U.S. has plateaued just below 2000/day. Italy, this week, is re-opening some factories, but not schools and only are considering restaurants for June 1. Proportional to population, Italy is still experiencing a death rate comparable to the U.S.
So, call it the end of July for the U.S., but only if you want to follow the Italian example. 
(And, as far as I can tell, the Italians are not suppressing their experts.)
Needless to say, the U.S. response has been found to be less than inspirational in the rest of the world. The following article made the rounds a couple of weeks ago, haven’t seen it here yet.
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Um… where Britain went wrong is pictured to the left of the article, and resides in the house pictured…
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Interesting research into reducing cytokine storms, but hold off building those garage dialysis machines for now. (Especially you Elon!)
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Thursday, May 07, 2020
I Got Nothin’
I suppose I really don’t. It’s a horrible situation and even the supposed “good guys” at the federal level, who don’t run things entirely but who aren’t entirely powerless, have shown know signs of having any sense of the catastrophe that is unfolding. “No one” panics unless stonks are tanking, and the Fed is making sure that doesn’t happen.
As long as “the market” is happy, rich people are happy, “everybody” is happy.
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You know what?
Fine.
I’m done with these bigoted, hate-filled murderers ruining everything.
Let Mother Nature show them who’s really the boss.
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Alas, it’s always other people they hurt.
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Ya think, Kemp? Asshole. 
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I am truly sorry to report that we need as many people to vote blue in November as possible, no matter how scumbaggy they are. I regret even having said this. The future is hard to stomach if we don’t get rid of Grift Inc. and Cult45–and btw I am including Mitch McConnell in that herd–ASAFP.
Could it be that this woman Carole, a Trump voter, could possibly be changing her mind about Trump? Heavens to Betsy and pass the butter. Let us get her to the polls to vote blue post haste!
November 2020 needs to feature overwhelming U.S. voter turnout. In Hays County, Texas, I have stood in line to vote next to a guy who wore, and I do swear this is true, a “fuck Obama” t-shirt (written in Sharpie marker, very classy!), and I lamented the repugnant tenor of public “discourse” or what passed for such. The bitter truth I see is that we need everybody to vote the bastards out [assuming we still have a functional democracy, and yes the electronic voting system in the U.S. is itself immunocompromised]. I get it. Vote anyway.
COVID-19 and politics and our fate have become more intersectional than I could have imagined.
Hard no to this.
This shit’s gotta stop. Now.
ETA:
Mother Nature will have her way. She always bats last. Perhaps the Trump voters who are ill or passed away will not vote for their master, but
^ this.^
Hard work ahead. May we be equal to the tasks before us.
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Among the dwindling number of people who give a shit about him.
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Huh?
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OK, before I post this, a warning. DO NOT seek out the video trashed in this takedown. DO NOT allow your friends to convince you to watch “this courageous persecuted scientist” (she’s a crook and incompetent to boot) but if someone brings it up, you can at least be prepared. I shall now post a takedown of a virulently antivax idiot’s film about the Covid-19 pandemic.
You are now prepared.
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