BUT HE’S NOT TRUMP, SO THAT’S OK: Media darling Cuomo mishandled COVID-19, killing thousands.
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May 8, 2020
WHY NOT TAKE A BREAK FROM THE SERIOUS NEWS FOR A FEW MINUTES? Florida Man Friday: Full Speed Reverse!
HALF-WHITMER GETS SOMETHING RIGHT: Michigan Governor Clears Path for Automakers to Restart Production.
NOT MUCH CHANGE IN MY AREA, A WEEK AFTER REOPENING STARTED: Coronavirus in Tennessee: Elective surgery dates for hospitals set; 55 active Knox County cases, 272 total. “The Knox County Health Department reported three new cases on Friday, bringing the total case number to 272. Knox County reported 55 active cases on Friday, up from 52 on Thursday. The total number of recovered cases remained at 212. . . . There are three patients currently hospitalized due to COVID-19. Of the 272 cases, 36 of them have resulted in hospitalization at any point during the illness.”
They’re restarting elective surgeries, too.
NOTHING GOOD: What Would Happen if Democrats Passed Another New Deal to ‘Fix’ This Depression-Level Unemployment?
Flashback: FDR’s policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate.
But it got FDR reelected three times so, omelets, eggs.
NOTRE DAME SOCIOLOGIST SHREDS HARVARD LAW PROF’S HOMESCHOOLING SCREED: Writing for the Institute for Family Studies (IFS), David Sikkink goes to the data and concludes Harvard’s Elizabeth Bartholet assumes “home” equals “prison.”
IT WAS LEG DAY, so I squatted again. Stopped at 275, which killed me last week. This time it’s left me a bit sore, but not jelly like last time, when climbing the three steps from my garage to my house was a killer. The gym (Gold’s) was busier than last week, but still pretty empty. I’m getting used to working out in a mask, but lifting in one leaves me blown as if I’d had a cardio workout. As a result, I’m taking things easy. One of my doc friends said that since he’s worn a mask for hours in the OR, he thought people complaining about working out in one were just whining until he tried it. Nope! Totally different thing when you’re exerting yourself hard.
GUN SALES COULD START UP AS SOON AS SATURDAY IN MASSACHUSETTS: “Massachusetts gun store owners could reopen as soon as Saturday thanks to a federal order that slammed Gov. Charlie Baker’s decision to close the stores during the COVID-19 shutdown, calling the move an ‘improper burden,’ on the Second Amendment. U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock said Baker failed to give a good reason for closing the stores. ‘There’s no justification here,’ said Woodlock during a virtual hearing on the case Thursday.”
OBAMA DEFENSE OFFICIAL EVELYN FARKAS ADMITTED SHE LIED ON MSNBC ABOUT HAVING EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION. “Farkas, a Democrat, is currently running for Congress in New York’s 17th district.”
NO, ONE LIFE IS NOT “PRICELESS”: Andrew Cuomo’s Morally Grotesque Rationale for Maintaining Covid-19 Lockdowns. Even the president is a better moral philosopher than New York’s governor.
NICE: Photography Life Just Released All of Their Paid Photography Courses for Free. “If you’re running low on free educational content and you’re eager to use this time to improve your craft, we have some good news. The website Photography Life hast just released all of their premium photography courses, usually $150 apiece, for free on YouTube.”
I REMEMBER WHEN BILLIONAIRES WERE BAD: Cuomo Faces Backlash For Enlisting Billionaires Eric Schmidt And Bill Gates To ‘Reimagine’ NY After Reopening.
KC JOHNSON: When Rules Don’t Apply. Joe Biden wants to deny accused college students the procedural protections that he demands for himself.
NO THANKS TO THE NET-NEUTRALITY NITWITS: The Pandemic That Didn’t Break the Internet. Market-friendly policies let Americans stream to their hearts’ content, while regulation-heavy Europe has been forced to impose speed limits on streaming services due to high demand during the pandemic.
THIS IS TROUBLING: Pence Aide Tests Positive For Coronavirus.. “The news that one of Pence’s aides tested positive for coronavirus comes just one day after the White House announced that a military valet to President Donald Trump had tested positive for the disease.”
It’s especially troubling as Nancy Pelosi, third in line for the presidency, is holed up in her mansion, refusing to come to Washington as she awaits her moment.
HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE AS POST-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS FOR CORONAVIRUS: “After a large COVID-19 exposure event in an LTCH in Korea, PEP using hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) was administered to 211 individuals, including 189 patients and 22 careworkers, whose baseline polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for COVID-19 were negative. PEP was completed in 184 (97.4%) patients and 21 (95.5%) careworkers without serious adverse events. At the end of 14 days of quarantine, all follow-up PCR tests were negative.”
This sounds promising.
