Republicans, good politicians, terrible leaders.
“The relationship between America and China was not “normal” before COVID-19. It was in rapid decline. And that decline has left Americans more vulnerable to the disease. The lesson of this plague isn’t that America should stop cooperating with China. It’s that America must rebuild the public-health cooperation that the Trump administration helped destroy.”
Trump’s Break With China Has Deadly Consequences
In November Americans will hopefully have the opportunity to decide whether to replace Trump as president and for that we not only need to assess how he and his administration handled this crisis, but also the ways in which he was responsible for it.
The isolationism he has been putting in place has contributed immensely to how bad COVID19 has been for the United States. As far as disease is concerned, imports and tariffs have nothing to do with it, rather it’s about the tremendous amount of global travel that occurs every single day. Even if you restricted travel to China you can’t stop the possibility of an American being in a conference room in Germany with a person who traveled there from China.
Isolationism does not work, that’s the lesson the greatest generation learned and of which we are being reminded today. Let’s heed the lessons well and revert to the wise decisions of prior administrations, Democrat and Republican.
The military knows how to manage a supply chain to the front line of a war, the White House needs to get out of the military’s way to let them handle the supply chain on the war against COVID-19. Given them a mission!
Is the current state in which you have to do less really abnormal, or are you being convinced it’s abnormal through everyone’s complaints about it?
What everyone’s getting wrong about the toilet paper shortage
Georgia-Pacific, a leading toilet paper manufacturer based in Atlanta, estimates that the average household will use 40% more toilet paper than usual if all of its members are staying home around the clock. That’s a huge leap in demand for a product whose supply chain is predicated on the assumption that demand is essentially constant.
It’s not irrational!
How many people do you personally know that have COVID-19? I know of two, one of whom has described what it has been like and frankly it’s really scary. Yes, if you are healthy you should survive but it sounds like one’s body can be pushed to the brink. Our body is a balanced system and a failure can cascade very quickly. Today it feels like the disease is closing in.
There is now a nice dashboard for Michigan’s COVID-19 data. COVID-19 is like catnip to data visualization
We need journalism as it existed in 1780 now more than ever.
Comcast removed their data caps during the COVID-19 crisis and their network is “performing well,” begging the question of why Comcast has data caps. Well, duh, they have caps to make more money. Somehow Comcast will try to indicate financial losses due to them removing the caps.
I am very disappointed to learn that Apple has acquired Dark Sky and decided to discontinue it’s Android application. I’ve been a happy user of Dark Sky on my Android smartphone and Wear OS watch for several years, and find it to be the best weather app on Android. I I guess I will be seeking a replacement.
So, Oakland County, Michigan has posted cases by zip code. Not sure I am better off informed or blissfully unaware.
In Michigan, almost all Lower Peninsula counties now have at least one positive test result for COVID-19. Four Upper Peninsula counties have a positive result.
Oakland County Michigan, which is the county I live in, has significantly improved their COVID-19 data visualization. What is ominously missing is any recovery data. A newsletter that I received from a local TV state stated that recovery data has not yet available within Michigan.
Vince Gill is such a good singer.
Last time I watched Vince and Amy at the Opry, it was in person.
Do Republicans really believe that money is more important than human life?
Oakland County, which I live in, is requiring “essential” businesses to screen their “essential” employees every day. First, I think essential is too broadly defined. Second, the screening should include checking employee temperatures.
Upgraded my iPad Pro 10.5 to iPadOS 13.4 so I can see how well a mouse works. I paired an old Logitech travel mouse and it works fine. One difference is the scroll button works in the opposite direction and there doesn’t appear to be an option to change that. I can change the scroll speed. Having a mouse renews my interest with using an external keyboard of which I have two both needs charging. (Shows you how much I have used them.)
Is it just me or does it seem as though On This Day has stopped working?